A number of publishers and content providers have opened up some or all of their digital content to support library users during this period. Find out more about additional access to digital content during COVID-19.
* database included in the library search
Additional access restrictions for staff
In addition, publishers prohibit staff at our partner institutions from using UWE-issued usernames and passwords to access the following databases:
- 19th Century British Pamplets Collection
- AMED (Allied and Complimentary Medicine)
- EBSCO eBook Collection
- ECONLIT
- GreenFILE
- Grove Music Online (access prohibited by international partner staff only)
- LISTA
- MEDLINE (via EBSCO)
- Plant Science (JSTOR)
- PsychINFO (via EBSCO)
- RILM Music Literature
- SocINDEX
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Extensive collection of more than one thousand newspapers and pamphlets from 1600-1800. Based on a collection at the British Library gathered by Reverend Charles Burney.
Coverage
Includes material from England, Ireland, Scotland, and English language newspapers from the British Empire. Broad coverage of the humanities, science, and medicine.
Guides
There is a custom-built help section within the product.
Publisher
Gale (Cengage)
Subject keywords
Newspapers, humanities, science, medicine, 17th century, 18th century
19th Century British Library Newspapers
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers.
Coverage
It includes 48 titles which reflect the social and political developments of the time.
Publisher
Gale (Cengage)
19th Century British Pamphlets Collection*
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collection is a digital collection of more than 26,000 significant pamphlets compiled from seven UK university libraries.
Coverage
They cover key political, social, technological and environmental issues of their day.
Guides
Publisher
JSTOR
19th Century UK periodicals, series 1
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
This is a full text resource that spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain. It charts the rise of children’s entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies. It also covers the political spectrum of women’s writing.
Publisher
Gale (Cengage)
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- In order to use all the features you must create a personal account
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy contains over 300 anatomy lessons on video using real, dissected human specimens. The specimens have not been embalmed and therefore retain the colour, texture and mobility of the living body.
Guides
Publisher
Ovid Technologies
AES (Audio Engineering Society) E-Library
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) E-Library contains over 13,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference, or in the journal.
Publisher
Audio Engineering Society
All the World's Primates
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
All the World’s Primates is the comprehensive and authoritative resource for information about all the species and subspecies of living lorises, galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes.
Guides
Publisher
Primate Conservation, Inc.
Amirsys Imaging Reference Center
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
A comprehensive source of radiology references for all
healthcare professionals who work with imaging tests. It offers a
combination of high-quality images, classical diagnoses, and
evidence-based clinical content.
The resource includes 72,000 x-ray, CT, MR, and ultrasound
illustrations and images, plus expert, evidence-based content -
including over 4,000 diagnoses - provided by imaging experts.
Publisher
Amirsys Imaging Reference Center
A-N Resources
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
An online resource promoting the visual arts and supporting artists and designers in their practice.
Coverage
Offers access to a wide range of publications, including a-n Magazine.
Publisher
Artists Information Company.
AnatomyTV
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Anatomy.tv is an interactive 3D anatomy resource. It has views of the hand and forearm, shoulder, hip, knee, and foot and ankle. It has been created as a collaborative effort between leading Universities (including Cambridge University and University College, London) and provides anatomical structures from raw medical scan data.
Each anatomical structure is presented in fine detail, and includes surface anatomy, cutaneous distribution, and nerves and arteries. Also included are common pathologies, radiological content, interactive quizzes and multiple choice questions.
Guides
Publisher
Primal Pictures
Archbold: Criminal Pleading Evidence and Practice (via Westlaw)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Provides the reader with all the material needed when preparing
for a case and during a trial. Includes both substantive law and
practice and procedure of the courts.
Help available from within the site
Coverage
Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
Thomson Reuters
Art & Architecture Source *
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- More than 75% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Bibliographic and full text database of leading art, design and architecture journals from around the world since 1984.
Coverage
The database covers journal articles published since 1984, with full text of over 900 titles.
Publisher
EBSCO
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
One of the major bibliographical sources of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.
Coverage
Coverage of journal articles published since 1974.
Publisher
ProQuest
Arts & Humanities Full Text *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre, and Cultural Studies. It is designed to complement the following indexes:
- Art Bibliographies Modern
- British Humanities Index
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- MLA International Bibliography
- Philosopher's Index
Coverage
From the 1970s to the present day
Publisher
ProQuest
arXiv *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Open access to 700,931 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.
Coverage
ArXiv is an electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, and statistics.
Publisher
Cornell University Library
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
ASSIA contains worldwide English language coverage of journal
articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of
applied social sciences and health.
Coverage
Coverage from 1987 onwards, with records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
Atkin's Court Forms (via LexisLibrary)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
UK encyclopaedia of civil litigation forms, precedents and procedure. Includes a collection of the main procedural documents required in every civil proceeding before the courts and judicial tribunals of England and Wales.
Help available from within the site.
Coverage
Full text. Selectively updated on a monthly basis.
Publisher
LexisNexis Butterworths
Australian Education Index
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The AEI is Australia's largest source of education information and indexes journal articles, books, conference papers, reports, and theses in the fields of educational research, policy and practice.
Relevant to a wide range of people interested in education: schools and universities, as well as the researcher, AEI is a specialist database produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Coverage
More than 130,000 documents from 1979 onwards.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
BCIS (Building Cost Information Service)
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- Pop-up blockers can interfere with BCIS
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The BCIS Online database contains elemental cost analyses for over 17,500 projects across the UK - information you will find indispensable when preparing cost plans, providing early cost advice to clients and benchmarking costs. Location and time-adjustment factors within the cost database allow you to use the data in a flexible way to suit your individual project needs. Includes access to data from the following BCIS online products:
- BCIS Online (including Building Maintenance Indices)
- BCIS Review Online
- BCIS Housing Online
- BCIS Building Running Costs Online
- The Duration Calculator
- The Dayworks Updating Service
Guides
Publisher
BCIS
BCIS Online Rates Database
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Online price book data from BCIS for estimating the costs of construction projects, including: building maintenance, alterations & refurbishment, civil engineering, major & minor works, painting & decorating, SMM7 and basic plant charges.
Coverage
Updated annually, this resource allows you to benchmark against 18,500 separate supply prices of which there are over 9,000 material costs and over 8,000 specialist prices collected from independent suppliers.
Publisher
BCIS
Berg Fashion Library *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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The Berg Fashion Library is a unique new online portal which offers users fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Bibliography of British and Irish History
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The Bibliography of British and Irish History is a database covering British and Irish history and relations with the empire and Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present. Compiled in collaboration with the Royal Historical Society and the Institue of History, this resource comprises nearly 500,000 entries from over 600 journals.
Publisher
Brepolis
BioMed Central *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
BioMed Central is an independent publisher committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This is a collection of 186 full-text journals in biology and medicine.
Publisher
BioMed Central
Blackstone's Criminal Practice (via LexisLibrary)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
An annual publication from Oxford University Press which covers all areas of criminal law and is divided into 6 different subject areas.
Help available from within the site
Coverage
Full text. Updated regularly.
Publisher
LNUK
Blackstone’s Police Manuals
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Description
NOTE: UWE only provides access to the Blackstone’s Police Manuals and not to Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Manuals or Workbooks.
Blackstone’s Police Manuals Online provides access to the complete Blackstone’s texts for policing students. It is the only study guide endorsed by the College of Policing and offers in depth, cross-referenced information on all subject areas required for police examinations. Topics covered include Crime, Evidence and Procedure, and Road Policing, as well as consolidated tables of cases and statutes. Six PACE code of practice chapters are also included, presenting legislation alongside helpful keynotes.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Bloomsbury Architecture Library *
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- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Bloomsbury Architecture Library features over 40 eBooks on topics ranging from architecture and architectural history, to theory, design, urbanism, landscape, and interiors.
