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.
The large digital resource collection of the National Library of Scotland is available to anyone with a main address in Scotland.
Digital collection information
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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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Featuring around 5000 journals, ABI/INFORM Complete™ is the most comprehensive business database on the market today. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers nearly 3,900 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. |
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ProQuest Accounting & Tax brings together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources for locating quick and precise results covering current news and topics, as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues of the day. |
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The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1974, with records for selected major films from 1975-2011. New records are added each year by the AFI's editorial team. |
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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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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) is a multidisciplinary index to journals, and journal articles, in the fields of the arts and the humanities. Some of the subjects covered include: art; dance; linguistics; literature; music; philosophy; radio, television and film; theatre. |
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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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Banking Information Source™ combines the currency of the Internet and the perspective of industry journals to provide the ultimate financial services research tool. |
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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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BigPicture TV contains videos from the world's leading thinkers and briefing documents on core subjects. Big Picture aims to help you put social, economic, business and environmental issues into context for the world we live and work in today. |
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BiologyBrowser offers access to evaluated and curated digital resources of interest to the scientific researcher. |
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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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The new BIOSIS Citation Index combines the unique BIOSIS content that is critical to life sciences research with powerful citation indexing platform from Web of Knowledge. |
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Find the data you need to prepare research projects, grant proposals and follow trends in the life sciences. BIOSIS Previews combines journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal coverage from Biological Abstracts/RRM. |
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Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center features a range of authoritative fact sheets, posters, and other materials from government agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health, and other authoritative sources. |
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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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Search across all resources provided for UK HE by the British Universities Film and Video Council in one search. |
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The Business Collection enables cross-searching of the following seven business databases: ABI/Inform Complete, Accounting and Tax, Banking Information Source, Hoover's Company Profiles, Proquest Asian Business and Reference, Proquest European Business and Snapshots. |
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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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This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s. |
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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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This database, with 600 full text titles, forms a comprehensive reference collection. CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines. |
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CERUKplus 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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Chronicle is BBC Northern Ireland's collection of television news from the sixties and seventies. Chronicle provides users with access to digitised copies of news and current affairs material covering Northern Ireland and The Troubles, along with web-based tools allowing it to be searched, viewed and annotated. |
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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 the study of cognition. |
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Collection of documents from the Society of Radiographers, relating to all aspects of the eduction and practice of Radiography. |
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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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Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature. Two editions cover the sciences and social sciences. |
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Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature. Two editions cover the sciences and social sciences. |
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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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Dawsonera provides online access to eBook and eContent covering all the major academic disciplines. |
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. |
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DORIS provides easy access to current best evidence, including guidelines, systematic reviews and RCTs, ongoing research, priorities for future research. |
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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 70,000 full text books from scholarly publishers in all academic disciplines. |
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10 databases are accessed via EBSCO including CINAHL with Full Text, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, Medline, PsycInfo & SportDiscus. |
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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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EU Screen - Discover Europe's television heritage. EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. |
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European views of the Americas is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities. |
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Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items. |
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The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural history. It will create access to over 30,000 items of programme content and information, and by developing a number of interactive functionalities and dynamic links with Europeana it will prove valuable to the widest range of cultural, educational and recreational users. |
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FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs. Read more about FIAF. |
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Film Index International is a major information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters - Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries. |
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FT.com delivers in-depth global news and financial information, as it happens. |
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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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Our webpage listing collections of freely available e-books. |
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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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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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This database contains proprietary information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover"s, widely recognized as a leader in company data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company"s location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers 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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IIPA FT International Index to the Performing Arts with Full Text |
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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IIMP Full Text is a music journal resource with more than 770,000 articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. |
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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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This goverment website gives the text of UK legislation from 1988 onwards, and post-devolution Scottish legislation. |
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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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Media History Digital Library: online access to the histories of cinema, broadcasting, and recorded sound |
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This database offers unique search tool that allows users to compare the effectiveness of different treatments for specific conditions. |
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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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This Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. |
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MyiLibrary provides online access to eBook and eContent covering all the major academic disciplines. |
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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. |
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When you register with the National Library of Scotland you have free access to an extensive range of licensed digital collections. If your main address is in Scotland you can also use many of these resources from any computer outwith NLS. You can also use a number of open access resources without registering. |
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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 world’s leading resource for the study of 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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The newspaper collection consists of ProQuest Newsstand and Canadian Newsstand Complete giving access to an international range of national and regional newspapers. |
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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 millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. |
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Observing the 1980s brings together, for the first time, ‘voices’ from both the Mass Observation Collections and the British Library Oral History Collections. This material offers a unique and inspiring insight into the lives and opinions of British people from all social classes and regions during the 1980s. |
