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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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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Searchable database of full text sets of British Standards (BS); British adopted European Standards (BS EN) and British adopted International Standards (BS ISO).

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Compendex is no longer available to Bournemouth University. You are advised to use Scopus instead.

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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Free access to selected scientific reference books, including:
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
Knovel Critical Tables
Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition)

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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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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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WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway searching national and international scientific databases and portals from over 60 participating countries. Access is freely available, much of the information retrieved being from open access sources.