Databases

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ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and over 2,000 titles in full text, from 1987 onwards.

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Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975. 

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Atla Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. This database is the definitive index for religious and theological literature, containing more than 2.7 million bibliographic records.

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This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

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Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through Cambridge Core. 

This community-driven discovery service indexes and provides access to over 82,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.

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As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations.

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E-book Central contains a growing collection of electronic textbooks. To suggest a book, please contact the Online Library Enquiry Service.

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This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated. Our subscription includes, but is not limited to, these journals:

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Getty is a leading global arts organization committed to exhibiting, conserving, and understanding the world’s artistic and cultural heritage. Their Virtual Library provides access to free e-books.

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Henry Stewart Talks provides access to videos of world class lectures and case studies given by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia, including Nobel Laureates.

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This project aims to provide free, universal access to all knowledge. It currently contains 44 million books and texts.

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A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Online Library's subscription covers the Arts and Science Collections 1-15.

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This database includes full-text case-law and legislation for the UK, US (Federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, and local and national UK newspapers. Includes Halsburys Laws of England.

This database was formerly known as LexisLibrary.

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Through the Oxford Academic platform, the Online Library provides access to over two hundred journals published by Oxford University Press. This is a multi-disciplinary database, with journals covering a wide range of topics in the humanities, sciences and law. Please note that our subscriptions do not cover all titles in this database.

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Periodicals Archive Online is an archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. PAO is provided by ProQuest.

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The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Project Gutenberg offers over 70,000 free ebooks. It is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, and most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public-domain books.

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Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. It currently includes 468,570 articles and 1,177,319 chapters by 265 publishers, on a wide variety of topics including education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, economics, politics and technology.

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (REP Online) is the largest and most comprehensive resource available for all those involved in the study of philosophy. It is a trusted source of quality information, providing access to over 2,700 articles that have been edited for level and consistency by a team of renowned subject experts. 

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SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. We subscribe to three collections in SAGE: the Education Collection, the Management and Organisation Studies Collection, and the Politics and International Relations Collection.

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Full text access to over 3,800 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, psychology, business & management, economics and earth sciences. Full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for.

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Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database from Elsevier, with over 91 million records. 

"Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools." 

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The Online Library's subscription covers two collections of journals: the Science and Technology Collection, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Collection.  

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The complete digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 1985.

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VLeBooks is the Online Library's principal e-book database, with over 3,000 titles on a wide variety of subjects.

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The Wiley Online Library is a multi-disciplinary database holding collections on a range of subjects in the sciences and humanities. Our subscription does not cover all titles in this database.