24 October 2019 update: Guest access to databases is currently unavailable due to ongoing technical issues. We are working to restore access as soon as possible.
When you register to use the guest access service you will be given a username and password - they will be required to log in to some of the databases below.
If a resource is not listed then either UWE Bristol does not subscribe to that database or the database provider does not permit its use by members of the public.
Access is only permitted from the computers within UWE Bristol libraries.
* Database included in the main library search. However, due to licensing restrictions, guest users can not use the library search on campus. Instead, please search the databases directly using the list below.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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
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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
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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)
ACM Digital Library *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Students and staff based at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
Provides access to the full text of all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals, newsletters and conference proceedings, plus the journals of some affiliated organisations. Date ranges vary.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) (via EBSCO)
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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.
- Staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
- UWE Bristol Alumni can not access this database
Description
AMED is a unique bibliographic database produced by the Health Care Information Service of the British Library. It covers a selection of journals in 3 main subject areas:
- complementary medicine
- palliative care
- professions allied to medicine (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, rehabilitation, and speech & language therapy)
Coverage
1985 Onwards
Guides
Publisher
EBSCO
AnatomyTV
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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.
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Publisher
Primal Pictures
A-N Resources
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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.
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
Arts & Humanities Full Text *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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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
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
arXiv *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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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
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
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
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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 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 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 Library Sounds
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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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- Database is included in the main library search
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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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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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
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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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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).
CCO: Philosophy, Religion and Cultural Studies
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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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
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
CiteSeerX (Research Index)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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
Cochrane Library
Accessibility statement
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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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Access restrictions
- 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
Credo Reference *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
Online reference library. Includes encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, atlases
Publisher
Credo
Design and Applied Arts 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
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.
Coverage
Coverage of journal articles since 1974.
Publisher
ProQuest
Digimap
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Digimap is a collection of services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain. The map data can be downloaded to use with GIS or CAD software.
There are 9 Digimap services:
- Ordnance Survey Collection: a full range of current topographic Ordnance Survey maps.
- Historic Digimap: historic Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1843 to 1996.
- Geology Digimap: contemporary British Geological Survey map data. 1:50,000, 1:250,000 and 1:625,000 scales available in ESRI and MapInfo formats, plus information from the Lexicon of Named Rock Units.
- Marine Digimap: offers two types of data, raster nautical charts derived from UK Hydrographic Office paper charts and chart panels and Marine Themes vector data covering all UK waters derived from material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Offices.
- Environment Digimap: easy access to Land Cover data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
- Aerial Digimap: provides high resolution (25cm) vertical aerial imagery data of Great Britain from Getmapping.
- Lidar Digimap: offers detailed Lidar data from the Environment Agency through a convenient, on-demand web interface. It also offers vertical aerial photography.
- Global Digimap: is a new service in development and provides access to global datasets in cartographic styles and downloadable formats (available as a trial until 31 July).
- Society Digimap: is a new service in development. Explore a range of demographic data using the mapping facility, Society Roam. A full data download application is under development, which will offer the ability to download both the census data and the corresponding boundaries together (available as a trial until 31 July).
Note: users must register with Digimap.
Guides
- The Digimap resource centre provides support for all Digimap services, including guidance on downloading data for GIS, CAD, and on annotating maps. There is also an instant chat-enquiry service.
- Like learning from videos? Visit the Digimap YouTube channel.
Licence and terms of use
Digimap is for educational use only, eg learning, teaching and research purposes.
- The publisher does not allow UWE Bristol students based at UK and international partner institutions (and the staff that support them) to access this database
- End-user licence agreement: licence for the use of Ordnance Survey mapping data.
- End-user licence FAQs: questions and answers about what you can and cannot do with Digimap's maps and data.
Publisher
Edina
Digital National Security Archive *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
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.
Publisher
ProQuest Information and Learning Company
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
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.
Publisher
Lund University Libraries
Early English Books Online
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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.
Coverage
Comprehensive digital collection of English books from 1473 to 1700.
Publisher
JISC
ECONLIT
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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.
Guides
- 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
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
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
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.
Coverage
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.
