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Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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Access restrictions
- 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.
British Humanities Index
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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
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
Digimap
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
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
ENDS Report *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
The ENDS Report gives you access to environmental intelligence for professionals; delivering news, analysis, and reference across the carbon, environmental, and sustainability agenda.
Guides
Publisher
Haymarket
Environmental Management
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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
UK legislation and guidance documents from over 100 issuing bodies.
Guides
Publisher
IHS Technical Indexes
GreenFILE *
Access restrictions
- More than 90% of the currently published journals in this database are included in the main library search
- Staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
- UWE Alumni Bristol cannot access this database
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
Historic England (formerly English Heritage)
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- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
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
- Note: If browsing, use the keyword drop-down menu to select area of interest
Publisher
Historic England
IJ Global
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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
InformationBridge *
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
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
Knovel *
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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
LexisLibrary
Access restrictions
- 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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Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Covers international legal materials from a browsable range of sources (cases, legislation, forms & precedents, and secondary materials).
Publisher
LexisNexis
LexisLibrary News
Access restrictions
- 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
National Geographic Virtual Library *
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Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
Search and browse the entire archive of National Geographic, from 1888 to current.
Coverage
1888 - current
Publisher
Gale Cengage
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
- Finding the Financial Times on Nexis
- Alerts Migration Guide
Publisher
Lexis Nexis Butterworths
PANGAEA *
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone can access this database
Description
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
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
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
Practical Law
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
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
SAGE Research Methods *
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Access
- Database is included in the main library search
- The publisher does allow UWE students based at UK and international partner institutions (and the staff that support them) to access this database
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 *
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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.
Guides
Publisher
Reed Elsevier
Scopus *
Access restrictions
- Database is included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
Description
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
Guides
Publisher
Elsevier
Sustainable Organization Library *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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Description
A focused and specialist online collection of e-books and journals. Covers topics including corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business and related areas, development economics and environmental management. Provides access to leading thinkers on sustainability, hundreds of case studies on best practice from international organizations, and research . Fully searchable at the chapter/article level.
Coverage
Contains more than 8,000 individually searchable chapters, case studies and journal papers drawn from more than 600 book and journal volumes, published by Greenleaf Publishing and partner organizations.
Publisher
GSE Research Ltd
Taylor and Francis *
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- Database is included in the main library search
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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
Taylor and Francis eBook Collection *
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- Database is included in the main library search
- Students and staff at international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
Provides access to over 400 e-books published by the Taylor & Francis publishing group.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
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Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
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
UKBORDERS
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Students and staff at UK and international partner institutions cannot use their UWE Bristol login to access this database
Description
UKBORDERS provides access to digitised boundary datasets and geographic look-up tables corresponding to the geography of the UK.
Users are required to register with http://www.census.ac.uk for permission to download and use datasets from UKBORDERS.
Guides
Assistance with using UKBORDERS should be sought from Paul Satchell, FET IT Support Officer, x83917
Publisher
Edina
Westlaw UK
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Please note: Westlaw UK will be moving to the new platform on 01 August 2019.
Access restrictions
- Database is not included in the main library search
- Anyone with a UWE Bristol login can access this database
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 Anita Dangova. Email Anita Dangova.
Anita 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