Collections

The Library houses the collection of basic and research literature specialising in Engineering (Industrial Technologies, Mechanics, Industrial Design and Product Development, Materials, Industrial Organisation, Industrial Automation and Electronics, Telecommunications, Biomedicine and Sciences), Applied Physics and Environment.

Databases

Aceprensa. (NOTE: Cannot be accessed from outside the Campus). Journalistic agency specialising in the analysis of basic trends in society, currents of thought and lifestyles. With an international focus, it pays particular attention to changes in areas such as culture, family, work, religion, ideologies, bioethics, education, social and demographic trends.

AENORmás (On trial until April 30). Portal that provides access to the full text of all UNE standards developed and adopted by AENOR, including ratified and annulled standards.

eLibro (formerly Ebrary). Digital platform of eBooks in Spanish (books, journals, research) of all academic disciplines. It includes work tools to encourage study and research: online reading, downloads, personal bookshelves, copies and printouts, annotations, underlining, bibliographic references, summary mode, reading aloud, translation into several languages, etc.

IEEE Xplore. Search the publications published by the IEEE and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Societies. Full-text access to more than 2 million documents from:

• Abstracts and full text of journal articles published since 1988, as well as table of contents since 1893.
• Proceedings of IEEE and IET conferences.
• Standards.

Oxford Journals. Electronic journals portal containing more than 170 full-text journals published by Oxford University Press.

Cambridge Journals Online (CJO). Subject division of the electronic journals published by Cambridge University Press (from 1996 to 2003).

Emerald Fulltex. Electronic collection of journals published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited which includes over 120 journals. Provides full text of articles from 1994 to the present and abstracts of articles since 1989.

JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments). Video collections dedicated to teaching basic laboratory techniques (see guide). 

• Education (JoVE Education). It includes JoVE Core (basic concepts in biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology and social psychology), JoVE Lab Manual (laboratory practices in biology and chemistry) and JoVE Science Education (very basic and easy-to-understand laboratory methods and practices in basic and advanced biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, psychology and clinical practice).

Science Direct. Allows searching and full access to the Elsevier Science journal collection.

Wiley Interscience. Access to more than 400 scientific journals. Allows you to download full-text articles via Search Wiley Interscience.

Scopus. Database of the publisher Elsevier, with a multidisciplinary content, offers references to more than 20,000 publications and conference proceedings, updated weekly. Like the Web of Science database, it also provides data on number of citations received and H-index.

Web of Science. Platform that integrates various databases and tools that allow the analysis and evaluation of the situation, evolution and impact of research activities in the different fields of scientific, technological and humanistic knowledge.

SabiSabi: Financial database of the main Spanish companies, including detailed historical annual accounts, financial ratios, own and subsidiaries for many of them. Consolidated accounts for 600 companies are also available. Also offers access to sectoral reports.(User guide)

Springer Link. It provides full-text access to more than 480 Springer-Verlag journal titles, along with works from other major publishers such as Urban and Vogel, Steinkopffy Birkhäuser and since February 2005 with the German publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP). It offers more than 500 full-text journals and more than 2,000 online books.

SAGE Publications. Allows full access to over 400 journal titles. Provides alerts for tables of contents, search, citations, etc.

OrbisOrbis: Database containing detailed information on a large number of companies from all over the world, on different aspects: financial, indicators and ratings, managers and contacts. It allows you to search for each company individually, as well as to find profiles of specific companies and to analyse them in order to carry out financial analyses, detect trends, create graphs with the data, create comparison groups, carry out market studies... It also contains stock market data, patents, market research, etc.(User guide)

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). Database containing scientific and academic journals of proven quality that allow free access to their full text. It is multidisciplinary and multilingual. It currently contains 1,549 journals. Of these 390 are searchable at article level.

Access for former students

All engineers may continue to use the Library to consult its collections. In order to borrow a work, you must belong to the Colegio de Ingenieros Vasco-Navarro, or be a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Navarra.

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