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18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century Parliamentary Papers - see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
19th century British Newspapers
Available both on and off campus.
19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
19th century UK Periodicals Online (Series 1)
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue.
19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1 captures an important period of British history as it focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the United Kingdom between 1800 and 1900; the rise of children’s entertainment and education; and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies.
This resource, subtitled New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humour and Leisure/Sport, consists of almost 100 academically selected titles and approximately 1.2 million pages. It focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK between 1800 and 1900.
ABHLO - Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Online
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Selective and critical analysis of new historical books, journals and journal articles in the area of historical literature.
AHDS History
Direct access on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
AHDS History is one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service and collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching.
L'Annee Philologique
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
The major database of bibliographical information on the Classical world, APh analyses 1500 periodical titles a year, and 500 articles in multi-authored monographs and conference reports. At present, the database covers from vol.20 1949 of the original printed indexes, with plans in hand to digitise earlier volumes. The arrangement of the information is in two major sections: Ancient authors and texts, Subjects and disciplines.
ArchSearch - Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
Freely available.
Details of over 1 million sites, monuments and interventions in the UK or worked on by UK archaeologists. Links to full text documents are provided where available. Provided by the Council for British Archaeology.
ASSIA
Available both on and off campus.
Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts covers anthropology, economics, education, health & social services, law, psychology, sociology, politics and and women's studies. Records are provided from over 500 journals; coverage is from 1987 onwards and the database is updated monthy.
ATLA Religion Index - FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818.
AUEI - Australian Education Index - Dialog Datastar
Available both on and off campus.
The Australian Education Index (AUEI) database is comprised of the publications "Australian Education Index" (AEI) and "Bibliography of Education Theses in Australia" (BETA). AEI indexes monographs and periodicals, and BETA contains thesis entries.
BAILII - British and Irish Legal Information Institute
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute is a non-profit making charitable trust which provides an interactive database of full text primary legal materials available without charge on the Internet. UK Case law, legislation and reports and consultation papers from the Law Commission are available. Links are also provided to similar institutes from around the world, facilitating access to the law from other jurisdictions, such as commonwealth countries.
Beilstein / Gmelin Crossfire - MDL
Available both on and off campus. Requires installation of software - see http://www.mdl.com/download/commander.
CrossFire is a chemical information solution, covering over 200 years of primary literature. The two databases, Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic), collectively comprise more than 9 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds.
BHI - British Humanities Index
Available both on and off campus.
BHI includes material from British journals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage includes art, literature, music, history, local history, archaeology, religion, politics, and general interest subjects including women's studies, ethics of science and technology, and environmental concerns.
biab online
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
biab indexes journals, books and reports from AD 1695 to the present day on archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture - with a geographical focus on Britain and Ireland.
Bridgeman Art Library
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Searchable gallery of digital art images held by the Bridgeman Art Library. Images from all civilisations and time periods are included.
Bristol Biomedical Image Archive
Available both on and off campus.
This image archive offers around 8000 medical, dental and veterinary images for educational use. Registration is required for new users - click on the link to login and you will be directed to a registration form.
British Education Index - Dialog Datastar
Available both on and off campus.
The British Education Index database provides bibliographic references to 350 British and selected European English-language periodicals in the field of education and training. Monographic, report and conference literature is limited, but increasing. The database's coverage ranges from early year education to the education of older adults, including coverage of relevant training and management literature.
British History Online
Available both on and off campus.
British History Online is a digital library of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and early modern history of Britain. To date, the project has digitised and made freely available more than 450 volumes, including such central resources as the Victoria County History of England, and the Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords. Users can register for additional functionality e.g. personal bookshelf of links to the most useful resources in your research area.
Business Insights Interactive Reports
Available both on and off campus.
Business Insights works with industry experts to provide market analysis reports across a range of industries: healthcare; food, drink & retail; energy ; finance and technology.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Available both on and off campus.
