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EBSCO
EBSCO is a leading provider of research databases, e‑books, and journals used by libraries worldwide. Through the EBSCOhost platform, students, researchers, and staff can quickly search a wide range of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly resources across many subjects. EBSCO also offers tools to save, organize, and cite research materials, making it easier to find and use reliable information for learning, teaching, and research.
Thematic Coverage: EBSCO databases cover a broad spectrum of subjects across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical and Natural Sciences, and STEM fields. Topics include literature, art and architecture, history, philosophy, ethics, politics, sociology, psychology, education, law, business and economics, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, environmental and life sciences, health and medical sciences, and interdisciplinary issues such as global trends and public policy.
eBooks on the New EBSCO Interfaces User Guide
WEB OF SCIENCE
Web of Science is a leading multidisciplinary research platform and citation database provided by Clarivate Analytics. It offers access to a comprehensive collection of abstracts and citation data from scholarly journals, books, conference proceedings, and other academic sources. Web of Science covers a wide range of disciplines, including Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
The platform provides powerful search, citation, and analytics tools, helping students, researchers, and academic staff discover influential research, track citation relationships, analyze research trends, and evaluate scholarly impact. It is widely used for literature discovery, research analysis, and supporting evidence-based academic work.
The Web of Science platform provides access to the database Web of Science Core Collection, which includes the following citation databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1980–present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1980–present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1980–present)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990–present)
Book Citation Index (2005–present)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015–);
Essential Science Indicators
Journal Citation Reports.
SCIENCEDIRECT
ScienceDirect is a leading scientific database from Elsevier, providing access to millions of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. It covers Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities. ScienceDirect includes powerful search tools and features to help students, researchers, and academic staff quickly locate, organize, and use high-quality scholarly information for study, teaching, and research.
Full texts are available from 1999.
Elsevier Webinars schedule
BIBLIOGRAPHIC, FULL-TEXT AND CITATION DATABASE SCOPUS
Scopus (publisher Elsevier) is a database of bibliographic citation of research literature, the index of citation of scientific articles is provided in the database. The full texts of the articles can be downloaded only from the journals available in ViA subscription or open-access databases. Scopus puts powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, research managers and funders to promote ideas, people and institutions.
Thematic coverage: Social sciences and Humanities, Life sciences, Physical sciences, Health sciences
SciVal is modular solution that provides access to the research performance of over 24`000 research institutions and their associated researchers from more than 230 nations globally. More information about SciVal and SciVal user guide.
A guide for using the data base SCOPUS
Elsevier Webinars schedule
TRAVELNEWS.LV
Travelnews.lv – information for tourism professionals (industry news, news archive, newsletters and other professional information).
UNWTO WORLD TOURISM BAROMETER
The UNWTO World Tourism Barometer monitors short-term tourism trends on a regular basis to provide global tourism stakeholders with up-to-date analysis on international tourism.
Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Data 2016 – 2020, 2022 Edition
Access linkCompendium of Tourism Statistics, Data 2016 – 2020, 2022 Edition
