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We provide access to a range of subscription databases, where you may search for research literature, news and data. Browse the A-Z list below or consult the relevant Subject Guide to get recommendations on the best database for your search.

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Journal articles

Contains full text articles from over 5,800 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work. Coverage includes 450 magazines for news, current awareness and examples of professional practice.  

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Alternate Name(s):Association for Computing Machinery
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Bibliographic
Journal articles

Provides access to articles, conference proceedings, abstracts and technical magazines published, or hosted, by the Association for Computing Machinery. The collection is updated monthly. Brunel's institutional login is required for access.

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Alternate Name(s):AIAA-ARC
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Bibliographic

ARC is the database for finding papers and reports published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) on aerospace. Contents reflect the current technical research, as well as materials from industry archives. Access to full-text is limited to open access materials only. 

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Audio-visual

Alexander Street Press publish and host videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Brunel has subscribed to a small amount of online videos on this platform, which you can find in the My Collections, My Institutional Content area.  You must use headphones when listening/viewing on PCs/devices in the Library. 

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Alternate Name(s):AFI
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Bibliographic
AFI is a filmography database documenting American films. It contains detailed records of films dating between 1893 to 1993, with information on the cast, creatives and studios which created the films. Brief records are also included for films produced from 1994-2015.
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Journal articles
Annual Reviews publishes authoritative reviews in 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Access to each discipline Review will vary, as the Library does not have a full subscription to all journals. The Library has backlist access to volumes until 2008, but for individual journal date coverage check the journal title in the Journals A-Z.
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Alternate Name(s):APA Books, APA PsycNET Books
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E-books
Provides access to over 70 full-text American Psychological Society (APA) books on psychology, therapy and health published during 2016 and 2017.
Alternate Name(s):PsycArticles
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Journal articles

APA PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from just over 120 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation.

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Alternate Name(s):PsycInfo
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Bibliographic
A specialist psychology literature and related topics database, APA PsycInfo contains abstracts of articles from over 2,400 journals, dissertations and books. Popular literature is excluded. This abstract only database is updated twice weekly. Abstract only means you will not always find the full text of an article within the database. However, you can use Article Linker in the article record to check for full text online sources in other Brunel databases.
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Alternate Name(s):Artech House
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E-books
Provides access to more than 40 ebooks on electronic and computer engineering published by Artech House.
Alternate Name(s):American Society of Civil Engineers Research Library
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Journal articles
The ASCE Research Library includes access to all online ASCE Journals (41 journals - 1983 to present). All full-text papers are provided in PDF format. Civil Engineering database subject headings may be searched on the ASCE's Civil Engineering Database.
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Alternate Name(s):American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection
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Journal articles
The ASME Digital Collection is the repository of current and archival literature featuring: ASME's Transaction Journals from 2000 to the present and Conference Proceedings from 2002 to the present.
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Provides access to 1,000 hours of non-fiction, moving image titles selected by the BFI National Archive. The images can be browsed according to broad political and economical themes. Please note, Brunel does not have access to subscription content also available on the platform.
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Bibliographic
Index of life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. JISC Collections has licensed the BIOSIS Previews Backfile 1969-2008 in perpetuity and this is now freely available to all UK universities. Thomson Reuters has given our users free access to BIOSIS Citation Index backfile too. The Library does not subscribe to the current file from 2009 onwards, so you will not be able to access citations and previews published after 2008. Select BIOSIS Citation Index from the 'Search in' drop down on Web of Science to begin searching. This abstract only database is updated weekly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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Raw data

Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing economic and business news, analytics, real time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide. It also includes extensive historical pricing and stock charts.
Bloomberg terminals (computers) are available in the Financial Resources Suite, BANN 230a. You will need an individual account to use the terminal. If you do not already have an account, you can create one at the terminal.

There is a booking system in place for use of the terminal. See the Data and Statistics Library Guide for information on how to book a Bloomberg terminal. You will also find information on how to register for Bloomberg Certificate courses such as the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) and Environmental Social Governance (ESG).

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Journal articles

A collection of leading medical journals on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine published BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. The Library subscribes to the main BMJ journal and several others in the collection.

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Alternate Name(s):Learning on Screen
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Audio-visual
The University subscribes to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), a service which works alongside our ERA Licence and allows staff and students to record and access broadcasts, even after they have aired, under the licence terms. Search for Brunel as your home institution. You may need to register and confirm your Brunel email address when you first access the new site. For service issues see the current service status webpage.
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Alternate Name(s):Carl Giles Digital Archive
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Images
News
The British Cartoon Archive is a library, archive and gallery dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. Located at the University of Kent in Canterbury, it holds the national collection of cartoons of political and social comment published in British newspapers and magazines.
The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project funded by JISC through its Digitisation Programme, has digitised artwork dating back to 1904 and includes work by W.K. Haselden, Will Dyson, Sidney Strube, David Low, Vicky, Emmwood, Michael Cummings, Ralph Steadman, Mel Calman, Nicholas Garland, Chris Riddell, Carl Giles, Martin Rowson, and Steve Bell, amongst many others. Material from the BCA is still being accrued, with contemporary politics strongly represented throughout the collections. Access is free of charge for educational purposes. See the FAQ for copyright information on different use of images.
Alternate Name(s):BEI
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Bibliographic
BEI is an index of British and selected European journals with more than 370,000 references to journal articles in the fields of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs, from 1929 to date. This is an abstract only data. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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Alternate Name(s):19th Century British Newspapers
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Images
News
British Library Newspapers Parts 1 and 2 1800-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. provides access to approximately 70 national, regional and local 19th century British newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. The content totals over three million pages and reflects the social and political developments of the time. Find influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. Gale permits cross-searching of the majority of the British Library's collections of historical newspapers published between 1800 to 1900.
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Alternate Name(s):British Nursing Database (BND) BND
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Journal articles
British Nursing Database (BND) is a full-text version of the British Nursing Index (BNI), a leading bibliographic database. It includes more than 300 full-text journals (1926 - current, N.B. some titles are embargoed by up to 12 months) and supports the practice, education, research, and development for nurses, midwives, health visitors, and healthcare assistants working in the UK or following UK practice.
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Alternate Name(s):BNI
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Bibliographic
British Nursing Index is a leading database for the support of practice, education, research, and development for nurses, midwives, health visitors, and healthcare assistants working in the UK or following UK practice. It is the sister product to British Nursing Database (BND).
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Archival material
Images
News
British Periodicals traces the changing attitudes and assumptions of British writers over a period of 250 years. It consists of 460 historical periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s. Topics covered include news and reviews on literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Hosted on the ProQuest integrated platform, other databases .
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Alternate Name(s):BSOL
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Patents and Standards