Business Source Premier is a business research database that provides full text for over 2,300 journals and is updated daily. Subjects covered include: accounting, economics, finance, marketing and management. Coverage dates are different for each journal but many key titles are covered from the 1950's and 1960's onwards.
Caredata - see Social Care Online
Carlyle Letters Online : A Victorian Cultural Reference
Available both on and off campus.
Carlyle Letters Online is the electronic edition of the collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The archive features thousands of letters written by the Scottish author and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866).
Casetrack
Available both on and off campus.
Casetrack provides access to full text transcripts of judgments for the Court of Appeal, Administrative Court, High Court, Employment Appeal Tribunal and the VAT Tribunal. It also includes searchable links to House of Lords and Privy Council judgments, access to judgments from the Northern Irish Courts and selected judgements from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. The database is updated daily and is a useful means of keeping up to date with recent judgments.
CasWeb - Census Dissemination Unit
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
Casweb provides access to statistics and digital boundary data from the United Kingdom Census of Population. It covers the years 1971/81/91 and 2001.
Census Data Service
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
Census.ac.uk, is the home of the ESRC Census Programme, which provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which allow users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.
You need to register to use the Census data resources. Registration with this service also registers you to use the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).
Centre for Bioscience ImageBank
Available both on and off campus.
This resource gives access to free images, all relating to the biosciences, and copyright cleared for educational use. Images are contributed by individuals, industries and academics.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
CIAO is a source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers, projects, books, journals and other documents from 1991 onwards. It also includes teaching materials and case studies.
Cochrane Library
Available both on and off campus.
The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.
Current Index to Statistics
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
CIS is the online version of the printed Current Index to Statistics, published by the American Statistical Association. It includes over 250,000 entries covering books, journals and conference proceedings in the area of statistics.
Datamonitor Business Information Center - see MarketLine Business Information Centre
Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Collection
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers Ordnance Survey Map Data to UK Tertiary Education. Data is available either to download for use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Digimap allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.
Digimap Historic Map Collection - see Historic Digimap
Dyabola - see Subject Catalogue (Realkatalog) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome
ECCO - see Eighteenth Century Collections Online
EconLit - FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
EconLit indexes journal articles, books, articles from collective volumes, book reviews, dissertations and working papers on economics. Approximately 750 journals are indexed by the database covering dates from 1969 onwards. It is updated monthly.
Education Research Complete - EBSCO
Available both on and off campus.
Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. This database also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals, as well as full text for nearly 830 journals. This database also includes full text for 67 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
Education Image Gallery - EDINA
Available both on and off campus.
EIG provides access to over 40,000 images for use in learning, teaching and research, including resources from the Hulton Archive, Photodisc and the Getty Images News Service. Images cover key times, places, people and events, including a wide range of subject areas such as history, fashion, politics, news, science and entertainment.
Education Media Online and EMOL Medical Restrict Service - see Film & Sound Online.
EEBO - Early English Books Online
Available both on and off campus.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements.
Ei Compendex - Elsevier
Available both on and off campus.
A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering information, with over 3 million summaries of journal articles and conference proceedings, and 220,000 new additions every year. Individual user registration is required.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Thomson Gale
Available both on and off campus.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. It allows searching of the full-text of 33 million pages in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts and science.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue
Online version of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World - see New Pauly Online.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue.
Online version the complete articles of the printed volumes 1-5 of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an.
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents (via LexisNexis Butterworths)
Available both on and off campus.
The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents is a comprehensive source of transactional precedents for use in non-contentious fields of practice. It contains over 12,000 forms and precedents and covers areas such as sale of land, landlord and tenant, commercial law, wills and trusts, and family law. It also includes checklists, procedural tables and guidance on land registration, stamp duty and tax. It is available via the LexisNexis Butterworths service.
English Short Title Catalogue
Available both on and off campus.
The essential resource for historians, English language and literature scholars, and all those interested in early printed books, periodicals and ephemera, the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) provides bibliographic records for all known British printed material before 1801, held by the British Library and over 2000 other institutions worldwide.
