Information search

Information search

In this section you will find tools to search for information, specifically catalogues, databases or resources that will facilitate the search process.

Resources and programs

Why do we recommend it?

Discovery is a tool for searching and discovering bibliographic resources of the Library. In IQS Discovery you can do global searches, from a single point, and you can find the electronic resources subscribed by the IQS Library and others (open access).

 Open access to access to the tool More information
 Limited access to full text (access from IQS network)

Thanks to the Databases and other resources you can find specialized information in the field of your studies. Some examples are SABI, SciFinder, Passport, PubMed, Business Source Elite, Aranzadi, NCBI, Lens, ChemSpider, MDPI, among others.

 It provides access to specialized information

 Access determined by each database

 Electronic resources guides made by IQS Library

 IQS Library offers user training and/or personalized sessions 

Web of Science is a databse of bibliographical references of journals articles, providing access to current and retrospective information from author abstracts and citation indexes from over 9000 international publications in the fields of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

 IQS license  
 Limited access to the complete text (access from IQS network)
 It provides very valuable information through its "Analize results" section that allows you to consult the financing institution, the country, the publication, the area of research or the institutions of the documents retrieved

More information

 Others WoS tools are Publons (researcher profile), JCR (journals metrics)

Scopus is a databse of bibliographical references of journals articles, providing access to current and retrospective information from author abstracts and citation indexes from thousands of international publications in the fields of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

IQS license  
Limited access to the complete text (access from IQS network) More information
Other Scopus tool is SJR (journals metrics) 

TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) is a specialized repository for doctorals theses, mainly from the Universities of Catalunya. Thanks to this repository, it is possible to disseminate the results of university research, all over the world and through the web. It increases the access and visibility of your work, and favours the open electronic edition of your own scientific production.

 Open access to full text

 It allows you to search the full text by author, director, title, university, department, year of defense, keywords, etc.

Mendeley is a bibliographic reference manager that incorporates social network functionalities. It allows you to share your bibliographic references with other Mendeley researchers and browse the content uploaded by other users.

  IQS license: institutional account (MIE)

 
  Access with IQS user-password
 It allows search documents, as well as import documents, share them and create work groups More information
 It allows you to create citations in text documents and generate bibliographies automatically

Google Scholar is a tool that allows you to retrieve academic documents such as articles, theses, books, conference or congress texts, etc.

  Open access to full text

 It presents possible versions of the same document, related articles or the citations obtained