BSOL provides access to the full text of more than 55,000 British and adopted European and international standards. 
Due to changes in security of the BSOL platform the FileOpen plug-in is required to access the PDF content on this platform please see here for instructions. please be aware that any sharing or reproduction of standards with any other body outside Brunel University subscription is prohibited by our terms and conditions.

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Bibliographic
Journal articles
Theses
BURA (Brunel University Research Archive) aims to showcase the University's research outputs by making them freely available to the public via the Internet. Awarded PhD theses are archived on the platform. No ID is required for access. Some works may be embargoed.
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Journal articles
Contains full text articles from over 2,300 journals covering all business disciplines. Also provides access to market research reports country reports, industry reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses on the Business Searching Interface.
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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Journals Online
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E-books
Journal articles
Cambridge Core provides full text access for over two hundred journals published by Cambridge University Press in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also available: access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (bought by JISC Collections) comprising 171 journals.
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Reference
Published in 2008, this handbook is a collection of over 100 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley designed to give an an overview of all major areas of cancer research and oncology. The resources aims to combine perspectives on both clinical diagnosis and treatment, as well as the molecular mechanisms of cancer in each section.
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Images
Raw data
ChemRPS is free database system for your chemical structures. You can implement it on your computer and/or run it in your webpage. Use it to find a compound by name or CAS Registry Number, or search by structure. It is license free, easy to deploy, platform independent and easy to extend. Test it interactively: if you want to test the system upload your SDFile using the next link. http://chemrps.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/registersdfile.html. Test and install the system: you can download the complete system from the Github page (https://github.com/chemrps-dev/chemrps), but we suggest you contact the provider first: chemrps@akoscheminformatics.de
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Bibliographic
E-books
Journal articles
Child Development & Adolescent Studies provides references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children up to the age of 21. It is useful for anyone studying education, child development, early years or childhood. It contains abstracts and book reviews from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide.
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Alternate Name(s):Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
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Bibliographic
Journal articles
CINAHL Plus with Full-text provides a wide scope of nursing and allied health journals, as well as a high number of records, full-text and cited references. Content includes additional allied health literature and biomedical resources. In addition, CINAHL Plus provides Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline treatment options. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources if none is available in CINAHL Plus.
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Cite Them Right is a comprehensive, accessible and easy-to-use guide to referencing sources and avoiding plagiarism. Packed with practical tips, it provides users with detailed examples for use in both citations and reference lists of print and electronic sources, business, government, technical and legal publications, works of art, images and much more.
Alternate Name(s):Music Online: Classical Scores Library
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Music
Classical Scores Library contains many of the most important classical scores and manuscripts. It allows for the study and analysis of more than 54,000 scores. You may access Classical Scores Library through Alexander Street Press's Music Online interface.
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E-books
Reference
ClinicalKey Student provides access to medical e-textbooks, images and videos. In addition to a study tool feature that allows readers to annotate the text and make notes. The ClinicalKey Student bookshelf mobile app (available for both iOS and Android) gives you access to your books, allows you to create notes and highlights and share them. Here is a screencast (1 min 50 secs) showing how to access ClinicalKey Student via Brightspace.
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Bibliographic
Journal articles
Cochrane Library is a collection of databases with content related to healthcare. It contains the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL). No ID is required for access on campus via this link: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/.

(Please note that the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) which was produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York until April 2015 is now archived until at least Jan 2025 at https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/CRDWeb/. NHSEED assisted decision-makers by systematically identifying economic evaluations from around the world, appraising their quality, and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses).
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Alternate Name(s):CIS

CIS provides up-to-date construction information and legislation from more than 150 national organisations, including BSI (but please note, full text access to British Standards is on another platform, British Standards Online (BSOL) not CIS. CIS also provides access to full text publications or abstracts from the BRE, BSRIA, CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building), CIBSE, CIRIA and The Institution of Structural Engineers.

