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Newspapers and online magazines
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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Database for full-text news articles and documents from thousands of national and international sources containing news, business and company information.
Click here to create a personal account to enable more features such as alerts, notes, folders, and favorites.
Copyright notice: Do not enter or upload content you receive through Nexis Uni into external applications, bots, software or websites, including those using artificial intelligence technologies such as large language models and generative AI. - BrowZine This link opens in a new window
Browse our journals by subject! View recent issues of scholarly ejournals on your mobile device, laptop or computer, where you can create a personal bookshelf and receive email notifications when new articles are published. Discover new journals, view table of contents and read, save or download articles, get alerts, share and export articles.
BrowZine Library Guide
BrowZine Knowledgebase (support site)
BrowZine User Tutorial (video)
Use the Libkey Nomad browser plugin to get full-text PDF and journal links in your browser: Download LibKey Nomad for your browser
E-book platform
- Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
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Project Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks. Choose among different formats, download them or read them online. You will find "light literature" (fables, stories), "heavy literature" (religious texts, classic literature from many periods), and reference works, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. - Cambridge (open access) Books This link opens in a new window
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Access to individually purchased ebooks and open access ebooks published by Cambridge University Press on the Cambridge Core platform. - De Gruyter Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new window
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A collection of open access ebooks, mainly in English and German, covering a variety of topics.
Minilecture Google Scholar (EN)
Google Scholar
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Scholar indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across the web. Part of the Hanze Library collection is also accessible through Google Scholar if you follow this link. Select "Hanzehogeschool Groningen" and click on "Save". Use the "Find it! @ HanzeWorldCat" links to access our collection. You can also use the LibKey Nomad browser extension to automatically select our library (and more!).
How to use Google Scholar
Google's zoekmachine voor wetenschappelijke literatuur. Een gedeelte van de collectie van de HanzeMediatheek is ook toegankelijk via Google Scholar door deze link te gebruiken. Selecteer "Hanzehogeschool Groningen" en klik op "Opslaan". Gebruik de "Find it! @ HanzeWorldCat" links om toegang te krijgen tot onze collectie. Of gebruik de LibKey Nomad browser extensie om automatisch onze bibliotheek te selecteren (en meer!).
Hoe gebruik je Google Scholar
Dictionaries and thesauri
- Van Dale Online Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
Dutch dictionaries "Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal" (Dikke van Dale), "Hedendaags Nederlands" and "Spellingshulp". Handbooks NL & ENG, translation dictionaries for NL to and from EN, DE, ES, FR, IT & SE.
Also includes Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford Thesaurus of English, Oxford Hachette (FR-EN/EN-FR) and PONS (DE-FR/FR-DE).
Download the Van Dale App - see more information below
Thesaurus A thesaurus or synonym dictionary is a platform used for finding synonyms of concepts. This can be useful during your search for finding the best concept to express an idea.
There is a thesaurus available online (open access): Thesaurus.com
Theses and Research papers
In these databases you will find lots of theses of students and researchers.
- HBO Kennisbank This link opens in a new window
Search in around 55.000 publications of more than 25 universities of applied sciences.
- NARCIS This link opens in a new window
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National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System, access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from some data archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes - Portal of Research Output from the Netherlands This link opens in a new window
This portal presents Dutch research results and research projects and is fed by Dutch institutional repositories, data and software repositories and Research Information Systems (CRIS's).
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If you have any questions about our collection and/or how to use it, please contact your information specialist.