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.

Year 2025/2026

March 25: “Decentralized Biological Warfare: Plants as Non-State Actors in Contemporary Media”

March 12, 2026

Weird Fictions Research Group invites you to join the first student lecture in the Weird Vegetation series in the spring semester 2025/26.

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ELS (Electronic student ID) extension

March 5, 2026

Dear Students, Extending the ELS (electronic student ID) validity will take place on: March 16 – 19, 2026 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. In order to conduct the extensions smoothly please (if possible) submit your IDs collectively.

Year 2025/2026

17 marca: Strategie przetrwania w erze dezinformacji. Klub Amerykański #6: Agnieszka Graff i Elżbieta Korolczuk

February 25, 2026

Na śniadanie: dwadzieścia rolek z Instagrama, na obiad: pół godziny TikToka, na podwieczorek: kilka kłótni z Twittera, na kolację: Netflix. I tak w kółko. Współczesna dieta medialna jest nie do opanowania i przetrawienia. Jak sobie radzimy z tym przesytem?

American Studies Colloquium Series

March 12: “Who’s Afraid of the Necro-President? Sovereignty, Spectacle, and Political Authority in Decline”

February 24, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the first lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Spring semester! This time we are pleased to host Dean Caivano with a lecture “Who’s Afraid of the Necro-President? Sovereignty, Spectacle, and Political Authority in Decline”.

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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.