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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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• 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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>> Go to AgeInfo

• Subject coverage: The Centre for Policy on Ageing database of information on aging and older age. Aimed at service providers, practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students
• Type of content: Books, journal articles, statistics, reports, government publications
• Data range: 1975 to present
• Level of access: Some full text available.

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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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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.

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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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>> Go to Espacenet

• 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.

>> Go to 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.

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• 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; Drink; Food; Foodservice; Health and Wellbeing; Leisure; Lifestyles; Media; Retail - Clothing and Footwear; Retail - Home; Retail - Overview; Technology; Travel; UK Retail Briefing.
• Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
• Level of access: full text available.

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• Subject coverage: Industries covered : Automotive; Beauty; Clothing; Consumer Electronics; Drinks; Electrical Goods; Finance; Food; Foodservice;  Holiday & Travel; Household; Insurance; Leisure; Media; Pharmaceuticals; Retail; Telecommunications
• Size/scope: Quantitative Database providing market sizes, segmentation, market share and socio economic data for 34 countries.
• Level of access: Market size data.

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>> Go to 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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• 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 and consumer data for 210 countries
• Type of content: marketing research reports
• Level of access: full text.

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>> Go to Patent Server US

• 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.

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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
• Level of access: Some links to full text available.

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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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>> Go to 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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