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Library catalogues
1. OPAC - Electronic catalogue of the Library
Electronic catalogue (library system Aleph) contains records of library documents in the collection of the Library (books, journals, manuscripts, early printed books, CD, DVD ...) with preview of their covers.
Search in the catalogue can be limited to the database of journals only.
Registred users can logged-in into their electronic account which is accessible from the website of the library catalogue (at the top of the pages after clicking on the Sign-in button). By the account it is possible to control the loan period of borrowed documents, the history of loans and payment transactions, renew loans and order library documents from the library catalogue. Catalog records can be searched by subject in the VuFind search engine interface (it is not possible to log in to a user account). If you want to search the collections of all Czech Academy of Sciences libraries at once, use the Union Catalogue of CAS – Aleph system or VuFind system.
An overview of institutional libraries that contribute their records to the Union Catalogue of CAS can be found here.
2. E-journals
Portal of Institute of Philosophy e-journals
You can search and browse journals available online on the basis of the Library's subscription or from the licensed (EBSCO, JSTOR, OUP, Sage, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, ProQuest, Wiley Online Library) as well as free accessible databases (DOAJ, Institute for Czech Literature). Journals can be searched by subject or by source (content provider). Clicking on the title of chosen journal will display information about the sources and extent to which the journal is available in full text. At the same time, you can check the availability of the journal in selected union catalogues.
Access to subscription-based journals is restricted to the computer network of the Institute of Philosophy.
3. Interactive list of flood-damaged publications stored in Jenštejn depository
In total, there are 7049 library items (monographs and journals).
The downloadable pdf file.
4. Scanned card catalogue
Scanned author card catalogue of the original Philosophical and Sociological Library of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology AS CR provides an overview of subject literature in the collection of the Library from its foundation in 1954 till May 1998.
The catalogue can be used especially as a source of bibliographic information.