Databases

LETA is a national information agency that creates reliable content and provides personalized services to professional information users.

LETA is one of the most innovative media companies in the Baltics and also in Europe, which has performed unique scientific and technical developments in the field of content selection, processing and development of other content services. In order to offer partners information on events outside Latvia, LETA works closely with the Baltic News Service in Estonia and Lithuania, as well as with the Polish news agency PAP, the photo news agency SCANPIX and other European and global information agencies.

http://www.leta.lv/

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, reading room

https://www.letonika.lv/

News.lv is a portal that offers its readers publications from more than 100 different newspapers, as well as news agency BNS news. The portal is updated daily with several hundred new articles from both Latvian central and regional newspapers.

On the portal you can:

search for articles in the archive of up to 20 years old according to the desired parameters;

search for publications of interest on the map;

to find out what events are taking place in your region and in Latvia in general;

use a free Newspaper agent;

add events and Company News.

http://news.lv/

Lursoft is an IT company with more than 20 years of experience, during which it has become an integral assistant for both legal entities and individuals, providing access not only to a wide database of legal information of national importance, but also providing a range of services that allow entrepreneurs to better develop their business. activities, including analytical services, monitoring, B2B solutions, etc.

https://www.lursoft.lv/

The EBSCO database currently supports the Google Chrome web browser, and is currently working with Firex Fox developers to fix the errors.

http://search.ebscohost.com/

We are Britannica Group, Inc is the world-wide leader at the forefront of the information revolution for 250 years.  We have empowered the way the world teaches and learns, and we continue to pave the way in reimagining discovery and inquiry. Inspiring curiosity and instilling the joy of learning is how Britannica builds the world’s future leaders.

http://www.britannica.com/

The most comprehensive and accurate database of Latvian films.

http://filmas.lv/

Periodicals are a mirror of the era and an exciting journey in the history of Latvia, it allows to compare ideologically such different periods - "tsarist time", "first independence time", "Ulmanis times", "German times", "Russian times" and "modern". Just reading the headlines, you can feel the mood of each era vividly.

The periodical portal includes about 3,000 newspapers and magazines of various titles - more than 2.5 million pages - from periodicals published both in Latvia and in exile. These are the publications that are most in demand or in very poor condition - some newspapers are physically worn out, others can be seen through the other side, and not all publications can be accurately recognized in automatic mode.

http://www.periodika.lv/

The aim of the Latvian National Digital Library (LNDB) is to ensure the availability of the digitized cultural heritage of the Latvian National Library and its cooperation partners on the Internet. LNDB makes the collections more accessible to various groups of the society, thus promoting the understanding of Latvian culture, history, geography, economy and politics, as well as offering new research tools to scientists.

LNB Digitālā bibliotēka

Scopus is a bibliographic and citation database of Elsevier's multidisciplinary scientific publications, containing nearly 20,000 journals from approximately 5,000 publishers and 4.6 million conference proceedings. Scopus also has article summaries and the ability to download full-text articles from publishers' full-text databases such as ScienceDirect, SAGE Journals Online, and more. The full texts of the articles can be downloaded only from those journals that are available in the subscribed databases of Ventspils University College or are available in open access. Like the Web of Science, the Scopus database provides academic and administrative staff with unified access to information about publications in major scientific journals and their citations, thus allowing the scientific achievements of the authors of the publications to be evaluated.

http://www.scopus.com/

Science Direct is Elsevier's database for the natural and technical sciences, life sciences and medicine, and the humanities and social sciences. The database contains information on several thousand magazines and books published by Elsevier. Full texts marked with a green symbol, but articles marked with a white symbol are available bibliographic information and summaries of articles.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

The Web of Science is a leading electronic resource research platform developed by Thomson Reuters. A unified platform provides an integrated access to high-quality literature, combines information search in bibliographic (including citation index) databases, helps to find the latest and most important scientific publications in high-impact factor journals, conference proceedings, etc. c. as well as shows citations of scientific publications. The Web of Science contains the most important scientific information on more than 12,000 journals and 160,000 conference proceedings in 250 disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Web of Science available databases:

• Web of ScienceTM Core Collection (1985-present) – Science Citation Index Expanded (1992-present);
• Social Sciences Citation Index (1992-present);
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science (1990-present); Conference
• Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (1990-present);
• Book Citation Index– Science (2005-present); Book Citation Index– Social Sciences & Humanities (2005-present).
• Journal Citation Reports offers an opportunity to systematically and objectively assess the significance and impact of scientific journals in the context of the global scientific environment (impact indicators of the journal Impact Factor, Eigenfactor are available).

http://www.webofknowledge.com/