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Featured
This Brunel Library guide provides an overview of the key places to find financial, economic and business data.
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Archival material
Reference
From the award-winning, nongovernmental National Security Archive, this resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.
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Alternate Name(s):Digital Theatre + Digital Theatre Plus Digital Theatre
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Audio-visual
Images
Play texts
Reference
Digital Theatre+ collaborates with theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners and scholars to provide access to a growing collection of full-length theatre productions and educational resources. The database contains recordings of hundreds of live captured performances across theatre, ballet, opera and classical music, including interviews with actors, directors, and backstage crew providing an insight into the workings of a theatre and what it takes to stage a play. It also features study guides accompanying curricula mapped plays, written by leading academics to help students get to grip with dramatic texts as well as relationship maps, plot summaries, theme and context analysis, glossaries and more.
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Images
Play texts
Reference
Drama Online provides access to thousands of full-text plays by both new writers as well as established names in playwriting history. Search by playwright, genre or time period. Additional tools include ‘Character Grids’ showing which characters appear in what scenes and which lines they speak. This newly launched site contains primary and secondary content. The collection features the pre-eminent theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and will be continually updated.
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E-books
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E-books
A Brunel Library guide to using our various eBook platforms effectively.
Alternate Name(s):eDuke Books; Duke eBooks; Duke University Press
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E-books
Access to more than 2,000 scholarly frontlist e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. Not all ebook content is available, but it is possible to filter by 'Available' titles to find the full-text of books and chapters.
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Alternate Name(s):Early European Books
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Archival material
Early Modern Books contains two collections: Early European Books and Early English Books Online. Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Ebook Central, MyiLibrary
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E-books
ProQuest Ebook Central provides access to over 18,000 authoritative ebooks covering a wide range of subjects. They can be read online and, where permitted, a section of the ebook may be downloaded. Many of them are titles that have been included on reading lists. You can search using keywords, titles or authors.
Ebook Central is designed for patrons with accessibility needs. For more information see: https://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral/home and https://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral/home.
Alternate Name(s):Ebooks on EBSCOhost
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E-books
EBSCO offers high-quality eBook and audiobook titles from leading academic publishers. You will find many of these eBooks via the Library catalogue or on reading lists. You can search using keywords, book titles or author names.
The texts are available to read online, and in some case you download a portion or all of a book.
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Alternate Name(s):Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
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Bibliographic
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 680 periodicals and yearbooks, dating as far back as 1983. Books on education published after 1995 are also indexed. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and more.
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Alternate Name(s):Teacher's TV
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Audio-visual
UK-based Education in Video (formerly called Teachers TV), has been producing short instructional videos showing actual classroom footage since 2008 (videos date from 2004-2013). The content is used by educators - and those learning to be educators - worldwide. Alexander Street Press has licensed this material and is pleased to make it available free to all libraries in the U.K. No password is required to access this resource.
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Bibliographic
Provides access to bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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E-books
Edward Elgar is a collection of 764 Business and Economics books (research handbooks, reviews, reference works and monographs), with business books published between 2017 and 2022 and Economics books published between 2017 and 2021. More recently around 150 open access monographs have been added to the collection.
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Archival material
E-books
Images
EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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E-books

Over 550 selected titles from four of Elsevier's ebook collections (engineering, mathematics, environmental science and materials science) are available via ScienceDirect.

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Journal articles
Teaching cases offers students the opportunity to explore real world challenges in the classroom environment, allowing them to test their assumptions and decision-making skills before taking their knowledge into the workplace.
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E-books
Emerald e-Book series offer a breadth of relevant, quality content featuring high impact, topical research in the areas of Business, Management, Economics, Social Sciences and Transport. These comprehensive collections provide access to more than 1000 volumes across 130 series titles.
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Journal articles
Emerald journals provides access to articles from six major collections: Accounting, Finance & Economics, Business Management & Strategy, Human Resources, Learning & Organization Studies, Information & Knowledge Management, Marketing and Operations Logistics & Quality. It also contains content relevant to Engineering.
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Reference
A collection of over 300 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience.
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Alternate Name(s):Encyclopaedia of Social Measurement
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Reference
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena. Responding to growing demands for transdisciplinary descriptions of quantitative and qualitative techniques, measurement, sampling, and statistical methods, it will increase the proficiency of everyone who gathers and analyses data.
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Bibliographic
Grey literature
Education Resources Information Center provides access to over 1.9 million bibliographic records with abstracts focused on US education, from 1907 to date. This abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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Patents and Standards

The patent database from the European Patent Office which gives full-text access to world-wide patents.  

Alternate Name(s):ESI
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Raw data

Provides access to Clarivate's InCites ESI database revealing emerging science trends as well as influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals, and countries in your field of research (more information - please note: we do not hold a subscription to InCites itself). ESI may also be accessed via Web of Science.

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Audio-visual
A comprehensive collection of more than 1,000 films, complete with transcripts, studying human culture and behaviour throughout the world. It features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century. You must use headphones when listening/viewing on PCs in the Library.
The Library does not have access to all videos. Those marked as 'Sample' are unavailable.
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Theses
Ethos is the Electronic Theses Online Service. Usually it allows access to records of over 600K doctoral theses from UK Higher Education institutions, with full text availability for an increasing number. However, due to cyber attack, this platform is not available. In the interim you can search the British Library's main catalogue and filter by 'Theses' to locate online access to UK doctoral theses.
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Archival material
Bibliographic
This index of over 32,000 records covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. It is offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. Published in co-operation with the John Carter Brown Library, it is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750.
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Raw data
Financial and other data on all UK and Irish companies, small, medium and large. Financial data is available for up to 20 years. Stock data is included for public companies. Searches can be made for individual companies and companies that meet your criteria; peer comparison and other tools are available. This is a Moody’s database, and is on the same platform as the international database Orbis Very Large.
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Family Law Online provided access to law reports, commentary, legal and administrative changes published by Jordan Publishing. It was transferred to Lexis Library in 2017 where you can access the following titles:
- Child and Family Law Quarterly
- Emergency Remedies in the Family Courts
- Family Court Practice
- Family Law Journal
- Family Law Precedents Service
- Family law reports
- Financial Remedies Handbook
- International family law
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Alternate Name(s):FII
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Reference
Provides information on approximately 100,000 films and references to articles about films.
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Alternate Name(s):Fitch Connect
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Raw data
Fitch Ratings PRO is an innovative, robust and comprehensive credit analytics platform that provides access to Fitch ratings, research, financial data and analytics. It is a key source for current and historic data (from 1990 to date) from banks' financial statements. For access to the data, you need to simply email ClientAdministration@fitchsolutions.com Providing your complete name and Brunel university email and mention that you require a Fitch Ratings PRO log in, then they will provide one for you.
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News
Raw data
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. FT.com is an essential source of news and comment, both text and video, data analysis and research tools. It supports a range of disciplines from accounting and international relations to economics and management. The ePaper archive goes back to 19 June 2008.
To use the FT, you must create your personal account using your Brunel University email address. Once registered, you will be able to read the newspaper anywhere including on your mobile iOS and Android device by installing the FT Digital Edition app.

