Dear Students,

The University of Warsaw is currently offering free access to several new digital resources. Below you will find details on each database, including descriptions and links for home access.

ProQuest Central Premium

ProQuest Central Premium provides extensive full-text academic content, including journals, magazines, news sources (such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun), trade publications, case studies, market and industry reports, business cases, videos, ebooks, A&I resources (ProQuest Research Assistant), and primary sources.
This database offers broad, discipline-aligned research coverage.

The University of Warsaw provides trial access to ProQuest Central Premium external until December 15, 2025.

 

Scopus AI

Scopus AI uses machine learning, natural language processing, and large-scale language models to help researchers efficiently review literature, verify data, and construct bibliographies. The tool is available within the SCOPUS platform under the Scopus AI tab.

 

Statista (New Database)

Statista is one of the world’s largest platforms for statistics and market data. It contains over 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, documents, reports, and infographics covering 80,000 topics from 22,500+ sources.
The Statista Research AI tool searches only within Statista and provides summaries with the most relevant sources.

 

Oxford Scholarship Online – AI Discovery Assistant (New Tool)

The AI Discovery Assistant accepts natural-language queries and returns relevant results from across Oxford Academic resources. It is available to all registered Oxford Academic users. A free Oxford Academic account is required.

News

Office hours

January 30, 2026

Dear Students, Next week I am going to hold my office hours on Tuesday, 03 February 2026: 10:00-11:30 in the office and 15:45-16:45 online. On Thursday, 05 February 2026: I will be available online 17:30-18:30. In the following week of winter holidays (09 February 2026 – 13 February 2026) there will be no office hours. I will resume my office hours on 17 February 2026.

Year 2025/2026

29 stycznia: Broń jądrowa – zagrożenie czy gwarancja pokoju? Klub Amerykański #5: Paweł Frelik i Jan Smoleński

January 26, 2026

Wielu z nas wydawało się, że po zakończeniu zimnej wojny temat bomby atomowej i nuklearnego wyścigu zbrojeń zszedł na dalszy plan. W USA zaprzestano prób jądrowych, a międzynarodowe traktaty spowodowały, że w amerykańskich laboratoriach nie tworzono już nowych rodzajów tej broni.

News

 Erasmus+ 2026/27 Recruitment Is Open

January 26, 2026

From Ankara to Venice, ASC has Erasmus+ agreements with universities across many European cities. The adventure starts now!

Year 2025/2026

Jan 26: “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)”

January 21, 2026

The European Forum on US History, in cooperation with the ASC and as a part of the celebration of the ASC’s 50th Anniversary, is hosting an online lecture “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)” by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska. 

Year 2025/2026

Jan 22: “‘Do I look famished?’: Weird Orality and Convivial Dying in Ishirō Honda’s Matango (1963).”

January 15, 2026

We’re cordially inviting you to the last open event in the “Wiedze u-korzenione” series in the fall semester 2025/26, co-organized by the Weird Fictions Research Group and Centrum Humanistyki Środowiskowej UW.