Library Services: General Reference

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Academic Onefile [electronic resource]. Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

ACM Digital Library [electronic resource]. Full text access to all ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) journals, magazines and proceedings (165 titles in total)

Amadeus [electronic resource]. AMADEUS is a comprehensive, pan-European database containing financial information on over 10 million public and private companies in 38 European countries. Includes the top 250,000 companies.

AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine Database [electronic resource]. Via Ovid. Key areas covered are complementary medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation.

Anatomy TV [electronic resource]. Interactive 3D model of human anatomy.

ANTE [electronic resource]. ANTE (Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering) is an abstracting and indexing service (1993 to present) monitoring publications from the U.K. and the U.S. Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subject areas.

ASCE Research Library [electronic resource]. The complete ASCE Journals Collection provides researchers and practitioners with the latest civil engineering research and its application. The collection's 31 journals cover every discipline within the profession, and form the most complete picture available of the civil engineering field today. The ASCE Journals Collection includes over 35,000 journal articles from 1990 to the present.

ASME [electronic resource]. Provides links to online editions of ASME Journals hosted on the AIP Scitation platform. Contents and abstracts available without subscription.

ASSIA [electronic resource]. ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

Australian Education Index [electronic resource]. Contains journal articles, theses, research / conference reports and Parliamentary debates relating to education.

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Bailii: British and Irish Legal Information Institute [electronic resource]. Access to freely available UK and EU primary legal material and links to other world collections through WORLDLII. Coverage varies - cases back to 1996, legislation to 1988.

BANKSCOPE [electronic resource]. Bankscope gives detailed financial information on over 11,000 public and private banks worldwide.

BCIS Online [electronic resource]. Elemental analyses allow a user to forecast the cost of a building using actual not synthesised prices, also includes a full range of building tender, cost and output indices and average building prices.

BioMed Central [electronic resource]. An independent publishing house providing free access to peer reviewed biomedical literature. It publishes over 50 on-line journals and also hosts affiliated journals.

Biz/Ed Premier [electronic resource]. Provides access to 25 business and economics core textbooks. It also includes critical viewpoints, matched to specific chapter/topic content and based upon specially selected articles from popular business and economics journals and activities developed by Biz/ed's editorial team.

Bloomberg Details of the Bloomberg stand alone terminal in Perry Library, 1 East.

Boreholes Index [electronic resource]. The BGS British onshore borehole collections contain approximately 15 000 boreholes, most of which are stored at Keyworth.

BRE Database of Environmental Profiles for Construction Materials, Components and Buildings [electronic resource]. Provides information about building materials and components, identifying and assessing the environmental effects of building materials over their entire life cycle, through their extraction, processing, construction, use and maintenance, to their eventual demolition and disposal.

British Education Index [electronic resource]. Covers education and training mainly in the UK.

British National Formulary (BNF) [electronic resource]. Requires free of charge one-time registration to access full text. Provides UK healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines.

British Nursing Index (BNI) [electronic resource]. Provides references to journal articles, some conference papers and major reports on aspects of education and training, from the UK and some English language international titles. Starts in 1976 and covers all levels and ages.

British Rates and Advertising Data (BRAD) [electronic resource]. Online version of BRAD (British Rates and Advertising Data), the daily guide to advertising media.

British Standards Online [electronic resource]. Database contains all current British Standards in full text. EN and ISO standards if adopted by British Standards appear in full text.

BSRIA [electronic resource]. BSRIA provides specialist services to support companies in the design, construction and operation of buildings as well as independent testing and market intelligence for manufacturers.

Burney Collection [electronic resource]. The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.

Business Insights [electronic resource]. Business Insights market reports cover seven main industry sectors; E-commerce/technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, human resources, energy and telecommunications.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource]. Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

Butler Group ( now OVUM Knowledge Center) [electronic resource].
Europe's Leading IT Analyst Company providing Analysis without compromise. Includes access to valuable current
reports, and latest opinions.

