Ebsco is the largest collection of journals and information publications which contains 13,100 scientific editions, among them 4,600 journals with full version of articles, 8,500 journals with indexed articles and abstracts. It gathers the following fields of study: information technologies, humanities, social, exact and natural sciences, engineering, healthcare and medicine, business, management, marketing, finance, economics, libarary affairs and management.
Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary scientific database which includes almost every science field and offers indexed and full versions of different resources.
Field categories:
- Business (banking, financial, strategic planning, international business, etc.)
- Education;
- Economics;
- Exact sciences (astronomy, atrophysics, biology, applied sciences, geography, chemistry, mathematics, physics, life sciences, etc);
- History;
- Literature;
- Political sciences;
- Religion and philosophy (christianity, islam, judaism, oriental religions, logics, ethics, human rights, etc.);
- Law;
- Social sciences and humanities (anthropology, regional researches, social sciences, sport);
- Technology (biotechnology, computer technologies, telecmmunication, engineering, etc.);
- Art (architecture, music, etc.)
- Healthcare and medicine.
You can see the detailed list of Academic Search Premier’s resource fields here.
Resources:
- 8,500 publications with indexed articles and abstracts (since 1975);
- Among them 4, 700 publications with full version of articles (since 1975);
- Searchable lists of citation resources ( for 1,000 titles);
- Indexed articles and abstracts of newspapers Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor;
- More than 1,000 journals with visual material;
- Books;
- Encyclopaedias;
- Reports;
- Conference material;
- Reports (about countries, educational);
- Government documents;
- Newspapers;
You can see the detailed list of journals and other resources included in Academic Search Premier here
Special opportunities:
- Translation of full versions of publications (HTML format) from English into Russian, German and other languages;
- Audio versions of publications.
The frequency of refreshings:
Access:
- From University website (click on any links above).
Help:
- Use the service “Ask a librarian’ for help;
- See the guide for using Georgian language here;
- See the guides for English language books, search methods and other additional resources here.
Financial support:
The purchase of Academic Search Premier was made with the financial support of Ilia State University, also with the solicitation and help of international consortium (EIFL).