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Are you searching for a specific type of material? Learn more about searching for different publication types here.

Articles

Read more about searching for journal articles in our .

Search engines for article journals

Visit our page about search engines for more information on these search engines. Looking for another search system? In the , you can filter by subject area, title/keyword and type of material.

Access to article journals

Through the university library you have access to the full text of many articles. Visit our page about how to acces digital publications.

Books and e-books

You can search for books using information such as author, title, edition or subject. More information about searching for books can be found in the .

Search engines for books and e-books

• WorldCat: Filter by Format: Book to search for printed books and e-books. searches in libraries worldwide. You can filter your result to, for example, libraries in the Netherlands, or the collection of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library.
• : The result can vary from full/partial text to just title data. Also see the page on Google Books for more information.
• You can also search for books in the multidisciplinary search engines and in our . Use filters to limit your search result to books or chapters.

Access to books

You can borrow paper books from the library's collection. You can also request or reserve books in advance. Is the material not available at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library? You can request it from another library via the the interlibrary loan system.

Access to e-books

The library offers direct access to e-books in the collection via .

Dissertations and theses

Search engines for dissertations and theses

• Digital dissertations of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ can be found via , WorldCat and . 
• Paper dissertations of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ can be found in WorldCat. Search by author, title, or by topic in combination with 'thesis' or 'dissertation'.
• You can also search at national level via .
• Search at international level via, for example,  or . 
• In the  you can find more options to search for dissertations.

Access to dissertations and theses

With their consent, theses of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ students have been made public and freely accessible via the . Theses can also be found in  and  by title and/or author. Theses will remain publicly available for 15 years. This also applies to theses that were already publicly available before September 2021.

Special material

The Department of Special Collections of the library has special material such as manuscripts, maps and atlases, and old and special prints. On the website of Special Collections and in the you can read how you can search the collection.

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Search engines for newspaper articles

• Dutch newspaper articles since 1990 and foreign newspaper articles and other news sources can be found via . Visit our page about Nexis Uni to learn more on how to use it.
• Dutch newspapers until 1995 can be found via  (page in Dutch).
• In the  you can find more options to search for newspapers.

Data

You will get information about finding data and tailored advice from Research Data Management Support.

Search engines for data

• : you can search for databases here.
• : a search engine for data.
• : a search engine for raw data.
• a search engine with data sets.

Data sets

•  a database with figures on the Dutch economy and society.
•  a database of global health figures.
• : a database with figures on the Dutch government.

Other materials

You can also find other material through the university library, such as sheet music and dictionaries.

Search engines for other material

• Sheet music for scientific purposes can be found via WorldCat. For material type, choose Musical score. More possibilities can be found in the .
• . Paper dictionaries can be found in the Utrecht Science Park ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library at the NASLG collection (reference). The ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library City Centre has large language collections. At the beginning of each language collection, you will find an extensive collection of dictionaries specific to that language.
• There is a collection of audio-visual material, with DVDs (feature films, documentaries, television series), which can be found in  (filter by DVD). Visit the A-Z Search engines and filter by 'type' for a .