Academic Search Ultimate
- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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BNI (British Nursing Index)
- Subject coverage: nursing and midwifery database; useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers
- Size/scope: over 200 UK journals and other English language titles
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1994 to present
- Level of access: some links to full text.
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CINAHL Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: the Largest Collection of Leading Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments
- Size/scope: over 6,300 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1937 to present
- Level of access: full text of over 2,400 journals.
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Cochrane Library
- Subject coverage: Global resource for best evidence in healthcare
- Type of content: Collection of databases containing randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies
- Level of access: No login required.
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Community Care Inform Children
- Subject coverage: An online information source for professionals working with children and families. Includes information on key topics including: abuse; adoption and fostering; looked after children; substance abuse and youth justice
- Type of content: Case law; practice guides and research reviews specially commissioned from key social care practitioners.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
Lawtel
The content of Lawtel is now available within Westlaw. On the Westlaw homepage, look in the 'More resources' box on the right of the screen and click on 'Lawtel'.
Lexis+
- Subject coverage: law and tax
- Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such asÌýstep-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Medline Complete
- Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
- Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
- Type of Content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1865 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
- Subject coverage: medical and healthcare
- Type of content: wide range of materials including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents
- Level of access: most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account. Students studying on NHS-related programmes are able to obtain an NHS Athens account. Invitations were emailed at the beginning of the academic year.
PsycINFO
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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PubMed
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on medical and life sciences
- Size/scope: includes over 18 million citations from Medline
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1948 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
ScienceDirect
- Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
- Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Social Care Online
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- Subject coverage: Social care
- Size/scope: It is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
- Type of Content: Research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
- Level of access: Some full text available.
Social Theory
- Subject coverage: Sociology, Social Theory
- Size/scope: Contains over 145,000 pages of works by major social thinkers (e.g. Marx, Habermas, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, Durkheim, Foucault) as well as seminal texts from lesser known figures. Coverage is international and the collection includes original works and translations
- Type of content: Book chapters, scholarly papers
- Level of access: Full text available.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
- Subject coverage: sociology and social work practice
- Size/scope: bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 860 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects
- Type of content: academic journal article, books, conference papers
- Level of access: full text of over 860 journals, 830 books and 16,800 conference papers.
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Web of Science
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- Subject coverage:Ìýarts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Ìýcitation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
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Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýScience Citation Index 1899-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýSocial Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýArts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýConference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBiosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýMedline 1950-present
Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýJournal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
- Type of content:Ìýacademic journal article
- Date range:Ìý1945-
- Level of access:Ìýsome links to full text.
Westlaw UK
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- Subject coverage: legal database
- Size/scope: Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Some full text law journals. Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. Links to Westlaw International and Westlaw US on the home page.Ìý
- Type of content: legal materials
- Level of access: Some full text available.
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