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19th Century British Library Newspapers

Full-text newspaper articles.

Full runs of 48 nineteenth century newspapers, including national and regional titles. Cross-search with the Burney Newspaper Collection 1600-1800 here.

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a-n Magazine

Full-text journal articles, artists' toolkits, research papers. 

Contemporary visual arts publication critiquing issues, processes and professional practices.

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ABI/Inform Global

Full-text journal articles.

Business,management, advertising,marketing,economics, human resources,finance, taxation, and computers. 

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ACM Digital Library

Full-text journal articles, conference proceedings

Computing and and technology, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, and communications

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Acoustical Society of America Digital Library

Full-text journal articles, conference proceedings.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America publishes theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound.

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AES
(Audio Engineering Society) Electronic Library

Full-text journal articles, conference proceedings

Sound engineering.

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Architecture.com

Citations of journal articles,
from
the RIBA online library catalogue
 

Architecture and design

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Archival Sound Recordings (British Library)

Database of sound files.

Free online access to the spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Archive.

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ARTbibliographies Modern

Summaries of journal articles books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations,
and exhibition reviews.

Modern and contemporary art.

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Art Full Text

Full-text journal articles, exhibition reviews

Art including Asian & other non-Western arts, and feminist criticism.

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ASSIA

Summaries of journal and newspaper articles

Applied social sciences.The web version of the Applied Social Sciences Index. 1987-Current

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Australian Education Index

Summaries of journal articles, conference papers, and reports

Australian education.1976 to present.

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BHI (British Humanities Index)

Summaries of journal
and newspaper articles

The web version of British Humanities Index. The arts, politics and society. 1962-Current

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BLISS-The Building Law Information Subscriber Service

Summaries of judgments, articles, journals, contracts
and books.

Legal and technical information from all over the world relevant to the construction industry.

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BRAD

Directory entries.

UK media database with entries on brands,agencies, advertisers, advertising rates and contact information.

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British Education Index

Summaries of journal articles.

British and selected European English-language periodicals in the field of education and training.1976 to present.

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British Standards Online

Full-text entries.

Current, historic, and draft British Standards ;technical handbooks; codes of practice ;specifications for products.

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Broadcastnow.co.uk

Full-text journal articles,
news, and directory.

Website for the TV and Radio Industry, includes Broadcast Magazine, RSS reed and podcast.

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Burney Newspaper Collection, The

Full-text articles.

Newspaper articles, pamphlets and parliamentary papers published in England, Ireland and Scotland 1600-1800. Cross-search with 19th Century British Library Newspapers here.

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Cambridge University Press

Summaries of journal articles.

Multidisciplinary.

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Campbell Collaboration 

Summaries, reviews and reports.

The International Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization reporting on interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas.

 
 

 CCH Online

Fulltext and daily news service.

Accounting information; includes: GAAP 2004; all UK accounting standards in full text, all UK auditing standards in full text, as well as Business Focus Module.

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 Census.ac.uk

Data and support services.

One-stop gateway which allows users and researchers to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

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Childlink.co.uk

Database, news articles,
law reports.

One stop source of information on legislation, policies and practices concerning children, young people and families.

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CINAHL Plus with FullText

Full-text
journal articles.

Nursing and allied health disciplines.  Guide to searching CINAHL
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Classical Music Library

Database of music tracks.

One of the largest online classical music recording collections available for listening, with the main emphasis on the baroque, classical and romantic periods.

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Clinical Trials

Clinical trials reports.

Current information about clinical research studies from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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COCHRANE

Reviews of clinical evidence.

For people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.

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Construction Information Service (CIS)

Legislation, standards and guidance material.

Covers building, civil & structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, construction and facilities Management.

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Credo Reference (previously called Xrefer)

Online dictionaries and
general reference service.

A range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

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Criminology
(SAGE Full-Text Criminology Journals)

Full-text journal articles.

Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence..

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CUDOS (Commonwealth Universities Database Online Service)

Higher education data.

Searchable access to the expertise of over 500 universities from 36 countries.

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Design and Applied Arts Index

Summaries of journal articles.

Coverage includes fashion, textiles, interior design, theatre design, industrial design, ceramics, glass, jewellery and photography.

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Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection

Ordnance Survey map data for use within GIS and CAD applications.

Allows users to create both  simple and customised maps for viewing and printing. Please note: subscription does not include access to Historic Digimap.

Please note: you need to register  individually and this takes up to 48 hours.
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Directory of Open Access Journals 

Full-text journal articles.

Open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.

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DSDM White Papers

 Journal articles.

Computing and systems papers.

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Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Electronic books; digital page images.