English Poetry (2nd edition)
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Comprehensive full text archive of English verse from the 8th to early 20th centuries. Contains over 183,00 poems by over 2,700 poets.
English Reports via Hein Online
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865. It represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867.
ERIC - Dialog Datastar
Available both on and off campus.
DIALOG OnDisc(R) ERIC is the complete file of educational materials from the Educational Resources Information Center. Subfiles include "Resources in Education" (RIE) (1966 forward, records assigned ED accession numbers), and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE) (1969 forward, records assigned EJ accession numbers). The ERIC files taken together correspond to File 1 (ERIC) online. Coverage is from 1966 to the present, with 530,000 records. It is updated quarterly.
ERIC Plustext - Proquest
Available both on and off campus.
ERIC Plustext is the ERIC education database (see above for details), including the full text of around 575 leading education journals.
ESDS - Economic and Social Data Service
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
ESDS offers the UK higher education and research community network access to a library of key social and economic data. Data is both qualitative and quantitative and is delivered through 4 specialist data services: ESDS Government, ESDS International, ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS Qualidata.
ESDS Government
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
This service provides access to datasets of large-scale government surveys. Survey data available includes the Labour Force Survey, the British Crime Survey, the British Social Attitudes Survey and the General Household Survey. Individual user registration is required.
ESDS International
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
This service provides access to international datasets of macro and micro level statistics, produced by organisations such as the IMF, the World Bank and OECD. Datasets available include OECD Main Economic Indicators, IMF International Financial Statistics and World Bank World Development Indicators. Individual user registration is required.
ESDS Longitudinal
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
This service provides access to the data from major longitudinal surveys. These include the British Cohort Study and the British Household Panel Survey amongst others. Individual user registration is required.
ESDS Qualidata
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
This service provides access to key qualitative data, deposited by researchers who have been awarded grants by the Economic and Social Research Council. Data has been collected via focus groups, interviews, observations and other methods. Individual user registration is required. |
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EUR-Lex
Direct access on and off campus.
EUR-Lex is the portal to European Union law. The domains included in this portal are The Official Journal of the European Union, the Treaties, legislation, legislation in preparation, case-law, parliamentary questions and documents of public interest.
Europa
Direct access on and off campus.
EUROPA is the European Union's portal web site. Information is made available by the institutions and bodies of the European Union, including the European Parliament, the Council of the Union, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank.
European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)
Freely available both on and off campus.
EBSEES lists book, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe. It includes documents eight Western European countries, whether published in that country’s language or in the languages of the countries studied. Subject coverage includes: social sciences, humanities, literature, linguistics and art.
European Sources Online
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue
European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe, and on the issues of importance to European citizens and stakeholders.
Eurostat
Direct access on and off campus.
Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities) collects and publishes statistics from the member states and from other countries and international agencies for the information of EU institutions. The database includes online publications, datasets and data by sector.
FIAF - International Film Archive
Available both on and off campus.
The FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the International Index to Television Periodicals, the List of Periodicals Indexed, the Treasures from the Film Archives, the Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications and the International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections.
Film & Sound Online (formerly Education Media Online) - EDINA
Available both on and off campus.
10 collections of film and video clips for use in teaching and learning.
Film Index International
Available both on and off campus.
Film Index International is produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. It covers all areas of film studies from arts house films to blockbusters from over 170 countries.
FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
FirstSearch acts as a gateway to a number of bibliographical databases - Exeter at present subscribes to 10 of them. Databases of particular interest include ATLA Religion Index, EconLit, Medline, MLA Bibliography and WorldCat, which are listed separately on this page.
FranText
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Frantext is a corpus of French texts covering the 16th to 20th centuries produced by the Institut National de la Langue Française. The database contains the full text of approximately 3,500 works: 80% of these are literary texts, the other 20% are principally scientific. The subscription to Frantext also provides access to "L'encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert", an electronic version of the 1st edition, with full search facility.
