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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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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Capacity Builder is a community development and social policy information resource. Targeted at academics, students and those who are responsible for community development, the service provides a one-stop source for local, regional and national information on affairs that affect communities throughout the United Kingdom. The site provides daily news updates, policy documents and briefing papers, information on legislation and benefits, statistics, and a daily record of relevant Parliamentary debates, questions and news. It also provides an extensive step-by-step information resource on how to initiate, develop and sustain a community organisation or charity.

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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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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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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.

Community Care Inform is an online information source for professionals working with children and families. The database includes information on key topics including: abuse; adoption and fostering; looked after children; substance abuse and youth justice. Content includes case law; practice guides and research reviews specially commissioned from key social care practitioners. Access is via username and password. Details available from the library tab on myBU.

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).

Contains cases, legislation, details of Parliamentary Bills, green and white papers, a daily update of new legal issues.

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Contains extensive law and tax materials. Provides access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury's Laws (the major legal encyclopaedia). Contains EU and international legal materials.

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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).

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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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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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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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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Westlaw UK is a comprehensive legal database. It includes Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Legal Journals Index provides abstracts of journal articles (and access to some full text journal articles). Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. If you require international materials, click on 'Westlaw International' (the link is located on the blue bar at the top of the screen within Westlaw).

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