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  • Boomportaal

    Communication and languages

    Health science

    Law

    Management

    Public management

    Society

    Digital library of publishers Boom Amsterdam and Boom The Hague with 81 e-journals categorised in the themes of Public Administration, Criminology, Economics and Management, Legal, Education and Education, Research, Psychology and Psychiatry. These e-journals allow online reading and downloading, and the use of e-mail alerting or RSS to stay informed. Use the filters Type, Domain and Year on the left to narrow down or specify your search results.

    From 1 January 2023, the THUAS library will no longer offer recent e-books from Boom publishers via the Boom portal, only e-journals. However, paper books have been purchased and can be found in the library catalogue. If you miss a Boom title, you can send us a purchase suggestion.

    Publisher: Boom

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    Administrative law

    Antitrust law

    Business law

    Civil law and civil procedural law

    Communication and media

    Criminology and security

    Educational sciences

    European law

    Healthcare

    Labour law

    Man and society

    Mediation and restorative justice

    Methodology

    Public administration

    Content language
    Multilingual
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  • BSL Vakbibliotheek

    Food and food technology

    Health science

    Social care

    Contains full-text Dutch-language journals and e-books on health care and social care from Bohn Stafleu van Loghum publishers on the SpringerLink platform.

    You can search for Dutch-language material. For example, you can narrow in on books and/or magazines and then on a word or word combinations or further narrow in on a time period.

    Publisher: Springer BSL

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    Behavioural sciences

    Healthcare

    Medicine

    Relief work

    Content language
    Dutch
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    Yes
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  • Business Source Ultimate

    Economics

    Facility management

    HRM

    Management

    Marketing and commerce

    Politics and international relations

    Society

    Business Source Ultimate is a database intended for business research. Contains a large number of (academic) journals and professional magazines: 5,848 with full text, including 3,171 peer-reviewed publications. Top management and marketing journals are also included, such as Harvard Business Review and Journal of Marketing. Also included is a very large amount of content from MarketLine and other vendors: company profiles, sector profiles, country reports, SWOT analyses, market research reports, case studies and ebooks. BSU also includes more than 75,000 short videos from Associated Press, the leading US news agency; and more than 66,000 videos from Bloomberg L.P.

    Other company information databases: Company.info, Euromonitor Passport and Nexis Dossier with information on Dutch and international companies.

    Publisher: EBSCO

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    Accountancy

    Banking sector

    Business administration

    Economics

    Finance

    International entrepreneurship

    Management

    Marketing

    Sales

    Content language
    English
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  • Case Centre, The

    Economics

    Management

    Marketing and commerce

    The Case Centre contains a large number of cases in the field of business administration, marketing and management  universities and business schools worldwide. The case studies deal with real-life situations that confront the students with a dilemma or an uncertain outcome. A case often includes relevant documents, audiovisual items and carefully designed teaching notes.

    The library has established an institutional membership and centrally places all orders with The Case Centre; but courses pay for the requested cases themselves. The content is easily searchable. Lecturers must first register to receive free inspection copies and supporting materials. This is also necessary to use the cases in teaching. Cases can be ordered according to this ordering procedure.

    Furthermore, teachers can access after registration the Prendismo Collection which offers over 18,000 two-minute clips from experts covering over 200 topics on business, leadership and entrepreneurship. The video clips can be streamed for free from the Prendismo site for personal use or use in the classroom.

    Publisher: The Case Centre

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    Business administration

    Case studies

    Management

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    English
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  • Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

    General / multidisciplinary

    Lists a growing freely accessible e-books collection of over 12,000 academic peer-reviewed e-books and chapters.

    Publisher: OAPEN Foundation

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    E-books

    Open Access

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    Multilingual
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  • eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

    General / multidisciplinary

    This collection contains a growing number of textbooks (mainly) written in English on all subject areas and published by major publishing companies. For more information, see the page about e-books at the THUAS Library’s website.

