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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Access Engineering
- Subject coverage: engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, electronics, sustainability, energy, business
- Size/scope: over 690 sources
- Type of content: eBooks, instructional videos, calculators, interactive tables and data
- Level of access: full text.
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Art & Architecture Complete
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- Subject coverage: art, architecture, design
- Size/scope: over 1,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, books, images
- Level of access: full text of over 600 titles.
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British Standards Online
>> Go to British Standards Online (BSOL) App)
Restrictions on use
Access to British Standards Online is provided for educational purposes only. It must not be used for the purpose of University business processes (including but not limited to Health & Safety, Estate Management) or for monetary reward (including but not limited to knowledge transfer partnerships)
- Subject coverage: British Standards (BS); British adopted European Standards (BS EN) and British adopted International Standards (BS ISO)
- Type of content: British Standards
- Level of access: full text.
Note: follow the link, above, to access the British Standards Online (BSOL) App
Personally owned devices (including access for Mac users):
- download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don’t already have it on your computer (this is available free from Microsoft App store)
- then click on https://bsol.bsigroup.com/
- use the Institutional Login and select ‘Bournemouth University’
- sign in with your BU credentials
- load the FileOpen plug-in as instructed on the BSOL site
- search and download the British Standard you want to your computer
- right-click on download and use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the British Standard.
Business Source Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: business and management
- Size/scope: over 45,000 sources
- Type of content: academic journal articles and business trade titles
- Level of access: Some full text available.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
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.
Gartner
- Subject coverage: information technology related research and advice
- Size/ scope: reports and news service compiled by research analysts and consultants in 85 countries
- Type of content: reports
- Level of access: some full text is available.
BU staff/student login required
IEEE Xplore
- Subject coverage: Scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
- Type of content: books, conferences, courses, journals & magazines, standards. About Content in IEEE Xplore.
- Date range: 1988 onwards
- Level of access: abstract records and some full text articles
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Mintel
- Subject coverage: For a full list of sectors, themes and demographics covered, click on the 'Category Overview' option when you access Mintel. Here's a shortlist of categories: Automotive; Beauty and Personal Care; Business to Business; Drinks; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health & Nutrition; Household; Marketing & Communications; Pet; Retail & Apparel; Technology & Media; Travel, Leisure & Entertainment
- Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
- Level of access: full text available.
Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only
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Mintel Market Sizes
- Subject coverage: Industries covered : Alcoholic Drinks; Beauty, Personal Goods & Toiletries; Food; Household / Home; Non-Alcoholic Drinks; Pharmaceuticals
- Size/scope: Quantitative Database providing market sizes, segmentation, market share and socio economic data for 34 countries
- Level of access: Market size data.
Note: Use of Mintel Market Sizes is restricted to academic use only and permits the download or print of no more than fifty-five (55) Datasets per Session. It also permits an authorised user to include in any dissertation or thesis a combination of no more than five (5) each of the following: (a) up to twenty-five percent (25%) of a single Snapshots report and (b) a Dataset
O'Reilly
- Subject coverage: digital library of e-books and videos covering subjects such as business, computing, programming, design and engineering
- Level of access: full-text.
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Passport (Euromonitor International)
Note: On campus, you can access Passport as a guest user where you’ll be prompted to set up a Passport account. New users off-campus can only log-in using Open Athens where you’ll have to self-register the first time you visit. You must use your BU email account to register.
- Subject coverage: online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world
- Size/scope: 24 industry categories for 80 countries. Economy ander data for 210 consum countries
- Type of content: marketing research reports
- Level of access: full text.
Patent Server: United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Subject coverage: US patents
- Type of content: patents, searchable by patent number to 1975 and by full text from 1975
- Date range: 1790 onwards
- Level of access: full text.
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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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.
Statista
- Subject coverage: Coverage includes statistics, forecasts, infographics, studies, and reports on over 80,000 topics from around the world. Topics include a wide range of industries, economies, companies, countries, consumers, sports, technology, advertising, health, environment, and tourism. Automatic citation (e.g. Harvard, APA, etc) is available, as is the ability to download charts.
- Size/scope: Access to more than 1 million statistics, 60,000 reports and 1000+ market insights with data covering 170 industries and 150 countries.
- Type of content: Statistical
- Level of access: Full access to the Statistical portal, Market Insights, and Research AI via a campus licence. Excludes the following Statista product: eCommerce Insights.
Which?
- Subject coverage: Consumer information
- Size/scope: Online version of Which? magazines
- Type of content: News, reviews and recommendations on various products, plus, reports about various industries including technology, travel, environment, finance, motor trade and hospitality
- Level of access: Full text available.
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