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Databases and E-Resources for 'Walk-in' Users

Access to some of The Albert Sloman Library's e-resources may be permitted to external readers, alumni, ex-members of staff and members of partner institutions within the library premises

'Walk-in' users must complete a 'Visitors E-Resource Access Form' at the Enquiry Desk on floor 1 of the Library, and provide two forms of proof of identity i.e. one must include a photo (e.g. drivers licence or passport) and the other proof of current postal address (e.g. utilities bill).* 

E-resources are strictly licensed & not all permit walk-in use, therefore the range of e-resources available is limited to those listed below. E-resources can only be used for educational purposes i.e. teaching and learning etc., and cannot be used for any commercial use. [more information]

Any breach of the licenses or terms and conditions of either the University secure network, the higher education network (JANET) and/or the e-resource itself will result in the termination of this agreement by the Library. Serious misconduct may also render the visitor liable to legal proceedings.**

Visitor eResources
Alumni (local) Walk-in access [more]
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Visiting/Honorary staff Remote access to listed
Retired staff Walk-in access [more]
General public (Research) Walk-in access [more]
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Degree courses at partner institutions*:
Writtle College UG Walk-in access [more]
Writtle College PG Walk-in access [more]
South Essex College Walk-in access [more]
South Essex College staff Walk-in access [more]
Colchester Institute UG Walk-in access [more]
Colchester Institute PG  Walk-in access[more]
UCS & affiliated colleges UG Walk-in access [more]
UCS & affiliated colleges PG Walk-in access [more]
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Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Full access [more]
Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust staff Walk-in access [more]
Kaplan Open learning Full access  [more]

Please note:

- Members of the general public have no automatic right of access to Library facilities and the Library reserves the right to refuse any or all applications.

- Walk-in users cannot, under any circumstances, be given remote access rights.

- Library collections are primarily for the use of students and staff of the University of Essex and at busy times current members of the University will have priority.

- Walk-in users may not print from the library machines, however, you may save to a USB drive, as long as the material you comply with copyright law.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

17th-18th Century Burney Collection newspapers - See News Vault

ABSEES Online (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)

Covers North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications. 1990 onwards. Updated monthly.

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)

A searchable database containing full-text articles from journals, magazines and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. All individual serial titles can be accessed by searching the Library catalogue by Periodical Title.

American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society provides the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of the most-cited, peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international scientific society with more than 35,000 members in over 115 countries. For over 75 years, AGU researchers, teachers, and science administrators have dedicated themselves to advancing the understanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public. The website of the AGU provides information about conferences and membership, and also has journals and conferences contents lists, abstracts, and book reviews. The Library subscribes to AGU online journals, with coverage starting from 1996. 

American Institute of Physics 

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. The AIP website provides a wide range of resources including: physics news; links to member and affiliated societies; links to online journals of the AIP and its member societies; details of magazines, books, conference proceedings and other AIP publications. 

American Mathematical Society 

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship. The AMS has published peer-reviewed journals of the highest quality in mathematical research for over 100 years. Articles are posted in the electronic version are available prior to the print versions. Access to Abstract pages and article references that include links to MathSciNet® reviews is available free to anyone. 

American Meteorological Society 

Promotes the development, dissemination, information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. The American Meteorological Society makes all their journal content freely available after 2 years.

American Statistical Society

The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a professional association for statistics and statisticians in America. It publishes scholarly journals; statistical magazines; and a variety of conference proceedings, books, and other materials related to the practice of statistics.

Annual Reviews 

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organisation that provides the international scientific community with research literature for a broad range of scientific disciplines. This site provides access to Annual Reviews in the social sciences, namely: anthropology; environment and resources; political science; psychology; public health; sociology. Provides access to tables of contents and abstracts, and the ability to search full-text by keyword, but access to the full-text is available by subscription only. The site includes full instructions to authors and planned tables of contents for future volumes

Archival Sound Recordings (from the British Library)

Archival Sound Recordings contains approximately 12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. The collections include: Accents and dialects; African Writers' Club; Amphibians; Art and design interviews; Beethoven String Quartets; British wildlife recordings; David Rycroft Africa recordings; Ethnographic wax cylinders; Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings; Oral history of jazz in Britain; Records and record players; Scientists' lives; Soundscapes; and St Mary-le-Bow public debates.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute : BAILII  

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is a collaborative service providing public access to primary legal materials for the United Kingdom and Ireland. BAILII databases give free access to a collection of full-text British and Irish legal materials, particularly case law and legislation. Resources include: House of Lords decisions, Court of Appeal of England and Wales decisions, High Court of England and Wales decisions, Northern Ireland Court of Appeal decisions, High Court of Northern Ireland decisions, Irish Supreme Court decisions, Irish High Court decisions, Irish Competition Authority decisions, Irish Information Commissioner's decisions, Scottish Court of Session decisions, Scottish Sheriff Courts decisions and legislation for the United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Materials may be browsed by jurisdiction, title and year.

