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- Subject coverage:Â Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope:Â over 17,000 titles
- Type of content:Â journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access:Â Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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Art & Architecture Complete
- Subject coverage:Â art, architecture, design
- Size/scope:Â over 1,000 titles
- Type of content:Â journal articles, books, images
- Level of access:Â full text of over 600 titles.
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BoB
- Subject coverage: access TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option. Option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days. Search BoB to access other users' recorded programmes. Permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra. Content plays in your web browser with access available both on and off campus.Â
- Type of content:Â TV and radio programmes
- Date range:Â 2007 to present
- Level of access:Â ÃÛÌÒAV staff/student login required;Â registration required on first use. Available off-campus, but not outside the UK.
Communication Source
- Subject coverage:Â communication studies, mass media, journalism
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìýover 1000 journal titles
- Type of content:Â journal articles, encyclopaedias, handbooks
- Level of access:Â full text of over 600 journals.
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CREDOreference
- Subject coverage:Â online reference books including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and thesauri in a wide range of subject areas. Search single titles, subject clusters or all titles.Â
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìýover 600
- Type of content:Â ebooks
- Level of access:Â Some full text available.
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Ebook Central Academic Complete
- Subject coverage:Â multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìý146,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: business and economics; computers, engineering and applied science; education; humanities; science, medicine and allied health; social sciences
- Type of content:Â academic books
- Level of access:Â full text.
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EBSCO e-books
- Subject coverage:Â multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope:Â over 500 e-books e-books covering a wide variety of subject areas including archaeology, business, economics, marketing, media studies, nursing and tourism
- Type of content:Â academic books
- Level of access:Â full text.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
The Guardian Digitised Newspaper
- Subject coverage:Â news
- Size/scope:Â Guardian Digitised Newspaper provides a full facsimile of The Guardian enabling you to see the pages as they were published
- Type of content:Ìý²Ô±ð·É²õpaper articles
- Date range:Â 2010 to date (3 month delay)
- Level of access:Â full text available.
The Independent Digital Archive
- Subject coverage:Â news
- Size/scope:Â The Independent Digital Archive provides full facsimile, searchable copies of the entire run of the newspaper, from its very first issue in 1986 until the end of 2012, enabling you to see all the stories and pages as they were published. Users can search, retrieve and browse every article, page and edition of the newspaper, gaining insight into a crucial period of 20th/21st century culture and society and how the media represented it. Featuring journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum, the paper is generally regarded as centrist, taking idiosyncratic views on the free market, social issues and culture
- Type of content:Â newspaper articles
- Date range:Â 1986-2016
- Level of access:Â full text available
JSTOR
- Subject coverage:Â multidisciplinary database
- Size/scope:Â 1,500 academic journals indexed
- Type of content:Â academic journal article
- Date range:Â 1780-
- Level of access:Â some full text available.
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JSTOR Images
- Subject coverage:Â multidisciplinary database
- Type of content:Â thousands of images/art work contributed by partnering institutions like universities, museums, community and private collections from around the world
- Level of access:Â search results exclude items outside of our subscriptions.
Kanopy
- Subject coverage:Â multi-disciplinary database of educational films
- Type of content:Â online streaming audio-visual.
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PressReader
- Subject coverage:Ìý²Ô±ð·É²õ±è²¹±è±ð°ù²õ
- Size/scope:Â over 2,000 UK and international newspapers
- Type of content:Â all major daily and business newspapers, also general business and industry publications
- Type of content:Â facsimiles of newspapers
- Date range:Â last 365 days for most titles (The Guardian last 14 days only)
- Level of access:Â full text.
Project Muse - Humanities Collection
- Subject coverage:Â articles from journals in the humanities from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies
- Type of content:Â journal articles
- Level of access:Â full text articles.
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SAGE Reference Online
- Subject coverage:Â multidisciplinary database focusing on social sciences
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìý60 reference books and encyclopaedias published by Sage
- Type of content:Â reference books (e.g. dictionaries and encyclopaedias)
- Level of access:Â full text available.
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Sage Research Methods
- Subject coverage:Â humanities and social sciences
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìýover 1200 titles supporting research process and methodology
- Type of content:Â books; journal articles, dictionaries; encyclopaedias and videos
- Level of access:Â full text
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Scopus
- Subject coverage:Â sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Â citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
- Type of content:Â citation data
- Date range:Â 1841-present
- Level of access:Â some links to full text available.
The Times Digital Archive
- Subject coverage:Ìý²Ô±ð·É²õ
- Size/scope:Â an excellent resource for historical and biographical research. TDA provides a full facsimile of The Times enabling you to see the pages as they were published. The paper of record, it is an authoritative source of contemporary reporting and commentary on events for the past 200 years
- Type of content:Ìý²Ô±ð·É²õpaper articles
- Date range:Ìý1785-2019
- Level of access:Â full text available.
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Visual Arts Data Service
- Subject coverage:Ìý¾±³¾²¹²µ±ð²õ
- Size/ scope:Â 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK
- Type of content:Â images and pictures.
Web of Science
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- Subject coverage:Â arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
- ³§¾±³ú±ð/²õ³¦´Ç±è±ð:Ìýcitation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
     Web of Science consists of:
     Science Citation Index 1899-present
     Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
     Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
     Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
     Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
     Medline 1950-present
     Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
- Type of content:Â academic journal article
- Date range:Â 1945-
- Level of access:Â some links to full text.