ASSIA

Summaries of journal and newspaper articles

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

Australian Education Index

Summaries of journal articles, conference papers, and reports

Australian education.1976 to present.

British Education Index

Summaries of journal articles, conference papers, and reports

British education.1950 to present.

BRAD Insight

Directory entries.

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

British Periodicals (I and II)

Full-text journal articles.

Over 460 journals published from 1681 to 1937 covering subjects such as archaeology, architecture, art,drama, history, literature, music, philosophy, science and the social sciences.

British Standards Online

Full-text entries.

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

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.

Cambridge University Press

Summaries of journal articles.

Multidisciplinary.

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.

 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.

Registration is required. You also will need to select 'Birmingham City University' from the login menu.

Childlink.co.uk

Database, news articles,
law reports.

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

Chronicle

Archive TV clips. 

Material from the BBC Northern Ireland Television news archive between 1963-1975.

enter 'Birmingham City University', - if prompted, select 'existing user'.

CINAHL Plus with FullText

Full-text
journal articles.

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.

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials reports.

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

COCHRANE

Reviews of clinical evidence.

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

Company Reporting

News, research and
information service.

Covers financial IFRS reporting practice of public companies.

Construction Information Service (CIS)

Legislation, standards and guidance material.

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

Criminology
(SAGE Full-Text Criminology Journals)

Full-text journal articles.

Pre-selected list of our criminology subscriptions :Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

DCP (Development Control Practice) Online

Online reference guide.

A comprehensive reference on planning:best practice, legislation, policy statements, planning authority guidance and appeal decisions with expert analysis of how this is applied in practice.

On campus

Only available on campus.

Design and Applied Arts Index

Summaries of journal articles.

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

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. **Now includes Ancient/Roam Historic Digimap with maps from the 1840s to the 1990s.**

Directory of Open Access Journals 

Full-text journal content.

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

DSDM White Papers

 Journal articles.

Computing and systems papers.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Electronic books; digital page images.

Facsimiles of books printed in England from 1473-1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Electronic books and
other materials.

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

Emerald Management Journals

Full-text journal articles.

Over 200 online business journals to enable full inter-disciplinary research.

Engineer-it

Collection of product catalogues.

General engineering database on components, materials, equipment.

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.

Estates Gazette Interactive 

News, research and
information service.

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

EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)

 Ordering service.

Search across 250,000+ theses for free and order full text from the British Library.

Evidence in Health and Social Care

Summaries and links to web based health and social care evidence material.

NHS Evidence is a service that enables access to authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice through a web-based portal.

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.

Family Law Online (Jordans)

Law Reports and Journal articles relating to Family Law.

Includes: Child and Family Law Quarterly, Family Law Reports, Family Law, and International Family Law.

Fashion Monitor

Fashion news service.

News and contact details for the fashion industry.

  Password help Please note: you also need to register  individually for this site via your email

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.

On campus

GreenFILE

Summaries of journal articles.

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

ICONDA (International Construction Database)

Summaries of journal articles.

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

IDS Employment Law Brief Online,IDS HR Studies,IDS Pay Report

Full-text legislation and journal content.

Information resource for Human Resource professionals : cases and legislation in employment law,details of private and public sector pay.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Full-text content.

151 journals, over 900 conference proceedings, more than 3,400 technical standards, over 400 ebooks and 200 educational courses.

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.

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.

INFOTRAC Custom Journals

Full-text journal articles.

Access to the full-text of 300 titles, covering a wide range of subjects. Good for general humanities subjects, health and social sciences.

Ingenta Journals Online 

Full-text and summaries of journal articles.

Online journals related to our print subscriptions.

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)

Summaries of journal articles, directory, bibliography. 

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

IPA Source

Database of transcriptions. 

Library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Jazz Music Library

Database of music tracks

Online collection of jazz tracks.

On-campus

Off-campus

JISC MediaHub

Database of news film clips.

Search across one 500,000 multimedia items, including news film, music archives and images.

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.

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.

JSTOR (Ireland)

Archive of full-text journal articles  

Over 75 Cross disciplinary titles,  international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. Please note that this is not a current issues database.

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.

Key Note

Full-text market research reports.

Market research covering 26 consumer, business and industry sectors.

Klimt02

Information service.

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

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Full text e-books.

TIP: Use the search box on the left for full text content.

Password help

Lexis-Nexis Butterworths(LexisLibrary)

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

Linguistics Abstracts Online 

Summaries of journal articles.

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

Literature Online (LION) 

Fulltext journal articles.

More than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 326 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Marketline (previously Datamonitor 360)

Full-text market research reports.

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

On campus

Off-campus

Marketing Mentor

Marketing training modules, templates, production briefs.

Covers all media, methods and marketing techniques, from TV production to Pay-Per-Click. Includes 50 management training modules, plus 150 templates and production briefs.

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.

 Link to database guide

MEDLINE

Summaries of journal articles.

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

Mintel  

Full-text reports.

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

MLA International Bibliography

Summaries of journal articles.

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

MyiLibrary

Electronic books.

Growing collection of electronic books ordered to cover all subjects.

Naxos Music Library 

Database 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.

Naxos Music Library (Jazz)

Databases of music tracks.

Password help

Naxos Video Library

Database of music videos.

Password help

Nexis UK 
(previously called Lexis-Nexis)

Full-text newspapers.

Global and UK news, business information and market intelligence.

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.

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.

On campus

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.

Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database)

Market reports.

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

You also need to enter a valid email address.

Percussion Orchestrations

Database.

Periodicals Archive Online

Full-text journals.

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)

Summaries of journal articles.

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

PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO

Full-text  and summaries of journal articles.

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

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

On-campus

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).

Rock's Back Pages

Full-text articles.

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

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.

SAE Digital Library

Full-text of SAE papers from 1998 onwards.

Automotive engineering.

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection (Elsevier)

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

Access to over 2000 full text scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals published since 1 January 1995 (Green icon shows subscribed content).

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.

Supply-Chain Insight 

Summaries of articles.

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

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. 

Teacher Reference Center

Summaries of journal articles.

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

TES

Full-text journal.

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

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.

Times Digital Archive (Infotrac)

Full-text journal.

Facsimile archive of The Times 1785-1985.

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).

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-).

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).

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network and WGSN-Homebuildlife)

Image database.

This fashion website contains downloadable images which may be used for teaching and learning purposes, as well as market and industry news, fashion retailing information and designer profiles.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

Bibliography.

A searchable electronic database consisting of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2013.

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.