Publisher
Ebsco Publishing
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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
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
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.
Guides
Publisher
Ovid Technologies
Emerald *
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Description
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.
Coverage
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.
Guides
Publisher
Emerald Group
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
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Description
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights covers a wide range of topics, including key organisations, events, and leading figures.
Publisher
OUP
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
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Description
An encyclopaedia covering all aspects of forensic science.
Publisher
Reed Elsevier
English Reports, via HeinOnline
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
Covers the decisions of the English Courts prior to the start of the Law Reports in 1865.
Coverage
Full reprint (1220 - 1865)
Guides
Publisher
William S. Hein & Co
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via ProQuest
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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 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.
Publisher
ProQuest
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via EBSCO
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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
- Staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
The Educational Resources Information Center is the world's
largest education database and is sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Education. Records include journal articles, books, technical
reports, research, policy and conference papers, and grey
literature.
Coverage
Over 650 journals are indexed, with coverage from 1966 to date.
Publisher
EBSCO
EThOS
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
Note: Individuals must register to download or print.
Coverage
Content being developed.
Guides
Publisher
British Library
EUR-Lex
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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 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
Guides
Publisher
Europa
FAME
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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.
Note: Pop-up blockers can interfere with FAME.
Coverage
Up to 10 years of detailed information is available for 1.6 million companies plus summarised information for a further 1 million companies.
Guides
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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Description
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.
Coverage
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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Description
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.
Publisher
Fitch Ltd.
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Support pages for
setting up and using Fitch
Users will need to log-in using their usual Fitch username and
password.
FLAG (Foreign Law Guide)
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Description
Holdings of foreign primary-source materials in UK libraries.
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Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
FreeMedicalJournals.com
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Description
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
Google Image Search
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Description
One of the most comprehensive image resources on the web.
Publisher
Great Buildings Online
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Description
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.
GreenFILE *
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Description
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Coverage
Covers 1973 and beyond to the present.
Publisher
EBSCO
Grove Music Online
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Description
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.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Hansard
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Description
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
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
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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
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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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
IEEE Xplore *
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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.
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Publisher
IEEE
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
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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
Index to Theses
Index to Theses has changed its name to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
Institute of Physics Journal Archive *
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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.
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Institute of Physics (IOP)
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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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
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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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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.
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JSTOR
JustisOne (previously JustCite)
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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
Knovel *
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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.
LearnTechLib *
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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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Description
This collection contains all content from the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series from the last 2 years.
Publisher
Springer
Legislation.gov.uk
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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
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
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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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- 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
LISTA (Library, Information Science and Technology 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
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts provides full text of journal articles and indexing of books, research reports and conference proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA with Full Text coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Publisher
EBSCO
Literary Encyclopedia
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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.
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Publisher
Literary Dictionary Company
Literature Online (now One Literature) *
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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.
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Publisher
ProQuest
Mass Observation Online *
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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
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
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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
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
MEDLINE, via EBSCO
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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.
- Staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to 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. Time coverage: generally 1947 to the
present, with some older material. Source: Currently, citations
from approximately 5,400 worldwide journals in 39 languages; 60
languages for older journals. Broad subject coverage: The subject
scope of MEDLINE is biomedicine and health, broadly defined to
encompass those areas of the life sciences, behavioral 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
1966 onwards.
Guides
Publisher
EBSCO
MSCI Real Estate Analytics Portal
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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 Statistics
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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
News on Screen
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Description
Database of 180,000 cinemagazine & newsreel stories linked to production documents & films.
Coverage
1910-83.
Publisher
BUFVC
Open Commons of Phenomenology
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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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Description
Access to the full text of some of the OECD publications including working papers, statistics, journals, and books.
Guides
Publisher
OECD
OSIRIS
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- 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.
Note: Pop-up blockers can interfere with OSIRIS.
Publisher
Bureau Van Dijk
OTseeker
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
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 National Biography *
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Description
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.
Coverage
Coverage from earliest times to 2004
Guides
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Oxford English Dictionary Online
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Description
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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Description
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.