Publisher
Bloomsbury
BMJ Learning
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- You will need to create an individual account when using BMJ Learning for the first time
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
- There are 16 modules restricted to BMA LNC representatives
Description
BMJ Learning is a learning website for medical professionals offering a wide range of resources commissioned by the BMJ Group. These are evidence based, dealing with everyday issues in primary care and hospital medicine. There are currently over 300 modules.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
BNF
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Up-to-date information on prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines
Publisher
Medicines Complete
BNF for children
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Up-to-date information on prescibing, dispensing, and administering medicine for children.
Publisher
Medicines Complete
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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- Video playback is currently not supported in Internet Explorer. So, if you are using Internet Explorer, please switch to another browser, such as Chrome or Firefox.
- Due to copyright restrictions, you need to be physically located in the United Kingdom to use Box of Broadcasts.
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Students and staff at international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB is available to staff and students of member institutions of the British Universities Film & Video Council that hold an ERA+ license. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels.
Publisher
BUFVC - British Universties Film Video Council.
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
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Description
Images from over 8,000 collections and 29,000 artists selected from the Bridgeman Archive which showcases museums, galleries and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of art images.
Publisher
Bridgeman
Brill Journal Archive *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Provides access to over 50,000 articles to more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
Note: Help available within the site
Coverage
Covers biology, humanities, human rights, international law, science and the social sciences.
Publisher
Brill publishing
British Humanities Index
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts. The British Humanities Index indexes over 370 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other English-speaking countries.
Coverage
Coverage from 1962 onwards.
Publisher
ProQuest
British Education Index
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The British Education Index covers research, policy, and
practice in education and training in the UK, with particular
strengths in evaluation and assessment, technology, and SEN.
Sources include journal articles, books, reports, series, and
conference papers.
Coverage
Over 300 education and training journals from 1975 onwards.
Publisher
EBSCO
British Library Sounds
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Description
Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
Publisher
British Library
British Nursing Database*
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
The British Nursing Database is a full text UK nursing and midwifery database, covering over 300 UK journals and other English language titles, including core international nursing, midwifery and selective content from medical, allied health and management titles.
Coverage
1993 Onwards
Publisher
ProQuest
British Periodicals Collections I and II *
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Description
Almost 500 British periodical runs from the 1680s to the 1930s,
based on the UMI Microfilm Collection, 'Early British Periodicals'.
Multidisciplinary coverage includes literature, philosophy,
history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences, music,
drama, archaeology and architecture.
Guides
Publisher
Chadwyck-Healey (ProQuest)
Building.co.uk
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Established in 1843, Building is a weekly magazine covering the
breadth of the built environment, including news, analysis, case
studies, careers and regulations.
Key sectors covered include:
- Housing
- Commercial
- Public
- Regeneration
- Sustainability
- Legal
- Offices
- Industrial
- Education & Healthcare
- Retail
Coverage
1997 to present
Publisher
United Business Media International
Building Design Online
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Description
"Building Design Online complements the weekly print magazine by offering the latest news, analysis, buildings and hard industry data as well as unique video covering the architectural spectrum.
Includes access to BD Reviews, which focuses on projects, people, and products – covering the issues hitting the headlines in sectors such as public buildings, education and interiors."
Coverage
1999 to present
Publisher
United Business Media International
Business Source Complete *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Covers UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health. Provides full-text journal articles; market, company & industry sector reports; and country intelligence.
Coverage
Please note that UWE Bristol holds an extended license for Harvard Business Review and the 'Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions' that appears at the bottom of Harvard Business Review articles in Business Sources Complete does not apply.
Guides
- EBSCOhost research databases tutorial
- EBSCOhost playlist on EBSCO Support Tutorials YouTube channel, including additional videos tutorials on advanced searching, journal alerts, search history, my EBSCOhost folder, and creating a search alert.
Publisher
EBSCO
Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Covers all aspects of personal injury law and litigation.
Publisher
Lexis Nexis
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics *
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Description
The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, and their influence on later writers assessed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge eBook Collection *
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Description
Provides access to over 1,000 e-books published by Cambridge University Press.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Journals Online *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996. Please note, we only subscribe to the latest issues of some of the journals. Subjects covered include: science and technology, animal science, agriculture, ecology and conservation, history, law, language, linguistics and literature, mathematics and computer science, medicine, music and drama, philosophy and religion, physical sciences, and politics and economics.
Publisher
Cambridge via JISC
Campbell Collaboration
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Description
C2 is an evidence-based resource covering social welfare, education, psychology and crime. It consists of two unique databases: C2-SPECTR (Social, Psychological, Education and Criminological Trails Registry) and C2-RIPE (Reviews of Interventions and Policy Evaluations).
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
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A web-based service which allows users to search for the meanings of abbreviations of English-language legal publications or enter the title of a law publication to find the abbreviation.
CCO: Philosophy, Religion and Cultural Studies
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Description
Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the Cambridge Companions book series, and provides introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion, and cultural studies.
The philosophy, religion and culture sub collection includes
essays which are intended to serve as reference works for an
interdisciplinary audience of students and non-specialists.
Addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to
Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish
Enlightenment and German Idealism, this online collection contains
over 1,000 downloadable essays taken from the Cambridge Companions
to philosophy, religion and culture.
Guides
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Chitty on Contracts, via Westlaw
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Description
Definitive practitioner text on contract law.
Help available from within the site
Coverage
Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction)
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Description
The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (Conseil International du Bâtiment (CIB)), is an international network conducting research in the areas of building and construction. The various CIB Databases, including the ICONDA Ⓡ CIB Library, provide access to the full text of their publications, meetings, and conferences as well as information on their research commissions and membership.
Coverage
Scanned copies of hundreds of publications, both the full proceedings (± 25 each year) and the single papers (±over 2,500 each year) from all CIB and CIB co-sponsored conferences.
Publisher
CIB Publications
CINAHL Plus (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
CINAHL® Plus covers more than 4,500 journals from the fields of
nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as
1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing
journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and
the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus covers nursing,
biomedicine, health sciences librarianship,
alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied
health disciplines. It is produced in the US but has worldwide
coverage. The majority of the journals covered are in the English
language. It contains more than 2.7 million records.
Coverage
1937 onwards
Guides
Publisher
EBSCO
Cinema Projectionist
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A digital archive and website on the history of cinema projection in Britain. It is a digital collection of audio recordings of projectionists’ memories, of sounds of the projection box and 35mm film, plus hundreds of photos of the projection boxes of UK cinemas from 1910s - 1960s.
Publisher
Projection Project, University of Warwick
CiteSeerX (Research Index)
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Description
Citeseer (also known as ResearchIndex) is a scientific digital library aimed primarily at computer scientists. It contains freely available, full-text research articles (journal pre-prints and papers where available, conference proceedings, technical reports) downloaded from the Web. The articles are indexed by an Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) system which links the records together through references cited within, and citations made to, an article. It provides links to related articles and can identify the context of a citation (allowing researchers to see what their peers have said about the cited work). CiteSeer supports full Boolean, phrase and proximity searching. You can choose to search the full-text documents or the citations contained within these documents. (Please note, not all links to cited refeerences will be available as full-text documents).
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University
Civil Procedure Rules (White Book), via Westlaw
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Description
The definitive statement on civil procedure. It provides high quality commentary and expert opinion as well as links to primary sources referenced.
Help available from within the site.
Coverage
Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
Clarke, Hall and Morrison on Children
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Description
Leading work on both the civil jurisdiction of the family courts and the criminal jurisdiction of the youth courts. Provides access to all the legislation, circulars and guidance notes that relate to every aspect of child law. It also includes useful procedural tables, checklists, precedents and flowcharts.
Coverage
Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
Clerk and Lindsell on Torts, via Westlaw
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Description
Definitive practitioner text on torts.
Help available from within the site.
Coverage
Subject area: Law (commentary)
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
Clinical Skills
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Description
Clinical Skills offers more than 160 clinical skills procedures, in a user-friendly illustrated format, regularly updated and with a useful search facility.
Publisher
clinicalskills.net
Cochrane Library
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- More than 60% of the currently published content in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The Cochrane Library is considered to be the best single source
of reliable evidence on the effects of health care. It includes the
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) which is the leading
resource for systematic reviews in health care.
