Information resources
Resources marked with the 
logo are a component part of the Tech Subject Gateway of the same name, which offers searches of Czech and foreign information resources in a single place (library catalogues, databases, subject portals) mainly in the field of technology.
Portals and Digital Libraries of Grey Literature
An archive of pre-print documents from the field of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
The DOAJ service is an open access directory of journals provided by the University in Lund (Sweden). It offers open access to the full texts of scientific and scholarly journals. The journals can be browsed by title or personalised subject category. The membership fee is a financial contribution to support their activity.
A French national system that serves to register administrative news types (documents from governmental and regional administration bodies and organisations in France). Communication is in French; access is to the full texts in different formats.
A system maintained by the Data Archiving and Networked Services institute. This is an institute set up by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is responsible for storing open-access research documents from the arts, humanities and social sciences fields and making them accessible.
A non-profit organisation that brings together research organisations. It has developed the CERIF (European Research Information Format) standard exchange format for research information, i.e. an international standard for communication between national information systems that should enable the easier exchange of data on ongoing research. It is recommended by the European Commission. The latest version of the CERIF format was published in September 2008.
An information network for preprint resources in the basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear science and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies.
A portal that disseminates official information from the US government. Searching is performed using the catalogue.
In April 2008, the DaREnet portal became a component part of the NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System) science portal, developed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Its users can find information about research, programmes, projects, research workers and institutions together with their profiles.
The NARCIS portal can be searched using the Google engine. This project’s budget is EUR 6 million and it is subsidised through the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. It uses the URN:NBN identifier.
An important information server for technical reports from the US in the fields of science, technology and commerce, operated by the American NTIS service. (http://www.ntis.gov/).
NASA is a server of technical reports from the field of cosmic research. It provides open access to abstracts and the full texts of technical reports from various NASA centres and programmes.
The “Computer Science Technical Reports” collection contained in the NZDL digital library.
A scientific portal for technical grey literature. It provides open access documents via an online interface from the DTIC, DOE, NASA and EPA sources. It is a project within the US Department of Energy (http://www.energy.gov/).
The OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Access Repositories) project was created at the University of Nottingham in Britain. It is a directory of open access academic repositories. It enables searches for repositories by country, keyword, language and software used. Metadata is harvested from the repositories by its employees and so the quality of the repository is guaranteed. The OpenDOAR project also produces statistical charts.
This ‘system for information on grey literature in Europe’ is a multidisciplinary European database covering science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and humanities. OpenGrey is operated by INIST-CNRS, and combines the resources of the major European information and document supply centres that cooperate with this system. OpenGrey also includes conference preprints from our partner GreyNet International’s annual conferences on grey literature.
This is a registry of ‘open access’ repositories created by the University of Southampton. It offers searches for repositories by key word, country, software, source type and content. The search results from the repositories are displayed as thumbnails of the repositories’ websites. It provides statistical data and graphs and was created under the E-prints platform – a platform for the creation of open access repositories, e-prints courses and educational materials.
The GESIS (Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen) institute has created the SOWIPORT information portal, which includes grey literature and ‘open access’ publications from the field of social science. The SOWIPORT concept is based on the ‘information cycle’, which divides information into three groups according to the activities performed.
ETD registers and archives
A register of theses and dissertations in the Czech Republic.
An online ‘open access’ electronic thesis system for UK postgraduate theses and dissertations. It also offers theses and dissertations that have been retrospectively digitised.
The archive of digital dissertations, post-doctoral theses and master’s theses of the Technical University in Berlin.
A Canadian information system for theses and dissertations.
This database contains 1.6 million records of dissertations and theses defended at Northern American universities, and some European ones, with a retrospective to 1861. Each record since 1980 has an author’s abstract and, since 1997, online facsimiles of the introductory part of the document (24 pages). The full texts of most of the documents are available upon payment of a fee quoted on the PQDD website.