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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The Centre for Policy on Ageing database of information. References (most with summaries) to books, journal articles, statistical sources, reports, government publications on older age issues. Also details, history and activities of over 4,000 organisations in the field of older age, a calendar of events covering courses and conferences, plus the CPA's code of good practice for residential and nursing home care. Aimed at service providers, practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students.
Coverage: 1975 - .

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BestBETs is a database of rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions principally in emergency medicine, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature. The database also includes a significant number of BETs (=Best Evidence Topics) covering cardiothoracics, nursing, primary care and paediatrics.

Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Located on Select a Database tab on Web of Knowledge.

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The British National Formulary (BNF) provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines. It details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.

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Archive of full text documents, including current news topics, parliamentary debates, government papers, legislation and statistics, and a bibliographic database of journal articles, all relating to child health and welfare issues.

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Clarke's online is intended for use by scientists to identify and quantify drugs and poisons in body fluids, tissue samples and pharmaceutical and industrial products.

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The global resource for best evidence in healthcare, comprising a collection of databases of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, health economics and methodologies. Access to The Cochrane Library is free for all residents of England - no login is required.

Freely accessible interactive database of H1N1 (influenza) documents in PDF format. These are selected from government agencies and other authoritative sites (copyrights permitting or with permission) and include reports and publications, posters and sample forms. Ebrary intend to maintain the site by adding new information as it is published.

Formerly known as the National Library for Health, Health Information Resources is the gateway to online health care resources for all who work within or for the NHS. It offers access to the full text of much material which cannot be found in traditional literature databases, such as reports from Governments, charities, Royal Colleges and other professional organisations, guidelines and protocols, specially commissioned reviews, and clinical images. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

Medicines Complete provides online access to some of the worlds leading drug, toxicology and healthcare resources. BU has full text subscriptions to British National Formulary, Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference, MeReC Bulletins and Stockley's Drug Interactions.

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Medline® is the bibliographic database of the United States National Library of Medicine. It is the computerised counterpart of Index Medicus.
Coverage: 1966 - .

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Aims to provide a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care. It includes a number of different types of information including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents. NHS Evidence incorporates the former National Library for Health. Most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account (on application to an NHS Trust library).

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) is a literature database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vermont, USA. It contains references to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events worldwide. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
Coverage : 1871-

Database of full-text articles on current issues in psychology from 42 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organisations.
Coverage: 1988 - .

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Full text database of over 27,000 chapters in PDF from more than 1800 books published by the American Psychological Association, from 1953 to date, and other psychology publishers. Database also includes over 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

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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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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948 with linking to fulltext articles within PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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Note: Medline is the largest component of PubMed and approximately 5,200 journals are currently indexed for Medline. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

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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Comprehensive science specific search engine aimed specifically at scientists and researchers for locating scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the web. To enable open url full text linking from the search screen select Search preferences; in the Library Partner Links box click on Enable and select Bournemouth University from the drop down box; save preferences demo.

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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Stockley's provides information on interactions between therapeutic drugs, proprietary medicines, herbal medicines, foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse. Each monograph typically contains a summary, and sections covering clinical evidence, mechanism, clinical importance, and management.

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The TOXLINE database is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database for toxicology. TOXLINE covers much of the standard journal literature in toxicology, complemented with references from an assortment of specialized journals and other sources listed below. TOXNET® offers features such as relevancy ranking, and flexible sorting and downloading options.

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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Access to the content of over 700 Wiley-Blackwell journals in science, technology and medicine.

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