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Alternate Name(s):Gale Literary Index
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Bibliographic
Search this digital master index to find coverage of authors and works in products published by Gale. Please note: this database is a bibliographic index only with no access to the full text works.
Alternate Name(s):Gale Primary Sources Gale Newsvault
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News
Gale Primary Resources (formerly Gale NewsVault) permits cross-searching of all the British Library's collections of historical newspapers and some journals published between 1732 to 1950.
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Raw data
A spatial data search engine. You will need a GIS to access data.

A Google search engine which searches only for datasets hosted across thousands of repositories across the web.

Alternate Name(s):Google Patents
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Patents and Standards

The powerful google search engine but restricted to the patent literature.  Offers full-text access to worldwide patents.

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. It includes a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
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Journal articles
Online law journal library, covering mainly US, but also international and some UK journals. Also access to the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library and the Supreme Court Library.
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Alternate Name(s):Henry Stewart Talks Business and Management Collection
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Audio-visual
Henry Stewart Talks (HSTalks) provides access to a collection of specially prepared, animated, online audio-visual lectures and seminars on business and management.
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Journal articles
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
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Alternate Name(s):eHRAF World Cultures
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Raw data
Human Relations Area Files provides cultural information for education and research provided by Yale University.

eHRAF World Cultures is an online cross-cultural and ethnographic database that contains descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by cultures and ethnic groups, and every document is subject-indexed at the paragraph level, facilitating precise retrieval within documents.

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E-books
Grey literature
Journal articles
Patents and Standards
Provides access to all IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988, plus IEEE standards. Includes access to more than 1,200 e-books published by Wiley-IEEE and more than 690 e-books in the MIT Press eBooks Library Computing and Engineering Collection.
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Grey literature
Journal articles
All IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) journal articles published from 2013 to date are freely available on the IET Hub at Wiley Online Library. Brunel users can also access pre-2013 material at the IET Journals Archive.
Alternate Name(s):Institution of Engineering and Technology Digital Library IET Digital Library
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E-books
Access to over 100 e-books on the IET Digital Library. The Library has purchased three collections of e-books: Professional Applications of Computing; Power and Energy; and Renewable Energy. In addition, we hold five other IET ebook titles on ProQuest Ebook Central

Please note, for access to IET e-journals published since 2013, use the IET Hub at Wiley Online Library. Brunel users can also access pre-2013 material at the IET Journals Archive. Note also, we do not hold access to IET.tv.
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Patents and Standards
Reference
VitalSource Bookshelf is the platform the IET uses to provide digital copies of the IET Wiring Regulations and other supplementary materials, such as our Codes of Practice and Guides. The platform is straightforward to use and allows you to download books for offline viewing, print pages and make highlights.

You will need to create a VitalSource account to access the content, please use your Brunel email address when registering, only Brunel email addresses will allow access to the content.
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Audio-visual
The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content – approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs.
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E-books
A collection of around 30 electronic reference books from IGI Global (formally IDEA), including Handbooks of Research and Encyclopaedias. Topics covered include information security and ethics, knowledge management, e-business, web technologies, and HCI.
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E-books
Journal articles
A collection containing all publications from INFORMS, which specialises in Operations Research and Analytics. It includes peer reviewed journals (many highly ranked) and magazines containing article on topics including operations research, analytics, management science, economics, behavioural science, statistics, artificial intelligence, data science and applied mathematics. Also available is the TutORials in OR book series.
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Journal articles
Provides access to all Information Science journals from IGI Global (formally IDEA). These peer-reviewed journals focused on cutting-edge, specialised topics in advanced technology research as well as the organisational, managerial, behavioural, and social implications of technology.
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Provides access to the current IOP journals and the IOP historical archive, giving access to the full text of most journals on the IOP Science platform since 1874. This also includes access to a selection of IOP eBooks from 2018 – 2020.
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Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) proceedings published between 2001 to date. Also inlcuded is the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) archive which contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published between 1836 and 2001.
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Provides access to the full text of 18 IMechE journals, from 1847 to date, now published by SAGE, covering all aspects of mechanical engineering from 1847 to the present day. Each of the other 18 journals, including the 16 proceedings of the IMechE, is focused on particular area of engineering to offer a greater depth of coverage in mechanical engineering.
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Alternate Name(s):FIAF
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Bibliographic
FIAF is a bibliographical resource offering access to hundreds of academic and popular film journals from around the world. It contains over 500,000 article citations from more than 345 periodicals.
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Alternate Name(s):Ipsum
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Patents and Standards

The database from the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which allows you to check the status and access information on UK patent applications.

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Alternate Name(s):Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA
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Journal articles

JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is published 48 times a year.

