VU B.V. Library
The VU B.V. library forms, builds, maintains and systematizes information resource, whose mission is to:
- Promote research and academic activities of the lecturers, current and prospective students;
- Meet current educational and information needs during the learning process in all academic program offered at the University.
The library has a collection of 13,878 library items, including:
- Books – 12,973 library units;
- Periodicals – 505 library units.
The book store is organized in two funds:
- Fund Reading – books that are used in the library
- Reference Fund – books that can be borrowed for use outside the library.
WEB OF KNOWLEDGE
Web of Knowledge (formerly known as ISI Web of Knowledge) is an academic citation indexing and search service, which is combined with web linking and is provided by Thomson Reuters. Web of Knowledge covers the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It provides bibliographic content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information.
PALGRAVE CONNECT
Palgrave Connect presents libraries with a flexible approach to building an ebook collection with over 14,000 titles offered in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business in 2015.
SPRINGER LINK
The Springer Link – Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
LITERNET
LiterNet – Bulgarian specialized portal for Literature and Humanitarian science.
DOAJ
DOAJ – Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
ECHO
ECHO – European Cultural Heritage Online – European Cultural Heritage Online – Open Access Infrastructure for a Future Web of Culture and Science.
ECLAS
ECLAS – European Commission Libraries Catalogue.
EUROPEANA
The European Library – Huge cultural dataset, coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.
EUR-LEX
EUR-Lex – Access to European Union law.
ERIC
ERIC – Education Resources Information Center – Online library with educational materials.
HIGHWIRE
HighWire Press – Stanford University – largest free online full-text science archives.
INDEX TRANSLATIONUM
International bibliography database, contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979.
KVK
KVK – Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog – Meta search interface for more than 500 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.
RESEARCHGATE
Research Gate – The largest social network for scientists and researchers worldwide.
UNBISNET
UNBISNET – Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS INTERNATIONAL
SJI – Scientific Journals International – Publishes peer-reviewed open-access journals for all major disciplines.
WDL – WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY
WDL – World Digital Library – World digital library supported by UNESCO.
WORLDCAT
WorldCat – Global free online catalogue.
NALIS
National Academic Library and Information System (NALIS) – Аccess to 2100735 bibliographic records of 27 libraries in Bulgaria.
GLOBETHICS
Globethics – А global network of persons and institutions interested in various fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large number of resources on ethics, especially through its leading global digital ethics library and facilitates collaborative web-based research, conferences, online publishing and information sharing.