Geobase - WebSpirs
Direct access on and off campus.
This database provides bibliographic information and abstracts for geography (both human and physical), development studies, ecology, earth sciences and marine sciences. It covers over 1,700 current journals from 1980 onwards.
Geofile
Available both on and off campus with a username and password.
An online geography resource for 16 to 19-year old students.
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Freely available both on and off campus
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources. GreenFILE is comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It connects the environment to disciplines such as agriculture, law, education, health & technology. GreenFILE's intial release will include indexing and abstracting for more than 600 titles, and full text for more than 4.600 records (from open access titles).
HeinOnline: Law Journal Library
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library is a fully searchable and browsable archive of academic law journals. The majority of the titles are from the United States, but an increasing number of UK and international titles are included. Coverage for each journal title begins with the first published issue, meaning that many titles are available back to the late 19th century. The journals are scanned into the database in PDF format, providing exact page images of the printed copies.
HeinOnline: English Reports see English Reports
Hemscott Company Guru - Academic edition
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Hemscott Company Guru provides in-depth analysis and financial data for over 300,000 of the UK's top companies. Detailed information on directors is available, alongside share prices, trades and charts and live news feeds. Information is included on both UK listed companies and private companies.
Historic Digimap (previously Digimap Historic Map Collection)
Available both on and off campus.
This service is part of the Digimap suite of on-line mapping services. It provides access to the Landmark historic map data. The digital scans of OS paper map sheets include:
all available County Series maps at 1:2,500 and 1:10560 scales published between 1843 and 1939; and
all available National Grid maps at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:10560/10,000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the Ordnance Survey's digital Land-Line products.
Historical Abstracts
Available both on and off campus.
Historical Abstracts covers world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the USA and Canada). It covers the details of articles in over 1700 journals, as well as books and dissertations.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - Proquest
Available both on and off campus.
Fully searchable full text of House of Commons parliamentary papers from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries (1688-2006/07).
Humanities Index
Available both on and off campus.
A bibliographic database that cites articles from nearly 468 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology.
IBSS -Webspirs
Available both on and off campus.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is one of the largest and most comprehensive social science databases in the world. It indexes over 2600 journals and other publications in the subject areas of anthropology, economics, sociology and politics. Coverage is from 1951 to the present.
ICE Virtual Library Archive - JISC/Institution of Civil Engineers
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
The ICE Virtual Library gives access to one of the largest repositories of full text civil engineering papers in the world. You can search the archive from 1836 to 2001.
Index Islamicus
Available both on and off campus.
Index Islamicus indexes literature from over 2000 journals on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records go back as far as 1906.
Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland
Campus-wide access only. Off campus access with a username and password.
An index of theses (with abstracts) accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland.
Infoterra - MIMAS
Available both on and off campus.
Infoterra UK National Archive of Satellite Data. Individuals must register and accept terms and conditions before downloading any data.
Interdok Directory of Published Proceedings
Available both on and off campus.
Database containing 50,000 conference proceedings, meetings and symposia. Areas covered are science & technology, medicine & life sciences, pollution control & ecology, and social sciences & humanities.
International Medieval Bibliography
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
An interdisciplicary database of the European Middle Ages covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from 400-1500. It includes bibliographic information from 4500 periodicals and 5000 other sources such as conference proceedings and Festscriften.
ISI HighlyCited.com
Direct access on and off campus.
A freely accessible Web site that gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.
ISI Journal Citation Reports - via Web of Knowledge (MIMAS)
Available both on and off campus. Select 'Journal Citation Reports' from the 'Select a database tab'.
ISI JCR is a comprehensive and unique resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 journals from over 3,000 publishers worldwide. The JCR includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
ISI Proceedings - via Web of Knowledge
Available both on and off campus. Select 'ISI Proceedings' from the 'Select a database tab'.
ISI Proceedings is an index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology. The source publications for ISI Proceedings are books, journals, reports, series produced by publishers or societies, and sets of preprints (when preprints are the only publications from a conference). Coverage includes international proceedings - coverage is not limited to papers published in English.
