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Electronic catalogues

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	Valmiera District and Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences Library joint electronic catalogue. Check your library account on the internet and make reservations of the necessary books. Receive your user's name and password at the check-out in the library!
	Virtual Catalogue of Latvian higher education institutions and libraries - information on Banking Institution of higher Education, School of Business Administration "Turība", Daugavpils University, Library of the European Union Information Agency, "Medical Library of Latvia", Liepāja Pedagogical Academy, National Academy of Defence, Patent and Technology Library, Rēzekne Higher Education Institution, Riga Graduate School of Law, Valmiera Library and un Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Special Library of State Archives, Ventspils Library and Ventspils University College Library collections.
	The Union Catalogue of 8 Libraries - information on Fundamental Library of the Latvian University of Agriculture, Fundamental Library of the Police Academy of Latvia, Library of the University of Latvia, Medical Library of Latvia, National Library of Latvia, Patent and Technology Library, Riga Stradins University Library, Riga Technical University Scientific Library collections (both in the union catalogue and in the electronic catalogue of a particular library). National Bibliography Analytic Database (articles from periodicals)

Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences subscribed databases (accessible only from ViA computers).

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	Emerald full text database in English. Thematic coverage: management, engineering, library science.
	SpringerLink full text database in English. Thematic coverage: architecture and design, behavioural sciences, biomedicine and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry and materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences and law, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, professional computer sciences and web design.
	SAGE full text journals in English. More than 460 titles. Thematic coverage: business, humanities, social sciences, technologies, medicine.
	EBSCO - full text database in English. Structured in several parts. Political Science Complete --- free trial until April 30, 2009! Political Science Complete provides full text for more than 380 journals and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, including top-ranked scholarly journals, many of which are unique to the product, such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. This resource has a worldwide focus and includes a subject-specific thesaurus with 10,453 terms, to provide subject searching guidance to researchers. The database covers the following subjects: law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governemental organizations. Political Science Complete also contains more than 165 full-text reference books and monographs, nearly 300 full text country reports and over 27,000 full-text conference papers including those from American Political Science Association, International Political Science Association,I nternational Studies Association, Institute for European Studies and others. Business Source Complete - Company profiles, state information/characteristics, industry profiles, market research reports. EBSCOHOST WEB includes the following databases: EconLit - 400+ magazines. Thematic coverage: economics, capital markets, state analysis, econometry, economic forecasts, environmental economics, governmental laws, labour market economics, monetary theory, urban economics, a.o. Academic Search Premier - multidisciplinary database. 4500+ titles, more than a 100 magazines have archive files accessible by 1975. Business Source Complete - scientific business magazines: including the basic business magazine index and summary archive by 1886. MasterFILE Premier - multidisciplinary database. 1730+ general reference publications with full texts by 1975. About 500 full text reference books, 84 774 biographies, 100 554 primary source documents; picture collection with 235 186 photos, maps and flags. The database is updated every day. Newspaper Source - newspaper database. Full texts from 25 USA and international newspapers. Full text TV and radio news transcripts, selected full texts of 260+ USA regional newspapers. The database is updated every day. Regional Business News - regional business publications full texts. 75 business magazines, newspapers and hot news from all USA rural and urban regions. Information is updated every day. ERIC - Educational resources information centre. 2200+ short summaries, quotations, extracts from more than 1 000 educational and related magazines. Other Databases: Clinical Pharmacology, Health Source (Consumer edition), Health Source (Nursing/Academic Edition), MEDLINE, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
	EIROPA.LV- for tourism professionals (industry news, news archive, a.o. professional information)
	LETA2000 Archive since 1 January, 1993) - news annotations, articles, press releases, commentary, laws, judicial news, tenders and auctions, statistic indicators, organisations.
	Current industry information (in Latvian). Subscribed industries: Entrepreneurship: Car market, building and property, power industry, financial services, stock market, information technologies, agriculture, macroeconomics, media, PR, polygraphy, advertising, medicine and pharmacy, forestry and timber industry, oil products and petrol, food industry, tobacco and alcoholic drinks, telecommunications and communication service, trade and services, transport and traffic, tourism, hotel business. State and Society: defence, European Union, education and science, laws and normative acts, non-governmental organisations, local governments, political organisations, social security and health care, law enforcement institutions and security, state administration, environmental protection.
	Newspaper The Baltic Times (in English)

Free Access Electronic resources (from any computer)

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	The Latvian Republic official newspaper LATVIJAS VĒSTNESIS (in Latvian)
	NAIS (Normative Acts Information System) (in Latvian.) - ask the librarian for access of full text.
	GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH (English) offers to search and read full texts of books and extracts. Available to use on-line and download fiction, special literature (politics, public relations, tourism, etc.), reference and scientific publications, course books, children's books, medical, pedagogical and other literature in English.
	Tourism and travel business magazine "Baltic Stand By" (in English)
	Directory of Open Access Journals (English) - 2600+ free full text quality scientific journals, 803 of them may be searched for at an article level. Thematic coverage: agriculture and food industry, art and architecture, biology and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, health, history and archaeology, languages and literature, law and politics, mathematics and statistics, philosophy and religion, physics and astronomy, science, social sciences, technologies and engineering.
	UNESCO Social and humanitarian sciences documentation centre full text database (articles from ~700 periodicals in social and humanitarian sciences) (In English)
	LivRe! - Free scientific journals portal. Currently on offer: 2525 titles in English and Spanish. Thematic coverage: medicine, exact and humanitarian sciences, applied social sciences linguistics, literature sciences, arts.

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