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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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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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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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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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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