    Publisher: EBSCO

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    E-books

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    Multilingual
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  • EBSCOhost databases

    General / multidisciplinary

    The following databases are accessible through EBSCOhost and can be searched individually and simultaneously:

    • Academic Search Ultimate
    • Business Source Ultimate
    • CINAHL Plus with full text
    • Communication and Mass Media Complete
    • eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
    • ERIC
    • GreenFILE
    • LISTA
    • MEDLINE
    • Political Science Complete
    • SPORTDiscus with Full Text
    • Teacher Reference Center
     

    Publisher: EBSCO

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    Multilingual
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  • Emerald Insight

    Economics

    Education and pedagogy

    Electrical engineering

    Environmental science

    Facility management

    HRM

    Health science

    Information science

    Management

    Marketing and commerce

    Public management

    Social care

    Emerald Insight is the platform for accessing ejournals, ebooks, case studies and expert briefings from Emerald Publishing. Our license provides access to 50 ebooks and all 310 high quality Emerald e-journals. The contents of this database cover the results of academic and applied research in a wide range of fields, from management and finance to criminology and social media. In particular in the following subject areas: Accounting, Finance & Economics, Business, Management & Strategy, Education Engineering, Health & Social Care HR, Learning & Organization Studies Information & Knowledge Management, Library & Information Sciences, Marketing, Operations, Logistics & Quality, Property Management & Built Environment, Public Policy & Environmental Management and Tourism & Hospitality Management.

    The renewed interface enables easy and advanced searching by author, keyword, ISBN, DOI and more. In the advanced search you can pre-select only those contents to which we have full text access in accordance with our licence. The browse function allows you to find relevant titles by refining by subject areas.

    Users can register for a free Emerald Profile. This allows them to save searches. And receive email alerts with the table of contents (TOC) when a new issue of a magazine is published, to keep abreast of the latest developments without having to search.

    Publisher: Emerald

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    Business

    Information science

    Management

    Marketing

    Strategy

    Content language
    English
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  • InTechOpen

    Civil engineering

    Economics

    Electrical engineering

    Health science

    Management

    The English-language IntechOpen database provides access to more than 6,100 scholarly peer-reviewed Open Access e-books in the fields of research in science, technology, medicine, management and economics. Natural sciences, engineering and technology are particularly well represented with a total of more than 184,000 citations in Web of Science.

    Publisher: IntechOpen Limited

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    Biomedical sciences

    E-books

    Health sciences

    Humanities

    Natural sciences

    Open Access

    Social sciences

    Technical sciences

    Content language
    English
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  • InView Essential

    Law

    Previously named Navigator. The Dutch legal database Navigator enables searches in a large percentage of the digital publications issued by Kluwer Legal Publishing as well as searches in a number of relevant public websites. Included are: The Asser series, the Groene series and Tekst-en-Commentaar. Also many extras such as financial calculation models (located under ‘tools’) and ‘Modellen voor de rechtspraktijk’ (models for law practice) and ‘Richtlijnen voor de jaarverslaggeving’ [guidelines for annual reporting (the last two located under ‘naslagwerken’)].

    Publisher: Kluwer

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    Case law

    Law

    Legal tools

    Legislation

    The Netherlands

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    Dutch
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  • Kennisbank Diversiteit en Emancipatie

    HRM

    Society

    Freely accessible database in the field of diversity and emancipation. Contains approximately 40,000 references to Dutch and English articles, books, reports, notes, manuals, project reports, images, etc., in particular of public and educational institutions and publishers. Focuses primarily on the Dutch and European situation.

    Publisher: IDEM Rotterdam

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    Bullying

    Discrimination

    Equality

    Ethnic minorities

    Homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs)

    Intimidation

    Neighbourly disputes

    People with disabilities

    Polarization

    Prejudice

    Radicalization

    Religious minorities

    Representation

    Segregation

    Social cohesion

    The elderly

    Trafficking

    Violence

    Women

    Xenophobia

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    Multilingual
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  • Nederlandse Documentatie Fiscaal Recht (NDFR)

    Economics

    Law

    Public management

    This Dutch database provides access to all the important Dutch tax laws. It provides access to each one of the articles in current and historic legislative texts for each taks law as well as parliamentary history, policy decisions, case law, literature and detailed commentary. To ensure that information is up to date, revisions to each comment in NDFR are integrated unto the texts five times a year.

