Online Subscription Databases
NLL Online Subscription Databases
Latvian Databases
The database of the national news agency LETA offers information on political, social and culture events in Latvia, the Baltic States and the world; it also provides business information services Nozare.lv, which collects and systematizes new and topical information about the processes in 30 most important branches of business in Latvia.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Letonika.lv is a portal providing reference information, terminology of various sectors, translation dictionaries, unique and high quality resources on Latvia in Latvian. At present it is possible to read and search for information in 10 encyclopaedias, use dictionaries in more than 10 translation directions, to view separately graphic pictures, audio and visual recordings, search for information in Latvian Internet and Internet catalogue in the portal.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
The database of the publisher Applied Information Service contains approximately 75 000 legal documents that have been approved and entered into force in the Republic of Latvia after 1990, as well as the legal documents of the European Union. The database is regularly updated, ensuring continuous access to the updated versions of the legal documents of the Republic of Latvia and the European Union.
Accessible in the Law Reading Room, the Reading Room of Electronic Resources and the Department of Periodicals
LURSOFT "Newspaper Library"
Lursoft newspaper database offers publications of Latvian newspapers, which is updated daily with the new issues. The database offers the possibility to read the publications in the Internet, as well as to search for the articles according to chosen parameters and to comment upon them. The newspaper archive is predominantly available from 1994, the official journal Latvijas Vēstnesis” - 2000.
Accessible at the Reading Room of Electronic Resources
Legal information system database NAIS offers a complete set of Latvian legal acts, their consolidated versions, history, references to derived legal acts and document search according to more than 10 parameters.
Accessible in the Law Reading Room and the Department of Periodicals
Foreign Databases
Special search and browsing software of the company EBSCO, which provides one point of access to full magazine texts from the foreign databases that the NLL subscribes to (EBSCO, JSTOR, Cambridge Journals Online, SpringerLINK, EASTVIEW etc.), as well as to scholarly magazines in social sciences and humanities in foreign languages that are freely accessible on the Internet. The search can be performed according to the magazine title, subject of key word, as well as by browsing the list of magazines according to branches or in alphabetic order.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Bibliographic and full text data base of various branches – periodicals of social sciences and humanities, economics, business, nature sciences, medicine and other branches. The full texts of almost 7000 magazines in foreign languages are accessible.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Full text magazine archive (full texts accessible from the beginning of their publication, but not the last 4-5 years approximately, if the magazine is still being published).
The NLL is subscribing to 2 collections:
Art & Science I - full texts of 117 magazines of various branches, predominantly in social sciences and humanities;
Music Collection - full texts of 32 music magazines.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Cambridge Journals Online is a full text magazine database created by Cambridge University Press covering various branches of research, especially – the social sciences and the humanities (history, politics, economics, law, linguistics, music, theatre, etc.).
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
A full text database of the publisher SAGE covering various branches of research, especially the social sciences and the humanities.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
A full text database of the publisher Springer contains more than 500 magazines in exact sciences, nature sciences and social sciences. Information available in more than four languages.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Emerald database offers full texts of 150 magazines starting from 1989 in management, library sciences and social sciences. The database offers specially developed interfaces for librarians, authors and management students.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
A full text database in Russian of social sciences and humanities, including more than 60 well-known magazines. Information in the database can be searched in English and in Russian.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
A full text database of newspapers and magazines in Russian:
- СМИ: Центральные журналы – more than 400 popular and specialised branch magazines in social sciences and humanities, technics and sciences.
- СМИ: Центральные газеты – more than 150 Russian newspapers, including also branch publications.
- СМИ: Зарубежная пресса – approximately 150 publications of the former CIS countries and Russian publications abroad, predominantly newspapers, including also several Russian language newspapers published in the Baltic States and in Latvia.
Ask the consultant about the access.
The database of the laws, legal acts, legal magazines of the European Union and foreign countries (the U.S.A., the U.K., etc.).
Accessible in the Law Reading Room.
A full text database and archive of law magazines (more than 800 magazines, of these 500 magazines with archive).
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Bibliographical Data Bases
СМИ: Библиотечные фонды - approximately 100 sources of various materials, predominantly bibliographical databases, including ИНИОН databases of various branches.
Accessible from Integrum Tehno database platform.
One of the best known medical bibliographical databases, created by the National medical Library of the USA. Offers authoritative synopsis of 46000 medical magazines.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL from EBSCO data base platform
A bibliographical database in education, created by Educational Resource Information Center (U.S.). The database contains article synopsis of more than 980 magazines of the education file, as well more than 2200 full texts of the review publications.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL from EBSCO database platform
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)
The database holds article annotations from more than 600 magazines published in the branch of library science, also from books, conference proceedings on cataloguing, classification, bibliometry, online information retrieval, management and other issues of library work.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL from EBSCO database platform
E-books, dictionaries, encyclopaedias
Dawsonera is new, progressive software that contains a catalogue of ebooks for purchase by libraries. Readers of the National Library of Latvia have an opportunity to access it thanks to the financial support of Swedbank. Dawsonera offers to work with editions by the world’s leading academic publishers, including Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Wiley etc. The software allows reading the books online as well to download them for a limited period of time. Keywords for the ebook collection available at the National Library of Latvia are: management, education, marketing, social psychology, creative industries, and ecology. Currently there are 117 ebooks available.
Accessible at The Reading Room of Electronic Resources, The Letonica Reading Room, The Periodicals Reading Room, The Social Sciences Reading Room, The Humanities Reading Room, The Reading Room of Library and Information Sciences, The Recent Periodicals Reading Room and The Bibliographical References Reading Room.
GroveArtOnline
The online version of the largest art encyclopaedia Dictionary of Art. The database holds more than 30000 articles, more than 50000 links to pictures available on the Internet, as well as more than 100000 pictures from The Bridgeman Art Library, an important collection of art reproductions.
Accessible at the Reading Room of Electronic Resources and the Humanities Reading Room
The online version of the largest music dictionary The New Grove Dictionary of Music. The database contains more than 29000 articles, more than 3000 links to similar pages, as well as sound archive and illustrations.
Accessible at the Reading Room of Electronic Resources and the Reading Room of the Music Department
Full texts of approximately 170 encyclopaedias, dictionaries and handbooks of various branches published by Oxford University Press. The database offers the possibilities to search information in individual editions or according to subjects of various branches or in all sources simultaneously.
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
Questia makes available full texts of approximately 65 000 books, as well as newspaper and magazine articles and other sources of information. It is possible to search in one specific edition or in all simultaneously, to browse lists of literature on separate subjects.
Accessible at the Reading Room of Electronic Resources (only one user at a time)
Universal data base of various reference publications, making accessible the full texts of approximately 60 encyclopaedias, dictionaries and handbooks in Russian, as well as pictures and maps (biographies, history, philosophy, sociology, geography, technics, statistics, etc.).
Accessible in all reading rooms of the NLL