British Newspapers 1600-1900 - See News Vault 

British Periodicals Online

British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

Business Source Complete (BSC) (EBSCOhost)

Provides the full text for over 8000 business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,500 academic journals. BSC offers information in nearly every area of business including: management, economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. Includes the full text of journals such as: Accounting Review, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, etc. The database includes full text country economic/political data, such as EIU country profiles & reports, OECD economic surveys, and others from Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, as well as market research reports from Datamonitor, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.


Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through the Cambridge Journals online service. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

CINAHL plus with fulltext

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. The indexing goes back to 1937 and full text access is provided to hundreds of journals (but not all journals).

Conference proceedings citation index - See Web Of Science


Defining Gender 1450-1910

This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering c. 50,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. Section I: Conduct and Politeness (Autumn 2003); Section II: Domesticity and the Family (Summer 2004); Section III: Consumption and Leisure (Summer 2005); Section IV: Education and Sensibility (Summer 2006); and Section V: The Body (Summer 2007).

Dissertations and Theses

Provides access to two databases:

Proquest Dissertations & Theses : A& I - which is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day. From 1980 most records contain abstracts. UK doctoral theses included from 1988. From 1997, records contain 24-page previews.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland - which contains the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716; access to bibliographic coverage of theses produced by British and Irish universities; bibliographic listings for content for 1950-1986; abstracts for content since 1986. (Formerly Index to Theses) 


Empire Online

A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. The database provide users with a wide choice of document types and perspectives, within a structure of five thematic sections selected around the key topics of Empire courses: cultural contacts; literature; the visual empire - exhibitions; religion; race, class, colonialism and imperialism.

ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) - See JISC Historic books

Economist Historical Archive - See News Vault 

EEB (Early European books)

Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Early European Books is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials.
The University of Essex has access to Collection 3: Wellcome Library volumes only.

EEBO (Early English Books Online)

EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. It contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars and many other primary sources.

Empire Online

This database offers approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969. The images are sourced from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia. 


Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe, and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides insight into the second half of the 20th century; many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred.
FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996 consist of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from: Middle East and North Africa, 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia, 1987-1996; South Asia, 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa, 1974-1980 and Africa, 1987-1996; Eastern Europe, 1974-1996. These media sources were monitored in their languages of origin, translated into English, and issued by an agency of the US government.

Foreign Law Guide

The Foreign Law Guide contains current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world, it is a comprehensive source for essential information on foreign law from nearly 200 jurisdictions. click on subscriber login to access.  


Greenfile

GreenFILE, is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.  The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. 


HeinOnline 

HeinOnline, is the world's largest image-based research collection. HeinOnline provides comprehensive coverage from the inception of all publications carried, from volume one, number one, issue one onwards, to one or two years prior to the current year. As well as including leading U.S. scholarly law journals, there are also many non-US titles included, such as the Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, British Yearbook of International Law, Law Quarterly Review, and many more. The collection is growing fast, with countries of publication covering Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, etc. HeinOnline has approximately 1400 journals and the Legal Journal Library module is image-based (PDF) and fully-searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hardcopy-including all charts, graphs, and photographs. 

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

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. The Library has access to two collections 18th century (1688-1834) 19th century (1801-1900), 20th century (1901-2002/3 Session).

Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.

Human Kinetics is a publisher specializing in the physical activity field.


IEEE/IET electronic library (IEEE Xplore)

Database of technical literature in engineering and technology. It includes IEEE journals, transactions and magazines, IEEE conference proceedings, IET journals and conference proceedings, IEEE published standards and the IEEE Standards dictionary online  conference proceedings, IEEE published standards and the IEEE Standards dictionary online 

Informaworld - See Taylor & Francis Online

Institute Of Physics (IOP) Journal Archive

The University of Essex has free access to the 2004 Historic Archive package, which consists of 56 journals between 1874 and 1998. Full details of the package are available from IOP.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 

One of the largest and most comprehensive social science databases in the world, this includes details of articles in over 2400 selected international social science journals, and of around 7000 books per annum. Some abstracts are available. Some material is in languages other than English, every article not in English is displayed with both the original language title and an English translation. Includes: International bibliography of economics, International bibliography of political science, International bibliography of social and cultural anthropology, International bibliography of sociology. 1951 onwards (some abstracts from 1997). 


JISC Historic Books

Digitised versions of more than 65,000 first editions from the 19th century, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The collection extends to over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible content, and includes the original typeface and illustrations for each book. JISC Historic Books enables you to cross-search over 300,000 historical books published in English or in England before 1800 and 65,000 19th century books from the following historically significant collections: Early English Books Online (EEBO); Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); 19th Century books from the British Library collection.