Guides
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Communication & Mass Media Complete *
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- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Communication and Mass Media Complete is a database covering journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Content includes over 800 journals (500 of which are available full text).
Coverage
1915 - present
Publisher
EBSCO
Construction Information Service
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Provides electronic access to an index of standards, regulatory and advisory documents for the UK construction industry.
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I.H.S.
Credo Reference *
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Online reference library. Includes encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, atlases
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Credo
Curia: European Court of Justice
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Case-law database on the official web site of the European Court of Justice (as well as the General Court and the European Union Civil Service Tribunal)
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1997- present
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European Court of Justice
Current Sentencing Practice, via Westlaw
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A comprehensive service on the law and practice of sentencing in England and Wales. Includes The Referencer which provides at-a-glance information on sentencing law. Cross referenced to Archbold.
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Subject area: Law (commentary)
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Sweet & Maxwell
DawsonEra *
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This is an e-book selected collection which you can browse, read on screen, or download. Titles we own are accessible via the library search as well as being searchable within the database.
DCP Online (Development Control Practice)
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Best practice, legislation, policy statements, planning authority guidance, and appeal decisions with expert analysis of how this is applied in practice.
Free online student subscription to Planning Resource
UWE students can register online for a free subscription to Planning Resource.
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DCS Ltd.
DERA (Digital Education Resource Archive)
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The Institute of Education UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of all documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education.
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Institute of Education
Design and Applied Arts Index
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Bibliographic database to journal articles published in over 450 international craft and design journals since 1973 and includes data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and companies.
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Coverage of journal articles since 1974.
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ProQuest
DETAIL Inspiration
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DETAIL Inspiration provides architects with images and reference details for more than 3,000 projects from the last 30 years of DETAIL. The integrated search function, with numerous filters, allows you to find precisely the right information. Each project described in the database is accompanied by DETAIL project documents. Publication information (edition/year) helps users to find the right edition in their print collections. The database content is expanded and updated with the release of each new issue of DETAIL.
Please note, this resource does NOT contain the content of DETAIL magazine, apart from the projects.
Coverage
- DETAIL Inspiration (Bilingual English and German database) 1987 onwards.
- DETAIL Inspiration (German language database) 1963 onwards.
Publisher
Institut fur internationale Architektur Dokumentation (IiAD)
Digital National Security Archive *
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The Digital National Security Archive is a database of primary declassified documents covering US foreign and military policy since 1945.
The database is produced by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute and library at George Washington University.
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ProQuest Information and Learning Company
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) *
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The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals. All subject areas and languages are covered. There are over 3,400 journals in the directory.
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Lund University Libraries
Drama Online *
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Drama Online features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakepeare, and Faber lists to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and a half thousand years. It includes supporting practical, critical, and contextual works on acting and performance, theatre craft, technical theatre, critical interpretations, theatre history surveys, and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods, and genres.
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Bloomsbury
Early English Books Online
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. This is available through Historical Texts.
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Comprehensive digital collection of English books from 1473 to 1700.
Publisher
JISC
Early European Books Online
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Collections 1-4 contain the full text of works in all major European languages, printed in the cities which led the explosion of the print industry in the early modern era, such as Nuremberg, Basel, Leiden, Paris and Venice. This breadth of scope gives a wide-ranging overview of the intellectual life and historical upheavals of early modern Europe.
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The collections contain the founding works of modern sciences such as botany, anatomy and astrology, together with accounts of travel, exploration and warfare, and influential works of literature, philosophy and humanist thought. Works from Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, and many others, are included in the collections.
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ProQuest
ECONLIT
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Coverage from 1969 of worldwide economic literature. Covers over 600 journals, collected volumes, books, dissertations, and working papers. Many journals are full text. Produced by the American Economic Association.
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- EBSCOhost research databases tutorial
- EBSCOhost playlist on EBSCO Support Tutorials YouTube channel, including additional videos tutorials on advanced searching, basic search, introductions, journal alerts, search history, my EBSCOhost folder, reading an article, and creating a search alert.
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EBSCO
Education & Bass
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Education & Bass is an online music production school giving students free access to online music education videos, over 1000 courses, tutorials and lectures for all electronic genres.
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Education & Bass
Education Document Summary Service
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A selected monthly digest of key research, policy and influential developments in the world of education.
Includes:
- Publications from DfE, Ofsted, Ofqual, UCAS, NfER, EPI and more
- Links to further information, toolkits and resources
- Access to searchable archives for thematic research
- Research summaries to support evidence based teaching practices and CPD
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University of Bristol
Education Research Complete *
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- More than 85% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
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Education Research Complete covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, as well as policy, administration, funding, and related social issues. Many journal articles, books, and conference papers are available full-text.
Note: Online help available within the database.
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Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 journals; full-text for more than 1,350 journals and more than 2,830 books and conference papers.
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Ebsco Publishing
Educational Research eBooks Online 2018
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A collection of eBooks on Education Research, covering topics from Language Education to Education Policy & Politics.
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Brill
EGi News/Radius Data Exchange
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Full text of the Estates Gazette archive from January 1986, as well as property news from March 1996. Also includes data on available commercial properties, property deals, transactions and ratings, market analysis by geographical location, company information and jobs provided by Radius Data Exchange.
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Estates Gazette from 1986, news from 1996.
Publisher
Radius Data Exchange
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Parts 1 and 2 include a variety of full-text materials – from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements – and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century. Subject coverage includes literature, history, religion, law, the fine arts and science. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century; collections on the French Revolution; and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works. There are digital images of every page of nearly 200,000 titles published during the eighteenth Century. This is available through Historical Texts.
Coverage
Covers period 1701-1800
Publisher
JISC
EMBASE
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Embase includes 24 million indexed records in the field of biomedicine, and covers more than 7,500 current, mostly peer-reviewed, journals, of which 2,000 are not included in Medline. Its specialist areas include psychiatry and pharmacology. Embase also includes conference abstracts from more than 7000 biomedical, drug and medical device conferences dating back to 2009.
Coverage
1974 onwards.
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Ovid Technologies
Emerald *
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Full text of over 300 peer-reviewed journals published by Emerald covering engineering, built environment, business, management, economics, education, health & social care, library & information science.
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Full text is available from 1994; abstracts (summaries) of earlier articles are available from 1989. A small number of titles have abstracts only with no full text.
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Emerald Group
Encyclopedia of Compulsory Purchase and Compensation, via Westlaw UK
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This encyclopedia offers a guide to the detailed and complex provisions of the law relating to the compulsory purchase of land and the compensation provisions. Contains the full text of all relevant statutes, statutory instruments and circulars, together with case summaries. Expert commentary highlights the practical application of the law.
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Environmental Health Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
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This encyclopedia provides coverage of the purpose and practical application of the legislation and guidance relating to environmental health law. Contains the full text of all relevant statutes, statutory instruments, and circulars plus commentary.
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
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An encyclopaedia covering all aspects of forensic science.
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Reed Elsevier
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents
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A source of transactional precedents. The encyclopaedia contains over 12,000 forms and precedents covering 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.
Help available from within the site
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Full text. Selectively updated once a month.
Publisher
LexisNexis Butterworths
Encyclopedia of Highway Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
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A major work on highway law including full text of all relevant legislation, complete with annotations.
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Housing Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
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An up-to-date online encyclopaedia of housing law. Aimed at practitioners and includes commentary on all relevant legislation.
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Local Government Law, via Westlaw UK
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This definitive work sets out the full text of Acts and regulations, accompanying each one with a detailed commentary and full references to relevant judicial authorites.
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
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A comprehensive source of guidance and policy on planning law. It includes expert commentary on all relevant legislation and provides access to up-to-date circulars, PPGs and PPSs, MPGs and MPSs, RPGs, and RSSs and TANs
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Sweet & Maxwell
Encyclopedia of Road Traffic Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
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This source provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information on all aspects of road traffic law and practice. Reproduces all relevant legislation and subordinate legislation, with clear detailed explanation and interpretations.
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Sweet & Maxwell
ENDS Report *
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The ENDS Report gives you access to environmental intelligence for professionals; delivering news, analysis, and reference across the carbon, environmental, and sustainability agenda.
