Academica is a Polish online interlibrary system providing access to digital documents of the

National Library of Poland The National Library ( pl, Biblioteka Narodowa) is the central Polish library, subject directly to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. The library collects books, journals, electronic and audiovisual publicat ...

that includes both copyrighted material for registered users in selected libraries within Poland as well as free access to public domain material. Its scope is similar to that of

Polona Polona is a Polish digital library, which provides digitized books, magazines, graphics, maps, music, fliers and manuscripts from collections of the National Library of Poland and co-operating institutions. It began its operation in 2006. Colle ...

, the digital library of the National Library of Poland, and allows access to digitized periodicals, books, scores, and other library material within broad range of sciences and humanities. The project was developed in collaboration with the

Foundation for Polish Science The Foundation For Polish Science ( pl, Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej, FNP) is an independent, non-profit making organisation which aim at improving the opportunities for doing research in Poland. Established in 1990, registered in 1991, the ...

and Research and Academic Computer Network. The system is available since 2014. As of September 2017 ''Academica'' catalog lists 2,020,299 documents. The interface allows for search within the digitized version of the documents as well as its metadata including language, keywords, published date, and subject categories. It provides capability to perform full text searches for materials with OCR and limited capability for boolean expressions (for example it is possible to do fulltext search for " Jan Kowalski"). Additional functionality changes such as additional search options, increased OCR capabilities and access improvements are planned for 2017–2019 within the project OMNISProject e-usługa OMNIS
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European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

funds.

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