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Census [electronic resource]. Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination [electronic resource]. CRD produces and promotes the use of research based knowledge in health and social care. It enables you to search the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) and the Health Technology Assessments database (HTA). It does not contain Cochrane Reviews - for this use the Cochrane Library.

CINAHL [electronic resource]. Cinahl indexes over 1600 nursing and allied health journals, and has an international coverage. It is updated weekly. This is the best database to use for an in-depth search, although we do not have access to all the journals covered.

CIPD: Case Studies Club [electronic resource]. Case studies in Human Resources, covering core personnel and development, core management, employee development, employee relations, employee resourcing, employee reward and specialist electives.

Cochrane Library [electronic resource]. The Cochrane Library is designed to supply high quality evidence to inform health care decision-making.

CommunityWISE [electronic resource]. Contains community, charities and voluntary agency information. Data is provided by bodies such as Barnados, Community Development Foundation and the National Centre for Volunteering.

Computer Database [electronic resource]. Via Gale Cengage Learning. Contains: computer products and computer industry information, news, and reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Construction and Building Abstracts [electronic resource]. Brief abstracts from international journals and technical information in the areas of construction, architecture, civil engineering and planning.

Construction Website [electronic resource]. Includes: hundreds of pages of text on all aspects of domestic building construction over two thousand photos showing new and old construction practice hundreds of 2D and 3D graphics several PowerPoint presentations lots of short video clips and several multiple choice tests a brief and fairly non-technical summary of the most important Building Regulations (housing only)

Creative Club [electronic resource]. Creative Club provides an archive of over 1.5 million UK adverts across all media. Users can search by company, brand or sector for TV, press, direct mail, outdoor, cinema and radio ads. The archive is updated in real time, and ads can be downloaded for inclusion in coursework; the database can also be used for information on campaign costs.

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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index [electronic resource]. DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. DAAI also includes a supplementary database: Periodicals Directory.

Digimap [electronic resource]. Digimap allows users to view and print contemporary and current Ordnance Survey maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

DLF Data [electronic resource]. The UK's only comprehensive, impartial database of daily living equipment. Detailed information on over 14,000 current products from 1,600 suppliers. All products validated by healthcare professionals. Contact details for over 1,500 useful organisations. Includes searching, browsing and product comparison.

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EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service [electronic resource]. Provides gateway to find journals, view TOCs and abstracts and link directly to full text from over 8,000 titles.

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) [electronic resource]. ESDS resource supplying access to international data.

Economist.com [electronic resource]. Full text of the UK edition of The Economist from 1997 onwards.

Education Research Complete [electronic resource]. Via EBSCOhost databases. Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals, as well as full text for nearly 830 journals. This database also includes full text for 67 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

EGI: Estates Gazette Interactive [electronic resource]. Property market news and information.

EIU Country Data [electronic resource]. Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980 and forecasting to 2006.

Emerald [electronic resource]. Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

ERIC via Dialog Datastar [electronic resource]. Via Dialog Datastar. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

ERIC via CSA [electronic resource]. ERIC via CSA. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

ERIC via EBSCO [electronic resource]. ERIC via EBSCO. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

ESDS International; Economic and Social Data Service International [electronic resource]. ESDS resource supplying access to international data.

EThOS [electronic resource]. British Library online theses.

European Hotel Group Database [electronic resource]. British hotel groups and hotel groups throughout Europe. See glossary for classification details. Economic profiles available for each country.

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Gartner [electronic resource]. ICT RESOURCE: Gartner are a leading IT research company that provide research and analytical reports on all aspects of ICT. As part of the programme ICT have negotiated access for all LSBU staff and students to enable review of key ICT research that may be useful in learning, teaching, research and project work.

Global Market Information Database, Euromonitor [electronic resource]. Contains statistical and full text analysis findings under eight headings: Country Data, Consumer Lifestyles, Retail Market Sizes, Forecasts, Brands and Companies, Information Sources, Major Market Profiles and Euromonitor Market Reports.

