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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
  • Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
  • Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.

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BioDigital Human - Interactive 3D Anatomy Platform

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Guide and Videos

  • Subject coverage: interactive 3D software for visualizing anatomy, disease and treatment
  • Type of content: includes images, quizes and textbook type material
  • Level of access: full access when registered with a BU email. Once you have signed up with your BU email and created a password, you can access BioDigital directly.

To access this resource select BioDigital Human from the blue ribbon towards the top of the page. You will need to use your BU email address to set up your account.

Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons

>> Go to Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons

  • Subject coverage: intended for use by scientists to identify and quantify drugs and poisons in body fluids, tissue samples and pharmaceutical and industrial products.

EBSCO Host Databases

>> Go to EBSCO Host Databases

This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.

JSTOR

>> Go to JSTOR

  • 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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Lawtel

The content of Lawtel is now available within Westlaw. On the Westlaw homepage, look in the 'More resources' box on the right of the screen and click on 'Lawtel'.

Lexis+

>> Go to Lexis+

  • Subject coverage: law and tax
  • Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such as step-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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>> Lexis+ help guides

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Medicines Complete

>> Go to Medicines Complete

  • Subject coverage: drugs and toxicology database
  • Size/scope: British National Formulary, Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference and Stockley’s Drug Interactions
  • Type of Content: reference work
  • Date range: current
  • Level of access: full text.

Medline Complete

>> Go to Medline Complete

  • 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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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

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  • 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.

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.

Springer Protocols

>> Go to Springer Protocols

  • Subject coverage: life sciences protocols providing individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories
  • Size/scope: 29,000 protocols published between 1981 and 2012.

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.

>> User Guide

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Westlaw UK

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  • 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.

>> User Guides

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