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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Search engine created by the ISI Web of Knowledge to search quality science websites. Allows searching for specific scientific topics (organism, gene and drug), refines search by domain, and type of website including repositories.

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.

scitopia is a search portal that searches the bibliographic records of 15 leading science and technology societies; the patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office; US Government documents on the Department of Energy Information Bridge site.

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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The British Film Institute's [BFI] definitive guide to the Britain's film and TV history. Film and television clips can be viewed on campus only.

A resource for scripts, screenplays and transcripts on the net. Read movie scripts, television teleplays, radio transcripts from the golden age of radio, anime scripts and transcripts and plays.

Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive database of social care information. It is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. Some full text is available. The database is updated daily.

Social Theory contains over 145,000 pages of works by major social thinkers (e.g. Marx, Habermas, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, Durkheim, Foucault) as well as seminal texts from lesser known figures. The collection can be searched by keyword, browsed by author or title or searched using a thesaurus of sociological terms. Coverage is international and the collection includes original works and translations.

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SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database and  provides bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 820 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects.

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International database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records from books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, journals and newsletters. This database contains information on - sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training technique, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. It provides full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985.

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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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Comprehensive reference work devoted to the academic discipline of philosophy.

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 Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.