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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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. Our subscription also includes a small but growing collection of e-books in Cambridge Core.

An open access database of references on the topics of environmental health and sanitation, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean region. Published by the WHO.
 

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.

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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This database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716. There are no full-text dissertations in this database.

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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:

Browse editorially selected content from over 7,500 development organisations on topics including Global Health, Conflict and Security, and Agriculture - all available free to download.

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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.

Health Systems Evidence is a repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems.

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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.

The Index includes more than 125 000 bibliographic citations from more than 520 health and biomedical journals published in 20 countries.

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

The ISRCTN registry is a primary clinical trial registry recognised by WHO and ICMJE that accepts all clinical research studies (whether proposed, ongoing or completed), providing content validation and curation and the unique identification number necessary for publication. All study records in the database are freely accessible and searchable.

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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.

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.

The report is a bimonthly publication of The New York Academy of Medicine alerting readers to new grey literature publications in health services research and selected public health topics. Grey literature is "That which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers."

Provides access to selected and authoritative evidence in health, social care and public health. Provided by the UK National Health Service.

System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents.

Examples of grey (gray) literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature.

OpenGrey covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities.

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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.

POPLINE provides access to 370,000 selected publications and resources related to family planning and reproductive health.

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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SAGE Research Methods contains material designed to guide students and other researchers through the research process. The Online Library subscribes to the collection of instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. It also has a 'Methods Map', which can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.

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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." 

SpringerProtocols is an online database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences. The Online Library does not subscribe to this database, so you can only access free protocols. These have a yellow F next to the title, or can be found by clicking 'Free Protocols' on the right side of the page.

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

The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is a collection of evidence in reproductive health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Resource for searching databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

Trip is a tool to find clinical research evidence, with millions of articles indexed. Please note that you will not be able to use Advanced Search or any other 'Pro' feature.

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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 Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) is an online index of medical and health journals published in Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region.

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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.