Below is an alphabetical list of the Library's online databases. Further information on the databases is available from the Guides link.
Please contact LRCHelp@qmu.ac.uk for more advice and help.
Trial databases - we often have trials for potential new databases, please try them out and give us your comments.
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IP-based login. You must either be on campus or logged in via Remote Desktop for access.
Shibboleth/UK Federation log in. Select "Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh" from the drop-down menu and use your institutional username and password when prompted.
A resource specific username and password is required. Email LRCHelp@qmu.ac.uk for details.
National Library of Scotland (NLS) resources available remotely to QMU staff and postgraduates only. Registration details are available at http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/remote2.html
The Knowledge Network is available to students who go on placement within the NHS and selected teaching staff. Registration details are available at http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/login.aspx
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The newspapers and news pamphlets, gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes nearly 1 million pages from more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period, including the first successful London daily and first illustrated newspaper all dating from 1600-1800. |
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This major collection from the British Library collection contains full runs of 70 newspapers, including national and regional newspapers. 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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This is Series 1 of a collection of digitised versions of key 19th century UK periodicals sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and other libraries. Series 1: New Readerships comprises 1.2 million pages from over 100 periodical titles, with full runs in most cases, on women, children, leisure, sport, humour and satire. |
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Interactive 3D human anatomy which allows the user to create a detailed 3D model of the Human Anatomy. Models can be rotated and layers of anatomy added or removed. |
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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. |
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The British Library Sound Archive gives access to over 12,000 recordings. |
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The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archival collections that are available for research in universities and colleges. The Hub includes descriptions for the archives of a wide range of individuals, families, and organisations, from medieval times right up to the present day. |
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ArtBibliographies Modern provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with entries dating back as far as the late 1960s. |
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AHCI is a multidisciplinary index containing details of every substantive item in 1100 arts and humanities journals, as well as references to books included in book reviews, and live performances, films, records, and television and radio broadcasts, from 1975 to date. Contains over 2 million references; abstracts are not included. |
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Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art, including dance and theatre, produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. Many titles in the collection contain rare material about individual artists, while others offer definitive coverage of their subject. |
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Autism Data lists over 18,500 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 outwith the NAS library holdings. |
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BFI InView from the British Film Institute is a collection of over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. InView is easily searchable, comprehensively catalogued and clearly organised under six main Themes, each with an introductory essay by an academic historian. |
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Screen Online from the British Film Institute is the definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history. |
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BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. |
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BHO is a database covering the history of the printed book and libraries. Subjects covered include all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries, and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books, and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment. |
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BHI indexes over 370 humanities journals and weekly magazines published. Subject coverage includes: Materials science,Environmental sciences & pollution management,Biological sciences ,Aquatic sciences & fisheries, Biotechnology,Engineering,Computer science, Sociology,Art history & Linguistics. |
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A combined database of the Burney Collection newspapers and the 19th Century British Library newspaper collection. It contains 3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks & ephemera, from British national and regional newspapers. |
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British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this unique digital archive will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture. |
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The BUND documents over 170,000 individual stories from over seventy-five cinema newsreels and cinemagazines. The newsreel data is based on the original issue sheets, and includes title, release date, issue number, library number, synopsis, length, camera operator and keywords. |
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BSP provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. BSP covers n all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
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CAIRNS is the Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland. It provides descriptions of information resources of all kinds held in libraries in Scotland, and online resources of interest to Scotland and its people. |
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The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions. Subjects covered include education, crime and justice, and social welfare. |
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CaseCheck is a current awareness service about Scots Law. It highlights recent court decisions, new bills, reports and consultations. Many of the case summaries and articles are written by legal professionals. |
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CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, includes references to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals. The database includes references to articles about nursing, allied health, biomedical, consumer health journals, and publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. |
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CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge. |
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The UK Clinical Research Network is comprised of the four research networks across the UK funded by the UK Health Departments. The Networks support and deliver high quality clinical research studies and facilitate the conduct of randomised controlled trials and other well designed studies across the UK. |
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The Cochrane Library informs the practice of evidence based medicine. Cochrane includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Review Methodology Database and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. |
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CogPrints is an electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy,and Biology which are relevant to teh study of cognition. |