JISC Journal Archives

JISC JournalArchives, part of the JISC funded JISC eCollections service, enables simple and fast conceptual searching across more than 450 journals published in the Brill Archive Online, OUP Journals Archive, PAO Archive Online, ICE Virtual Library Archive, RSC Journals Archive, IOP Journal Archive, & Notes and Queries. 

JISC Media Hub

JISC MediaHub provides search results for video, image and audio resources from many different collections.
Collections held inside JISC MediaHub: Amber Films; Anglia Television Library; AP Archive; Biochemical Society; British Paramount News; Channel 4 News; Channel 5 News; Culverhouse Classical Music; Educational and Television Films Ltd; Films of Scotland; Gaumont British News; Gaumont Graphic Newsreel; Getty (moving images); Getty (still images); GovEd Communications (Francesco Troina); Imperial War Museum (films); Imperial War Museum (images); ITN ITN Clip Reel; ITN Collections; ITN Non-released; ITN Open-ender; ITN Reports; ITN Rushes; ITN Specials; ITV News; IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH; Logic Lane; Performance Shakespeare; Programmes as Broadcast (PAB); PYMCA Reporting 66-67; Reuters News; Roving Report; Royal Geographic Society; Sheffield University Learning Media Unit; St George's Hospital Medical School; The North Highland College (Johnston Collection); University of Brighton Design Archives; Visnews; and Wellcome Film.
Collections held outside MediaHub (unrestricted external websites): ADS Image Bank; ARKive; BGS GeoScenic; Culture Grid; First World War Poetry Digital Archive; Open Video Project; Spoken Word; and Wellcome Images. 

John Johnson Collection 

This 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.

Jordan Family Law 

Jordan family law service provides access to the Jordan family law journals: Child and family law quarterly; Family law magazine and; International family law. The resource also includes access to the Family law reports, Family Procedure Rules 2010 and, legislation and forms relating to family law.

Journal Citation Reports : Science edition

The JCR (Sciences edition) is a resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over thousands of journals, it provides provides a systematic means of determining the relative importance of science journals within their subject categories. The JCR can show you the: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, most popular journals and largest journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science & technology. 

Journal Citation Reports: Social Sciences editon 

JCR (Social sciences edition) is a resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over thousands of journals, it provides provides a systematic means of determining the relative importance of social sciences journals within their subject categories. The JCR can show you the: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, most popular journals and largest journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of the social sciences. 

JSTOR

Provides a full-text archive of selected journals, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Library subscribes to the following collections: the Arts & Sciences I Collection; the Arts & Sciences II Collection; the Arts & Sciences III Collection; the Business Collection I & II; and 19th Century British Pamphlets which comprise seven individual collections held in universities within the United Kingdom.


Keesing's World News Archive

Keesing's World News Archive is an archive of original, accurate and objective articles providing a digestible but detailed summary of the world’s most significant political, social and economic events, drawn from a wide range of press and other sources in a variety of languages. Among the events covered are elections and changes of government; wars, treaties, appointments, and diplomacy; terrorism and issues of internal security; legislation, budgets, economic developments and international agreements; actions by the UN and other international organisations; natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries. KRWE is primarily a political archive. Economics is only covered as far as is necessary to make sense of political developments, but all budgets and IMF loans are covered. Other themes that are not generally covered (except where there are major political repercussions) are crime; sport; celebrities; the arts; and culture. 


The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

Bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Literary Encyclopedia

The Literary Encyclopedia is an original literary reference work, written by specialists from universities around the world. It provides over 6400 authoritative profiles, usually around 2200 words in length, of authors, works and topics written by experts. 

Literature Online (LION)

Literature Online is a searchable database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. It comprises of the following services: African American Poetry American Drama 1714-1915 American Poetry Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Abell) Canadian Poetry Early American Fiction 1789-1875 Early English Prose Fiction Eighteenth-Century Fiction English Drama English Poetry English Poetry, Second Edition The Faber Poetry Library The King James Bible Nineteenth-Century Fiction Twentieth-Century African American Poetry Twentieth-Century American Poetry Twentieth-Century Drama Twentieth-Century English Poetry.


Medline with Full Text (EBSCOHost)

MEDLINE with full text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It also provides full text for more than 1,370 journals. Coverage: 1966 - present.

MIT Press: journals 

MIT Press Journals is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher founded 1969. Today, Journals publishes more than thirty titles. 

MLA International Bibliography 

Produced by the Modern Language Association of America and available through Literature Online, the MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,400,000 records. 


