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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
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  • Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.

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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.

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Education Source

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  • Subject coverage: education and training
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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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PsycINFO

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  • Subject coverage: psychology
  • Type of content: academic journal articles
  • Date range: 1872 onwards
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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

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  • Subject coverage: sciences and social sciences
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  • 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.

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Teacher Reference Center

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  • Size/scope: 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators
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Web of Science

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  • 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
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  • Date range: 1945-
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