Online databases are an invaluable source of information in electronic form. They include important encyclopaedia resources such as Oxford Music Online, Film Index International, Proquest Central and many others. We attempt to ensure the constant expansion of the number of online databases.
As a registered member, you can utilise the online databases from the comfort of you home, office or school. You need a valid library card with password for remote access. Clicking on the button “entry to database” opens the login window (see thumbnails in photo gallery). Fill in either the library card number or nickname and password in the column „user name“.
Online databases
Proquest Central
- main multi-disciplinary knowledge system of the company Cambridge Information Group, i.e., important global company for information and education
- universal full text online database providing balanced academic, business and news information by affording access to millions of articles from up to 10,000 prestigious global periodicals
- current research in crucial scientific disciplines (biomedical methods, transport, economics, management, humanities and social sciences, information technology, general biology, advertising, public relations, equipment, technology, public health and hygiene, agriculture, the environment and environmental protection etc.)
- additional collection of university dissertations from throughout the world and collection of daily press from English-speaking countries with extensive archive
- in English
EBSCO
- academic universal full text database
- magazines and reviews in extensive archive; picture base; monographs, newspapers (total of around 30 thousand publications)
- natural sciences and humanities, economics etc.
- contains Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
- primarily in English
Oxford Music Online
- online gateway for the field of music administered by the publisher Oxford
- Grove Music Online (electronic version of revised editions of the prestigious music encyclopaedias The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz), Encyclopedia of Popular Music (ed. Colin Larkin; biographies and discographies of musical personalities of jazz, rock and pop) and other reference sources (The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music)
- searching according to headwords and sources; crosslinks; bibliographies
- timelines; thematic areas (genres, schools, institutions etc.)
- in English
Film Index International
- filmography database of the British Film Institute
- information about 120,000 from 180 countries made between 1900 and the present day
- one unique feature is searching according to international film awards
- in English
FIAF – International Index to Film Periodicals
- article biography database of International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
- in full text and complete retrospective, for example Framework (UK), Sight and Sound (UK), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (UK), Hitchcock annual (USA), Velvet Light Trap (USA), Journal of Film and Video (USA), Griffithiana (ITA), Kwartalnik Filmowy (POL), Nosferatu (ESP)
- academic and popular titles; thematic register of approximately 20,000 entries
- primarily in English (contributions of NFA ČR in Czech)
American Film Institute Catalog
- film production of the USA from 1893 to 1971 and also award-winning films from 2000–2006
- detailed processing of content and themes
- advanced searching according to various entities
- in English