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Haymarket
Engineer-it
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A full-text collection of product catalogues providing data on components and equipment for electronic engineers, with product specifications, data sheets, and supplier information. Can be accessed via Technical Indexes.
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IHS Technical Indexes
English Reports, via HeinOnline
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Covers the decisions of the English Courts prior to the start of the Law Reports in 1865.
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Full reprint (1220 - 1865)
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William S. Hein & Co
Environmental Management
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UK legislation and guidance documents from over 100 issuing bodies.
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IHS Technical Indexes
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via ProQuest
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The Educational Resources Information Center provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. The Educational Resources Information Center provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs.
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ProQuest
EThOS
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British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
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Content being developed.
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British Library
EUR-Lex
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Provides direct access to European Union law. Includes the
Official Journal of the European Union along with the treaties,
legislation, case-law, and legislative proposals.
Coverage
Subject areas: Europe; Law; European Union; EU
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Publisher
Europa
eWIC (Electronic Workshops in Computing)
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eWIC (Electronic Workshops in Computing) provides free access to their conference papers archive from 1995 to the present day.
Coverage
Algebraic Specification, Audio, Circuits, Communications, Databases, Data Analysis, Formal Aspects, Formal Methods , Grid Computing, Imaging, Information Retrieval, Internet, Object Orientation, Programming and Tribute.
Publisher
BCS
FAME
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Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership, and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies plus summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses.
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Coverage
Up to 10 years of detailed information is available for 1.6 million companies plus summarised information for a further 1 million companies.
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Help guides and tutorials can be found by selecting the help tab at the top of the FAME homepage.
FIAF Film International Index to Film Periodicals Database*
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Includes several databases: Film Index International, International Index to Film, International Index to TV Periodicals, Treasures from the Film Archives, International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections, Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications.
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Indexes film details and criticism from the 1940s to present. This database also includes full text for a number of journal titles.
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ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Fitch Connect
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Provides financial data on banks, insurance firms, corporates and sovereigns. Includes the world’s leading bank fundamental data set, and ratings and research covering the fixed-income universe.
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Fitch Ltd.
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Support pages for
setting up and using Fitch
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password.
FLAG (Foreign Law Guide)
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Holdings of foreign primary-source materials in UK libraries.
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Focus
Our subscription to Focus has been upgraded to CoStar Suite
Food and Drink Safety
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Over 5,000 full-text documents covering EU and UK legislation, guidelines, and codes of practice for the food and drink industries.
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IHS Technical Indexes
FreeMedicalJournals.com
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The Free Medical Journals website is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Links to over 400 titles are included.
Publisher
Flying Publisher
GDC Vault
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GDC Vault is a trove of in-depth design, technical, and inspirational talks and slides from the influencers of the game-development industry, taken from over 20 years of the worldwide Game Developers Conferences.
Coverage
20 years
Publisher
UBM
Google Image Search
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One of the most comprehensive image resources on the web.
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Great Buildings Online
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This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings, and hundreds of leading architects, with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Publisher
Architecture Week.
Grove Music Online
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Grove Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
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Oxford University Press
Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)*
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Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers. Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Titles include:
- The Guardian (1959-2003)
- The Manchester Guardian (1821-1825)
- The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900)
- The Manchester Guardian (1901-1959)
- The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer (1825-1828)
- The Observer (1791-2003)
Coverage
The Guardian 1821-2003
The Observer 1791-2003
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User guide for ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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ProQuest
Halsbury's Laws of England, via LexisLibrary
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Halsbury's Laws of England is a general legal encyclopaedia
covering the whole spectrum of English law. It is is divided into
alphabetically-arranged titles. The text of those titles is
supplemented by regularly-updated annotations.
Coverage
This is a commenatry service with links to most primary sources referenced in the text. It is updated monthly. Subject areas: law / commentary
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LexisNexis
Halsbury's Statutes known as UK Parliament Acts on LexisLibrary
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UK Parliament Acts contain the full, amended text of all public general Acts that are currently in force. Legislation that has been recently enacted but is not yet in force is also included. Public general Acts that are no longer in force do not appear in full text but a note explains why the enactment no longer applies.
Coverage
United Kingdom. Please note that this source contains Statutes of England and Wales. Acts that were made by the Westminster Parliament and relate to Scotland only are not included, although provisions of Scottish Acts that apply or are relevant to England and/or Wales are included. Westminster Parliament Acts containing some Scotland-only provisions pre- and post-devolution are reproduced in full.
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LexisNexis
Halsbury's Statutes Citator, via LexisLibrary
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Halsbury's Statutes Citator provides a citation for the current status of over 7,600 statutes. There are links through to the full text.
Coverage
A comprehensive list of amendments to all statutes which have been considered in Halsbury's Statutes since 1929.
Publisher
LexisNexis
Halsbury's Statutory Instruments, via LexisLibrary
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Halsbury's Statutes Citator provides a citation for the current status of over 7,600 statutes. There are links through to the full text.
Coverage
Halsbury's Statutory Instruments Citator lists in alphabetical order the full title of statutory instruments dealt with by Halsbury's Statutory Instruments.
Publisher
LexisNexis
Hansard
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Edited verbatim report of proceedings in the Commons Chamber, Westminster Hall, and Standing Committees. Contains written ministerial statements and written answers.
Coverage
Coverage from the 1988 / 1998 session of Parliament through to the current session.
Publisher
Parliament
Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law
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Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law provides commentary on industrial relations and employment law and practice. It analyses the law, and fills in the practical background. The texts of all the relevant statutes and statutory instruments are set out in full, with detailed annotations. It also includes precedents.
Coverage
Subject area: Law / Employment Law / Commentary / Industrial relations / Human Resource Management
Publisher
LexisNexis Butterworths
Historic England (formerly English Heritage)
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Historic England carries out ground-breaking research on a wide range of subjects from archaeomagnetic dating to animal remains and building investigation to electrical imaging. The series also includes reports commissioned by Historic England but carried out by external organisations. Some of the reports are interim and the opinions expressed in the reports are the author’s and not necessarily those of Historic England.
Coverage
2006 onwards
Guides
- Find out more about the Historic England, including information about recently published reports and the pre-2006 report series, on the Historic England website
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Publisher
Historic England
Historical Texts
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JISC Historical Texts includes the following databases:
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English civil war.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) includes works on literature, history, religion, law, the fine arts and science. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century; collections on the French revolution; and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works. There are digital images of every page of nearly 200,000 titles published during the eighteenth century.
- The Nineteenth Century books from the British Library Collection contains digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book.
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Various
i-Law
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Description
i-law is a commercial law database offering specialist
commentary and analysis as well as access to some case reports in
maritime and commercial law.
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Informa UK Limited
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
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Description
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences focuses mainly on politics, sociology, economics and anthropology and is one of the world's largest social-science databases.
Coverage
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences indexes over 2,800 journals from 1951 onwards and adds over 7,000 books annually.
Publisher
ProQuest
ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) Virtual Library
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library gives access to one of the largest repositories of full-text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the archive from 1836 to 2001.
Publisher
ICE
IDS Employment Law Handbook via Westlaw
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Description
IDS Employment Law Handbook offers expert guidance on the wider implications of new judgments and legislation, flagging up trends in employment litigation and practice.
Publisher
IDS
IHS Technical Indexes
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Description
Includes the following databases:
- Construction Information Service.
- Engineer-it.
- Environmental Management.
- Food and Drink Safety.
- Occupational H&S Information Service
- Specify-it Building.
Note: There is currently a problem with very slow initial connections to IHS from on campus. If you see a blank page after logging in, please wait and you should eventually get in. This may take over a minute.
Publisher
IHS
IEEE Xplore *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
IEL includes full-text access for:
- IEEE journals and conference proceedings
- IEE journals and conference proceedings
- IEEE standards
- over 400 Wiley-IEEE e-books
Coverage
Archive to 1988, selected journals and conferences back to 1950.
