Academic Search Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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Childlink
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- Subject coverage: archive of documents relating to child health and welfare
- Type of content: current news, parliamentary debates, government papers, legislation and statistics, journal articles
- Level of access: full text.
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CINAHL Complete
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- Subject coverage: the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature 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
- Size/scope: over 5,400 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1937 to present
- Level of access: full text of over 1,300 journals.
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JSTOR
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database
- Size/scope: 1,500 academic journals indexed
- Type of content: academic journal article
- Date range: 1780-
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Lexis®Library
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- Subject coverage: law and tax
- Type of content: access to UK legislation currently in force, many law report series and some full text journals and UK newspapers. Includes full text works of legal commentary, plus forms and precedents. Provides an online version of Halsbury’s Laws. Contains EU and international legal materials
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Medline Complete
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- Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
- Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
- Type of Content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1865 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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PILOTS
>> Go to PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) Database
- Subject coverage: includes journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
- Type of content: reference work
- Date range: 1871 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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PsycARTICLES
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- Subject coverage: psychology
- Size/scope: 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1894 -
- Level of access: full text.
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PsycBOOKS
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- Subject coverage: psychology
- Size/scope: over 64,619 chapters from over 4,317 books
- Type of content: book chapters
- Date range: 1620 onwards
- Level of access: full text.
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PsycINFO
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- Subject coverage: psychology
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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PubMed
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on medical and life sciences
- Size/scope: includes over 18 million citations from Medline
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1948 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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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.
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ScienceDirect
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- 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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Scopus
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- 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.
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Social Care Online
- 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.
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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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SocINDEX with Full Text
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- 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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Web of Science
>> Go to Web of Science - Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University
- Subject coverage: arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope: citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
Web of Science consists of:
Science Citation Index 1899-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-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 and Essential Science Indicators - Type of content: academic journal article
- Date range: 1945-
- Level of access: some links to full text.
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Westlaw UK
- Subject coverage: legal database
- Size/scope: Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Some full text law journals. Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. Links to Westlaw International and Westlaw US on the home page.
- Type of content: legal materials
- Level of access: Some full text available.
Bournemouth University does not licence all Westlaw content and does not currently subscribe to Practical Law
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