Databases
Find details of relevant journal articles, books, reports, and other materials. A database service can be general or focused on a specific subject area.
Most services work with the 360 Link service, which allows you to easily check if you have access to the full text of the item you need - just click the 360 Link to Full Text icon within the citation (if available).
Alphabetical list of services
| Services A-B | Notes | Works with |
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| Abstracts in Social Gerontology (from EBSCOHost) | A mixed full text and bibliographic service. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Academic Search Complete (from EBSCOHost) | A mixed full text and bibliographic service for all subjects. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| ACM Guide to computing literature | Includes computing books, journals, proceedings and theses. | 360 Link |
| AFI Catalog (American Film Institute) | Leading resource of American film information, covering history of American cinema from 1893 to 1974. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| America: History and Life (from EBSCOHost) | Index of literature covering the history and culture of North America including indexing for 1700 journals from 1964-. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Analytical Abstracts (from the RSC) | Techniques and applications in the analytical sciences. 1980- | |
| L'anneé philologique | Comprehensive index to scholarly work in Classical Studies, covering journal articles, books, and conference proceedings from 1924- until two years ago. | |
| Anthropological Index | Early 1960s onwards | |
| Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL): Literature Online (from Chadwyck Healey) | Lists articles, books and reviews concerning English language and literature published worldwide 1920-. Part of the Literature Online service. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Architects' Journal Buildings Library (AJBL) | Database of exemplar architecture projects, most from the last 20 years but including major projects back to 1900 | |
| Art and Architecture Complete (from EBSCOHost) | Provides full-text coverage from many periodicals and books on art and architecture. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Art Index Retrospective (from EBSCOHost) | Access to over half a century of art literature, covering a host of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (included in Web of Science) | 1975- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| ADS from NASA | NASA Astrophysics Data System. Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation. | |
| Australian Education Index from ProQuest | 1979- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (from EBSCOHost) | Architecture and design, history of architecture, city planning 1934- Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| BIAB (British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography) | Free access to ca 200,000 records covering publications from 1695 onwards | |
Bibliography of British and Irish History When the '360 Link' icon appears next to books in the results, please ignore it, as 360 Link only looks up journal articles, not books. The supplier is unable to turn off the 360 Link icon for books. Please search the Library catalogue to check if the book is available. |
Bibliographic data on British and Irish history and relations with the Empire and the Commonwealth, from 55 BC to the present. This database has superseded the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, which has ceased to be a free resource.
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360 Link |
| Bibliography of the History of Art Currently only available via The Getty Institute Conducting Research web page. |
1989- No new bibliographical records have been added since October 2009 but may continue in the future. |
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| BioOne | Index (and full-text) access to inter-related biological, ecological and environmental journal literature. Full text articles only available from BioOne.1. To search for these go to Browse and select 'By Collection'. |
360 Link RefWorks |
| BookData from Neilson | Books in print in the UK and USA. Limited user licences, please logout when you have finished. | |
| BOPCRIS | Index to British official publications 1688-1995. | |
| British Education Index from ProQuest | 1975- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Business Source Complete Business Searching Interface (from EBSCOHost) | A mixed full text and bibliographic service for management related subjects (from EBSCOhost). Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Services C-D | Notes | Works with |
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| CancerLit | Index to cancer literature 1966- | |
| Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions (from the RSC) | Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis. 2001- | |
| ChemWeb Journals | Free search service for approx 450 chemistry related journals. | |
| CiteSeerX (beta) | Indexes mainly computer and information science articles on the web. Over 750,000 articles indexed. Includes citation indexing. | |
| Cochrane Library | Database of systematic reviews and controlled trials from health and medical research. Freely accessible via the NeLH to users in Great Britain. | RefWorks: view instructions |
| Construction Information Service (CIS) (from IHS Technical Indexes) | Construction related documents (from IHS Technical Indexes). Includes:
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| Criminal Justice Abstracts (from EBSCOHost) | Covers journals, books, reports, etc, on criminology and related disciplines. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Current index to statistics | Index to statistical literature 1975- | |
| DBLP (originally DataBase systems and Logic Programming) | Computer science service (covering major journals and conferences) from University of Trier. | |