ISI Web of Knowledge - Thomson Gale
Available both on and off campus.
Web of Knowledge is the new name and new access route (integrated portal) for the ISI Web of Science service (which gives access to the ISI databases Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index), the ISI Journal Citation Reports and ISI Proceedings. Web of Science and the Proceedings are cross-searchable.
ISI Web of Science - Thomson Gale
Available both on and off campus. Select 'Web of Science' from the 'Select a database tab'.
ISI Web of Science consists of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. They provide bibliographic details of articles from thousands of academic journals and abstracts are available for many articles.
Iter - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Includes access to Iter's Bibliography, which covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays.
The John Johnson Collection
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera is the result of a digitisation project between JISC, Proquest and the Oxford University Library Services. The material selected for conservation, cataloguing and digitisation comprises a wide array of different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material. The collection offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
JORUM
Only available to registered University staff. Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Resources range from simple materials such as Word documents or Powerpoint presentations, to complex learning packages that combine various multimedia formats such as video, audio and animation.
JustCite (click on Continue to enter the database)
Direct access on campus, off campus via the Library Catalogue.
JustCite is a legal reference search engine which provides a fully cross-referenced index to a comprehensive collection of authoritative UK and European legal information. It is updated on a daily basis. It combines searchable content from different publishers within a single interface.
Justis: UK Statutes & Statutory Instruments (click on continue to enter the database)
Direct access on campus, off campus via the Library Catalogue.
The Justis: UK Statutes & Statutory Instruments database provides access to a fully searchable online collection of statutes from 1235 to present, and statutory instruments from 1671 to present. Repealed legislation is included and all acts appear as enacted with links to amended and amending legislation plus relevant case law, allowing you to trace the development of the law.
Landmap - MIMAS
Available both on and off campus.
Landmap is a satellite image data service provided by MIMAS. It provides digital images from Landsat, SPOT and ERS. We are entitled to use the Landmap download and Mediterranean download facilitites. Users will be required to agree to a copyright acknowledge before they can download data.
LexisNexis Business and News - see Nexis UK
LexisNexis Butterworths
Available both on and off campus.
LexisNexis Butterworths replaces LexisNexis Professional, which ceased in October 2007. LexisNexis Butterworths is an online research tool offering access to extensive legal information from the Butterworths suite of products. It provides full text access to UK, US and international case law, legislation and articles in legal journals, plus an online version of Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents. Use the detailed LexisNexis Butterworths user guide for in depth help on using the database. An online UK Journals Index is also available and provides bibliographic details and abstracts for UK journals.
LexisNexis Executive - see NexisUK
LexisNexis Professional - see LexisNexis Butterworths
Library and Information Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Available both on and off campus.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Encyclopedia
Direct access on campus. Off campus via the Library Catalogue.
The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1800 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides more than 4800 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics and grows by over 60 articles per month. The Literary Encyclopedia offers good coverage of canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Spanish, Latin and Greek.
LISA - Library & Information Science Abstracts
Available both on and off campus to personal CILIP members only (membership number required)
Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Coverage is from 1969 and includes material covering artificial intelligence, internet technology, medical information and telecommunications, as well as library and information science.
MarketLine Business Information Centre
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
MarketLine Business Information Center (MBIC) provides more than 10,000 company profiles, 2000 industry profiles and 50 country profiles. These profiles are based on secondary data and published research and cover the Automotive, Consumer Markets, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology sectors.
MathSciNet
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
A database with abstracts of papers on mathematics. The coverage extends back more than 60 years.
MEDLINE - FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
The MEDLINE database covers all aspects of human medicine and related biomedical research, including comprehensive information on drugs and toxicology, clinical medicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, health affairs, dentistry, psychiatry and forensic medicine. MEDLINE includes data from approximately 3,800 biomedical journals published worldwide, dating back to 1966. The database contains more than 10 million records and is updated weekly.
