Name of database and overall comment 

Subjects 

Contents 

Databases containing mainly abstracts and subject keywords

ABI/Inform

Database consisting of 5 parts 
Subject search also via topics and thesaurus 

Databases in the field of commercial economics: business economics, marketing, and (staff) management. Includes data on over 60,000 firms.

ABI/Inform Global contains full-text articles from approx. 600 journals, and abstracts of articles from approx. 1,300 journals from 1971 onwards.
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry covers over 750 journals and newsletters.

Inspec

Search keys:

Classification codes, subject keywords en chemical structures 

Important database for the following fields of study/research: 

A - Physics  B - Electrical and Electronic Engineering  C - Computers and Control  D - Information Technology for Business  E - Manufacturing and Production  

from 1898-...
4,000 books, conference proceedings and scientific reports 

Psycinfo

Search keys:
thesaurus terms (descriptors), random keywords (key concepts) and classification codes for broad subject categories. 

Psychology/behavioural science and psychological aspects of related subjects as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business science and law 

References with abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, scientific reports and dissertations in the field of psychology and related subjects.
Journal articles included from 1887 onwards, from 1,300 journals from 25 lingual regions. Books and book chapters comprise only English-language publications from 1987-...
55,000 new references are added to PsycINFO each year. 

Scopus

Multidisciplinary bibliography with options for citation relation search 

Science, medicine, bioscience, technology, social science

Scopus includes references with abstracts of articles from approx. 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers, mainly on scientific, social-scientific and medical subjects. Also covered are conference proceedings, open-access journals, and quality-selected web resources.  

WoS = Web of Science

is made up of three databases:

- Science Citation Index

- Social Sciences Citation Index

- Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Options for citation search. Who listed this article in his references, but also: subject search and search by author name.

WoS is made up of three databases:
Science Citation Index is most important for (bio)medical science.
Social Sciences Citation Index contains important data also, e.g. in the fields of psychiatry and nursing.
For subject research on medicine searching Medline/PubMed is also recommended

- Science Citation Index (approx. 6,600 journals), from1945-... 

- Social Sciences Citation Index (approx. 2,000 journals), from 1956-... 

- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (approx. 1,200 journals), from 1975-... 

Database for titles of articles from journals often used in the Netherlands 

Picarta

Multi-language search 

All fields of learning 

Titles of articles in journals available in the Netherlands. May be requested through inter-library document delivery service. 

Databases containing full-text articles in journal packages 

Emerald

Search options: browse, quick, advanced 

Package of e-books and on-line journals on management and organization science. Recent journal issues are also included in Business Source Premier 

Peer-reviewed journals and full-text books 

JSTOR = Journal STORage

Full-text journals

Limited search options 

Science, Business Science, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics 

JSTOR is a digital archive of a large number of academic journals. Latest volumes of journal titles are often not included