Guides
Publisher
IEEE
IJ Global
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
IJ Global is an online intelligence service that includes news, insight and analysis on all aspects of global infrastructure finance, covering the transport, oil & gas/renewables/power, social & defence sectors. It includes a searchable database of project finance data, league tables and important market reports.
Publisher
IJ Global
Images of England
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Description
A digital library of photographs of England's listed buildings, together with text descriptions.
Notes: Users must register to use the Advanced search facilities.
Coverage
You can view over 300,000 images of England’s built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses, and churches.
Publisher
National Monument Record and English Heritage
Independent Local Radio
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Description
Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996:
- the Independent Radio Sharing Archive (1973-1990) brings together materials originally created as the Independent Local Radio (ILR) Sharing Scheme for which those working in features, drama, music and news departments of commercial radio could offer their work to be used throughout the UK
- LBC/Independent Radio News Archive (4,000 hours of content from the collections of the London Broadcasting Company/ Independent Radio News Archive, from its beginnings in 1973 up to 1995)
- ILR South (1300 programmes deposited by independent local radio stations in Dorset, Hampshrie and Berkshire area)
- Radio Research Database (this resource aims to carry a record of all current radio-centred research in the UK).
Coverage
1973-1996
Publisher
BUFVC
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text *
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- More than 50% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
A bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books published or edited in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
Note: Select Legal Periodicals Full Text in the Database Selection area before you enter any search terms.
Coverage
Coverage dates: Indexing 1981+, Abstracting 1990+, 'select' Full text 1995+
Guide
- EBSCOhost research databases tutorial
- EBSCOhost playlist on EBSCO Support Tutorials YouTube channel, including additional videos tutorials on advanced searching, basic search, introductions, journal alerts, search history, my EBSCOhost folder, reading an article, and creating a search alert.
Publisher
EBSCO
InformationBridge *
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Description
InformationBridge provides free public access to over 313,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 onwards and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.
Coverage
InformationBridge provides free public access to over 313,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.
Publisher
Department of Education Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Institute of Physics Journal Archive *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Full-text archive of all of the journals published by the Institute of Physics. Journal articles of high-quality science from key authors and some of the most significant journals in the physical sciences. Restrictions apply to articles published in the last 10 years.
Coverage
Full text of all journals published since 1874. References and abstracts (summaries) only are available for some journals published in the last 10 years.
Guides
Publisher
Institute of Physics (IOP)
International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
‘The definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).’
The database adds 18,000 records per year, and gives unbroken coverage of journals that were indexed in BHA and IBA prior to 2010.
Coverage
Publications covered include at least 500 core journals, with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles that are not covered by other indexes, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.
Publisher
ProQuest
International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations provides information to the international business and labour relations communities. The work offers factual information and practical insight into both the technical legal and day-to-day aspects of labour relations. It also covers developing trends in the relationship between management and labour. Includes over 60 detailed country-by-country monographs and eight in-depth international monographs, as well as five volumes of case law and five volumes of reprinted legislation.
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
isurv
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Designed to specifically meet the information needs of the surveying industry, isurv is a comprehensive online service for the surveying profession. Giving practitioners a complete one-stop-shop for best practice, legal and RICS guidance, it covers the topics of building surveying , commercial property, construction, estate agency, legislation, planning, rural, sustainability, and valuation.
Publisher
RICS
iView Learning
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Description
iView Learning offers bite-size video tutorials on Assistive Technology, such as ClaroRead, MindView and Supernova. There are also tutorials for Microsoft Office. Printable PDF guides and optional subtitles are available for each tutorial.
Publisher
Wyvern Business Systems
JISC Journal Archives
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Description
JISC eCollections contains three platforms: Historic Books, Journal Archives and MediaHub containing thousands of journals, historical books, images, films, and sounds.
Publisher
JISC
John Johnson Collection
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Description
A digitised document collection of more than 65,000 printed items of ephemera from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes theatrical and non-theatrical posters and fliers, popular prints, crime broadsheets and advertisements.
Coverage
Eighteenth century to early twentieth century.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
Journals@OVID *
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- More than 95% of the database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Your Journals@Ovid is a collection of full-text health journals including over 200 titles published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies
JSTOR *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV. This incorporates access to a scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals in the following fields: history, economics, archaeology, classics, sociology, Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Slavic studies, political science, music, film studies, performing arts, mathematics, ecology, psychology, business, art, architecture, language, literature, law, religion and public policy. These existing collections are complemented by the Ireland Collection which incorporates manuscripts, monographs and journals on Irish arts, humanities and sciences with materials that span from the 1780s to the present.
Coverage
Various coverage 1861-2007.
Guides
Publisher
JSTOR
JustisOne (previously JustCite)
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Description
JustisOne is an online legal research tool that allows you to find the key current legal authorities (case law, legislation) for a topic. JustisOne’s key passages feature shows you the most quoted passages of a judgment and every case is marked up to show the strongest positive and negative treatments of that case. In this way you can use JustisOne to see how authorities cite each other, helping you to establish the status of the law. JustisOne links to some full text and provides links out to other UWE Bristol subscription legal databases where you will find full text.
Guides
Sign up for a training webinar here.
Certification
The JustisOne proficiency test allows users to gain a nationally recognised online certificate.
Publisher
Justis publishing
Kemp on Lawtel
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Kemp on Lawtel is a collection of personal injury quantum reports and practice tools. It also includes a schedule of damages application.
Note: Once logged into Lawtel, you will find Kemp in ‘Specialist Areas’.
Publisher
Sweet and Maxwell
Knovel *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Covering a wide range of engineering, transportation, and sustainability topics, Knovel contains over 3,000 electronic books, as well as interactive graphs and equations which allow users to accurately plot points, test ranges for 'what-if' scenarios, and solve real-world problems from tables and charts in references that would otherwise be static images on the page.
Search hints
All searches are done as keyword searches.
Publisher
Knovel Corp.
Landmap
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The Landmap service provides UK academia with a high quality spatial data download service which is enhanced and supported by a range of learning material.
Landmap is no longer being updated. The material presented via this resource should be considered as archival.
Publisher
Mimas
Lawtel
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Lawtel is a current awareness service for legal practitioners. It provides access to a whole range of legal information from tracking progress on legislation through to case summaries and an articles index. It also provides access to directories of solicitors and barristers. In some instances Lawtel will give access to the full text of a document where that document is held in the public domain.
Note: Use the library search to check availability in the library of law reports series or journal titles cited on Lawtel.
Coverage
Subject areas: UK cases; UK legislation. Updated every 24 hours. Use the library catalogue to check availability in the library of law reports series or journal titles cited on Lawtel.
Guides
- Lawtel Lessons – All Lawtel users can join the Lawtel Lesson sessions.
- Lawtel Student User Guide
- Lawtel UK Online demo
Publisher
Sweet and Maxwell
LearnTechLib *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of educational technology and e-learning.
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Lecture Notes in Computer Science *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
This collection contains all content from the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series from the last 2 years.
Publisher
Springer
Legal Journals Index (LJI), via Westlaw
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Contains abstracts of every substantive legal journal article published in the UK since 1986.
Note: If only an abstract of a journal article is provided, check whether the journal is available in the library by searching for the journal title in the library search.
Coverage
Back-dating of full-text coverage can vary between publications.
Publisher
Sweet and Maxwell
Legislation.gov.uk
Accessibility statement
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
Full text of all the UK Parliament Public General Acts (from 1988) onwards and all Local Acts (from 1991) onwards as they were originally enacted.
Guides
Publisher
HMSO
LexisLibrary
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
- International and News sources are not available via the above link. To access this content, please use the Lexis Library International and Lexis Library News database records
Description
Covers UK legal materials including cases, legislation, journal articles, and practitioner texts.
Note: Mac users may have problems using LexisLibrary with the Safari browser. Updating to Safari 3.1 (via 'Software Update') should fix this. Alternatively use another browser such as Mozilla Firefox.
Certification and student associate
The Lexis Online Research Certification Scheme allows users to gain a nationally recognised online certificate.
Eve Jenkins is the current LexisLibrary Student Associate. Eve can help you with any training needs or difficulties that you might experience using LexisLibrary. Email Eve.
