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 provides online access to journals and 60 e-books subscribed by Palacký University and the so-called Freedom Collection of more than 2,000 other journals with a retrospective mostly up to 1995.

Database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature as well as journals focused on social science and arts.