Facsimiles of books printed in England from 1473-1700.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Electronic books and
other materials
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Full-text facsimile page images from over 135,000 printed books published 1701-1800. Each title is fully searchable.

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Ends Report 

Document archive; consultation papers, legislation guidance.

Environmental policy.

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Engineer-it

Collection of product catalogues.

General engineering database on components, materials, equipment.

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ERIC

Summaries of journal articles, research documents, journal articles, technical reports, and curricular materials

Over 700,000 citations in the field of education. 1966 to present.

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Estates Gazette Interactive 

News, research and
information service.

The UK online news, research and information service for the commercial property market.

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FAME
(Financial Analysis Made Easy)

Company reports.

A financial database made up of 1.7 million UK and Irish companies, public and private.  Up to 10 years of financial history for each company.

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Fashion Monitor

Fashion news service.

News and contact details for the fashion industry.

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Film and Sound Online
 

Collection of film and
video downloads.

Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments.

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 – 1996
 

Newspaper archives.

Translated broadcasts, news
agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements
from nations around the globe.

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Global Market Information Database

Market reports.

Business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers worldwide.

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GreenFILE

Summaries of journal articles.

Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling.

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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Full-text, searchable index.

Paliamentary papers for the House of Commons from the nineteenth-century onwards.

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IBSS (International Bibliography
of the Social Sciences)

Summaries of journal articles,book reviews,
book monographs
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Social sciences,economics, sociology,politics, anthropology.

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ICONDA (International Construction Database)

Summaries of journal articles.

Building construction, architecture and town planning. Coverage from 1976 onwards.

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IDS Diversity at Work 

Full-text journal content.

For Diversity practitioners and HR professionals dealing with discrimination issues and policies

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IDS Employment Law Brief Online

Full-text legislation.

Cases and legislation in employment law.

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IDS HR Studies

Full-text journal content.

Information resource for Human Resource professionals.

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IDS Pay Report

Full-text journal content.

Details of private and public sector pay and pay structures.

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IEEE Computer Society Digital Library  

Full-text journal articles.

Online access to 22 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.

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IET Digital Library 

Summaries of journal articles, conference proceedings.

Electronics, electrical, control and communications engineering, as well as software engineering, manufacturing processes.

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Index to Theses

Summaries of theses.

This database covers theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1970 to date.

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Independent Local Radio 1973
to 1996 (BUVFC)

Archive radio clips

LBC/IRN radio archive now makes available over 29,500 radio recordings from 1973 to 1996 of news and current affairs.

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INFOTRAC Custom Journals

Full-text journal articles.

Access to the full-text of 400 titles, covering a wide range of subjects.Good for general humanities subjects,health and social sciences.

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Ingenta Journals Online 

Full-text and summaries of journal articles.

Online journals related to our print subscriptions.

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International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)

Summaries of journal articles, directory, bibliography. 

Film literature and television literature from over 300 periodicals since 1972.

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Internurse

Full-text and summaries of journal articles.

Online archive of nursing articles.

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John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

Searchable image archive

Fully searchable colour images of 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

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JSTOR (Arts and Sciences III)

Archive of full-text journal articles  

Essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. Please note that this is not a current issues database.

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JSTOR (Language and Literature collection only)

Archive of full-text journal articles  

Covers literature, language and literary criticism. Please note that this is not a current issues database : there is a 1-5 year gap between most recent issue and those available on JSTOR.

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Key Note

Full-text market research reports.

Market research covering 26 consumer, business and industry sectors.

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Klimt02

Information service.

Contemporary European art jewellery including exhibition diaries, organisations, workshops, showcases of new work and profiles of jewellers.

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Lexis-Nexis Butterworths

Full-text UK statutes, case law legislation,and journals.

A single-template interface that includes former Butterworth's databases, reported & unreported UK cases. Complete UK Acts and Statutory Instruments.(also UK Legal journals and case law previously on Lexis-Nexis Professional).

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Linguistics Abstracts Online 

Summaries of journal articles.

More than 21,000 abstracts of published articles from over 300 linguistics journals.

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LISTA (Library, Information Science Technology Abstracts) 

Summaries of journal articles.

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management.

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MAD.co.uk  

News and information service.

Marketing, media, new media, advertising and design professionals resource.

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Marketline Business and Information Centre (MBIC)

Full-text market research reports.

Market information across the Automotive & Logistics, Consumer, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology sectors

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Maternity and Infant Care

Summaries of journal articles.

Coverage of the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, neonatal care and the first year of life. Includes MIDIRS.

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MEDLINE

Summaries of journal articles.

Bibliographic database also from Pub Med that covers medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine; allied health and pre-clinical sciences.