Guides
How to use Oxford Handbooks Online
Publisher
Oxford University Press
PADDI
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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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Description
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
PEDro
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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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)
Philosopher's 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 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.
Guides
Publisher
ProQuest
PhilPapers
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
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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Description
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
Project Muse *
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Description
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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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ProQuest Criminal Justice *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
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 Dissertations & Theses: A&I
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- This database provides thesis citations and abstracts, not full text. Full text might be available through the British Library Ethos service, or via inter-library loan
- Students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol logins to access this database
Description
This database was formerly known as Index to Theses, it is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection offers the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts, accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.
Coverage
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Business
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Health & Medicine
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: History
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Literature & Language
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Science & Technology
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: Social Sciences
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I: The Arts
Publisher
ProQuest
ProQuest Education Journals *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
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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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
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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- Database is not included in the main library search
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Description
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
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)
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The American Psychological Association's PsycInfo® database is
the comprehensive international bibliographic database of
psychology. It contains citations and summaries of peer-reviewed
journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and
technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, etc. Journal coverage, spanning 1806 to
present, includes international material selected from more than
2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries. Over 80,000 records
are added annually through weekly updates. More than 36 million
references in over 870,000 journal articles, books, and book
chapters; retrospective to 2001 and earlier, where available; more
than 3.2 million references from 1920 to 2000.
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Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.
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EBSCO
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)
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.
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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.
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IDEAS
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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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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EBSCO
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
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SAGE Journals Online *
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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
ScienceDirect *
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Access provided to over 1,000 electronic journals with abstracts from several hundred further titles.
Coverage
As well as the sciences, coverage includes business, economics and social sciences. Full text available from 1996 onwards.
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Reed Elsevier
Scopus *
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-review literature, including books, conference proceedings and journals, covering the following fields of research: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Coverage
Over 66 million records
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Elsevier
Screenonline
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Description
Screenonline is an online resource of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.
Publisher
British Film Institute.
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
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The database delivers an authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings, international in scope and dating from 1890 to the present day.
Coverage
1890-present
Publisher
BUFVC
Social Care Online
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Social Care Online is provided by the UK organisation Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It contains research briefings, reports, legislation and government documents, journal articles, evidence-based practice, and websites relating to all aspects of social care.
Core subject areas include:
- families, children, and young people
- government and social policy
- mental health and mental health care
- people, groups, and communities (including older people, and black and minority ethnic people)
- physical and learning disabilities
- social care
- social work and social workers
There are approximately 150,000 records on Social Care Online, the majority of which are from the UK. All of the resources are fully abstracted and referenced and many are available in full text.
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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.
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Ovid
Social Services Abstracts
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Description
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of
current research focused on social work, human services, and
related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and
community development. The database abstracts and indexes over
1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal
articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage
dates back to 1979 and it includes over 147,000 records as of
December 2010.
Coverage
1979 to present
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ProQuest
Social Work Toolkit
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Description
The Social Work Toolkit helps students develop the knowledge, core skills and confidence to succeed on their course and placements. The range of resources includes videos, case studies, book chapters and expert opinion articles.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Sociological Abstracts
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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
SportDiscus
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Description
SPORTDiscus™ is a comprehensive, bibliographic database covering
sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science,
physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport law
& legislation, college & university sport, disabled
persons, facility design & management, doping, biomechanics,
movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical
therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise
psychology and more. With full bibliographic coverage, this
database includes well over 1,660,000 records with journal and
monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations
and theses and reference to articles in 60 different
languages.
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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
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.
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Coverage
1956-1992.
Publisher
BUFVC
Transportation Research Record Online
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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
TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
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TRILT is an online database describing: UK television and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations); all national and many local radio stations.
Coverage
Listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards.
Publisher
BUFVC
TV Times Project
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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
UK Parliamentary Papers
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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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ProQuest
Ulrichsweb
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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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The UWE Bristol Research Repository provides immediate world-wide open access to all of UWE Bristol's research output.
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University of the West of England (UWE)
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
Wiley Anatomy Drill and Practice
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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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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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Wiley InterScience
World Trade Organisation
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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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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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ProQuest