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E-resources A-Z
Full A-Z list of the e-resources the Library subscribes to, plus useful free resources at the bottom of each page. Use the journals database for individual e-journal titles, and the Library catalogue for individual e-books.
Subscription resources
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| Abstracts in Social Gerontology (from EBSCO) |
Coverage back to 1990 |
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| Academic Library | Over 500 titles including politics, culture and media, plus the Electric Book Literature Collection of English literature classics |
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| Academic Search Complete (from EBSCO) |
Full text for many journal articles covering social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals, plus indexes and abstracts |
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book project | Nearly 2800 titles, with ca 500 added each year |
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| ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) | Full text of all ACM journals, magazines, newsletters, etc, plus conference proceedings |
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| AFI Catalog (American Film Institute) | American film information; comprehensive coverage for 1893-1974, and selected coverage beyond |
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| All BUFVC (beta) (British Universities Film & Video Council) | Nine large online databases of film, TV and radio content from 1896 onwards. You can search millions of records in one go, or one collection at a time |
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| America: History and Life (from EBSCO) |
Index of literature covering the history and culture of North America, including 1700 journals from 1910 onwards |
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| American Association for Cancer Research | Full text access to 1 journal title |
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| American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | Full text access to 2 journal titles |
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| American Chemical Society (ACS) | Access to 40 full text titles from 1996 onwards, plus the ACS archives from 1879-1995 |
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| American Institute of Physics (from Scitation) |
Full-text physics journals, plus access to the SPIN indexing database |
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| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | Full-text access to all AMS journal titles, except Journal of the AMS |
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| American Medical Association | Access limited to selected articles or parts of articles |
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| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) | Full-text access to 12 journal titles |
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| American Statistical Association (ASA) | Full-text access to 5 journal titles |
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| American West, The | Manuscripts, maps, and ephemeral material |
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| Analytical Abstracts (from Royal Society of Chemistry ) |
Techniques and applications in the analytical sciences, 1980 onwards |
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| Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL) (from Literature Online) | Lists articles, books and reviews concerning English language and literature published worldwide from 1920 onwards |
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| Annual Reviews | Full text from selected Annual Review volumes |
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| Anthropological Index | Early 1960s onwards |
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| AnthroSource | 47 titles related to anthropology, some going back as far as 1888 |
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| APA E-books Collection | Psychology textbooks published by the American Psychological Association in 2011 and 2012 |
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| Archival Sound Recordings (from the British Library) | 45,200 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments |
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| Armed Conflict Database | Information on armed conflicts worldwide |
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| Art and Architecture Complete (from EBSCO) | Provides full-text coverage from many periodicals and books on art and architecture |
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| Art Index Retrospective (from EBSCO) | Access to over 50 years of art literature covering a wide range of publications |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (part of Web of Science) |
Abstracting and indexing for more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals, covers 1975 to the present |
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| ARTstor Digital Library | Over one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research |
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| Atypon (formerly Extenza) | Contains journal titles from a range of publishers. Full text access to approximately 15 journal titles |
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| Australian Education Index (from ProQuest) |
Coverage from 1979 onwards |
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| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (from EBSCO) | Architecture and design, history of architecture, city planning 1934 onwards |
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Recommended free resources
| Resource | Description |
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| ABC Chemistry | Free e-journals for chemistry |
| ADIT (Art & Design Index to Theses) | Comprehensive index of postgraduate research theses in art and design in the UK; includes abstracts. |
| ADS (Astrophysics Data System) | From NASA; includes Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy |
| AERA SIG (American Education Research Association) | Free e-journals for education |
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts | American and English literature, plus western philosophy |
| All that JAS (Journal Abbreviation Sources) | Selection of sites containing journal title abbreviations |
| AMS Books Online | Free (generally older) books published by the American Mathematical Society |
| Australian Dictionary of Biography |