PurpleSearch is a search engine that trawls through 100 academic literature databases at once.
Thanks to its clever search techniques, PurpleSearch can display search results from the most relevant databases for your subject.
PurpleSearch is a handy tool for those just orientating themselves in a subject – they don’t have to make immediate use of the extensive search options of the various literature databases.
RUG Combine is a new service of the joint libraries of the RUG. RUG Combine offers access to scientific and subject-specific literature in the form of a wide spectrum of electronic bibliographical databases, catalogues, reference works, source and text material and electronic journals. Further information
RUG theses and internal resources contains an overview of the various thesis catalogues and internal documentation resources of the RUG.
Under national and international catalogues you will find the catalogues of libraries associated with the RUG and libraries in the north of the Netherlands, as well as popular national and international catalogues.
Electronic files include bibliographic databases, encyclopaedias on CD-ROM, online reference works, etc. The accessibility of each file is indicated (some files are only accessible from certain workstations or within a certain part of the RUG network).
The literature guide per subject indicates the most frequently used files for the subject concerned.
The electronic journals button provides access to over ten thousand periodicals to which the RUG libraries subscribe.
e-Books are a new medium: of course, the Library has obtained a numer of these already.
An overview of the university’s electronic publications and repositories can be found under electronic publications.