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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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 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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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:

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Emerald is one of the leading providers of management e-journals. The Online Library provides access to the 'Business, Management & Strategy' and 'Accounting, Finance & Economics' collections, which include 141 journals.

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The Financial Times is a London-based newspaper and one of the world's most renowned publications with a focus on global business, finance and economic news. As well as providing access to the newspaper, FT.com includes addtional content and a number of personalised features such as subject-focused newsletters, news alerts and more.

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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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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.

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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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 provides access to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, a collection of over 11,000 e-books covering the latest developments in computer science.

We also have these journals in Springer:

• Law & Critique
• Regional Environmental Change 

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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.

For help reading e-books, see our E-books page and these frequently asked questions:

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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.