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This collection is the product of a partnership between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest to conserve, catalogue and digitise over 65,000 documents printed between 1508–1939, drawn from the Bodleian’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. It depicts various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The project was funded by the JISC and is available free of charge to colleges and universities in the UK.
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Journal Citation Reports (also known as InCites Journal Citation Reports), including Impact Factors, are updated annually, in July. You may log on anonymously, via the link above, or via your Researcher ID or Web of Science username and password at https://jcr.clarivate.com. Journal Citation Reports may also be accessed via: Web of Science.
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Archive collections of full text electronic journals from 1880 onwards, always from volume 1, issue 1, and including previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available in these collections (unless we hold a current subscription too). The Library subscribes only to the Arts & Sciences I to IX, inclusive, and the Health & General Sciences collections, as well as 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK) and the Ireland collection (research materials relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present, provided under the JISC Digitisation Programme). If you have any problem connecting to JSTOR off campus, please use the alternative link below.

Ithaka also continue to provide access to a number of freely available and open access resources which you may now search on Artstor and JSTOR. Even more content is available when you register to read – millions of articles from nearly 2,000 journals.
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The new Kluwer Law Online platform launched during April 2020 and includes subscriptions to 12 electronic journals with online access from volume one up to the current year. The collection contains material from various jurisdictions, including international arbitration.

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Alternate Name(s):Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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Learning on Screen is a charity whose aim is to make moving image and sound as important in education and research as the written word. This link provides information about their services, including BoB (Box of Broadcasts). The University subscribes to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), a service which works alongside our ERA Licence and allows staff and students to record and access broadcasts, even after they have aired, under the licence terms. Search for Brunel as your home institution. You may need to register and confirm your Brunel email address when you first access the new site. For service issues see the current service status webpage.

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E-books

Full text of all electronically available volumes. All volumes from vol. 1 (1973) onwards. For a short while you may need to access the archives on "old SpringerLink" from the new Springer Link via the link under the Brunel logo.

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Full text of all electronically available volumes. All volumes from v. 1 (1964) onwards. For a short while you may need to access the archves on "old SpringerLink" from the new Springer Link via the link under the Brunel logo.

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Search and find UK and EU legal materials such as law cases and legislation. Information is updated regularly. Also access journal articles and some practitioner eBooks.

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Alternate Name(s):Overdrive

Browse, search, and discover. There are thousands of ebooks and audiobooks, hand-selected by your library, available for reading. Explore the collection through catalog guides, subjects, featured titles, and curated lists.

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Bibliographic

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

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Alternate Name(s):LION
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Reference

Provides over 4200 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. Lists more than 20,000 works by date, country and genre.

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Journal articles

Provides access to the archives of all 17 of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' journals up to 1996. Please note, the Library does not hold a current subscription to SIAM's journals. We have access up to some journals up to 2011 on Academic Search Complete and to two journals on JSTOR until six years ago - see the e-Journals A to Z for detailed holdings.

Alternate Name(s):Refinitiv Workspace
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Raw data

LSEG Workspace combines exceptional data, news and content coverage with cutting-edge web technology that is fast, light and intuitive. LSEG Workspace provides access to company financial data and economic indicators as well as news, analytics and productivity tools. Full functionality is accessible in the Financial Resources Suite, BANN 230a. Remote access is via the University Horizon Portal

The database incorporates both DataStream and Thomson Reuters’ T1.com which used to be on separate platforms. DataStream’s easy to use Excel Add-in allows you to create datasheets with different variables, both static and time series, edit and analyse the results or upload on to analytics software such as EViews and SPSS. All Thomson Reuters functionality and data which was previously accessible via Thomson One/T1.com, such as Mergers and Acquisition, Ownership and IPOs is now available in LSEG Workspace.

You will need an individual account to use the database. See the Data and Statistics Library Guide for information on how to request an account and training by Brunel librarians. You will also find links to online training and certification offered by LSEG.

Alternate Name(s):Made Incredibly Easy Nursing Collection
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E-books

LWW Health Libraries are unique teaching and learning solutions to help students, residents, and practitioners understand foundational principles, develop clinical reasoning, and prepare for exams.

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Alternate Name(s):Medical Education collection
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Medical Education offers a core collection of content for staff and students. The Core book collection has over 35 fundamental texts, covering key areas of study—anatomical sciences, pathology, and biochemistry. Also included are over 600 cases—allowing students to review for exam or utilise for presentation prep. Q&A covers 4,800 questions to reinforce learned content and exam preparation.

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Alternate Name(s):Journal of international law and Islamic law Journal of Islamic state practices in international law
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The principal objectives of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (MJTILP) are to provide a vehicle for the consideration of transnational forms of Islamic law and practice. Transnationalism in Islamic law is taken broadly as communications and interactions linking Islamic thoughts, ideas, people, practices and institutions across nation-States and around the globe.
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Includes Mathemtical Reviews, and contains over 3 million records and 2 million direct links to original articles in more than 3,000 journals from over 250 publishers from 1940 to date. Most records are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. The database is updated daily.

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Alternate Name(s):Ovid Medline(R)
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Bibliographic

Indexes sources in medical research including biomedical and physical sciences, North American bias, from 1946 to date. The database is updated weekly.

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Focused on migration to the New World and Australasia during the ‘century of immigration’, this captivating, multi-archive collection provides a wide-ranging and in depth look at the emigration of peoples from Great Britain, mainland Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Contains unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids.

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Mintel Market Sizes (formerly Global Market Navigator (GMN), and Snapshots) provides market data for 22 consumer industries across 54 countries. Search by country and industry or market to produce a customised report. Mintel Market Sizes contains the data previously available in Snapshots, including international reports, too.

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Alternate Name(s):Mintel Academic
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Raw data

Mintel Reports provides access to market research reports and data on lifestyle trends including eating and drinking habits, clothing and footwear.