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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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Open Grey is an open access resource containing 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. |
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OxResearch® delivers succinct articles analyzing economic and political developments worldwide, and evaluates issues within a coherent political, social, and economic framework. The objective, multidisciplinary articles are compiled by an international network of over 1,000 faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities, as well as think-tanks and other institutions of international standing. |
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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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A catalogue of film and video materials held by the archives and collections of BFI, Arts Council England, LUX, Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection” and it documents the histories of dance, acting, theatre, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television, referencing c.3,500 film and video titles |
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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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Pharmaceutical News Index® gives researchers access to the latest information on medical technology, research, and legislative developments. The database contains bibliographic information and indexing for 22 key U.S. and international pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, medical device, and cosmetic industry newsletters. |
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Physiotherapy Choices is a database designed for use by consumers of physiotherapy services. The database provides a catalogue of the best research evidence of the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions. Three sorts of research evidence are catalogued: clinical trials, reviews and guidelines. |
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The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. |
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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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ProQuest Asian Business and Reference offers detailed information on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. A great deal of information on international trade is available as well. |
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ProQuest Biology Journals™ provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes just under 400 titles, with more than 325 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments. |
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ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic. |
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This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. |
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ProQuest Computing™ is the premium resource for those who need access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. The database includes around 450 titles, with over 350 available in full text. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. |
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ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text. |
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ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to around 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. |
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This database contains the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune and European Business Journal. |
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ProQuest Family Health covers an enormous range of subjects of value in the public library context - from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines. |
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ProQuest Health and Medical Complete provides in-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with almost 1,300 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing. |
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ProQuest Health Management™ is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics. |
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ProQuest Military Collection™ covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. It includes around 550 titles, with more than 400 available in full-text. |
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ProQuest Newsstand includes national and leading regional papers. |
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A Reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more. Subjects covered include Nursing; Allied health; Physical therapy; Occupational therapy; Cytology; Histology; Physiology; Anatomy; Gerontology; Geriatrics; Orthopedics; Traumatology; Radiology; Diagnostic imaging; Nuclear medicine; Nutrition; Dietetics; Dental hygiene; Rehabilitation; Nuclear medicine |
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ProQuest Psychology Journals encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more. |
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ProQuest Religion covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many, worldwide religions. In addition, there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. |
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From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,000 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. |
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ProQuest Science Journals provides unmatched research support for both the applied and general sciences. In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature. |
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This database includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more. |
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This database is an essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology. Whether you’re looking for the latest news on WAP technology, following market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players in this field, ProQuest Telecommunications helps you stay one step ahead. |
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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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Queen Victoria’s Journals is a website which reproduces every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals (including draft volumes and copies made by Lord Esher and Princess Beatrice), as high-resolution colour images, along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages. In total 141 volumes have been digitised, numbering approximately 33,000 pages. The text of all versions of the journals will be available as accurate transcripts for easy reading and powerful searching. |
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Radio meta data and streaming media. |
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The Radio Research Database (RRDB) aims to contain a record of all current radio-centred academic research in the UK, to assist all those researchers working in the discipline of Radio Studies. |
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RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. |
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Researcher’s guide to Screen Heritage (Researcher’s Guide Online) |
The Researchers guide to Screen Heritage 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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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, offering extensive and unique full text coverage of authoritative titles from the core scientific literature. QM has access to subject collections in Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience and Economics. |
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ScienceWatch.com provides a comprehensive, open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. This website combines the newest Science Watch© newsletter material, along with regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary source data drawn from Essential Science IndicatorsSM. |
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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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The Snapshots Series includes over 8,890 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America. |
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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 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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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. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. |
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Social Services Knowledge Scotland provides access to a wide range of quality assured information and knowledge resources across the sector. The search facility will simultaneously search a huge repository of resources, websites, policy documents, journal articles and books with links to full text where available. It also provides tools to support sharing of personal and local knowledge and experience across organisations and teams. |
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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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SpringerProtocols is the world’s largest database of life sciences protocols. These ‘recipes’ allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories. SpringerProtocols contains more than 28,000 protocols, most of which come from the classic book series “Methods in Molecular Biology.” Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories. These documents provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment. |
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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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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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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 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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Cross Collection Discovery (CCD) provides a way to search across Yale University's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio, and video documenting people, places, and events that form part of Yale's institutional identity and contribution to scholarship. CCD virtually unites the collections of the University and allows discovery of related content held by different campus units. CCD supports broader dissemination of Yale's intellectual and cultural assets to the Yale community and the world. |
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The Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection provides unique open online access to images of 500 of the designer's iconic dresses and garments, for use in learning, teaching, and research internationally, by fashion historians, fashion and textile designers, and fans of Zandra Rhodes's work alike. These were selected out of thousands of couture pieces designed by Zandra Rhodes, which are held in her private archive at her fashion studio in London. The digitised garments cover her entire creative career from the late 1960s to the present day, with particular focus on her landmark collections of the 1970s and 1980s. |
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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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