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.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
Association of Commonwealth Universities
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- Subject coverage: Database of key contact information for over 500 commonwealth universities.
- Size/scope: over 500 commonwealth universities
- Type of content: key contact information
- Level of access: register using your BU email address to gain full access to this service.
Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
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- Subject coverage: education, training and skills
- Size/scope: repository includes documents published electronically by the UK Government, UK Parliament (including devolved Assemblies), government departments, semi-official organisations (quangos) and think tanks in the areas of education, training, children and families
- Type of content: a searchable digital archive of documents published electronically by the UK government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children and families
- Level of access: freely available online
- Help using DERA: useful advice available from UCL's Institute of Education guide.
EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
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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ERIC
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- 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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BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (OALA)
PsycINFO
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Research into Higher Education Abstracts
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- Subject coverage: higher education
- Size/scope: published by Routledge on behalf of the Society for Research into Higher Education it covers the theory and practice of higher education
- Type of content: international periodicals, books, monographs
- Date range: 1996-
- Level of access: abstracts only.
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.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
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- Subject coverage: collection of education and educational research e-books from Taylor & Francis Group (includes Routledge)
- Size/scope: over 400 titles
- Type of content: academic books
- Date range: 1987-2014
- Level of access: full text.
The contents of this database are catalogued
Teacher Reference Center
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- Subject coverage: teaching
- Size/scope: 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators
- Type of content: journal articles
- Level of access: abstracts only.
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.