Here you’ll find a selection of the main specialized databases for the technical-scientific area, with direct access links.
On the first floor of the Central Library of Science and Technology, there is a dedicated computer station for consultation, always updated with the latest content.
AIDA: Computerized Analysis of Italian Companies
Contains detailed biographical, financial and commodity information on Italian companies excluding banks, insurance companies and public bodies.
AIDA PA: Computerized Analysis of Local Public Administration Budgets
Database containing economic and financial information on Municipalities, Provincial Administrations, Mountain Communities and Unions of Municipalities.
AlimentaLex
Comprehensive collection of national and EU food legislation, updated monthly.
For access, contact the library.
The Animal Science Database
Bibliographic database related to livestock breeding and related disciplines.
Accessible on CAB Abstracts
ArXiv
Disciplinary open-access repository that hosts more than two million scientific articles in different subject areas (mathematics, economics, physics, computer science, biology, statistics, electrical engineering).
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Includes articles from architecture and design journals, with bibliographic descriptions of subjects such as history and practice of architecture, exterior architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, interior design, and decoration.
Accessible via EBSCO platform.
CAB Abstracts
Bibliographic database in the disciplinary field of agricultural and veterinary sciences.
Cambridge Structural Database
World-wide database of crystal structures of small organic and metallo-organic molecules. It contains numerous 3D structures from X-ray diffraction and neutron analysis.
For access write to bibchim@unipr.it
Codice delle Sostanze Alimentari
Integrated regulatory update service on food and beverage hygiene and quality.
To access send an email to the Veterinary Library from your University of Parma email account.
Ellis and Messina Catalogue of Foraminiferae
Catalogues have genera and species for more than: 47000 Foraminifera, 26500 Ostracoda, 7000 Diatoms.
The Catalogues reproduce the complete type descriptions for genus- and species-level taxa, including full-size reproductions of original figures and charts.
Embase
Bibliographic database of biomedical and pharmacological fields. Derived from the print version of eight bibliographic directories (Excerpta Medica), it collects more than 11 million records recorded since 1974, indexed from about 5,000 journals, many of which are not in Medline.
European Pharmacopoeia
The European Pharmacopoeia is the pharmaceutical code that harmonizes the texts of the main official pharmacopoeias of the European states and identifies recognized common standards on the quality of medicines; it aims to ensure homologous quality parameters for medicines at the European level.
Consultable at the chemistry section of our library. For remote access, write to bibfarm@unipr.it
Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
Bibliographic database in the field of food science and technology.
Accessible via EBSCO platform.
Food Science Source
The database, designed specifically for professionals in the food and nutrition industry, contains about 850 titles, covering the areas of Agribusiness, Food and Beverage Science, Food Packaging, Food Processing, Food Safety, Food Service, and Food Innovation.
Accessible via EBSCO platform.
GeoRef
Geological Sciences bibliographic database created by the American Geological Institute.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Comprehensive collection of the publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Jove
Platform that collects peer reviewed video demonstrations of basic techniques and concepts to support teaching. The videos, in English and subtitled in several languages including Italian, cover a wide range of subjects: biology, chemistry, physics, environmental science, psychology, clinical medicine, laboratory techniques, and engineering.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary database maintained by Journal Storage Project, constitutes a digital electronic archive comprising entire past series of periodicals in the different subject fields: economics, history, political science, sociology, social sciences, law, psychology, administration science and public policy, archaeology, languages and literature, music, filmography, folklore, religion, history of art and architecture.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract
Full-text database of periodicals, books, and papers in the areas of librarianship, classification, cataloging, and bibliometrics.
Accessible via EBSCO platform.
MathSciNet
Bibliographic/citation database created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Provides access to reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information in the mathematical sciences. Time coverage: from 1800 to the present.
Medicamenta online
Web-App that can provide quick and efficient support for browsing up-to-date monographs on active ingredients, with a focus on structural, chemical, pharmacological and clinical characteristics as well as the formulation of the most popular preparations.
For access write to bibfarm@unipr.it
UNI Standards
Technical Standards Database.
For access and other information refer to dedicated page.
Nutrition and Food Sciences
A specialized resource that collects research, reviews, and news on nutrition and food sciences in an easily searchable database.
Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest)
A retrospective database of full-text periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Periodicals Index Online (Proquest)
A retrospective citation database in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
ProQuest
Bibliographic database containing citations of scholarly articles, allows searches within it by giving access to the full text.
Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for 3D structure data of proteins and nucleic acids.
These data, obtained mainly through X-ray crystallography or NMR spectrography, deposited by biologists and biochemists from around the world, are in the public domain and can be accessed free of charge. The database is the central repository of biological structure data.
PubMed
Free bibliographic database containing more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
SciFinder-N
International platform for browsing bibliographic and factual databases of the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Electronic version of the historic paper Chemical Abstracts directory with data present from the early 1800s to the present.
To access you must register using the institutional email and then login here by entering newly created credentials. Registration and access must be done from a device connected to the University network or via VPN.
SciVal
Platform for performance analysis through bibliometric indicators, from scientific production data uploaded to Scopus.
Scopus
Provides a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, social sciences, medicine, and the arts and humanities.
Tropag & Rural : abstracts on tropical agriculture and abstracts on rural development in the tropics.
Bibliographic database on tropical agriculture in the developing rural areas of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas.
U.S. Pharmacopoeia (USP)
It's the pharmacopoeia for the United States, dedicated to the development of standards in the fields of galenic preparation, biologics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and other areas.
To access, owners of an email address with domain <@unipr.it> or <@students.unipr.it> must create an account.
User agree to use the resource for academic and non-commercial purposes.
Urbadoc
Bibliographic database on urban planning, habitat, urban and regional policies.
VDANet
Daily newsletter derived from systematic monitoring of Official Gazette (General Series and Part Two), AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, EMA European Medicines Agency, European Commission, FDA Food and Drug Administration.
For access, write to bibfarm@unipr.it
Web of Science
Bibliographic-citational database with bibliographic information taken from scientific periodicals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and literature.