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The International Index to Music Periodicals and the International Index to Performing Arts have combined to allow simultaneous searching of both collections of full text journals and abstracts on the new ProQuest platform along with some other databases. Access to the original MPAO platform has been withdrawn.

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Alternate Name(s):IIMP
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This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

Previous description: Music Periodicals Database (previous title: International Index to Music Periodicals or IIMP) is a bibliographical resource offering access to international music periodicals on the ProQuest platform (this has the option to search other databases too). It includes content from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals from 1874 to date. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent years of publication.

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Alternate Name(s):NTRS
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Technical reports

The NASA STI Repository (also known as the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)) provides access to NASA metadata records, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.

Alternate Name(s):NASA Technical Standards System
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Patents and Standards

Standards used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the course of their aerospace activities.

Alternate Name(s):NBER
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Bibliographic
Journal articles

Working papers published by the National Bureau for Economic Research. Coverage goes back to 1973. Some US based data (eg main economic indicators) is also available.

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Alternate Name(s):NTRL
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A collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports acquired, indexed, and archived by The National Technical Information Service (NTIS).  Subject coverage is quite wide, but this database will be of particular use to engineering students.  The database contains full-text and abstracts.

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Provides access to 13 Nature branded journals and Oncogene, covering subjects across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news, expert opinion, practical methodology, and high impact research and reviews.

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Music

Naxos Music Library is a listening service of over 140,000 classical tracks. You must use headphones when listening on Library PCs - please ask at the Help Desk if you need to borrow a pair.

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E-books

Collection of e-Books available for free via the National Center for Biotechnology Information. No ID is required for access.

Alternate Name(s):LexisNexis Business & News
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News

Nexis Advance UK provides access to full text access to regional, national and international newspapers, business trade journals, company reports and country reports. (The New platform for Nexis UK was launched on 5 September 2019. This database was previously called LexisNexis Business and News). Lexis Advance also provides full text access to international cases, legislation and journals and some news from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and United States of America.

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Over 25,000 digitised 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries archived on JSTOR by JISC. The collections focus on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century.

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Provides access to nearly 600 titles published between 1800-1900. The collection will be of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions, and all aspects of nineteenth-century life.

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Alternate Name(s):Safari O'Reilly

Includes access to more than 35,000 book titles plus more than 30,000 hours of video within the information technology and computing subject area from O'Reilly Media Inc. and over 200 major IT publishing houses. Also provides access to proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly's global conferences. 

If you cannot sign in using the link above, use the alternative link below and enter your Brunel email address to sign in via SSO.

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OECD Health Statistics offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries, and includes data found in the publication Health at a Glance. It provides data on the health status of the population including obesity (overweight, obese), suicide and life expectancy, health care financing, health care resources, social protection, health care utilization, the pharmaceutical market, long-term care resources and utilization, non-medical determinants of health, expenditure on health, and demographic and economic references, with coverage being provided for OECD and selected non-OECD countries as far back as 1960.

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an etymological dictionary which is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive record of the English language, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations. OED Online gives access to latest text of the full Oxford English Dictionary, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED and enable users new ways to explore the English language: Search for new words by year, decade, or any date range. Set language in context: search by place, language type, and date to discover the impact of world events. OED Online is revised and updated at regular intervals and covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of use, from formal to slang.

OUP offers another English dictionary on its Oxford Living Dictionaries platform but please note it has fewer definitions.

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Previously published as OHE Compendium of Health Statistics, OHESI offers historical data spanning up to 50 years primarily for the UK, but including some international comparisons, plus The OHE Guide. No password is required to access these data.

Alternate Name(s):Open Dissertations American Doctoral Dissertations EThOS
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Theses

EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is an open-access database with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world, created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs. It includes abstracts and full text theses available on the British Library's EThOS service.

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Raw data

Financial, and other, data on over half a million companies internationally, including line items for banks and insurance companies. Financial data is available for up to 30 years. Includes public companies (for which stock data is available), and many very large private companies. Searches can be made for individual companies and companies that meet your criteria; peer comparison and other tools are available. This is a Moody’s database, and is on the same platform as the UK company database FAME.

Alternate Name(s):Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Patents and Standards
Technical reports
Theses

This database offers research results from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and its predecessor agencies.  Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.  OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers (DOIs) linking to full-text articles on publishers' websites.  OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering numerous easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options.

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The Oxford Academic journals collection includes some of the world's most highly cited and prestigious Oxford University Press journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines.

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Oxford Handbooks Online includes access to in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship. The chapters in the handbooks are useful for finding background and theories, and for references to other sources – great for identifying key articles.

Brunel provides access to current and historical business and management handbooks, and to older, but still relevant, handbooks in economics and finance, criminology and music. After searching, use the filters at the left of the results page to limit to handbook chapters that are free or purchased.

Alternate Name(s):OUP Law Trove
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Oxford Law Trove contains the content of about 200 law e-textbooks across core and optional modules.

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Oxford Music Online includes the full text of Grove Music Online, together with the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.  It offers comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.

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Full text of over 200 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Please note that the text of the full and definitive Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is not available via Oxford Reference Online. See its separate entry to access the latest edition of OED.

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A global market information database, containing reports and statistics on industries (both consumer and B2B), markets, countries and consumers. You must register with your Brunel email address the first time you use the database. Passport works in multiple browsers, but access problems can usually be resolved by using Google Chrome. A comprehensive help section is available within the database. Also see the Market Research Library Guide for training recording by Brunel librarians on using Passport and other market research databases.

