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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 LibrarySearch to find individual e-books and e-journal titles.
Subscription resources
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| Abstracts in Social Gerontology (from EBSCO) |
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Coverage back to 1990 |
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| Academic Library |  |
Over 500 titles including politics, culture and media |
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| Academic Search Complete (from EBSCO) |
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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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| AccessScience (from McGraw Hill) |  |
Science reference resource covering all major scientific disciplines; offers links to primary research material, videos, animations, and curriculum maps |
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book project | |
Nearly 4,300 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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| Alexander Street Press videos | |
High quality educational videos on a vast range of subjects. Watch videos, save clips and make playlists. |
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All BUFVC (beta) (British Universities Film & Video Council)
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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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| Alliance Magazine | |
Online magazine on philanthropy and worldwide social investment |
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| Altmetric Explorer | |
Tool for researchers to track the impact and attention received by millions of research outputs |
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| America: History and Life (from EBSCO) |
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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) |
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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 National Biography | |
Biographies of over 18,000 men and women from all eras and walks to life, whose lives have shaped America |
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| American Periodicals (from ProQuest) | |
Database of periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals |
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| American Physiological Society | |
Find over 3,700 issues from 13 APS journals from 1898 to 1998. |
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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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| The American West (from Adam Matthew) | |
Manuscripts, maps, and ephemeral material |
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| Analytical Abstracts (from Royal Society of Chemistry) |
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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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| Anthropology Online (includes Ethnographic Video Online) | |
Resource for the study of human culture and behavior, which allows researchers to explore a wide range of materials, from documentaries and field notes to written ethnographies and reference works. |
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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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Architects Journal
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Important weekly architectural magazine, concentrating mainly on British architecture |
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Archival Sound Recordings (from the British Library)
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45,200 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments |
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| Archive Explorer (from Adam Matthew) | |
Search all Adam Matthew collections we subscribe to together in a single search:
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| Armed Conflict Database | |
Information on armed conflicts worldwide |
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| Art and Architecture Archive (from ProQuest) | |
Full-text archive of magazines with key research material for art and architecture, dating from the late 19th century to the 21st. |
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| Art Source (from EBSCO) | |
Database covering a broad range of art and architecture related subjects, and including many unique sources not previously available |
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| Artemis Primary Sources (from Gale) | |
Search 16 primary source databases from Gale Cengage with a single search box, including major historical, newspaper, and periodical archives. It includes interesting tools like "term frequency" (see the frequency of your search term over time) and "term clusters" (see what other terms commonly occur in relation to your search term) |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index (part of Web of Science) |
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Abstracting and indexing for more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals, covers 1975 to the present |
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| Arts Premium Collection (from ProQuest) | |
Searches thousands of journals in the arts, including art, design, humanities, music, performing arts and film. Includes the Performing Arts Periodicals Database, AFI Catalog, Film Index International, and FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database. |
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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)
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Contains journal titles from a range of publishers. Full text access to approximately 15 journal titles |
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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 |
| 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 |