MEDLINE - PubMed
Available both on and off campus.
(Please see MEDLINE - FirstSearch description above.) The PubMed version has the advantage of being free of charge to any user anywhere in the world regardless of whether they are members of any academic or medical institution.
MLA Bibliography - FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
The major index for languages, literatures, folklore, although it does not include book reviews. Over 4000 publications are indexed, including journals, book chapters and essays, theses, conference papers, working papers and bibliographies. Covers 1926 onwards.
MusicLiterature see RILM Music Abstracts
New Pauly Online - Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue.
The entire text of Metzler's Der neue Pauly, which was published in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity, 5 on the Classical Tradition) and one index volume, is available here together with all volumes of Brill's New Pauly now in print, with regular updates when new translations become available.
New York Review of Books
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Full text of the New York Review of Books, including archives going back to 1963.
Nexis UK - newspapers, financial & company information
Available both on and off campus.
Nexis UK (previously LexisNexis Business and News) is a comprehensive news, business and industry information service which is updated daily. It provides full text access to all UK national newspapers, regional newspapers, international news sources and a range of trade journals and magazines, such as Accountacy Age, Investors Chronicle and Management Today. A large range of company, financial and industry information is also provided, such as company annual reports, company and director profiles and directories and market reports. A comprehensive userguide is available. Nexis UK replaced LexisNexis Executive, which ceased in October 2007 .
Nineteenth century Parliamentary Papers - see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the Library Catalogue.
Online version of the major reference work for information about people who are no longer alive who have helped shape British history, life and culture from the earliest times to the present. It contains over 50,000 signed articles, one in five of which is accompanied by an image of the article’s subject. The online edition is updated three times per year.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Available both on and off campus.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries, OED Online offers unparalleled access to the "greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced" (Newsweek).
Oxford Reference Online: Core, Premium and Literature Collections
Available both on and off campus.
The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. It covers the complete subject spectrum, from general reference and language to science and medicine, and from humanities and social sciences to business and professional. The Premium Collection includes key titles from the Oxford Companions Series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.The Literature Collection provides comprehensive coverage of literary periods, genres, and writers.
Parliamentary Papers - see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Patrologia Latina
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are included.
PsycINFO
Available both on and off campus.
Extensive bibliographic database covering psychology and related disciplines.
PubMed see MEDLINE
RILM Music Abstracts - FirstSearch
Available both on and off campus.
Formerly MusicLiterature, this is the major index for music and associated subjects as they relate to music. Over 500 publications are indexed, with submissions from over 60 international committees.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Available both on and off campus.
The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
Scopus
Available both on and off campus. Off campus users must register online before first use. (Off campus users may need to click Athens login following the link to Scopus above.)
Scopus provides abstracts of articles in over 14,000 journals, from the mid-1960s to the present. Subject areas include health & life sciences, medicine, psychology, economics, mathematics, chemistry, physics, general science and social science.
Social Care Online
Available both on and off campus - no login required.
Social Care Online (formerly Caredata) is a database from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It contains over 50,000 abstracts of books, central and local government reports, research papers, and publications of voluntary organisations, and articles from a wide range of journal titles - academic, research, practice and news-orientated. The database covers UK, North American and other English-language resources.
Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE eLibrary
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue. Requires individual registration.
The SPE eLibrary includes papers presented at SPE conferences or published in any SPE peer-reviewed journal. It currently includes over 38,000 papers dating from 1958 onwards.
Sport & Leisure Index
Available both on and off campus.
The Sport and Leisure Index has now been replaced by Intute Sport and Leisure Practice
which provides access to a searchable directory of sport and leisure web pages.
SPORT Discus - EbscoNet
Available both on and off campus.
The SPORT Discus dataset, now available via the web, covers a wide range of material, including sports medicine, exercise philosophy, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, recreation history, facilities and equipment.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Available both on and off campus.
Free online access to authoratative peer-reviewed philosophy material.