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Communication and Mass Media Complete (via EBSCOhost Research Databases) |
CMMC complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources in all aspects of communication and mass media. |
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The Complete Index to World Film is a guide to international films, their directors and casts. The search facilities enable researchers to easily track the careers of many thousands of directors and actors through all the years of the cinema and the countries where films have flourished. |
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Copac is a freely available library catalogue, giving access to the merged online catalogues of many major UK and Irish academic and National libraries, as well as increasing numbers of specialist libraries. |
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Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. |
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Credo Reference is the world's largest online reference service including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Giving access to over 200 online books which cover a large range of subjects. |
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CSA Illumina provides access to 12 databases covering subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, linguistics, and art and design. |
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CERUK contains commissioned research, PhD level work and practitioner research, covering all aspects of education (all age ranges from early years to adult) and children’s services. |
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Dawsonera provides online access to eBook and eContent covering all the major academic disciplines. |
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DAAI is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. |
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. |
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E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. |
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The ELTA website is the culmination of a two-year digitisation project funded by JISC. The project was led by a team based at the University of East London (UEL) with electronic support from the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London. The project began in March 2007, and was concluded in March 2009 with the launch of the website. |
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EBL provides online access to eBook and eContent covering all the major academic disciplines. |
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ebrary contains over 30,000 full text books from scholarly publishers in all academic disciplines. |
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13 databases are accessed via EBSCO including British Nursing Index, Business Source Premier, CINAHL with Full Text, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, Medline, PsycInfo & SportDiscus. |
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Full text access to journals published by Emerald. It covers the major management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and HRM. Archive coverage starts from 1994. |
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eResearch is a repository that collects together the work of Queen Margaret University researchers and allows them to make their research outputs freely available over the web via a searchable "open access" database. |
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ERIC contains references to articles and reports on education topics; adult, career and vocational education, assessment and evaluation, disabilities and gifted education, educational management, elementary and early childhood education, higher education, information technology, language and linguistics, reading and communication, teacher and teacher education, urban education. |
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ESDS Provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data - both quantitative and qualitative - spanning many disciplines and themes. |
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eTheses is a repository of full-text copies of theses produced by students of Queen Margaret University. It is an Open Access repository which aims to make the material available to the widest possible audience. |
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EThOS is the new service offered by the British Library for the supply of theses to staff and students in Higher Education Institutions. |
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The EU Bookshop website makes available the full text of thousands of EU Publications freely available for download. |
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Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items. |
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Film and Sound Online is a set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. |
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily reports 1974-1996 |
Covering the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English. |
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Frost and Sullivan is a major database of international market research covering global manufacturing sectors, providing in-depth perspectives of industries, technologies, and markets, including aerospace and defence, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare. |
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The Global Library of Women's Medicine is a unique web library incorporating a vast range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women's medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by over 40,000 references. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. |
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GRS is a major database of global business information, provided by Dun & Bradstreet. It offers information on businesses of any size, anywhere in the world, and with over 80 million companies is one of the largest of its kind. |
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GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
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Hospitality and Tourism Complete (via EBSCOhost Research Databases) |
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There is full text for 440 publications with coverage dating as far back as 1965. |
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HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. |
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IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (via EBSCOhost Research Databases) |
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences database indexes 2600 journals and 6000 books per annum, in the core disciplines of economics, sociology, politics and anthropology, from 1951 to the present. |
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IIPA FT is 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. |
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In the First Person is a free, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. |
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Index to thesis is a comprehensive listing of theses, with abstracts, accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. |
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IngentaConnect is a hosting service for a variety of publishers. QM students can access the full text of journals where the LRC holds a subscription. Table of contents and abstracts are available for those where we do not have a subscription. |
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text (via EBSCOhost Research Databases) |
IBTD full text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more.. |
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International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio |
An authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope and holds over 6,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day. |
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The biggest collection of movie scripts available anywhere on the web, this site lets you read or download movie scripts for free. |