GreenFILE [electronic resource]. Via EBSCOhost, Greenfile is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. It is comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

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Hermes [electronic resource]. Database describing over 20,000 audio-visual programmes. Aimed at higher educational community, provided by the BUFVC. Covers films, video programmes, slides, sound recordings, computer courseware and interactive multimedia.

Highwire Press [electronic resource]. HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. It hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with 1,689,600 articles available without subscription.

HMIC Health Management (formerly Helmis) [electronic resource]. Via Ovid. Combines databases of Department of Health from 1983, Kings Fund from 1979 and Nuffield Institute for Health (HELMIS) from 1984 to provide comprehensive research.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete Provides abstracts in hospitality and tourism journals from 1984 onwards.

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IBSS [electronic resource]. Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

ICE Virtual Library [electronic resource]. The ICE's Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. ICE's archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day.

IDS Employment Law Brief [electronic resource]. Over 3000 employment law cases, with transcripts of court judgements and current and forthcoming legislation from Income Data Services.

IDS HR Studies [electronic resource]. IDS HR case studies examine in depth how HR policies and practices are developed, implemented and evaluated by a wide range of UK employers. This website includes over 150 company case studies and features examples of good practice and innovation across the whole spectrum of HR activity.

IEEE Xplore Digital Library [electronic resource]. Access to the full text of IEEE and IEE Journals & Conference Proceedings, as well as IEEE Standards, Transactions, Magazines and Letters. This comprises more than 4000 publication titles.

International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) [electronic resource]. The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a five year project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children's books.

Index to Theses [electronic resource]. Covers from 1970 onwards. Information on theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Information given includes title, date, type of award, University and usually, an abstract.

Informaworld [electronic resource]. Informaworld is a one-stop site hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

info4education: Electronics (Info 4 Education) [electronic resource]. Comprehensive full text coverage of product catalogues covering general engineering. Updated weekly.

info4education: Engineering (Info 4 Education) [electronic resource]. Comprehensive full text coverage of product catalogues covering general engineering. Updated weekly.

info4education: Process (Info 4 Education) [electronic resource]. Comprehensive full text coverage of product catalogues covering the process industry. Updated weekly.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource]. IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

IIPA: International Index to Perfoming Arts [electronic resource]. A performing arts journal resource with over 465,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to the present, covering film, theatre, and dance.

Intermid [electronic resource]. Intermid.co.uk is a website set up by Mark Allen Publishing Group. It includes a searchable archive, to which we subscribe, which includes peer-reviewed articles from both the British Journal of Midwifery (full text from 1996 to the present), and the African Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, a new title, which began in October 2007. For indexes covering many more midwifery journal articles search the databases at the top of this screen, under Core Bibliographic E-Resources.

Internurse [electronic resource]. Internurse.com is a Web site set up by the Mark Allan Publishing Group. It includes a searchable archive, to which we subscribe, of thousands of peer reviewed articles from British Journal of Nursing, British Journal of Midwifery etc

IOP Electronic Journals [electronic resource]. Provides access to IOP Select, This Month's Papers and the IOP Journal Archive. The Archive is a comprehensive digital collection of all the work published by the Institute between 1876 and 1996 and contains fully searchable PDFs with linked references.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource]. References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes: SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX: Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

ISurv [electronic resource]. isurv is the definitive knowledge base for property professionals.

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Key Note [electronic resource]. Full text of Key Note market research reports covering over 240 titles in 26 UK market sectors. Market reports focus on a specific market segment, e.g. snack foods ; market reviews look across an entire market sector, e.g.UK food market.

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Lawtel [electronic resource]. Good for daily updates to legal issues, details of green and white papers, and searchable database of all legislation, also contains links to the full text of Acts from 1990, a 20 year archive based on major law reportsand details of unreported cases.

Laxtons Live A database of building works prices. Regularly updated by web searches and estimator input. Includes an on-line estimator, database of suppliers, and other useful information and links.