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Mintel  

Full-text reports.

Provides access to full-text consumer research reports. (Market, Finance and Special).

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MLA International Bibliography

Summaries of journal articles.

Covers literature languages, linguistics and folklore. Coverage is from 1963 to the present.

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MyiLibrary

Electronic books.

Growing collection of electronic books ordered to cover all subjects.

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Naxos Music Library 

Databases of music tracks.

As well as Naxos recordings, releases from several other labels are now included, covering Jazz, World Music, and a wide range of Classical repertoire.

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Naxos Music Library (Jazz)

Databases of music tracks.

List of Jazz recordings

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NewsFilm Online

Database of news film clips.

Over 3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the ITN/Reuters Television archives.

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Nexis UK 
(previously called Lexis-Nexis)

Full-text newspapers.

Global and UK news, business information and market intelligence.

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Occupational Health & Safety Information Service (OHSIS)

 Full-text guidance material.

Covers health and safety and environmental issues from bodies such as the Health & Safety Executive, the Environment Agency and the DETR.

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Oxford Art Online (previously Grove Art Online)

Online dictionary.

On-Line edition of the Dictionary of Art which includes links to the Bridgeman Art Library (images) and to hundreds of other relevant sites.

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Oxford English Dictionary Online

Online dictionary.

The OED is the accepted authority on the English language. It covers words from across the English-speaking world.

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Oxford Music Online (previously Grovemusic.com)

Online dictionary.

Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

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Oxford Reference Online

Online dictionaries and general reference service.

Covers everything from architecture to zoology. Contains the full text of over 130  dictionaries, over 12,000 illustrations, 500 full-colour maps.

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Periodicals Archive Online

Full-text journals.

A major online periodical archive covering the backfiles of journals in the humanities and social sciences in 37 key subject areas. Password help
 

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)

Summaries of journal articles.

A database of publications on post-traumatic stress disorder and other related events.

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PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO

Full-text  and summaries of journal articles.

Scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA).

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PsycBOOKS

Electronic books and chapters.

More than 18,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,400 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers, and 700 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from 1806.

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RICS Red Book online

Practice notes database.

RICS Red Book, Surveyors' Construction Handbook, Guidance Notes, Information Papers and Practice Statements plus case law database.

Link to database guide

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Summaries of journal articles.

Covers a very wide range of music journals and other sources about music (1969 to present).

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Rock's Back Pages

Full-text articles.

An archive of reviews, interviews and features from the early '60s to the present day.

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RUDI
(The Resource for Urban Design Information)

News and full-text articles.

An online resource for guidance and best practice on planning and design in the urban field.

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Safari Books Online (Proquest)

Full-text e-books.

Electronic reference library for computing and programming.

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ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Summaries of journal articles, and full-text for selected journals. 

Access to over 70 full-text journals from Elsevier Science that we also have a print subscription to. (Green icon shows subscribed content).

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Social Care Online
 

Summaries of books,
reports and articles.

Social work and social care literature from central and local government, and voluntary organisations.

 
 

Specify-it Building

Collection of product catalogues.

Construction industry.

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Supply-Chain Insight 

Summaries of articles.

Abstracts database of logistics and supply chain literature from 1994 onwards with 20% abstracts linking to full-text.

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SWETSWISE 

Full-text journal articles of
those journals we have in print.

Access to over 600 electronic journals. Multidisciplinary. Select 'full-text publications' to search a list of our full-text electronic journals, or if you select 'online content' then 'articles', you can do an article level search

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Teacher Reference Center

Summaries of journal articles.

Provides indexing and abstracts for over 270 education journals, with links to full text. 

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TES

Full-text journal.

Full-text of The Times Educational Supplement (TES),  which covers the world of primary, secondary and further education.

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THES

Full-text journal.

Full-text archive back to 1994 of The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), the leading trade paper for people working in higher education.

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Times Digital Archive (Infotrac)

Full-text journal.

Facsimile archive of The Times 1785-1985.

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TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)

Directory of media listings.

A database of UK television and radio programmes including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television; (with regional variations).

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Web of Science

Summaries of journal articles; citation index.

Multidisciplinary; covers the Social Sciences Citation Index (1981-), Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and The Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings(1990-).

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WESTLAW

Full-text law reports, and journals.

Includes legal journals, statutes, a case locator service, and the full Law Reports service from 1865. It also gives access to USA law. (Database Help here).

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ZETOC

Summaries of journal
articles, conference papers.

Zetoc provides free access to the British Library Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) database and covers science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities.

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   This page last updated 19 January 2010 by John McMullan and Mark Brown. Send any comments to: mailto:mark.brown@bcu.ac.uk