Early Modern Books
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: 25,000 e-books covering the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries
- Level of access: full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources.
Ebook Central Academic Complete
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: Over 232,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: business and economics; computers, engineering and applied science; education; humanities; science, medicine and allied health; social sciences
- Type of content: academic books
- Level of access: full text.
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EBSCO Host Databases
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EBSCO Open Dissertations
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- Subject coverage: worldwide theses and dissertations
- Size/Scope: a free database with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world
- Type of content: master dissertations and doctoral theses
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Economic and Social Data Service
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- Subject coverage: national data archiving service with data sets from the Government, IMF, ILO, OECD, UN and other organisations
- Size/scope: over 5,000 computer-readable datasets
- Type of content: statistical data
- Level of access: statistics.
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Education Source
- Subject coverage: education and training
- Size/scope: over 2,850 journals
- Type of content: journal articles, books, conference proceedings
- Level of access: full text for more than 1,800 journals and 550 books.
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Emerald Insight
- Subject coverage: management, marketing, and accounting journals (plus multidisciplinary topics such as law, hospitality and tourism, quality etc.)
- Size/scope: Encompassing all 310 publications from the eJournals Premier Collection - the flagship collection from Emerald Publishing.
- Type of content: academic journal articles and open access eBooks
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Elsevier eLibrary
- Subject coverage: health, midwifery and nursing e-books published by Elsevier
- Type of content: e-books
- Level of access: full text.
The ENDS Report
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- Subject coverage: news, analysis and reference across the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda
- Size/scope: analysis, reports, documents, webinars and email bulletins
- Type of content: subject channels; air, energy, land, law, management, politics, products, waste, water, careers and countries
- Level of access: full text,once registered for an account with BU email address.
Epistemonikos
- Subject coverage: Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence
- Type of content: evidence-based information, systematic reviews
- Level of access: some full text available.
ERIC
- Subject coverage: education
- Size/scope: education database sponsored by the US Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1966 - present
- Level of access: abstract only.
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Espacenet - Patent Search
- Subject coverage: patents
- Size/scope: European Patent Office database of over 70 million documents from all European countries, including Great Britain. Provides information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to the present.
EThOS
- Subject coverage: UK PhD theses
- Size/scope: the records of over 250,000 UK theses with the added functionality to enable the requesting of digital copies of selected theses. Personal registration on EThOS is required to be able to download theses. Bournemouth University is an Open Access Sponsor of EThOS
- Type of content: thesis
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC)
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- Subject coverage: biomedical and life sciences
- Size/scope: 44 million abstracts and 9.7 million full text-text articles
- Type of content: research articles, preprints, micropublications, books, reviews, and protocols
- Level of access: full text available.
European Case Clearing House (ECCH)
- Subject coverage: cases from European Business Schools
- Type of content: case studies
- Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.
European Views of the Americas 1493-1750
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- Subject coverage: printed records about the Americas written before 1750
- Size/scope: 32,000 records
- Date range: 1493-1750
- Level of access: bibliographic.
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Europeana
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database from national libraries and cultural institutions of the European Union
- Size/scope: two million records
- Type of content: books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films
- Level of access: text, images, video.
Eurostat
- Subject coverage: European statistical information provided by the European Commission
- Type of content: statistics, tables, maps, books, reports, articles
- Level of access: full text and downloadable tables and maps.