Lexis Library [electronic resource]. UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers. International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) [electronic resource]. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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MarketLine Business Information Centre [electronic resource]. Provides concise industry, company and country information, with profiles linked to latest newswires. Brief market reports contain information on main products and services, key employees, subsidiaries,a SWOT analysis and list of top competitors. Over 50 countries are covered.

Maternity & Infant Care [electronic resource]. Contains over 120,000 references. Included are abstracts from over 550 international English language journals, books, and grey literature. Topics include the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, neonatal care and the first year of an infants life. Database coverage is from the mid 1980s onwards and approximately 1000 records are added to the database per month. The database also includes correspondence and commentary written in response to an article.

Medline - via EBSCO [electronic resource]. The US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of over 16 million references from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries. Subject coverage is from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, and is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Records date from the 1950's onwards, many include abstracts. The database includes links to some full text articles, but this is not a full text database.

Mintel [electronic resource]. Full text of several hundred UK market research reports from Mintel marketing intelligence. Covers Market, Finance, Retail and Leisure Intelligence market report journals, plus a selection of Library Special reports, market news and some other product databases.

MLA Directory of Periodicals Database Contains information available on the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database. The Directory is a master list that aims to cover journals available to libraries or universities that publishes articles on language, literature, folklore, or pedagogy.

MLA International Bibliography A subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

My CCH [electronic resource]. Comprehensive UK and international accounting standards. Updated quarterly including updates to text of GAAP and iGAAP commentaries, direct links to UK and international regulation and legislation. Includes advice on applying International Standards from iGAAP: IFRS Reporting for the UK, practical advice from GAAP 2005 (updated with each release), the text of all UK and International Accounting Standards, the text of UK and International Auditing Standards, the Companies Acts 1985 and 1989 and related statutory instruments, an archive of financial reporting news and features from Accountancy Magazine.

MyiLibrary [electronic resource]. MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

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National Autistic Society (NAS) [electronic resource]. Lists over 17,000 published research papers, books, articles, videos and other materials. The contents include bibliographic records of all the items in The National Autistic Society Information Centre Library, together with the details of research articles on autism published in journals which are not part of our holdings.

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers (NBER) [electronic resource]. Supplies the full text of 3 series of NBER Working Papers - AssetPricing, International Finance & Macroeconomics and International Trade & Investment.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts [electronic resource]. From the U.S. Department of Justice, this deals with aspects of law enforcement including drug control, terrorism and fraud at both federal and state level. Please note : it does NOT deal with legislation or court reports.

National Research Register - NRR (NHS) [electronic resource]. This is the most comprehensive register of current research in the NHS and contains information about ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by the UK's National Health Service.

Newsfilm Online [electronic resource]. NewsFilm Online is a collection of over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories which lets users see and hear the events that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. Funded by JISC, content is free to subscribers until July 2012 and is suitable for all academic levels.

19th Century British Library Newspapers [electronic resource]. The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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OnePetro (SPE's ELibrary) [electronic resource]. The eLibrary is a repository of the technical papers presented at SPE-sponsored conferences since the late 1950s and in SPE's technical journals since the early 1950s. Papers from the conferences of SPE's predecessor organization back to 1925 are also being added. The eLibrary currently offers access to more than 45,000 technical documents covering the evolution of technology in drilling, completion, exploration, production, facilities, reservoir simulation, formation evaluation, safety and environmental protection and risk management.

OTDBASE [electronic resource]. Occupational therapy journal database of thousands of searchable abstracts from over 20 OT journals.

OTSeeker A database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy.

OVUM Knowledge Center [electronic resource].(Formerly Butler Group) Europe's Leading IT Analyst Company providing Analysis without compromise. Includes access to valuable current reports, and latest opinions.

Oxford Journals [electronic resource]. Provides access to Oxford University Press journals and covers life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and Law.

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource]. All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

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RefWorks [electronic resource]. RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Regional Business News [electronic resource]. Via EBSCOhost databases.

Research Into Practice [electronic resource]. Contains literature reviews and research articles on areas relating to children and families.

