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Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub (SAaRIH)

>> Go to Safeguarding Adults at Risk Information Hub (SAaRIH) 

  • Subject coverage: information resource for practitioners, managers, researchers, educators and policy makers (across all relevant disciplines and agencies and sectors) with an interest in adult safeguarding and protection. The aim is to provide a single point of focus for individuals to access relevant and current information to assist them with understanding, practice, and decision making in relation to vulnerable adults
  • Type of content: consultations; court judgements and judicial reviews; training and events; inspections and inquiry reports; legislation; miscellaneous publications; monitoring implementation/review reports; news; policies, standards and practice guides; regulatory body determinations; research; serious case reviews; featured cases; statistics; toolkits; training and development resources; videos; voluntary and community sector resources; Northern Ireland Adult Safeguarding Partnership
  • Level of access: some full text available.

Sage Journals Online

>> Go to Sage Journals Online

  • Subject coverage: arts and humanities and social sciences including topics in communications, health, management, media, politics and psychology
  • Size/scope: 390 full text academic journals
  • Type of content: academic journals
  • Level of access: full text available.

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SAGE Reference Online

>> Go to SAGE Reference Online

  • Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on social sciences
  • Size/scope: 60 reference books and encyclopaedias published by Sage
  • Type of content: reference books (e.g. dictionaries and encyclopaedias)
  • Level of access: full text available.

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Sage Research Methods

>> Go to Sage Research Methods

  • Subject coverage: humanities and social sciences
  • Size/scope: over 1200 titles supporting research process and methodology
  • Type of content: books; journal articles, dictionaries; encyclopaedias and videos
  • Level of access: full text

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ScienceDirect

>> Go to ScienceDirect

  • Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
  • Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
  • Type of content: academic journal articles
  • Date range: 1872 onwards
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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SciVal

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Linked to Scopus, SciVal is a benchmarking tool that provides quantitative analyses of team or researcher performance, complementing the peer-review approach.

Scopus

>> Go to Scopus

  • Subject coverage: sciences and social sciences
  • Size/scope: citation database indexing 15,000 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
  • Type of content: citation data
  • Date range: 1841-present
  • Level of access: some links to full text available.

Screendaily

>> Go to Screendaily

  • Subject coverage: a source of news and feature articles for the film industry, and includes access to Screen International
  • Type of content: news and current awareness
  • Level of access: full text.

Note: to ensure access to the full content, users will need to register using their bournemouth.ac.uk email address.

ScreenOnline

>> Go to ScreenOnline

  • Subject coverage: film and TV history
  • Size/scope: the British Film Institute's [BFI] definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history
  • Type of content: mixed media.

Note: Film and television clips can be viewed on campus only

SIGN guidelines (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)

>> Go to SIGN guidelines

  • Subject coverage: health guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [SIGN]
  • Type of content: evidence-based information
  • Level of access: some full text available.

Simply Scripts

>> Go to Simply Scripts

  • Subject coverage: scripts, screenplays and transcripts
  • Size/scope: movie scripts, television teleplays, radio transcripts from the golden age of radio, anime scripts and transcripts and plays
  • Type of content: scripts
  • Level of access: full text available.

Skills for Study

>> Go to Skills for Study

  • Subject coverage: study skills
  • Size/scope: Skills for Study is based on the work of Stella Cottrell, author of The Study Skills Handbook
  • Type of content: interactive modules on reading and writing skills; critical thinking; research skills; projects, dissertations and reports; exam and revision skills; group work and presentations; confidence with numbers; time management
  • Level of access: full text.

Social Theory

>> Go to Social Theory

  • Subject coverage: sociology, social theory
  • Size/scope: 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. Coverage is international and the collection includes original works and translations
  • Type of content: book chapters, scholarly papers
  • Level of access: full text available.

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Social Care Online

>> Go to Social Care Online - Registration is required before you can sign-in.

  • Subject coverage: social care
  • Size/scope: it is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
  • Type of Content: research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
  • Level of access: some full text available.

SocINDEX with Full Text

>> Go to SocINDEX with Full Text

  • Subject coverage: sociology and social work practice
  • Size/scope: bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 860 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
  • Type of content: academic journal article, books, conference papers
  • Level of access: full text of over 860 journals, 830 books and 16,800 conference papers.

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SportBusiness Professional

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  • Subject coverage: sports, events, sectors and organisations
  • Type of content: growing collection of industry reports, magazine articles, news articles and videos
  • Date range: intelligence reports from the past decade. SportBusiness International issues since Jan 2013 to present. Industry news material dating back the past 10 years to present
  • Level of access: full text available.

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text

>> Go to SPORTDiscus with Full Text

  • Subject coverage: sports
  • Size/scope: international database indexing and abstracting over 61,000 records. 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 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing, with more than 700,000 full-text articles
  • Type of content: academic journal articles
  • Date range: 1985-present
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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Springer Protocols

>> Go to Springer Protocols

  • Subject coverage: life sciences protocols providing individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories
  • Size/scope: 29,000 protocols published between 1981 and 2012.

Springerlink

>> Go to Springerlink

  • Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
  • Size/scope: 1100 Springer and Kluwer e-journals in a wide range of subject areas including life sciences; humanities; computer science; biomedicine; clinical medicine and economics
  • Type of content: academic journal articles
  • Date range: 1997-present
  • Level of access: full text available.

Note: Select Bournemouth University (Shibboleth) from the login box on the right hand side of the Springerlink homepage

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Stash

>> Go to Stash

Access to a growing archive of thousands of motion projects, showcasing a collection of motion design, animation and VFX projects plus behind-the-scenes features and interviews. 

Stockley's Drug Interactions

>> Go to Stockley's Drug Interactions

  • Subject coverage: drug interactions
  • Size/scope: 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
  • Type of content: monographs
  • Level of access: full text available.
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