News Vault

Cross-searches all our subscribed Gale Group (InfoTrac) news databases:

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers - 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. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

19th Century British Library Newspapers parts 1 & 2 - Part 1 contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers, representing different political and cultural segments of 19th century British society. Part 2 extends the reach of the collection into additional regions and towns and also expands the political viewpoints represented within the collection.

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006 - a fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper that is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,000 pages, the archive offers an unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.

Times Digital Archive - as the "world's newspaper of record," The Times (of London) has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 makes 200 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th- and 20th-century history. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable - every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement.

Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.  


Oxford English Dictionary Online

The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary provides access to the material contained in the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions.

Oxford journals

Gateway for e-journals published by Oxford University Press. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

Oxford Scholarship Online

The Albert Sloman Library has access to the Philosophy, Political Science, Law, History, Business and Management, and Economics and Finance part of this resource. The authors range from classic thinkers to modern masters, including twentieth-century Nobel Prize winners, and come from across the globe.


Palgrave Connect

Contains e-book collections in the subject areas of : business & management; economics & finance; history; language & linguistics; literature & performing arts; political & international studies; social & cultural studies; and religion & philosophy. The Library subscribes to 3 of these: Business & Management 2000-2012, History 2000-2009 and Politics & International Studies 2000-2009. 

PEPWeb (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive) 

Searchable archive of the following journals: Annual of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-31, 1973-2003), Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Vols. 1-50, 1938-1994), Bulletin of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (Vols. 1-80, 1920-2000), Canadian journal of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-11, 1993-2003), Contemporary psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-39, 1964-2003), Gender and psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-12, 1996-2003), International forum of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-12, 1992-2003), The International journal of psycho-analysis (Vols. 1-84, 1920-2003), The International review of psycho-analysis (Vols. 1-19, 1974-1992), Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-31, 1973-2003), The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Vols. 1-51, 1953-2003), Journal of neuro-psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-5, 1999-2003), Progress in self-psychology (Vols. 1-19, 1983-2003), The Psychoanalytic quarterly (Vols. 1-72, 1932-2003), Psychoanalytic dialogues (Vols. 1-13, 1991-2003), Psychoanalytic inquiry (Vols. 1-23, 1981-2003), Psychoanalytic psychology (Vols. 1-20, 1984-2003), The Psychoanalytic study of the child (Vols. 1-58, 1945-2003), Scandinavian psychoanalytic review (Vols. 1-26, 1978-2003), Studies in gender and psychology (Vols. 1-4, 2000-2003) plus the full text of Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Freud's correspondence with Abraham, Ferenczi, Fliess, Jones and Jung, and 23 other classic psychoanalytic books. PEPWeb also provides access to PEPLiteratureSearch which searches both the Archive and current content from many of the journals included in the Archive. Abstracts and summaries of current articles are available through this database. N.B. The Library does not subscribe to current content on this database.

Philosophers Index

Index and abstracts from books and over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Covers aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics. 1940 to date. 

Project Muse

Provided by John Hopkins University Press, Project Muse is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Muse is fully searchable and allows keyword searching. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

Proquest Digital Dissertations - see Dissertations & Theses 

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES is a journal database holding the full text of 56 journals (most from Vol. 1, Issue 1 to the present) published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. 

Public Information Online

This database gives access to full-text Parliamentary Papers (Command Papers, House of Commons and House of Lords Papers, Bills, Explanatory Notes, Public Bill and Standing Committee Debates) for the 2006/07 Parliamentary Session onwards.


Sage Journals

Gateway for e-journals published by Sage. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

ScienceDirect

A database for research that contains information from over 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

Sports Discus

IIndexes web sites, journals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, audio-visual material in the following subject areas: sports medicine and science, exercise physiology, fitness and wellness. 1975 onwards. Books and dissertations: 1949 to the present. See also SIRCExpress (document delivery service for Sport Discus).

SpringerLink

Gateway for e-journals & e-books published by Springer. The Library subscribes to 2 e-book packages with Springer Link: Business and Economics books published in 2005 to 2007 & 2009 and Humanities, Social Sciences & Law books published in 2005 to 2008.


Taylor & Francis Online

Gateway for works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.


Web of Science/Web of Knowledge

Includes three large, multidisciplinary databases: Arts and humanities citation index, Social sciences citation index, and each database indexes the core journals in its wide general area, including reviews, editorials, letters, etc. They give bibliographic details of articles, and 60-70% of SCI and SSCI references include abstracts (AHCI contains very few abstracts), but do not contain the full text of journal articles.

Who's Who 

Who’s Who, published annually since 1849 and the first biographical book of its kind, is among the world’s most recognised and respected works of reference. It contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. 

Wiley Online Library

Provides access to the full text of journals published by Wiley. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.


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