See also: LexisNexis student guidance
Coverage
Full text coverage of legislation in force, and case law. LexisLibrary also includes the full text of Halsbury's Laws of England; Atkin's Court Forms; Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, plus other practitioner works in full text. Practice areas include: Tax and Accountancy; Employment; Family; Personal Injury; Property. Subject areas: UK and International Cases; UK and International Legislation.
Guides
Publisher
LexisNexis
LexisLibrary International
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Covers international legal materials from a browsable range of sources (cases, legislation, forms & precedents, and secondary materials).
Publisher
LexisNexis
LexisLibrary News
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Covers a range of UK news sources including local and national newspapers.
Publisher
LexisNexis
Lindley and Banks on Partnership (via Westlaw)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Definitive practitioner text on partnership law, covering both general and limited partnership. Covers all aspects of the life of a partnership, from its nature and formation to the usual contents of a partnership agreement, common areas of dispute, partner liabilities, and to winding up and insolvency. Includes key cases.
Coverage
Subject area: Law, Partnership
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
Linguistics and Language Behaviour 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Indexes international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles from over 1,500 publications, and also provides abstracts of books and dissertations.
Coverage
1973 to present
Publisher
ProQuest
LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts)
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Access restrictions
- 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Guide to articles from over 550 periodicals from 68 countries and papers from major English language conferences, going back over 30 years.
Publisher
ProQuest
Literary Encyclopedia
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The Literary Encyclopedia focuses on literature originally written in English or translated into English. It provides details profiles of authors and texts, and basic knowledge on their cultural contexts. It includes more than 6,000 writers, philosophers and other persons of note, nearly 19,000 works and 1,600 literary and historical topics and events.
Guides
Publisher
Literary Dictionary Company
Literature Online (now One Literature) *
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Accessibility statement
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Literature Online is now part of One Literature. One Literature covers the period 1500-2008. The database contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works. It includes rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
Lynda.com
Lynda.com has migrated to LinkedIn Learning. Find out more about the migration.
Managing successful projects with PRINCE 2 2009
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Designed to be a role specific handbook for project managers,
team managers and project support, and examines the wider role of
the project manager, including soft skills, leading and managing,
stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and organisational
change movement.
The book also includes real-life examples to illustrate how the
PRINCE2 method, principles, and processes have been applied in
actual situations.
Publisher
TSO
Manchester Film Studies
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Description
Manchester Film Studies is a collection of e-books and one journal from prominent authors in the field of film. It covers theoretical and historical film studies, critical approaches to classical and contemporary films, and the relationship between film, socio-cultural and political issues.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Mark Allen Healthcare Complete *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
MAH Complete is a comprehensive collection of over 25 peer-reviewed journals published by Mark Allen Healthcare; including clinical nursing journals, as well as leading titles in midwifery, dental nursing, pre-hospital care and veterinary practice. Titles include: British Journal of Healthcare Management, British Journal of Nursing, and British Journal of Midwifery.
Publisher
Mark Allen Healthcare
Mass Observation Online *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
The Mass Observation Online archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s) which involved the scientific observation of public attitudes and opinions. This online resource contains primary material in the form of file reports and topic collections as well as photographs and interactive maps.
Coverage
1937 - 1967
Publisher
Adam Matthews
MaterialDistrict
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
MaterialDistrict is the global network in the area of innovative materials. MaterialDistrict encourages joint innovation on the road to a more beautiful, sustainable and high-quality built environment. Around an independent and continuously growing collection of 2,000 exciting materials, MaterialDistrict connects professionals through exhibitions, trade shows, conferences, MaterialDistrict.com and social media.
Publisher
Materia B.V
Maternity and Infant Care
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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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service) Reference Database covers around 550 international English language journals.
The database is produced in the UK and amalgamates
references to journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and
other ‘grey literature’ relating to the midwifery profession,
pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, and neonatal care
extending into the first year of life.
Coverage
1973 to present
Guides
Publisher
Ovid Technologies
MEDLINE, via OVID
Access restrictions
- 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database and contains over 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. The subject scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine and health, broadly defined to encompass those areas of the life sciences, behavioural sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering needed by health professionals and others engaged in basic research and clinical care, public health, health policy development, or related educational activities.
Coverage
1947 onwards.
Guides
Publisher
Ovid Technologies
MLA International Bibliography
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Accessibility statement
Access restrictions
- 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics
Guides
Publisher
EBSCO
MSCI Real Estate Analytics Portal
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
MSCI’s private real estate market information dataset, Global Intel incorporates more than 3,000 direct property indexes in 32 countries, including a unique coverage of more than 240 cities worldwide. Access granular datasets of more than 1,000 direct property indexes and 16 fund indexes tracking property type, location and asset-specific characteristics.
Guides
- A Guide to Accessing MSCI's Real Estate Content and Analytics Online
- Accessing MSCI Data (Video Guide on Blackboard)
Publisher
MSCI
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
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Accessibility statement
Access restrictions
- 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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
Publisher
ProQuest
National Statistics
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
The official gateway to UK National Statistics. Provides access to the latest statistics from government departments in the UK and is the central website for hosting all first releases of National Statistics. Material can be downloaded into a variety of formats.
Publisher
Office for National Statistics
NBER Working Papers
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Database containing current and historic research papers from The National Bureau of Economic Research. Intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before publication.
Publisher
National Bureau of Economic Research
News on Screen
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Students and staff at international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
Database of 180,000 cinemagazine & newsreel stories linked to production documents & films.
Coverage
1910-83.
Publisher
BUFVC
NEWS2 (The National Early Warning Score)
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Access restrictions
- You will need to create an individual account when using NEWS2 for the first time. Sign up for the free service as an NHS Employee using your UWE Bristol email address
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) eLearning programme ensures NHS staff operate using the same language and advocates a system to standardise the assessment and response to acute illness. UWE Bristol subscribes to this eLearning to enable students to access this resource in the same way as NHS staff.
Publisher
Royal College of Physicians
Nexis
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers and trade press plus many newspapers and magazines published worldwide.
Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
Coverage
A range of European language titles are covered; other worldwide sources are English language.
Please note the latest month of The Financial Times is not available on Nexis. Please use the Library's print copy instead.
Guides
- Nexis News Quick Start Guide
- Nexis Advanced Search Guide
- Nexis UK Product Tutorials
- Alerts Migration Guide
Publisher
Lexis Nexis Butterworths
Nexis Company Dossier
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Brings together global company data, executive information and news information from multiple providers to create easy-to-use company reports. A good starting point for job interview preparation.
Coverage
A range of European language titles are covered; other worldwide sources are English language.
Publisher
Lexis Nexis Butterworths
NICE Evidence
Accessibility statement
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
- To search the British National Formulary (BNF) and the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) please use these links provided.
Description
NICE Evidence provides access to high quality authoritative evidence and best practice covering health, social care and public health evidence.
Coverage
Coverage includes Evidence Search, Healthcare Database Advanced Search (HDAS), Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS), UK Duets (an evidence uncertainties database) and a bulletin, alerts and evidence awareness service.
Guides
Want to access more content on NHS Evidence? Visit logging in to NHS databases.
Publisher
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Occupational Health and Safety Information Service
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
A full-text collection of over 23,000 documents in the field of occupational and environmental health and safety.
Coverage
Daily updates on current regulations, standards, guidance, and best practise documents in the area of occupational health and safety.
Publisher
IHS Technical Indexes
One Literature (formerly Literature Online) *
Accessibility Statement
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
One Literature covers the period 1500 – 2008. The database contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works. It includes rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
Coverage
1500 - 2008
Guides
One Literature introductory guide
Publisher
ProQuest
Open Commons of Phenomenology
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
This freely accessible platform hosts texts, documents, images, and other relevant materials and research related to the phenomenology. The platform features interactive contents and offers digital tools including multi-text search, data visualisations, citation index, bibliometric statistics, annotations and social sharing.
Publisher
Open Commons
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) iLibrary *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Access to the full text of some of the OECD publications including working papers, statistics, journals, and books.
