Publication type
Are you searching for a specific type of material? Learn more about searching for different publication types here.
Read more about searching for journal articles in our LibGuide search strategy.
Search engines for journal articles
Visit our page about search engines for more information on these search engines. Looking for another search system? In the A-Z Search engines, you can filter by subject area, title/keyword and type of material.
Access to journals article
Through the university library you have access to the full text of many articles. Visit our page about how to acces digital publications.
If the article is part of our collection, you can request the relevant paper journal from the library. Articles can then be collected and consulted at the library. The latest issues of various journals can also be found on the library shelves. You can make a scan yourself or (for a fee) a copy of the article. Find more information about scanning and copying here.
Via WorldCat you can request a copy of an article from a different library.
- On the page of the article click on Interlibrary Request or use My Account (see Requesting a copy of a paper article above).
- You will receive the article as a PDF document via email.
This service is free for employees of the UU or UMC Utrecht. For others, a fee is charged for requesting materials from a different library.
Are you unable to make a scan or copy yourself? Then you can request a scan. You will receive the article as a PDF document via email. For students or non-affiliated users, this service costs €6.50. Employees of the UU of UMC do not have to pay this fee.
You can request a copy of an article using the following steps:
- Log on to WorldCat with your Solis-id.
- Click 'My account'.
- Select 'Requested and Create Request'.
- Choose 'Article and book chapters request .
- You will see a request form.
- Fill out the form and click 'Submit Request'.
- There is a collection of audio-visual material, with DVDs (feature films, documentaries, television series), which can be found in WorldCat. Filter by 'DVD'.
- Visit the A-Z Search engines and filter by 'type' on 'sound and visual' for a full overview of the search systems for audio-visual material.
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 LibGuide Search Strategy (box Where to look for books?).
Search engines for books and e-books
- WorldCat: Filter by Format: Book to search for printed books and e-books. WorldCat searches in libraries worldwide. You can filter your result to, for example, libraries in the Netherlands, or the collection of Utrecht University Library.
- Google Books: 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 A-Z Search engines. Use filters to limit your search result to books or chapters.
Access to books
You can request or reserve books in WorldCat, and after that borrow or consult them in the library. Is the material not available at Utrecht University 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 WorldCat.
The e-book was temporarily available, but was not bought by us yet. If you need it for your study, teaching or research, please submit a purchase suggestion. Please state that the book was previously available.
It means that the e-book has not (yet) been purchased by the library and is only temporarily available. On some platforms, you must register once before you can download the e-book. Each publisher can mean something else by temporarily available. If you want to know what that means for the e-book you are using now, please contact us with the title and the name of the author. You can also request a purchase via formdesk.com so the book may be bought by us.
Conditions for downloading and printing e-books may differ for each publisher or supplier. Often you are allowed to download the same book a second time, so try again if your download period expires. There are also differences in the number of pages you may print each time. Having difficulties? Please email us and report the problem.
You will get information about finding data and tailored advice from Research Data Management Support.
Search engines for data
- re3data.org: you can search for databases here.
- Netherlands Research Portal: a search engine for data.
- Google Dataset Search (Bèta): a search engine for raw data.
- OpenAlex: a search engine with data sets.
Data sets
- StatLine, Statistics Netherlands’ database (CBS): a database with figures on the Dutch economy and society.
- World Health Organization (WHO): a database of global health figures.
- Dutch government database: a database with figures on the Dutch government.
- Digital dictionaries can be found on our website on databases.
- Paper dictionaries can be found in the Utrecht Science Park University Library at the NASLG collection (reference). The University 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.
Search engines for dissertations
- Digital dissertations of Utrecht University can be found via the UU Research Portal, WorldCat and search engine BASE.
- Paper dissertations of Utrecht University 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 the Netherlands Research Portal.
- Search at international level via, for example, NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) or OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations).
- In the overview of search engines you can find more options to search for dissertations.
Search engines for newspaper articles
- Dutch newspaper articles since 1990 and foreign newspaper articles and other news sources can be found via Nexis Uni. Visit our page about Nexis Uni to learn more on how to use it.
- Dutch newspapers until 1995 can be found via Delpher (page in Dutch).
- In the overview of search engines you can find more options to search for newspapers.
Sheet music for scientific purposes can be found via WorldCat. For material type, choose 'Musical score'.
More possibilities can be found in the LibGuide Sheet Music.
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 LibGuide Special Material you can read how you can search the collection.
Search engines for theses
- Theses of Utrecht University students can be found in the UU Student Theses Repository.
- They can also be found in WorldCat and Google Scholar. Search by author, title, or by topic in combination with 'thesis'.
Access to theses
With their consent, theses of Utrecht University students have been made public and open access available. Theses will remain publicly available for 15 years. This also applies to theses that were already publicly available before September 2021.
Questions?
Contact the library via the contact form or email.
Go to the contact form at topdesk.net (Solis-ID)Send us an email at library@uu.nl