ScienceDirect is the world’s leading full-text scientific database offering articles/chapters from peer-reviewed journals and books published by Elsevier, Academic Press, Pergamon, Mosby, W.B. Saunders, and others. It covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature as well as journals focused on social science and the arts.

The database provides online access to journals and 60 e-books subscribed to by Palacký University, as well as to the Freedom Collection, with more than 2,300 journals and a retrospective dating mostly to 1995.