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Academic Search Complete
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Abstracts and indexing for over 11,000 journals from around the world with the full text coverage of over 7,000 titles, including more than 6,000 peer reviewed publications covering the fields of science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature.

 

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Academic Search Complete

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Association of Commonwealth Universities

 

Database of key contact information for over 500 commonwealth universities. You must register your BU e-mail address to gain access to this service.

Australian Education Index
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This database covers educational research, policy and practice. Entries are taken from Australian and international journals, conference proceedings and papers, books, research and technical reports. Coverage is 1979 to date, and whilst primarily concerned with Australia, also has an international perspective.

 

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British Education Index
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BEI, compiled by the University of Leeds, provides references to 350 British and European periodicals in education and training.
Coverage: 1975 - .

 

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ERIC
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Education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
Coverage: 1966 - .

 

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ERIC is also available on EBSCOhost

 

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Index to Theses (ASLIB)
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Index to Doctorate and Masters theses from Universities of Great Britain and Ireland, including links to the full text of over 50,000 theses via EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) or Institutional Repositories.
Coverage: 1716 - . (Abstracts available from 1986 - .)

 

 

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Jorum

 

Repository providing access to learning and teaching materials and encouraging the sharing, re-use and re-purposing of them between teaching staff at UK FE and HE institutions.

You do not need to log in to find and view resources in Jorum, as all Jorum resources are deposited under a Creative Commons (CC) licence, and are therefore “open access”. However, logging in will enable you to download a file or content package, which is then sent to you via email.

 

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PsycINFO
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Bibliographic database of the literature of psychology. In addition to covering core topics such as personality or mental health it also contains references on behavioural topics from related disciplines such as health care, education, business, organisational behaviour, consumer behaviour, criminal justice and artificial intelligence.
Coverage: 1872 - .

 

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PsycINFO

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Research into Higher Education Abstracts
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Published by Routledge on behalf of the Society for Research into Higher Education, it provides a regular survey of international periodicals relevant to the theory and practice of higher education and also offers a selective coverage of books and monographs. Coverage 1996 - .

 

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Teacher Reference Center
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Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

 

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Teacher Reference Center

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Web of Knowledge - Incorporating Conference Proceedings
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Citation databases in the subjects of Arts, Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences.
These bibliographic databases allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (bibliography), it is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work.

 

Web of Knowledge consists of:
Web of Science 1945-present
Science Citation Index 1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-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

 

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