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Alternate Name(s):WIPO Patent Scope, PATENTSCOPE
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Patents and Standards
The WIPO database for patents. Search through 121.3 million patent documents from across the globe.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database (previous title: International Index to Performing Arts or IIPA) is a bibliographical resource offering access to international periodicals on the ProQuest platform (this has the option to search other databases too). It includes the full text for more than 160 of the 395 indexed journals from around the world from 1864 to date. It currently includes half a million records, the majority from the most recent years of each journal.

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Online access to over 288,000 articles from a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles published between 1891 and 2000. This collection was Purchased by JISC Collections and is available free of charge to UK Higher Education institutions.

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Alternate Name(s):Chemical Database Service, CDS National Chemical Database Service (CDS)
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Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (PSDS) replaced the National Chemical Database Service (NCDS) during the summer of 2019. If you experience issues accessing the resources here, please let PSDS know at Contact us or support@psds.ac.uk.

To gain access to the PSDS, please register your details and your Brunel University email address. The Physical Sciences Data-science Service is a National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. It provides access to web-based data services are which are freely accessible for academic users from the UK. Further information about the PSDS, including terms and conditions can be found on the About page and Learning page.

To cite the Service in a publication or on the internet, please state: "We wish to acknowledge the use of the EPSRC funded Physical Sciences Data-science Service hosted by the University of Southampton and STFC under grant number EP/S020357/1." Continued provision of the Service does rely on its relevance to the community, so please do acknowledge the Service when appropriate.

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Policing Insight is the leading platform to keep up with the latest in progressive policing. It is where the global police and criminal justice community both consume and share knowledge, opinion and analysis. Policing Insight’s subscription community consists of government, policing, third sector, academia and industry, all interested in working towards better policing outcomes.
Policing Insight content consists of news, opinion, research and analysis produced by our editorial team and over 1000 external expert contributors, delivered through articles and reports as well as the hugely valuable Media Monitor service. Media Monitor is a curated daily brief and searchable database of over 71,000 links to articles, reports and research from media, academic and policing and criminal justice organisations. Each link is tagged in detail creating an amazing research database.

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Euclid Prime is a growing aggregation of well-cited, peer-reviewed journals in mathematics and statistics, only available to institutions. N.B. The Library no longer subscribes to this database so there is no access to articles published since December 2017 (or before January 2006).  Articles published Open Access (OA) will be available though.

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Project MUSE Humanities Collection provides full-text online access to 164 humanities, arts, and social science journals from 60 scholarly publishers as well as links to Project MUSE content from databases such as America: History and life, Historical abstracts and JSTOR.

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Bibliographic
E-books
Journal articles

ProQuest's unified search platform provides online access to several ProQuest databases including full-text sources like British Periodicals; Film Index International, Music Periodicals Database (formerly IIMP) and Performing Arts Journals Database (formerly IIPA) which contain either abstracts only or some full-text sources. This database searches all these sources simultaneously, or you can change your selection to suit your need.

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Alternate Name(s):One Literature
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ProQuest's One Literature database covers literature, language and the arts for literature scholars who need an exhaustive set of scholarly resources around a literary topic for research and course planning. It includes 500,000 primary works and millions of records from journals, monographs, and dissertations. Coverage is extended by the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), as well as full text of primary texts, textbooks, works of poetry, drama and prose from the eighth century to the present day.

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Bibliographic

US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. This databases indexes millions of citations from scholarly health and medical research sources and offers a broad overview of the literature.  PubMed offers a search through 37 million citations and a more user friendly interface and options to refine your search.
Try Europe PMC - an alternative version which indexes the full text source to assist with text mining. Personalised sign in is via one of several services such as ORCiD, Google,etc. For Medical Subject Headings (controlled language indexing), we recommend that you use Medline on Ovid.

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This unique resource was developed in partnership by the Bodleian Libraries, the Royal Archives and ProQuest is now openly available. It contains all the personal journals of Queen Victoria (141 volumes and over 43,000 pages, currently for the period up to 1840 with further releases planned throughout this Diamond Jubilee year). The journals previously were only accessible by appointment at the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. In addition to autograph diaries begun by the youthful Princess Victoria, there are edited versions from her later years, redacted and transcribed by the Queen’s daughter, Princess Beatrice. The site includes an interactive timeline, selections from Queen Victoria’s sketchbooks, and essays about aspects of Queen Victoria’s life, authored by Sir Roy Strong, Laurence Goldman and Peter Ward-Jones.

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Provides full text coverage to regional business news press, predominately covering the United States (Washington Post, etc.), but also including some sources from the rest of the world such as the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Le Monde, and Mail on Sunday.

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Technical reports

Provides access to 200,000+ resources from the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) covering a range of technologies surrounding aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries. Includes full-text access to SAE Journals, magazines, and technical papers as well as SAE Standards, eBooks, and EDGE reports. Note: 3rd party content is not covered by our subscription. Please see the How to documents for users section of the SAE Mobilus platform for advice on searching the platform and creating alerts etc.

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Access to over 220 e-journals published in collections by Sage, with up to 59 years of backfiles where available. Access to more than 700 other journals from 1999 onwards for the titles not included in the collections. A multidisciplinary database, with particular emphasis on the social sciences.

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E-books

SAGE Knowledge is an e-book platform where you will find a range of SAGE e-book and e-reference content including encyclopaedias, handbooks and major works which, as part of SAGE Navigator, show the key readings in a research field over decades. Access is provided to a selection of the business and management collection, totalling 480 e-books.

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E-books
Journal articles

Offers access to the Elsevier digital library, covering over 1,800 publications. Most are available in full text after 1995. The collection is updated daily.

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Bibliographic

Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 20,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. This abstract only database is updated daily so it is excellent for identifying the emerging research. Use Article Linker (AL - link to full text) to check for full text online sources.

