Article Databases

Are you searching for articles on a certain subject?

• Go to the catalogue: http://lib.ugent.be
• Choose "Databases"
• For research articles choose "Web of Science", "Google Scholar" or "Scopus"
• For press articles (Flemisch press only) choose "GoPress"

Attention.  When you're at Campus Mercator, extra steps will have to be taken to access these articles.

Web of Science

For more information on how to use Web of Science you can take a look at these tutorials,

• Quick tour of the NEW Web of Science
• Web of Science: unlock the full potential of research discovery

or you can follow one of the training sessions

• Overview of the training sessions

or can find more tips and tricks at

• (re)search tips for UGent

Google Scholar

For more information on how to use Google Scholar you can take a look at this tutoral 

• Using Google Scholar (CLIP)

or you can follow one the training sessions

• Overview training sessions

or you can find more tips and tricks at

• (Re)search tips for UGent

Scopus

Since the 1st of January 2017, UGent researchers have access to Scopus, the multidisciplinary citation index of Elsevier.  It contains more than 20.000 journals and 130.00 book titles which makes Scopus an interesting alternative for Web of Science.  Just like WoS you can use Scopus to find the necessary literature but also provides lots of possibilities for citation analysis.

• Scopus

Other databases

 You can find these databases on the website of the University Library http://lib.ugent.be, choose 'databases' and search for following databases:

• Researchgate
• RePEc: Research Papers in Economics