Subject Catalogue (Realkatalog) of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
This searchable bibliography of classical studies includes Classical, Egyptian & Near East archaeology, Byzantine art history, epigraphy, numismatics, classical history and ancient social & legal history.
Theses Canada
Available both on and off campus - no login required.
Search Canada's national online library catalogue for all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, plus full text access to more recent theses.
Times Digital Archive
Available both on and off campus.
Search the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Covers the entire period 1785-1985.
TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
Available both on and off campus.
The Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching is an extensive online database of UK television and radio programmes including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations. Data is available at least 10 days before transmission, building an archive of programme information and schedules. Selected programmes of value to higher and further education are evaluated and information is added, including bibliographies, weblinks and indications of sources of post-transmission copies, including the BUFVC's own off-air recording backup service.
TRIP Database
Available both on and off campus.
TRIP Database is a searchable database of evidence-based medicine resources, including articles, e-textbooks and medical images.
Twentieth century Parliamentary Papers - see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
TVTiP (TV Times Project)
Available both on and off campus.
TVTiP provides unique online access to listings data from the London Edition of the TV Times; information which was previously only available in rare printed editions. It includes data on programmes, production staff, and performers relating to Independent Television broadcast schedules in the London region. TVTiP covers the period September 1955 - March 1985, and is hosted by the BUFVC.
UK Data Archive
Available both on and off campus - online registration required on first use.
The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is an internationally-renowned centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion; and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. The UKDA provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning as a lead partner of the Economic and Social Data Service. The UKDA also houses AHDS History and Census.ac.uk. You can use the Data Catalogue to search across all ESDS/Census data services.
UK Statute Law Database
Available both on and off campus.
The UK Statute Law Database is a freely available searchable and browseable database, provided via the Department for Constitutional Affairs. It contains primary legislation, that was in force as at 1st February 1991 and primary and secondary legislation that has been produced since that date. Legislation is presented in amended format. The content is available free of charge to be viewed on screen, copied, printed out for private study and research purposes or for internal circulation within an organisation. Permission must be sought for any other reuse of data.
UKBORDERS - EDINA
Available both on and off campus.
This resource provides digitsed boundary datasets of the UK for educational use. The data can be downloaded and used in GIS and CAD software to create thematic maps and for visualising boundaries.
UnCover - Ingenta
Available both on and off campus.
Now known as IngentaConnect (see electronic journals).
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
Available both on and off campus
Students and academics looking for visual arts images now have online access to a stunning collection of over 100,000 images with the launch of VADS. The website has been developed by VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) and contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings, the Woolmark Company Archive, and the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection.
Web of Knowledge see ISI Web of Knowledge
Web of Science see ISI Web of Science
Westlaw UK
Available both on and off campus.
WestLaw UK provides primary and secondary sources of UK law, European Union law, and US Federal and State law, including full text legislation and case law. A wide range of full text journals (many from the US) is also provided. An online version of the British Legal Journals Index is available. This contains details (citations and abstracts) of over 400 UK and European journals.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Available both on and off campus.
Provides data in finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Academic staff and PhDs may register for personal accounts by following the link above (click Account Request, then Request a user account). Undergraduates and Masters students should consult their tutor, or the account administrator, Trevor Sharp.
WorldCat - via Firstsearch
Available both on and off campus.
WorldCat is a union catalogue of the resources held by the major research libraries in the United States, with recent additions from libraries outside North America. The database provides full bibliographic details of books (including electronic books), journal titles, audio-visual materials (such as videos and DVDs), sound recordings, musical scores and maps. A sister service called 'WorldCat Dissertations' also provides bibliographic details of theses.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Direct access on campus. Off campus access via the library catalogue.
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audio-visual materials etc. related to Shakespeare and published since 1962. International coverage.
WRDS see Wharton Research Data Services
ZETOC (Electronic Table of Contents from the British Library) - MIMAS
Available both on and off campus.
The newly funded ZETOC service provides Z39.50-compliant access to the British Library Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With over 20 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. |
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