    Publisher: Sdu

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    Legislation

    Taxes

    Tax laws

    The Netherlands

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    Dutch
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  • O'Reilly

    Architectural engineering

    Civil engineering

    Computer science

    Design

    Economics

    Electrical engineering

    Information science

    Marketing and commerce

    Mechanical engineering

    Digital library with approximately 39,000 e-books and +6,000 video tutorials from leading publishers in the fields of technology, digital media, technology and business. In addition to e-books and video tutorials, learning paths are also part of the digital offering. IT professionals, software developers, web designers and system administrators use O'Reilly as the source for research, problem solving and certificate training. The e-books can be read online, not downloaded. The license is for unlimited use.

    See also the semi-annual list of removed titles.

    Publisher: O'Reilly Media

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    Artificial intelligence

    Big data

    Business administration

    Computer science

    Hardware

    Human-computer interaction

    Information technology

    International entrepreneurship

    Management

    Marketing

    Multimedia

    Personal development

    Programming languages

    Social skills

    Software

    Technology

    Content language
    English
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  • OAPEN

    General / multidisciplinary

    The Open Access Publishing in European Networks library contains over4,200 freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books.

    Publisher: OAPEN Foundation

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    E-books

    Humanities

    Open Access

    Social sciences

    Content language
    English
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  • OECD iLibrary

    Electrical engineering

    General / multidisciplinary

    Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Provides access to e-books, journal issues and statistical databases in various fields such as Economics, Science and Technology, Agriculture and Food, Employment, Energy, Environment, Education, Social Sciences, Migration, Health. You can read how to use the database in the user guide.

    Please note that THUAS does not have a subscription. But all book and journal content is available to all users to read online by clicking the READ icon or the WEB icon (if available).

    Publisher: OECD

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    Open Access

    Statistics

    Content language
    English
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    Yes
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  • OpenAIRE

    General / multidisciplinary

    Public management

    Offers free access to scholarly publications from 441 international repositories (databases). These references are journal articles, theses, books, lectures and reports as well as research data and information about projects, individuals and organizations. This portal is in development and contains such information as the content from the DRIVER project.

    Publisher: OpenAIRE

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    Content language
    Multilingual
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  • OpMaat

    Food and food technology

    Law

    Social care

    A Dutch database providing official publications issued by the Dutch government since 1995, Dutch laws and regulations, case law (Sdu Jurisprudentie and mediation case law via Rechtspraak.nl), as well as European legislation for the Netherlands as based on the EUR-Lex site. Also includes links to the Staten-Generaal Digitaal (Parliamentary Papers, Official Reports and Parliamentary Questions dating to before 1995). You have access to the modules: OpMaat Premium, Gedwongen Zorg and Waar en Wet.

    Publisher: Sdu

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    Case law

    Law

    Legislation

    Regulations

    The Netherlands

    Content language
    Dutch
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  • Project MUSE

    General / multidisciplinary

    Project MUSE is a scientific database of full-text e-journals and e-books in the human and social sciences of more than 200 leading university publishers and scientific associations. There are approximately 1,000 open access e-books and 5 e-journals.

    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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    Art

    Humaniora

    Open Access

    Social sciences

    Content language
    English
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  • ProQuest databases

    General / multidisciplinary

    ProQuest's Social Science Premium Collection contains mainly bibliographic databases on sociology, politics, criminology, library and information science, education and linguistics. They are grouped into five Collections:

    Criminology Collection
    • Criminal Justice Database
    • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

    Linguistics Collection
    • Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
    • Linguistics Database

    Library & Information Science Collection
    • Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
    • Library Science Database

    Politics Collection
    • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) Index
    • Policy File Index
    • Political Science Database
    • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

    Sociology Collection
    • Social Science Database
    • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
    • Sociological Abstracts
    • Social Services Abstracts
    • Sociology Database

    There are also some separate databases such as the Education Database. Via the 'Change databases' option, ProQuest databases can be combined or excluded. And via the 'Exclude duplicate documents' option in the search screen, results are deduplicated.

