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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Bibliographic database covering current literature relevant to Australian education including articles, conference papers, and reports by Australian authors or about Australian education published in overseas sources. Has links to the full text of documents where these are available online. Coverage from 1976 onwards.
 

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are freely available online.

Please note that the Online Library does not administer BAILII. 

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Bibliographic database covering journal literature on education and training. Also includes British Education Theses Index. Coverage from 1976 onwards.
 

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BS Online provides access to current Standards from the British Standards Institution, including European and International equivalents.

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Full text coverage of nearly 7,600 business publications, including full text coverage of over 1,100 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Coverage back to 1922 in some cases.

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Cambridge University Press publishes prestigious 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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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:

Please note: All Family Law Online publications are now available in LexisLibrary.

After the 15th December 2017 the database Family Law Online will no longer be available.

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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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HeinOnline contains major full text collections with an American focus including: the Law Journal Library, covering over 2600 titles (including older issues of journals), the English Reports, the Legal Classics Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, the Foreign & International Law Resources Database, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.

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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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IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.

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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.

Full text database of primary and secondary materials relating to commercial arbitration, including conventions, legislation, case law and journal articles.

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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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The world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism.

Free access to Medline, a leading medical, bibliographic database covering allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Includes Clinical Queries feature that focuses on evidence based medicine. 

Please note that this database only contains citations and abstracts, not full text documents.

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An illustrated collection of over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

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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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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.  

Open access to selected articles. The Lancet journals consist of a weekly journal, The Lancet, plus nine monthly specialty journals in the fields of global health, diabetes and endocrinology, oncology, neurology, psychiatry, respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, haematology and HIV.

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An expanding global literary reference work written by specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 7300 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics.

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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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This database was formerly known as JustisOne. 

vLex Justis is a single point of entry for your legal research.

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This database includes full text UK case law, legislation, and journals. Also includes UK Civil Procedures, EU cases, treaties and directives, daily alerting service.

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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.