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Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description:

  • Type: full text,
  • McGraw-Hill Education database offers:
    • over 700 engineering books (a list of titles) including over 30 Schaum's Outlines texbooks,
    • over 900 videos with instruction films,
    • maps: ready to use lectures and courses which comprise charts, diagrams and videos,
    • calculators which help to calculate and evaluate results while preparing scientific research,
    • over 4 500 interactive graphs and tables ready to use in projects and scientific research,
  • subject: bioscience, chemistry, mechanics, civil engineering, telecommunication, operation research, business competences
  • time-span: 1990-, some records since 1950s

Contact: elzbieta.wanczyk@pwr.edu.pl

Entrance:

  • dl.acm.org (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/acm (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • A library of  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM DL) enables access to current and archives collection, between others:
    • journals;
    • magazines;
    • transactions;
    • proceedings;
    • newsletters;
    • a few journals of other publishers linked by a subject, between others: Computational Linguistics, Linux Journal;
    • publications for professionals, so called: Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
    • database Computing Reviews – regards world-wide computer sciences literature
  • Time-span: 1954 -,

Contact: elzbieta.wanczyk@pwr.edu.pl 

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  • compass.astm.org - to use it outside the campus User must register from the campus to the base using his email in Wrocław University of Science and Technology domain

Access: from a University network and via personal account
Description: 

Contact: krzysztof.moskwa@pwr.edu.pl

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  • degruyter.com (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/degruyter (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description:

  • over 900 De Gruyter's journals, including 100 from STM (Science Technology Medicine) collection,
  • 28 000 e-books from ALL STM e-book EBA Package (Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Geosciences, Industrial Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacy, Physics + Architecture and Business/Economics),
  • available: since 1995

Contact: elzbieta.wanczyk@pwr.edu.pl (e-journals), lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl (e-books) 

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doabooks.org
Access: open
Description:

  • over 4 500 on-line books,
  • subject: multidisciplinary, medicine, science, social sciences,

Contact: infnauk@pwr.edu.pl

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Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • e-Books can be downloaded for reading offline or bought,
  • Over  29 000 titles subscribed and over 550 titles  owned,
  • You will find an instruction here: ebookcentral.proquest.com
    • Create an account (Request new account),
    • Required e-mail address in a WUST domain,
    • Confirm your account: click an activating link ( will be sent to your e-mail account in 24h from the moment of your registation),
    • Log in to Ebook Central,
    • Choose a publication to be borrowed,
    • Now you can: Read Online (Browse) the content for 5 minutes or Request Access – using this you can ask to borrow a publication for 1 day or 1 week,
    • Confirmation or rejection will be sent to e-mail address,
    • Costs for a 1 day loan  is 5% of the  book purchase  price; 7 days – 10%,
    • Library pays for borrowed books,

A numer of simultaneous users depends on a title:
1 / title (SUPO - single-user license),
3 / title (3USER - three-user license), 
unlimited / title(MUPO - multi-user license),

Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl

Entrance:

  • search.ebscohost.com (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/ebsco (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • An aggregate firm EBSCO service which allows to use:
  • over 12 500 full text journals, in a subject databases available in a eIFL Direct project:
  • Academic Search Complete –Multidisciplinary
  • Agricola – Agriculture & Food Science;
  • Business Source Complete – Business & Economics;
  • Energy & Power Source - Energy & Power
  • ERIC – Education;
  • GreenFILE – Environment;
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition – Health.;
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – Nursing
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts – Library and Information Science
  • MasterFILE Premier – General reference.;
  • MEDLINE – Medicine, Biochemistry, Nursing;
  • Newspaper Source – Articles from newspapers (mainly American)
  • Regional Bussiness News – Full-text for more than 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publication
  • Shock & Vibration Digest –subject includes: Noise, Vibration technologies, Nuclear engineering, Wave motion, Wind and structures, Acoustics, Teacher Reference Center,
  • Nine e-books in a model: single user - purchased in a frame of a University project.