| Drugscope | Index to literature on narcotics and their effects - free web interface. | |
| DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) | Index to the very large number of Open Access Journals now available. |
| Services E-H | Notes | Works with |
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| EBSCOHost select database page | Use this screen to select any of the databases available from EBSCOHost. You may select and cross-search multiple databases. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| EconPapers | Indexes over 600,000 full text research papers in Economics from the RePEc service. | |
| Engineer-it Enhanced (from IHS Technical Indexes) | Index to construction related suppliers. | |
| Energy Citations Database | Combines Nuclear Science Abstracts (NSA) and Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB) - 1948- (mostly full text). | |
| ERIC (from ProQuest) | Educational Resources Information Center database. 1966- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| European Sources Online | Indexes, and sometimes hosts, documents published by and about the European Union. Includes official publications, reports, newspaper articles, etc. | |
| European Views of the Americas (from EBSCOHost) | Index of printed records about the Americas written in Europe 1493-1750 | RefWorks: view instructions |
| Film Index International (FII) | General and bibliographic information on films and film personalities. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Film Indexes Online combined access to:
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You can search all three databases together or select which you want to search. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| FindArticles (from LookSmart) | Indexes over 10m articles from academic and non-academic journals and magazines. | |
| Google Scholar (Kent link) | Indexes academic articles, books, preprints, etc, from a wide range of sources and includes citation links. Note: not all items indexed are freely available in full text. | RefWorks: view instructions |
| GreenFILE (from EBSCOHost) | Covers all aspects of human impact on the environment in scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Historical Abstracts (from EBSCOHost) | Historical coverage of the world (except the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Services I-I | Notes | Works with |
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| IEEE Xplore (IEL) | Access to all IEEE and IET journals/magazines and Conference proceedings and IEEE Standards (over 3 million documents) | RefWorks: view instructions |
| IIPA (International Index to the Performing Arts) | Indexes nearly 300,000 articles from 1864- (now includes some full text). | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (from OvidSP) | 1985- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Index to Legal Periodicals (Wilson Web) | Index to US, UK and European legal journals. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Index of Christian Art | Covers from early apostolic times up to the middle of the 16th century | |
| International Abstracts in Operations Research (IAOR) (from Palgrave Macmillan) | Database of OR/MS (Operations Research and the Management Sciences) literature | |
| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full text (from EBSCOHost) | Index plus full text from over 100 journal titles and over 50 books. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (from ProQuest) | Interdisciplinary (although main focus on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology) social sciences index to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters 1951- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| International Index to Film Periodicals Plus from FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) | Bibliographical resource offering coverage from academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Some include full text. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| International Medieval Bibliography | Index to journals on the European Middle Ages (ca 450-1500) - 1980- | 360 Link |
| International Political Science Abstracts (from EBSCOhost) | Indexes nearly 900 journals in political science published from 1975 to the present. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) Currently only available via The Getty Institute Conducting Research web page. |
1975-1989. | |
| ISI Proceedings (part of Web of Knowledge) | An index to the proceedings of important conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Services J-O | Notes | Works with |
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| JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online) | Searches 540,000 items in 84 Japanese institutional repositories. | |
| Journal Citation Reports from Web of Knowledge | Information on Journal Impact Factors, etc. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| LABC Type Approval (from IHS-Technical Indexes) | Local Authority Building Control Type Approval | |
| Lexis®Library Alternative UK Federation (Shibboleth) link |
Wide range of UK case materials, consolidated legislation, journals, commentary (including Halsbury's Laws). Also includes material from other jurisdictions. Click the Sources tab for full list of subscribed sources. |
RefWorks: view instructions |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (from EBSCOHost) | Index to library and information science journals from the 1960s- Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Literature Resource Center (Gale) | A collection of databases and indexes covering literature, language and linguistics. It includes the MLA Bibliography, the Literary-Historical Timeline, Encyclopaedia of Literature, and a full-text collection of literary criticism, bibliography and biography. | 360 Link |
| MagPortal | Indexes over 150 free to access e-magazines, mostly non-academic. | |
| MathSciNet |
