The Open Access movement advocates for the availability of scientific work results to anyone, without any costs or barriers. Believing that free access to scientific knowledge accelerates its impact and promotes the common good, academic institutions and other scientific organizations worldwide have been developing repositories, databases, and directories offering free access to their publications on the internet.
RUN (University NOVA Repository) provides access to scientific publications and academic papers from all the Organic Units of NOVA. To directly explore the documents from NOVA NSPH and learn about the different types of available documents, click here.
The NOVA Research Portal is a public portal that provides access to the content of the NOVA Research Information System (PURE), reflecting the research results developed at our university. Search can be done by name, research unit, concept, or free text.
Open access publications are marked with the respective symbol. To learn about the scientific production of NOVA NSPH, click here.
RCAAP (Scientific Repository of Open Access in Portugal) is a portal that serves as a single point for searching and accessing scientific publications deposited in the institutional repositories of Portuguese higher education institutions and other R&D organizations. Since 2013, it has also become the tool that ensures the legal deposit and access to doctoral theses, master’s dissertations, and other scientific works.
BMC, or BioMed Central, is a British publisher of open access scientific journals, and a branch of Springer Nature specialized in the fields of Biology, Health, and Medicine. Access the full list of the journals published here.
The índexrmp (Index of Portuguese Medical Journals) extensively gathers, since 1992, the abstracts of articles from all Portuguese medical publications and those related to health, identifying their titles, authors, and places of work.
PMC PubMed Central is a search engine developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM, USA), providing access to the full text of scientific articles in the fields of Biomedicine and Health Sciences.
PubMed is a free reference database with over 35 million citations of articles published in the fields of Biomedicine and Health Sciences.
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is an electronic library where you can search a selected collection of Ibero-American scientific journals that meet stringent editorial and scientific quality requirements, regularly evaluated.
SciELO Portugal is the Portuguese branch of SciELO. To view the current list of indexed journals, click here.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is an international directory of open access journals, selected according to scientific quality criteria and editorial integrity by an independent committee.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is an international directory of open access books, selected according to scientific quality criteria and editorial integrity by an independent committee.
* Access to these publications is available on campus, from any computer connected to the ENSP NOVA network, or remotely, through the VPN service provided exclusively to the academic community of the School. To configure VPN access, click here.
The Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on) provides unlimited and permanent access to research and higher education institutions to full-text articles from thousands of scientific journals and e-books online from some of the most important content providers, through nationally negotiated subscriptions.
Emerald Insight provides abstracts and full-text articles from academic journals covering areas such as Marketing, Management, Economics, Engineering, Education, Health, Social Work, and others.
eLS (known as the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences) is an online reference work, updated monthly, that contains thousands of specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Life Sciences.
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database. Click on the following hyperlinks to explore journals, books, and reports in the fields of Public Health, Health Policies, or Health Sciences.
NOVA Discovery is an integrated bibliographic search service for all physical and digital resources provided by the libraries of Universidade NOVA, including RUN and b-on, based on the EBSCO Discovery Service.
The OECD iLibrary provides access to all publications and datasets released by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.
Its OECD Health Statistics section is the most comprehensive statistical data source for comparing the performance of health systems in OECD countries and partner countries.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary reference database, developed by the publisher Elsevier, that includes scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings, with descriptions of indexed documents and their citations within the Scopus context, as well as other bibliometric indicators for supplementary science evaluation.
Web of Science (WoS) is a platform that provides integrated access to reference databases such as the Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, SciELO Citation Index, and Grants Index, with descriptions of indexed documents and their citations within the WoS context, as well as other bibliometric indicators for supplementary science evaluation.