Guides
Publisher
OECD
OSIRIS
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Information on listed companies around the world, including
banks and insurance companies. Includes details of company accounts
and key financials for the last 10 years (where available). Also
contains details of ownership, subsidiaries, ratings, and
news.
In addition to generating detailed reports on companies, Osiris can
produce company/sector comparisons and can search using a wide
range of criteria including geographic location, size, directors
etc.
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Publisher
Bureau Van Dijk
OTseeker
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Description
This free resource, developed by a group of Australian occupational therapists, provides abstracts of systematics reviews and randomised controlled trials in the field of occupational therapy. As of March 2010 it covered 1,570 systematic reviews and 5,100 randomised controlled trials. Articles were sourced from over 1,000 journals, although it is likely that most of these are also covered by other health and medical databases.
Coverage
2002 onwards.
Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland *
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The ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census.
Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography *
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated
collection of over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped all
aspects of Britain’s past, from the 4th Century to the 21st
Century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides
accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people from
all walks of life. Entries offer detailed and extensive
biographical information drawn from primary and secondary sources,
and range from a few dozen to 35,000 words in length.
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Coverage from earliest times to 2004
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Oxford University Press
Oxford English Dictionary Online
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is guide to the meaning,
history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both
present and past. It traces the usage of words from a wide range of
international English language sources, from classic literature and
specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Coverage
Updated quarterly
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Oxford Handbooks Online - Psychology
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This is a collection of 167 eBooks representing all of psychology’s principal subfields which you can browse, read on screen, or download. Content is accessible via the library search as well as being searchable within the database.
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How to use Oxford Handbooks Online
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Oxford History of Western Music
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The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched
account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the
most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard
Taruskin. It includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800
musical examples from the updated paperback edition with
sophisticated search and browse functionality designed to maximize
the dynamic possibilities of online reading and research.
Guide
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
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An authoritative dictionary covering a wide range of economics topics written by the world's leading economists.
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Palgrave Macmillan
PADDI
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An index to journal articles on all aspects of the built environment and environmental planning in Ireland, north and south.
Coverage
Indexing of material began in 1980; indexed material includes items published from c1865 to the present, but the majority of items date from the mid 20th century onwards; the time period covered is 12th century to the present.
Publisher
Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland.
PAIS International
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PAIS was established in 1914 for the purpose of chronicling the world's public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics. The ‘Public Affairs Information Service’ offers records from over 120 countries worldwide. Content is in the form of over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content and is updated quarterly.
Coverage
- Politics
- Human rights
- Civil rights movement
- International relations
- Economic conditions
- Education
- Energy
- Health and government
Publisher
ProQuest
PANGAEA *
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The information system PANGAEA is operated as an open-access library aimed at archiving, publishing, and distributing geo-referenced data from earth system research. Most of the data is freely available and can be used under the terms of the license mentioned on the data set description.
Publisher
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM)
Passport
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A business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It has a global perspective, with researchers working in 200 countries. Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.
Our subscription to Passport also includes access to Passport: Industrial, a database covering global production and supply chains, which provides an overview of the business-to-business marketplace. Find ‘Industrial’ as an option under the ‘Economies’ tab in the menu at the top of the Passport homepage.
Passport: Industrial provides economic data and analysis for the economies of 68 countries, covering 177 industries. There are detailed statistics, forecasts and industry reports for 18 core countries (including the UK) and key statistics for a further 50 countries, with extensive information about production, imports and exports and market sizes. Historic data goes back 15 years.
Coverage
Information includes full-text market reports, country reports, statistics, news and analysis.
Guides
- Guides, including a video on ‘Getting started with Passport’ can be accessed from the Passport Help page.
- Brochure for Passport: Industrial.
Publisher
Euromonitor International
PEDro
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An initiative of the Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy (CEBP), PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It has been developed to give access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy.
Publisher
University of Sydney (Australia)
Periodicals Archive Online *
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Periodicals Archive Online contains digitised journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, spread over a two hundred year period.
Coverage
Periodicals Archive Online contains 80 full-text journal backfiles for the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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ProQuest
Philosopher's Index
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The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with
informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research
in all areas of philosophy.
Coverage
The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters and book reviews.
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ProQuest
PhilPapers
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Description
PhilPapers is an open access index of the research literature in philosophy containing bibliographic records for journal articles, books, open access archives and personal pages. The database is maintained by an international community of philosophers and is freely available.
Publisher
The PhilPapers Foundation
PILOTS
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Public International Literature On Traumatic Stress. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health conditions resulting from traumatic events.
Coverage
- Traumatic stress
- Mental health services
- Professional ethics
- Public policy
- Assessment
- Treatment
- Prevention
Publisher
ProQuest
Practical Law
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Practical Law delivers online legal know-how . It includes the following materials:
- Practice notes - concise explanations covering core transactions and background law
- Standard documents and drafting notes
- Current awareness which explains the practical implications of key developments. Our subscription includes access to the modules PLC Corporate, PLC Cross Border and PLC Finance.
Note: Please note that UWE Bristol does not subscribe to all Practical Law modules
Publisher
Practical Law Company
Project Muse *
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Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional university press and scholarly society publishers joining in each subsequent year.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Property Week Magazine
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Property Week is the leading news magazine in the commercial property market. Packed with news, features and analysis, Property Week keeps readers fully briefed on all the latest information from the industry - from development opportunities to investment prospects, professional and legal coverage to regional surveys, plus all the latest job vacancies.
Coverage
Nov 1998 to present
Publisher
Property Week
ProQuest Criminal Justice *
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ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including abstracts and indexing for 250 titles, more than 100 of which are available in full text.
Coverage
- Criminology
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Justice
- Law enforcement
- Family Law
- Industrial Security
- Rehabilitation
Publisher
ProQuest
ProQuest Education Journals *
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ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on:
- primary
- secondary
- higher education
- special education
- home schooling
- adult education
Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database.
Coverage
1988 - current
Publisher
ProQuest
ProQuest Sociology *
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ProQuest Sociology is a database covering the international literature of sociology and social work. Coverage from around 480 journal titles and over 500 recent full-text doctoral dissertations on sociology.
Coverage
- Social work
- Social services
- Community and mental health
- Crisis intervention
Publisher
ProQuest
PsycBITE
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A database of behavioural, cognitive and other therapies for psychological problems and issues occuring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment.
Coverage
Includes disciplines of nursing, occupational therapy, neurology, physiotherapy, psychiatry, psychology, social work and speech pathology.
Publisher
University of New South Wales
PubMed *
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PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine and provides access to over 16 million references for articles on clinical science and biomedicine. It is a freely available version of Medline.
Coverage
1950s onwards.
Publisher
United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)
The Purple Guide
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Description
The Purple Guide to Health, Safety and Welfare at Music and Other Events has been drawn up by the Events Industry Forum in consultation with the UK events industry, including representatives from regional and national Government. It aims to help those who organise music or similar events, so that the events can run safely. It covers legislation and good practice for Health and Safety as well as other legislation and good practice across the industry including the Licensing Act 2003, the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. The guide has been designed to sign-post event organisers and suppliers to the practices and issues that need to be considered when events are being planned.
Publisher
Events Industry Forum (EIF)
RefWorks
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A resource for collecting and managing references that allows you to create your own searchable database of references, accessible from any computer connected to the internet. You can import references from databases, format your bibliography, and incorporate your citations into your documents.
Publisher
RefWorks
RePEc/IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
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An international database of freely-available working papers, journal articles and book chapters in the economics field. Many are available in full text.
Publisher
IDEAS
Research into Higher Education 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
This database indexes more than 250 research journals in the field of higher education. It is international in focus, with an emphasis on British and Commonwealth countries.
Coverage
1966-present
Publisher
Informaworld
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) On-Line
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Description
An index to articles in over 300 of the world's most respected architectural journals, and details of books and audio visual materials held in the RIBA Library.
Publisher
RIBA
RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Online
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Description
An index to the Library of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, including books, journal articles, law reports and transcript, web sites and audio tapes.