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Searchable repository of records harvested from the institutional repositories of participating institutions, including Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Napier, Queen Margaret, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde universities. |
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The collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising. |
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JCR is a unique resource for journal evaluation using citation data drawn from over 8000 journals and available in two files - one for Science and one for Social Sciences. |
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Full text access to a collection of 19 journals published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. Subjects include Nursing, Audiology, Speech, Nutrition, Physiotherapy. |
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The Knowledge Network, formerly the NHS e-library is Scotland’s source of knowledge for health and care. Full access to the Knowledge Network is only available to NHS staff and students who go on placement within the NHS. Those providing education and training to NHS staff and students and researchers working in partnership with the NHS are also eligible to join. |
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LISA is a searchable database of abstracts from the contents of nearly 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings from the mid-1960s onwards. Subjects covered include: librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management. |
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LISTA Library/Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts (via EBSCOhost Research Databases) |
LISTA indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. |
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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. |
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MEDLINE searches citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, and provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and more. |
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MEDLINE searches citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, and provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and more. Searching via the Web of Knowledge allows users to cross search Medline along with all other WOK databases. |
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Metapress covers all subject area and has references to articles published in over 3,700 journals. Full-text access is available to articles published in journals for which QMU has a current subscription. |
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MIC documents moving image collections around the world through a catalog of titles and directory of repositories. providing a window to the world’s moving image collections for discovery, access and preservation. |
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MyiLibrary provides online access to eBook and eContent covering all the major academic disciplines. |
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (via CSA) |
The NCJRS provides access to information relating to research, policy, and practice on criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. |
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Nature Precedings is a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings. |
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NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. |
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The NewsFilm Online resource contains some 3,000 hours of video news stories from the archives of ITN and Reuters Television. This footage includes several key cinema newsreels and some of the most significant events of the past century e.g. the Crystal Palace fire (1936), the first interview with Nelson Mandela (1961) and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997). NewsFilm Online allows users to search and download video news and clips can be embedded in WebCT and presentations etc. |
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The NHS elibrary is now known as The Knowledge Network. Please see entry above. |
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OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources in Open Access repositories. OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency. |
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OECD Factbook is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: population, economic production, foreign trade and investment, energy, labour force, information and communications, public finances, innovation, the environment, foreign aid, agriculture, taxation, education, health and quality of life. The 2010 edition of the OECD Factbook features a focus chapter on the crisis and beyond. |
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OpenSIGLE - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe is your open access to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe until 2005. Examples of GL include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature. OpenSIGLE covers pure and applied science and technology, economics, other sciences and humanities. |
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This goverment website gives the text of UK legislation from 1988 onwards, and post-devolution Scottish legislation. |
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PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database. It gives access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. |
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PAO is an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, providing researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship. Full text of 80 journals are available to QMU staff and students. |
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The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. |
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Popline (via the John Hopkins Center for Communication Programs) |
POPLINE is a database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. |
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The "Second Wave" and Beyond. This is a scholarly community, launched in 2006, which is an innovative form of electronic communication and research that brings together feminist thinkers, both scholars and activists, to create a stimulating and supportive environment in which to analyze compelling questions about feminist activism and theories. |
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PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. |
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PubMed provides access to bibliographic information which includes Medline as well as the out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain Medline journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals. |
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Radio meta data and streaming media. |
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RECAL is a database in the field of prosthetics, orthotics and related physical medicine and rehabilitation. It holds 83000 bibliographic records, from the early 1900s to 2007. |
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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The RGO has entries on almost 550 film, television, radio and related documentation collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. |
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ResearchResearch is a source of funding opportunities and news on research policy and politics. |
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reearchWeb is produced by the Scottish Executive for social work professionals. It covers all aspects of social care including current research, policy documents and Scottish Government publications. |
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RIAN is the new national portal for Open Access to Irish published research. It will act as a single point of access to national research output, and contains content harvested from the institutional repositories of the seven Irish Universities and Dublin Institute of Technology. |
