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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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 Nursing Index is a nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English language titles. A useful resource for current trends in UK nursing care and policy for nursing and midwifery students, clinical, academic, and management staff and researchers. Coverage: 1994 -

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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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CINAHL covers virtually all English language core journals in nursing and allied health disciplines, as well as publications from the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing.
Coverage: 1982 - .

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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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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.

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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Growing collection of over 4000 e-books covering all academic subjects. The Bookshelf functionality is currently not available to Bournemouth University. However, it is possible to create an account for saving searches and adding notes.

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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).

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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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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