Contact: krzysztof.moskwa@pwr.edu.pl, lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl (e-books)

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Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • Service Science Direct enables access to :
    • Full text articles from about 1 900 scientific journals published by Elsevier Science in a „Freedom Collection",
    • Additionally over  5000 e-books: years 2010-2016 – financed by the Polish Ministry of Education,
  • available: since 1995,

Contact: infnauk@pwr.edu.pl, lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl,(e-books)

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  • libra.ibuk.pl (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/ibuk-libra/ (off campus).
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • About  2300 titles – new titles added currently, books of Polish publishers,
  • A number of simultanous users: 5/ title,

Contact: elzbieta.wanczyk@pwr.edu.pl 

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  • ieeexplore.ieee.org (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/ieee (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description:

  • Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals and magazines
  • About 150 titles and archives since 1988. Additionally some archives from 90s of XIXc and 140 closed journals
  • About 30 titles published by IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), and archives of about  90 closed journals
  • Conference Proceedings – about  20 000 items from events organized by IEEE lub IET,
  • Standards – about 1 600
  • available: since 1988; some selected since 1872,

Contact: infnauk@pwr.edu.pl 

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Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: 

  • Willeys full text encyclopedia,
  • Contains over 1,300 articles -- with content on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses,

Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl  

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  • app.knovel.com (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/knovel (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description: (open a separate page)

  • 7328 titles,
  • this service provides access to scientific and engineering handbooks and references,
  • Users can search across text, tables, numerical data, graphs and equations, as well as browse by individual title,
  • Please remember about ”fair use” not to be excluded from a database,

Contact: krzysztof.moskwa@pwr.edu.pl   

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legimi.pl/badzjakbrzytwa
Access: 
to create an account You need code from Library
Description:

  • over 25 000 fiction e-books and audiobooks (mostly in Polish),
  • to receive code to create an account You must be a reader of University Library,
  • for code write: biblioteka.wyp@pwr.edu.pl, 
  • here You can check e-readers that are compatible with Legimi legimi.pl/pobierz-legimi (our package is not for Kindle),
  • every reader can use 2 devices simultaneously,
  • password reset available here: legimi.pl/konto/reset-hasla,

Contact: biblioteka.wyp@pwr.edu.pl  

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dbc.wroc.pl
Access: open
Description:

  • Digital collection of scientific literaturę, text books, old prints collected in 23 institutions cooperating in a project.
  • Possibility to read on-line and  copy free on chargé. No need to create an account- but if you do it, you can enjoy additional functions

Contact: bc@pwr.edu.pl

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  • nasbi.pl (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/ebookpoint-biblio (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

    Description:
  • E-books, audiobooks and videocourse platform of a Helion publisher,
  • Contains over 1 500 titles,
  • How to use?:
    • enter nasbi.pl,
    • register,
    • registration only on the basis of e-mail addresses in a University domain,
    • confirm – click  an activation link,
    • find your interesing publication,
    • choose title, author publisher or cathegory from a menu on a left hand side,
    • choose an option: Borrow ( next to a title), it is also possible to read a paragraph choosing option: Read a paragraph,
    • clicking Borrow you direct a book to a shelf (upper menu), it will be there for 3 days,
    • a user can return it earlier using option „Return”
  • NASBI app available in app store,

Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl     

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  • pubs.rsc.org (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/rsc (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description:

  • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) service offers access to:
    • 30 current full text scientific journals
    • Over 70 archives of journals published from 40s of 19th century
    • 1 book edition
    • 6 factographic databases (chemical compounds, models),
  • available: since 1841­­,

Contact: elzbieta.wanczyk@pwr.edu.pl

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Access: from a University network and via HAN
Description:

  • 44 000 e-books and videos in collections:  Safari Tech Books, Safari Business Books oraz Safari Vide
  • for registration use and email in University domain: @student.pwr.edu.pl or @pwr.edu.pl, 
  • app for Safari: oreilly.com/safari/app 

Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl  

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Access: from a University network and via PROXY
Description:

  • Access to:
  • Full text  of articles from over 2 000 current Springer journals plus over full text archives – about 1 300 journals,
  • 200 000 e-books in a national license financed by the Polish Ministry of Education. The collection consists of: 16 700 e-books including 1000 titles published in 2004, 3 009 published in 2005 and 12 692 English titles published between 2009-2011. Book series archives, including 17 series from the first volume up to 2008 and 9 series with archives: 1997-2008,

Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl   

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Kontakt: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl 

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  • onlinelibrary.wiley.com (campus)
  • han.bg.pwr.edu.pl/han/wiley (off campus). 
    Login details for e-resources via the HAN system: Active Directory login (without domain @pwr.edu.pl/@student.pwr.edu.pl) and individual user password set in the Active Directory system.

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Contact: lukasz.bejnar@pwr.edu.pl  

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