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SALSER is a union catalogue of serials holdings for Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. |
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SCI contains details of articles, meeting reports, letters, editorials etc. from 5,900 of the most important international science, engineering and medicine journals from 1900 to date. Book reviews are only indexed for the three journals, Nature, Science and the New Scientist. |
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Science Direct is the website for journals published by Elsevier. QM has access to 80 full-text journal titles with coverage going back to 1995 where available. ToC and abstracts are available for titles where we don't hold a subscription. |
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Scirus is a free, science-specific search engine. Scirus allows you to search for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, patents, theses and dissertations, and scientific web pages e.g university sites, scientists' homepages. |
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SciTopics is a free online expert-generated knowledge sharing service for the research community to quickly offer scientific, technical and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects. It provides distilled, authoritative and up-to-date, information for researchers. |
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Scopus is the world's largest scientific abstract and indexing database, covering material in Science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. |
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A guide to over 3,000 of the best business resources on the web as well as to the company and industry resources of the National Library Of Scotland. |
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The Scottish Screen Archive is Scotland's national moving images collection. It preserves over 100 years of Scottish history on film and video. The database provides information about titles that are available for personal, educational or commercial use as well as providing direct access to 1000 film clips available to view online |
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The Shakespeare Quartos Archive expands the British Library's "Shakespeare in Quarto" website into an online collection reproducing at least one copy of every edition of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in quarto before the theatres closed in 1642. Joined to this resource is a prototype of an interactive interface and toolset aimed at facilitating scholarly research, performance studies and new pedagogical applications derived from detailed examination and comparison of the quartos. |
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The Scottish Health Information Network (SHINE) aims to ensure the best possible access to the knowledge base of health care. |
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Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive free database of social care information. The database contains research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. It is the sister site to reSearchWeb for Scotland. |
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Social Policy and Practice is a source of evidence-based social science research for policy-makers, practitioners, educators and students working within economic and social development, social administration, social services, and care management. |
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. |
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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. |
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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. |
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speechBITE™ is a database that provides open access to a catalogue of Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy across the scope of Speech Pathology practice. This is an evidence based practice initiative between The University of Sydney and Speech Pathology Australia. |
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Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. |
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SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields. Anyone can create an account and search the free and Open Access images indexed by SpringerImages. Images obtained from SpringerImages can be used for almost all noncommercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents. |
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The Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals. |
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The Social Science Research Network indexes over 150,000 full text articles about accounting, economics, politics, law and other social sciences. It also includes abstracts for almost 200,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. |
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SEP is a dynamic encyclopedia where each entry is kept up to date by a group of experts in the field. |
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The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe. |
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SUNCAT is a service which enables researchers and librarians to locate serials held in libraries throughout the UK. SUNCAT contains information on both print and electronic serials. |
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An electronic journal gateway service allowing easy access to electronic content from hundreds of different publishers. QM students can only access material where QM holds a subscription. ToCs are available for other material. |
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TRILT Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (via BUFVC) |
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching - listings and archive of broadcast programme information |
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The TRIP Database answers clinical questions, using the principles of evidence based medicine. |
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TVTiP is a fully searchable database of the programmes listed in television listings magazine TVTimes from September 1955 to March 1985. |
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The full text of 176 UK newspapers, both national and regional. |
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VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK. |
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Viperlib is a web-based resource library of images and presentation material illuminating the study of visual perception. |
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(WARC) is a provider of information and insight to the global marketing, advertising, media and research industries. |
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Web of Knowledge provides access for QM students to Web of Science, (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index), Journal Citation reports ISI Proceedings and Medline. |
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The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) is a collaborative venture between the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Wales to establish, develop and populate a network of interoperable institutional repositories. The vision that underpins the network is to facilitate and encourage the sharing of resources across the principality and to maximise the impact of Welsh research across the globe. |
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A global database containing tens of millions of bibliographic records on all subjects from 1000 A.D. to date, for all types of material catalogued by libraries, including books and digital resources, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, films, videos. No abstracts. |
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CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. |
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Zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. |
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