Research Starters - Sociology [electronic resource]. Trial until 30 June 2010. Key Features of Research Starters - Sociology: Convenient 3,000-word topic overviews with concise, yet comprehensive content Overview information on 500 topics parallel to course offerings of major schools, colleges and universities in the United States and Canada (offering a sociology concentration), with links to key articles in associated EBSCO databases Content designed to be appropriate for advanced high school and two/four-year college students, public libraries and selected schools Quality study guides written by subject matter experts holding advanced degrees in sociology, consulted to ensure that the articles encompass current trends and hot topics.

RICS Library Direct [electronic resource]. This is an online version of the RICS Library's key information source Abstracts and Reviews. It provides an index and abstracts to over 50,000 items held in the RICS Library.

RICS Valuation [electronic resource]. Provides access to the RICS Red Book plus guidance notes and proformas.

RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information [electronic resource]. An independent unbiased resource, the Resource for Urban Design Information (Rudi), commissions, researches and creates materials, and also re-publishes significant documents contributed by professional and government bodies, practitioners, academics and community organisations. RUDI is a virtual library containing full text documents and valuable excerpts from others. It displays unique items and significant works which are difficult to locate or are out of print, and has materials specially commissioned to fill gaps in urban design information.

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Safari Tech Books Online [electronic resource]. The database allows full text access to selected textbooks in the Computing subject area, from publishers such as O'Reilly and Associates, Pearson Technology Group Publishers, etc. Users can search the full text by using keywords or phrases.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource]. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource]. Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SCOPUS [electronic resource]. SCOPUS is a navigation tool covering the world's largest collection of abstracts, references and indexes of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. It provides access to 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, with links to full-text articles and other library resources. Includes Compendex.

ScreenOnline [electronic resource]. BFI Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.

Social Policy and Practice [electronic resource]. Social Policy and Practice is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering evidence-based social policy, public health, social services, and mental and community health. The database is particularly strong on social care of the young and elderly.

Social Services Abstracts [electronic resource]. CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts [electronic resource]. Covers international sources of references and summaries of journal articles, book extracts etc. from 1963 for social structure and social problems, inequalities and behavioural sciences.

Sport Discus Database [electronic resource]. Via EBSCO. Coverage begins from 1975. International sports database covering exercise, physiology, medicine, biomechanics, coaching, counselling and sports medicine.

SpringerLink [electronic resource]. Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

Springer Ebook Collection including Lecture Notes in Computer Science [electronic resource]. The collection includes online access to of more than 3,000 newly released STM books each year. Accessible via PDF and HTML formats. Includes Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Springer Online Journals Archive [electronic resource]. Offers a total of 1.8 million archive records comprising approximately 800 journals formerly published by Kluwer, as well as, all content from Volume I, Issue 1, where available, from both the former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer.

Swetswise [electronic resource]. Provides access to Swetswise online journal content.

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The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) [electronic resource]. This is the official "statute book" database of all UK primary and secondary legislation freely available from the Department of Constitutional Affairs.  It is not currently fully up-to-date, so use with care for 2007.  See the Help button for guidance on content, searching, and updating details.

Urbaline [electronic resource]. Urbaline is a database created and updated daily by the GLA Research Library. It contains details of around 400,000 documents covering all aspects of urban and social policy from the early 1980s to the present.

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WARC: World Advertising Research Center [electronic resource]. WARC provides the largest single source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide, drawn from more than 40 international sources.

Westlaw [electronic resource]. Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

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XpertHR [electronic resource]. XpertHR draws together a range of HR information from specialist journals published by Reed Elsevier and employment law resources from LexisNexis Butterworths. It includes access to IRS Employment Review and other IRS journals, plus case reports, case studies, news, analysis and commentary, policy documents and statistical surveys.

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Your Journals@Ovid [electronic resource]. Via Ovid. Access to databases and full text for the Healthcare and Academic communities.

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Zephyr [electronic resource]. ZEPHYR is an information solution containing M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information.

ZETOC [electronic resource]. The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.

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