E-library

Electronic information sources

The Digital Library of the University of Ljubljana (DiKUL) offers access to subscriber information sources such as electronic books, lexicons, specialised databases, electronic scientific and professional articles, audiovisual material, etc., from any location (outside the computer network of the University of Ljubljana) during the opening hours of the library.

The service can be used by active members of our library, specifically employees of the home institution and students with status.

You can access information sources via the DiKUL (Digital Library of the University of Ljubljana) and Mrežnik (NUK) web portals. When you follow the link to the source from the list of information sources, the application page appears, from which you select your home institution (see the drop-down list), enter the membership or enrolment number (student card) and password. The password is the same as you use to enter My library when renewing borrowed material in the COBISS system. If you don’t already have a password, if you forgot it, or it doesn’t work, contact the library or email them.

When using electronic resources, you must respect the provisions of the licence agreements that libraries have concluded with providers or publishers. Only use for personal or study purposes is allowed.

See the NUK website for more detailed instructions

Contact information in the event of problems with access to the service:
telephone: +386 1 4212 505,
e-mail: knjiznica@aluo.uni-lj.si

At the links below, you can access electronic resources from the humanities, social sciences and other branches of science.
Some databases and online archives are freely available, while others are intended only for members of the UL, CTK or NUK libraries. In this case, you can access the online content by pre-registering via remote access.

  • DiKUL The Digital Library of the University of Ljubljana is a web portal users can use to search the central index of bibliographic data. It covers hundreds of millions of subscribed and free / open sources from global publishers and other providers of professional and scientific information from all disciplines.
  • Mrežnik is a portal of more than 200 selected electronic information sources intended for searching scientific, professional and study literature.
  • Oxford Art Online is a fundamental encyclopaedia of art. It contains over 30,000 articles (20,000 biographies) on artists, directions, schools, techniques, theories, etc.
  • JSTOR Extended access to the contents of the archive of full texts of more than 1,700 scientific journals from various fields, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, music, sociology, art and art history, history, etc. Users can now access all archival and current collections of magazines and about 35,000 books from some publishers.
  • JSTOR (archive)
  • Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Philosophers
  • Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts
  • Fashion Photography Archive
  • Bloomsbury Medieval Studies
  • Arcadian Library Online
  • Guggenheim Museum
  • Bloomsbury Architecture Library
  • De Gruyter Online; Test access to 75,000 electronic books, published between 1650 and 2016, covering various fields in humanities and social sciences.
  • Test accesses – different publishers (Elsevier, Emerald, Brill, Wiley, MIT Press)
  • E-books – FF Scientific Publishing House
  • dLib, The Digital Library of Slovenia provides access to digitised knowledge and cultural treasures. You can access the archives of magazines through the portal AB, Anthropos, Ars et humanitas, ČKZ, Dialogi, Grafičar, Kino, Poligrafi … or e.g. books by KUD Logos, etc.
  • Europeana provides access to more than 50 million digitised units – books, music, artwork and more.
  • Život umjetnosti, free access to the scientific journal for art theory.
  • Oris, archive of articles in the journal of architecture.
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), a collection of 300 open access newspapers.
  • Open DOAR, a directory of open access repositories.
  • CORE, a portal of scientific resources in open access.