Databases and Electronic Resources
Welcome to the A-Z listing of databases and Electronic Resources that the library subscribes to. For a complete listing of recommended resources please see our complete list of resources. There is a link to each database, and an indicator as to which subject area they are relevant to, a brief description, whether further log in's are needed and a link to the guide for each resource below. The Electronic Resources Guide contains all additional log ins, and is available from the library desk.
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Resources that require an additional log in are indicated with an *
Selected web site and sources are detailed on the relevant Subject Internet Gateways. Please select your Subject Portal from the links below to access these.
A-Z listing
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| Academic Search Complete | ||
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indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. In PDF format. | |
| Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) * | ||
Full text access to a selection of journals and transactions online. Documents are in PDF format. |
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| American Society for Microbiology | ||
Access the society's journals online. Searchable database with full text access. Documents are in PDF format. |
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| Bentham Science Open Access | ||
Access to the publisher's journals online. Searchable database with full text access. Documents are in PDF format. |
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| British Standards * | ||
Full text access to a selection of British Standards online. Searchable by standard number or by keyword. Documents are in PDF format. |
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| Business Source Complete | ||
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Premier database with full text access to journals, SWOT analysis, and Reuters reports on companies. Searchable. Documents are in PDF or HTML format. |
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| Cochrane Library | ||
| Medical and Health Library - searchable suite of databases with access to 1,500 Cochrane Reviews of current research and practice. |
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| Emerald Management Extra | ||
Full text access to peer reviewed journals. Documents are available in PDF or HTML format. |
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| EThOS - Electronic Theses Online System | ||
Searchable full text database of electronically stored UK theses |
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| FAME - Financial Analysis Made Easy | ||
Contains business and financial information on 3.4 million companies in the UK and Ireland - updated weekly |
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| Financial Times * | ||
Searchable access to the text of the financial times. On Campus Only. |
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| OneFile (Previously InfoTrac) | ||
Searchable access to peer reviewed journals, magazines, news services etc. Can be limited to full text only. Documents are in PDF or HTML format. |
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| GreenFILE | ||
provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records |
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| IEEE selected journals * | ||
Selected journals for computing and engineering-electronic and print. Searchable with full text access. Documents in PDF of HTML |
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| Index to Theses | ||
Searchable access to the abstracts of theses submitted in the UK and Ireland, in HTML format. |
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| Ingenta | ||
Searchable database of journal articles and abstracts. Links to the full text of articles that can be accessed via other resources, and freely available full text Documents are available in PDF or HTML format. |
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| Irish Times | ||
Full text access to the newspaper daily and a searchable archive of articles dating from 1996. Business, market data and technology news also available . |
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| Just Cite * | ||
Legal reference search engine , providing a fully cross-referenced index to a comprehensive collection of authoritative UK and European legal information. Registration is required. |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | ||
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. |
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| Regional Business News | ||
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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| ScienceDirect | ||
Searchable full text database, with articles in PDF or HTML format. |
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| Teacher Reference Center | ||
| indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. |
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| UK/EIRE Reference Center | ||
British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications. |
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| Web of Science | ||
Searchable database of citations in the Social Sciences and Sciences. Coverage is from 1990 and users can also navigate to electronic full text journal articles in HTML format where the library's subscriptions tie into Web of Science. |
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