Publisher
RICS
RILM Music Literature (1967-present only)
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Description
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography
featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It includes
music-related works from articles, books, bibliographies,
dissertations, film and video, concert reviews, and recording
notes, provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas
include: historical musicology; ethnomusicology; instruments and
voice; performance practice and notation; theory and analysis;
music therapy; and interdisciplinary studies on music and various
other fields. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in
214 languages. There are currently over 600,000 records in
RILM.
Coverage of all document types begins in 1967.
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Publisher
EBSCO
Routledge Handbooks Online Music Collection *
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Routledge Music handbooks and companions revolve around current topics such as Music and Cognition, and evolving areas of study like music and visual culture, and popular music analysis.
Publisher
Routledge Handbooks Online
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals *
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Full-text access to the journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing
Safari Books Online
Our subscription to Safari Books Online has been upgraded to O'Reilly Online Learning.
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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.
Publisher
Sage
SAGE Journals Online *
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Description
Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
Coverage
Full text of all RSC articles published since 1841 to the present.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
SAGE Research Methods *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
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.
Publisher
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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Publisher
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.
Coverage
Over 66 million records
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Publisher
Elsevier
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
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Description
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
Social Care Online
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Description
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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- 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
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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- You will need to register by selecting ‘My Toolkit’ on the Social Work Toolkit home page the first time you use this database
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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.
Guides
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.
View spreadsheet list of all available protocols
Publisher
Springer
Taylor and Francis *
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Description
Provides access to over 2500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
Coverage
1997 onwards.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
The Times Digital Archive *
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Description
The Times Digital Archive provides convenient access to an
extraordinary library of back issues of this renowned newspaper
online.
By taking the microfilm collection of The Times (London) and
producing a high-resolution digital format with searchable images,
The Times Digital Archive represents unprecedented access to one of
the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century
history and onward.
Coverage
Coverage from 1785 to 2010
Publisher
Gale (Cengage)
This Week programmes from 1956 - 1992
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Description
This database provides programme information about This Week, the first ITV current affairs series, which ran from January 1956 to December 1992. It includes data on programmes made between 1978-1986, when the series was renamed TVEye. The database gives an in-depth view of the programmes in the series, including information about its personnel; information on its content, on the technology with which it was produced, and on its style. It also includes information about the documentation which supports each programme, with notes on whether it is available to researchers and where it can be found.
Note:Login by selecting University of the West of England from the dropdown list.
Coverage
1956-1992.
Publisher
BUFVC
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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Description
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2009 is a
complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most
comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century. Founded in
1902, the Times Literary Supplement has been known over the past
100 years for its fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful
debate, making this digital archive an essential resource for
anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature,
humanities and culture.
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Coverage
1902 to 2009.
Guides
Publisher
Gale (Cengage)
Transportation Research Record Online
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Description
Full text of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR Journal) from 1996 to present.
Coverage
Transport, Transportation, engineering, civil engineering, US
Publisher
US National Research Council / Transportation Research Board
TRID (Transportation Research Integrated Database)
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Description
TRID is an integrated database that combines books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, Environmental Impact Statements and theses in the field of transportation research. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide, with links to over 64,000 full-text documents. Content comes from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.
Publisher
Transportation Research Board
Trip Pro
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Description
Trip is a free medical database providing access to high quality clinical research evidence. Trip Pro is the enhanced version - provided by UWE Bristol - containing 100,000+ systematic reviews; medical images and videos; millions of full-text articles; along with advanced searching and compatibility with reference management software.
Coverage
Trip has been online since 1997.
Publisher
Trip Database Ltd.
TV Times Project
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
TVTip provides a unique searchable index to the London edition of the TVTimes, the listings magazine for ITV broadcasts. TVTiP allows users to search for programmes, production staff and performers. It contains approximately 250,000 records.
Coverage
September 1955 to March 1985
Publisher
BUFVC
SportDiscus
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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
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
UK Parliamentary Papers
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Description
UK Parliamentary Papers now includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688. UKPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing
Coverage
18th century (1688-1834) 19th century (1801-1900) 20th century (1901-2003/04 session) Hansard (1803-2005)
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Publisher
ProQuest
Ulrichsweb
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Description
Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of detailed information on periodicals of all types - academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.
Publisher
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
UWE Bristol Research Repository *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
The UWE Bristol Research Repository provides immediate world-wide open access to all of UWE Bristol's research output.
Publisher
University of the West of England (UWE)
Visible Body
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Description
Visible Body is a suite of online programs that cover anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations, quizzes and more. Peel away structures and layers from head to toe, rotate anatomical models, and dive deep into both systemic and regional anatomy. The programs complement textbook and classroom-based learning with interactive resources.
Publisher
Argosy Publishing
Visual Arts Data Service
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Description
"An online resource for visual arts of over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK."
Publisher
University College for the Creative Arts
VLeBooks *
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Description
This is an e-book selected collection which you can browse, read on screen, or download. Titles we own are accessible via the library search as well as being searchable within the database.
Publisher
Askews and Holts
Weekly Law Reports, via Westlaw UK
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Description
WLR are published in four volumes and include cases heard in the, House of Lords, Privy Council, Court of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions), Queen's Bench Division, Chancery Division, Family Division, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and also in the European Court of Justice.
Coverage
Available from 1953 to current in PDF format.
Publisher
Westlaw UK
Westlaw International
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Description
Westlaw International is a resource additional to Westlaw UK. The general subscription covers legal materials from non-UK English speaking jurisdictions such as the United States and Canada, Asian materials and international treaties.
Coverage
Westlaw International 'includes over 27,000 databases covering legal, news and business information from across the globe. UWE has a subscription to most of this resource. You may encounter a pop-up blocker if attempting to look at materials within this database to which we do not have access.
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Publisher
Thomson Reuters
Westlaw UK
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Full-text access to current and historic UK, European Union and worldwide case reports and legislation. Also gives access to the Legal Journals Index, some full text law journals, and many law electronic books.
Certification
The Westlaw UK Certification Training allows users to gain a nationally recognised online certificate.
The Westlaw Student representative at UWE Bristol is currently vacant.
The representative can advise on certification and runs drop-in sessions for students and staff on the use of Westlaw products.
Coverage
Subject areas: UK, EU, and International Cases; UK, EU, and International Legislation. Includes full text of various practitioner texts including: Chitty on Contracts; Clerk and Lindsell on Torts; Civil Procedure (White Book).
Guides
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell
Wiley Anatomy Drill and Practice
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
This freely available resource provides interactive drag and drop exercises for various topics in physiology and anatomy. Each exercise asks you to identify anatomical structures. Illustrated anatomy exercises are labelled drawings whereas histology exercises are labelled micrographs.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Wiley Online Library *
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Description
Provides access to over 200 full text electronic journals
published by Wiley covering a wide range of topic areas such as
business, engineering medicine, science and psychology.
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Publisher
Wiley InterScience
Woodfall: Landlord and Tenant, via Westlaw
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Description
Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant is the definitive guide to all aspects of landlord and tenant law, and is the text most often cited in courtrooms.
Publisher
Thomson Reuters
World Advertising Research Center (WARC) *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
This database contains information on the worldwide advertising and marketing industries, including case studies, full text journal articles, conference papers, news, statistics and information on best practice.
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Publisher
WARC
World Trade Organisation
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Full-text reports, research papers and statistics about trade and economic topics from the World Trade Organisation. Includes a glossary.
Publisher
World Trade Organisation
World Wide Political Science 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
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international
serials literature in political science and its complementary
fields, including international relations, law, and public
administration / policy.
Coverage
1975 to present
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Publisher
ProQuest
XpertHR
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
A major resource of information for human resources. Provides journal articles, case studies, model policies, legislation, statistics, news, commentary, surveys, and analysis.
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Zetoc
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance.
Coverage
Updated daily. An index that contains references only, not full text. Information provided is minimal and abstracts are not included. To check whether an item is available (in either printed or electronic format) search the library catalogue. Coverage: From 1993. Subject areas: Multidisciplinary.
Guides
- FAQs and help available from within the site.
Publisher
Mimas at the University of Manchester on behalf of the British Library.