    Publisher: ProQuest

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  • Sociology Collection

    Art and culture

    Social care

    Society

    International scientific literature in the field of social and behavioural sciences. Contains both abstracts and full-text content. You search the following ProQuest databases:

    • Social Science Database
    • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA; 1987 – current)
    • Sociological Abstracts (1952 – current)
    • Social Services Abstracts (1979 – current)
    • Sociology Database (1985 – current)

    Via the 'Change databases' option, ProQuest databases can be combined or excluded. And via the 'Exclude duplicate documents' option in the search screen, results are deduplicated.

    Publisher: ProQuest

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    Addiction care

    Anthropology

    Behavioural sciences

    Communication

    Crime

    Demographics

    Economics

    Education

    Gender issues

    Gerontology

    Healthcare

    Management

    Marriage and family

    Mass media

    Political sciences

    Psychology

    Religions

    Social psychology

    Social work activities

    Sociology

    Violence

    Women's studies

    Content language
    English
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  • Springer Nature Link

    General / multidisciplinary

    A very substantial multidisciplinary database provided by Springer, a renowned academic publisher. Over 7 million scientific articles (from 1997) are full-text available via this platform, as well as many reference works and protocols. It also contains over 70,000 complete e-books from publication year 2017 until the present; including manuals and encyclopaedias. They are peer-reviewed and can be viewed, downloaded and printed without limitation to the number of simultaneous users. Dutch content from BSL publishers in the field of healthcare and aid is also included.

    Also see: the Springer Protocols (from 1980) and SpringerMaterials databases.

    Note: the old interface offers more functionalities, for instance, you can specifically search the content we have access to and advanced search is available.

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    Biology

    Business administration

    Chemistry

    Computer science

    Dentistry

    Earth Sciences

    Economics

    Education

    Energy

    Environment

    Geography

    International relations

    Law

    Life sciences

    Management

    Materials Science

    Mathematics

    Medicine

    Pharmacy

    Philosophy

    Physics

    Political sciences

    Psychology

    Public health

    Social sciences

    Statistics

    Technology

    Content language
    Multilingual
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  • Sustainable Development Goals Online (SDGO)

    General / multidisciplinary

    An interdisciplinary digital collection themed around the 17 SDGs, the United Nations' program for sustainable developement to end poverty, fight inequality & injustice and protect the planet. Over 19,000 carefully selected chapters of e-books, 1.900 journal articles and over 300 presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans.

    The collection was created in partnership with the United Nations and guided by an international Advisory Board of academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and officers in third sector, government, and NGOs.

    See also the introduction, the flyer and the content list.

    Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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    Climate change

    Inequality

    Poverty

    Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

    Sustainable development

    United Nations

    Content language
    English
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  • UN iLibrary

    General / multidisciplinary

    Online library of the United Nations. Provides access to publications, journals, data and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its fund programs. The content is accessible in different formats – PDF and READ – to meet users’ needs, whether for reading on a mobile device, sharing with peers via social networks or integrating content in a report. You can read how to use the database in the user guide.

    Publisher: United Nations

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    Administration

    Agriculture

    Children

    Climate change

    Crime

    Demographics

    Disarmament

    Drug abuse prevention

    Economic development

    Energy

    Environment

    Gender issues

    Human rights

    International entrepreneurship

    International law

    Migration

    Natural resources

    Peacekeeping and security

    Public health

    Refugees

    Settlements and urban issues

    Social development

    Terrorism

    Transport

    United Nations

    Water

    Women

    Youth

    Content language
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