E-version of Mathematical Reviews, indexes over 2 million items covering all areas of mathematics. Note: provides article/journal linking but does not display the 360 Link icon. | |
| Medline | A number of free interfaces to the Medline database are available: the two most commonly used ones are PubMed and the NLM Gateway | RefWorks (PubMed) |
| Methods in Organic Synthesis (from the RSC) | Developments in organic synthesis. 1998- | |
| Microsoft Academic Search (Beta) | Information about academic papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from multiple sources. Click on the directional arrow to see extra features. | |
| MLA Bibliography: Literature Resource Center | Modern Language Association index to material in literature, language and linguistics 1963-. From the Literature Resource Centre service. | 360 Link RefWorks |
| MLA Bibliography: InfoTrack | As above but using the InfoTrack interface. | 360 Link |
| MyLibrary@Ockham | Indexes over 400,000 articles from institutional repositories | |
| NDAD(National Digital Archive of Datasets) UK | Catalogues and provides online access to archived digital data and documents from UK government. | |
| Nexis®UK | Newspaper articles (UK, European and US broadsheets and tabloids) and business information | |
| OAIster | Indexes over 12 million records from over 850 institutional e-print repositories. | |
Occupational Health and Safety Information Service |
Up-to-date reference source of key health & safety documentation relevant to the workplace | |
| Open J-Gate | Indexes over 4000 open access journals. | |
| Orlando | Women's writing in the British Isles from 612 BC: authors' lives, writing careers, etc. | |
| OvidSP select database page | Use this screen to select any of the databases available from OvidSP. You can select and cross-search multiple databases. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Services P-R | Notes | Works with |
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| Palmer's Index | Index to 'The Times' newspaper 1790-1905. | 360 Link |
| Philosophers Index (from OvidSP) | Index to literature in philosophy 1940- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| PrimateLit | Bibliographic database for primatology | 360 Link |
| PsycARTICLES (from EBSCOHost) | Full-text coverage of APA and CPA journals 1988- Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| PsycINFO (from EBSCOHost) |
Index to psychology literature 1881- Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| PubMed | Index to bioscience, medical, nursing and allied health journal literature 1965- | RefWorks |
| RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing) | Index to trade and academic journals. | |
| REGARD | Information on UK social science research and related publications. | |
| Regional Business News (from EBSCOHost) | Includes 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from the US. Mobile view available |
360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Religious and Theological Abstracts | Index to articles on theology and religion 1957- |
| Services S-Z | Notes | Works with |
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| Science Citation Index Expanded (included in Web of Science) | 1970- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Scirus | Free database of Elsevier science journal citations, and quality assessed web pages. | RefWorks |
| SCOPUS Click Login (top right), then Go to the Athens / Other Institution login, then choose from the 'Select your region or group' drop down list. |
SCOPUS is a large and important abstract and citation database. It provides extensive cover of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and includes arts & humanities information. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Social Care Online | Searchable gateway to information and literature on social and community care. | |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) | 1970- | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| SSRN (Social Science Research Network) eLibrary Search or browse |
Open access repository for journal articles and gray literature. Registration (free) required to access all functionality. |
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| Specify-it Enhanced (from IHS Technical Indexes) | Building supply companies, index and catalogues. | |
| SPIN (American Institute of Physics) | Contains 1.5 million physics related references. Additional to the Scitation service. | RefWorks: view instructions |
| Toxline | Toxicology literature online, part of the TOXNET gateway. | |
| TRIP | Database of links to online health and medical articles. | |
| UKOP | UK Official Publications. Note: select Account login tab on arrival at main page. |
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| Web of Knowledge | Over-arching service that contains Web of Science, ISI Proceedings and ISI Journal Citation Reports. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Web of Science (WoS) - part of Web of Knowledge | Includes sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities citation indexes. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
| Westlaw Alternative Home Organisation (Shibboleth) link |
Very large amount of legal information, including the contents of over 670 law journals. How to use the service |
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| Zentralblatt MATH | Abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. | |
| Zetoc You can also subscribe to email and RSS alerts via Zetoc Alert and Zetoc RSS. |
Contents Page database from the British Library, indexing content from the early 1990s onward. 20,000 journal titles and 16,000 conference proceedings published each year. | 360 Link RefWorks: view instructions |
Who indexes this title?
When you find an article you are interested in you may want to identify a service that indexes that title. The JISC ADAT service can do this (for up to 15 major services) although it was really designed to allow librarians/information specialists to compare two or more services in depth.