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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Online catalogue describing archival collections held by over 140 UK universities and colleges. The Archives Hub is unique and the only reliable source of information about archival collections in higher education institutions in the UK.

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion it will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

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Access to census data resources from 1971 to date. First time users must complete the one off registration procedure at the Census Registration Service.

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UK Borders (United Kingdom Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study) provides access to digitised boundary datasets of the UK in many GIS formats. First time users must complete the one off registration procedure at the Census Registration Service.

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Access to census interaction data relating to flows of people between places and interactions between origins and destinations. First time users must complete the one off registration procedure at the Census Registration Service.

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Access to samples of individual census records which have been adapted to preserve respondents' confidentiality. First time users must complete the one off registration procedure at the Census Registration Service.

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Access to over 120 high quality online reference books including encyclopaedias, dictionaries and thesauri in a wide range of subject areas. Search single titles, subject clusters or all titles. Converting units of measurement.

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Archive reflecting the cultural heritage, natural environment and local histories of Dorset.

Collection of more than 50,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: Business and Economics; Computers, Engineering and Applied Science; Education; Humanities; Science, Medicine and Allied Health; Social Sciences. Use the QuickView option to view e-books. It is not necessary to install the Ebrary Reader.

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Formerly NetLibrary, the Library has purchased over 500 e-books e- books covering a wide variety of subject areas including archaeology, business, economics, marketing, media studies, nursing and tourism. The e-books may be browsed or searched.. In addition, thousands of publicly accessible e-books are also available.

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Europeana, Europe's multimedia online library provides access to more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films online from national libraries and cultural institutions of the European Union's 27 member states.
Created by the European Commission,  it is run by the European Digital Library Foundation and hosted by the Dutch national library, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to good quality web resources for education and research in the areas of science and technology, arts and humanities, social sciences and health and life sciences.
NB. After July 2011 Intute will be available, but it will no longer be maintained or updated.

International database that identifies leading scientists and scholars.

Fully searchable images of 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

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The JSTOR archive is a digitized collection of core scholarly journals. Bournemouth University subscribes to Arts and Sciences I, II and III; Biological Sciences and the Business Collections. Lists of available titles can be viewed at the Index page of the A to Z of e-journals.

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An illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.

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Online edition of the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words.

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Access to over 150 core language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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Access to 390 full text scholarly journals from SAGE. Journals cover topics in the arts and humanities and social sciences including topics in communications, health, management, media, politics and psychology.

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This multidisciplinary resource with a strong social science focus consists of a collection of over 60 reference books and encyclopaedias published by Sage.

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Search or browse the content of over 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals.

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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the sciences and social sciences. Updated daily, it indexes15,000 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, of which 16 million records include references going back to 1996 and 17 million pre-1996 records going back as far as 1841.

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Access to the full text of 1100 Springer and Kluwer e-journals in a wide range of subject areas including life sciences; humanities; computer science; biomedicine; clinical medicine and economics.
Coverage: 1997 - .

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Note for off-campus use: Select Bournemouth University (Shibboleth) from the login box on the right hand side of the Springerlink homepage.

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Access to Government Publications, provided by the Stationery Office. There are links to Parliament and HMSO searchable sites. Many documents can be downloaded free in full text.

Internet edition of Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory containing information about over 240,000 periodicals, including 55,000 ceased titles. Information provided includes, bibliographic, subject, contact and pricing.

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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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Who's Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. Who Was Who contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898: the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history.

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WorldCat consists of a catalogue of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

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British Library's database of the tables of contents of 20,000 journals and the details of approximately 16,000 conference proceedings published each year.  The database covers a range of subjects in science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance and the humanities.
Coverage: 1993 - .

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