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SAE MOBILUS (Formerly SAE Digital Library) *
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Provides access to the technical papers of the Society of Automotive Engineers in full text from 1906 onwards, also features SAE journals and e-books.
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SAE
Safari Books Online
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SAGE Early Years Masterclass 2019
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Description
A video Masterclass on "Doing Your Early Years Research Project", hosted by Kathy Brodie in conversation with 14 experts in early years research. The site contains the entire Masterclass along with links to free book chapters for each author.
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Sage
SAGE Journals Online *
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Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
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Full text of all RSC articles published since 1841 to the present.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
SAGE Research Methods *
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SRM (Sage Research Methods) is a web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects. SRM links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method. SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
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Sage
ScienceDirect *
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Description
Access provided to over 1,000 electronic journals with abstracts from several hundred further titles.
Coverage
As well as the sciences, coverage includes business, economics and social sciences. Full text available from 1996 onwards.
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Reed Elsevier
Scopus *
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-review literature, including books, conference proceedings and journals, covering the following fields of research: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Over 66 million records
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Elsevier
Screen Studies
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Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving-image studies.
Coverage
Over 300 scripts and critical writing on film.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Screenonline
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Description
Screenonline is an online resource of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.
Publisher
British Film Institute.
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
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The database delivers an authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings, international in scope and dating from 1890 to the present day.
Coverage
1890-present
Publisher
BUFVC
Simon's Direct Tax Service
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Description
An authorative source on UK income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and international taxation. Includes worked examples and is cross-referenced to the legislation, source materials and tax treaties.
Help available from within the site
Coverage
Full text. Updated weekly. Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
LexisNexis Butterworths
Siren Films
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Description
Educational child development videos and training resources for early years professionals and academics. The video clips focus on providing up to date theoretical information about how children learn and develop.
Publisher
Siren Films
Skills for Study
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Description
Skills for Study is a comprehensive package of interactive tutorials which will help you to develop your study skills, whatever subject you are studying.
In addition to tips on helping you to get ready for academic study, the available modules are as follows:
Reading and note-making, critical thinking, writing, referencing and understanding plagiarism, group work and presentations, projects, dissertations and reports.
Each module begins with a diagnostic test to find out what skills you have already, provides clearly structured content and ends with a quick assessment to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Social Care Online
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Social Care Online is provided by the UK organisation Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It contains research briefings, reports, legislation and government documents, journal articles, evidence-based practice, and websites relating to all aspects of social care.
Core subject areas include:
- families, children, and young people
- government and social policy
- mental health and mental health care
- people, groups, and communities (including older people, and black and minority ethnic people)
- physical and learning disabilities
- social care
- social work and social workers
There are approximately 150,000 records on Social Care Online, the majority of which are from the UK. All of the resources are fully abstracted and referenced and many are available in full text.
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Publisher
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Social Policy and Practice
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Description
Social Policy and Practice brings together data from 5
databases. The majority of the material originates from the UK but
there is also European and US material. Some 50% of the references
are to grey literature, including semi-published reports, working
papers, local and central government reports, and material from the
voluntary sector and charities. Databases included: Planex from
IDOX; Acompline from the Greater London Authority; Social Care
Online from the Social Care Institute for Excellence; AgeInfo -
from the Centre for Policy on Ageing; ChildData from the National
Children’s Bureau. It contains over 300,000 bibliographic records
dating back to 1981, with approximately 24,000 added per annum.
Subjects covered include: Behavioral & Social Sciences; Social
Work; Public Health.
Guides
Publisher
Ovid
Social Services Abstracts
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Description
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of
current research focused on social work, human services, and
related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and
community development. The database abstracts and indexes over
1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal
articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage
dates back to 1979 and it includes over 147,000 records as of
December 2010.
Coverage
1979 to present
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
Social Work Toolkit
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Description
The Social Work Toolkit helps students develop the knowledge, core skills and confidence to succeed on their course and placements. The range of resources includes videos, case studies, book chapters and expert opinion articles.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Sociological Abstracts
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- This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text. You can find out if the full text is available by using the library search or by clicking the ‘check for full text’ links in the database
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Description
Indexes journal articles and conference proceedings from over 1,500 journals in the field of sociology and related disciplines.
Coverage
1974 to present
Publisher
ProQuest
Specify-it
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Description
Specify-it from Technical Indexes is an online collection of up to date product catalogues for designers, specifiers and purchasers in construction, civil engineering and process engineering.
Publisher
IHS
SportDiscus
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Description
SPORTDiscus™ is a comprehensive, bibliographic database covering
sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science,
physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport law
& legislation, college & university sport, disabled
persons, facility design & management, doping, biomechanics,
movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical
therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise
psychology and more. With full bibliographic coverage, this
database includes well over 1,660,000 records with journal and
monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations
and theses and reference to articles in 60 different
languages.
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Publisher
EBSCO
SpringerLink *
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Description
Large collection of full-text journals. Subject areas include biological sciences, computing, engineering, environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
This database also includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
Publisher
Springer
SpringerProtocols *
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Description
Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories. These documents provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment. SpringerProtocols contains more than 2,000 protocols, most of which come from the classic book series Methods in Molecular Biology.
Coverage
1980-2012.
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Publisher
Springer