Institutional Subscription of National Academy of Art
Temporary access to the EBSCO e-book collection in March 2026 for faculty members, doctoral students, students, and administrative staff at the National Academy of Art
EBSCO eBooks Academic Subscription Collection (EBSCO e-books) is the largest multidisciplinary academic collection, which provides access to nearly 260,000 full-text e-books from leading world publishers.The collection is added to the account of the National Academy of Art on the EBSCO platform and when searching, the system displays results from all available resources simultaneously.
Access to the EBSCO eBooks Academic Subscription Collection is available on the territory of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, and the Burgas Branch.
Important: For remote access, you have to initially register via your academic email in the library in the Rectorate building at 1 Shipka Street. The personal profile allows you to specify and save your search results, receive information about new titles according to the criteria and topics you have set, and make notes on the texts. If you have already registered with EBSCO, you do not need to register again.
Access link: http://research.ebsco.com
Open access to EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate for faculty, doctoral students, students, and administrative staff at the National Academy of Art
Academic Search Ultimate is a multidisciplinary academic database featuring an extensive collection of 10,033 active full-text journals in several languages.
Academic Search Ultimate includes content available prior to the printing of the relevant scientific publication (Ahead of Print).
The publications are in pdf and/or HTML format, with an option to also listen to content. There is an abundance of visual materials (videos and photographs) as well.
Access to Academic Search Ultimate is possible in the premises of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design.
Important: For remote access, you need initial registration by using your academic e-mail address. Please note that you will be registered by the librarians in the Library premises of the National Academy of Art at 1 Shipka Street. Your personal profile allows you to specify and save your searches, to receive information about new titles based on your specific criteria and topics, and to make notes on texts of interest to you.
Access link: http://research.ebsco.com
Temporary access to Moderm Construction Online platform during April and May 2025
Modern Construction Online is a comprehensive resource platform of the academic publishing house De Gruyter that gives students, architects, engineers, and construction professionals the most relevant information on modern construction techniques and materials. By using this platform, practitioners and students keep up to date with current trends and improve their skills in designing and constructing of modern buildings. The database deepens the knowledge and skills of users in the construction industry. From building envelopes, BIM, and digital construction to sustainability and energy efficiency, this database covers all aspects of modern construction techniques, and offers practical tips and advice on choosing the right materials and methods for each project. Numerous illustrations, schematic drawings, and diagrams render technical information more accessible and make this database an indispensable reference work and tool for anyone working in the construction industry.
Access to Modern Construction Online is available on the territory of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design at the National Academy of Art in Sofia, and the Burgas Branch.
Access link: https://mco.degruyter.com/
Temporary access to the BiblioRossica platform during March and April 2025
BiblioRossica is a digital library containing e-books, which is a project of the American publishing house Academic Studies Press and offers over 30,000 titles of scientific and educational literature in the field of humanities, technical and natural sciences. The system includes publications from 150 publishers. The books are in English and Russian.The platform offers: a catalogue with the option to conduct standard, advanced and full-text search; PDF-format content, which allows customised formatting (changing the font size, convenient layout, etc.), and the option to download and share up to 15% of each book.
Users within the IP scope of the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design at the National Academy of Art in Sofia and the Burgas Branch will have the opportunity to view all texts as well as print and/or email up to 15% of each book content.
Access link: https://bibliorossica.com/
JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection for faculty members, doctoral students, students, and administrative staff at the National Academy of Art
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary digital library which contains publications in the following fields: regional studies, arts, business and economics, history, humanities, law, medicine and health, natural sciences, applied sciences and mathematics, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields of knowledge.
Access to the JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection is available in the premises of the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, and the Burgas Branch.
Important: For remote access, you have to initially register via academic email address in the IP network of the National Academy of Art in Sofia and the Burgas Branch.
Access link: https://www.jstor.org/
Temporary access to Coherent Digital collections from 1 March to 31 May 2026 for faculty members, doctoral students, students and staff at the National Academy of Art
Coherent Digital is an innovative platform whose mission is to capture and digitise the so-called grey literature–valuable scientific content, which often remains outside traditional platforms spaces. Coherent Digital preserves at-risk and sensitive primary information resources and sources, which are often web-based – reports, printed archives, government documentation, blogs and multimedia – before they vanish. Through the various Coherent Digital collections, students and scholars in Bulgaria can have access to millions of documents that are missing from traditional sources.
Individuals with institutional affiliation can create a user account under any Commons category on the Coherent Digital platform. The institutional email address is used to register and have remote access.
Access links
Module-specific URLs
Temporary access in June 2026 to the Emerald Insight platform for e-books and journals from the Emerald Publishing portfolio for faculty members, doctoral students, students, and administrative staff at the National Academy of Art
Emerald Publishing offers one of the most prestigious digital platforms for academic content – Emerald Insight – created in support of researchers, students and professionals.
The platform offers:
A vast selection of over 300 peer-reviewed, high impact factor scientific journals in areas such as management, marketing, information technology and education;
A broad-range catalogue containing thousands of catalogue records – from scientific monographs to practical manuals on current topics with a pronounced interdisciplinary nature;
Intuitive interface with the option to download PDF and ePub files.
Taylor & Francis eBooks Taylor & Francis eBooks is a multidisciplinary scholarly e-book database. It provides access to 157,000 English-language e-books from Taylor & Francis, one of the world's largest e-book publishers in history, political science, language and literature, the arts, economics and finance, development studies, law, geography, education, and many more.
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is a leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the humanities and social sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe. Currently, over 700 publishers entrust CEEOL with their high-quality journals and e-books. CEEOL provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. CEEOL currently covers more than 1,350 journals and 330,000 articles. The multilingual resource, with editions in English, German, French, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian and other languages, includes 159 Bulgarian journals. In addition, CEEOL allows publishers to reach new audiences and promote the scientific achievements of the Eastern European scientific community to a wider readership. Non-affiliated scholars have the opportunity to access the repository by creating own personal user account.