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Bibliographic

Screen Studies Collection (formerly known as Film Indexes Online) is the result of partnerships with the British Film Institute (BFI) and the American Film Institute (AFI). It provides information on over 100,000 films and references to articles about films, combining three key online resources for research in film: AFI Catalog, FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals, and Film Index International.

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Alternate Name(s):Burney Collection
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Archival material

The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

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An international database of Shakespeare on film, television and radio hosted by the British Universities Film & Video Council. It holds over 6,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.

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Reference

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Alternate Name(s):SSOAR
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Grey literature
Reference
The full-text server SSOAR archive makes available open access literature in Social Science. SSOAR primarily pursues the so-called “Green Road to Open Access” (OA) and sees itself as a secondary publisher of quality-controlled literature of relevance to the social sciences. It is maintained at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
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This EBSCOhost research database provides access to full text content and abstracts from a comprehensive range of sociology journals, books, conferences and monographs.

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Alternate Name(s):SPIE Digital Library
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E-books

Provides access to over 350 full-text SPIE eBooks from SPIE Press, the largest independent publisher of optics and photonics books. The collection includes monographs, reference works, field guides, tutorial texts, and Spotlight eBooks to keep researchers current on the latest science and technology and advancing their own work. Please note: there is no access to technical papers from SPIE Journals or to Conference Proceedings as we do not subscribe to those items - if you require a journal article or a conference paper you may apply for a digital reading or request the whole volume from our Interlibrary loans service (a charge may apply).

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SPORTDiscus is the leading bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes records from leading sports medicine journals, books, dissertations and more from 1949 to date.  Also provides full-text to more than 400 journals listed in the index.

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Full text of more than 1250 journals published by Springer-Verlag. Access includes most of the Springer Journal Archives up to 1996, and many current titles but, please note, more than 600 titles are excluded from our Springer journals package - these are indicated by a padlock symbol. Springer Link also provides access to Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and Lecture Notes in Mathematics; and Springer Protocols (up to 2012 only, see description below) but not to any other e-book series (although we do hold some Springer books in the Library and some e-books on Ebook Central - these may be found on the Library catalogue).

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This archive includes content published between 1980 until 2012 ONLY.

Springer Protocols contains more than 28,000 protocols, derived from primary content from 6 book series: mostly from Methods in Molecular Biology (907 volumes), and also from Methods in Biotechnology (24 volumes), Methods in Molecular Medicine (140 volumes), Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology (11 volumes), Neuromethods (70 volumes), 8 Springer Protocols Handbooks titles and 21 additional books not in a series.

Used primarily in the life sciences, these protocols provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including aspects such as safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards. Each protocol is templated into four sections—Introduction, Materials, Methods, Notes.

This collection is also available on the new Springer Nature Experiments platform.

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Statista is a leading provider of market and consumer data, covering 170 industries, more than 80,000 topics and a million plus statistics derived from more than 22,500 sources. Export statistics, infographics, publications and reports on areas such as brands, business plans, consumer, country, digital and trends, industry, politics and society.

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Access to the full text articles of over 2,000 journals published by Taylor & Francis. Please note: a large selection of ebook titles are accessible on other platforms - please use Library Search to search for them (if you do not find the title you require use the Inter Library Loans service or contact your Subject Liaison Librarian for advice).

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This index of over 230 peer-reviewed titles from popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Best practices, Continuing education, Current pedagogical research, Curriculum development, Elementary education, Higher education, Instructional media, Language arts, Literacy standards, School administration, Science and mathematics, and Teacher education.

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Alternate Name(s):ESA Standards ECSS
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Patents and Standards

The European Space Agency (ESA) maintains a number of standards for european space activities.  Also available are a number of Engineering handbooks.  This is a free to access database.

Alternate Name(s):Vogue Archive
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Archival material

The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition) in full color page image, from the first issue in 1892 to the present, with monthly updates for new issues. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

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Alternate Name(s):THE Times Higher Times Higher Education Supplement
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Current news about higher education in the UK with an archive back to the mid-1990s. This University subscription requires you to register your Brunel email address and a password to obtain access to Times Higher Education (THE).

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TRILT is the most comprehensive online listings of television and radio programmes on all major channels receivable in the UK, including regional variations going back to 1995. This database is now hosted on Learning Online. Select “Sign In” , top, right, enter “Brunel University” and sign in to obtain access. Then go to TRILT (http://learningonscreen.ac.uk/trilt/).

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TVTiP provides a unique searchable index to the London edition of the TVTimes, the listings magazine for ITV broadcasts, from September 1955 to March 1985. TVTiP allows users to search for programmes, production staff and performers. It contains approximately 250,000 records. The BUFVC manages this databases on behalf of Bournemouth University. To access the database select "Sign in" and search for Brunel as your home institution.

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Bringing together an unparalleled collection of the most important works from the last century from the English-speaking world, Twentieth-Century Drama features plays from noted playwrights as well as lesser known dramatists. The collection includes works by over 300 writers including Amiri Baraka, Noël Coward, Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Brian Friel, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, John Osborne, Sean O’Casey, Harold Pinter, Bernard Shaw, Neil Simon, Gertrude Stein, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, August Wilson and Elizabeth Wong.

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The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. Here you will find a single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data from 1971 to 2011. 

You will need to register your Brunel email address before you can log in - World Bank datasets do not require registration as these are available on open access.

IE10 is not compatible with UK Data Service. IE11 should work. Alternatively, on campus, you may use Firefox ESR on Windows 10 (or on Windows 7 go to Start > All Programs > Central Software > Browsers).

Alternate Name(s):U.K. Parliamentary Papers Parliamentary Papers House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
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Archival material

JISC Collections has licensed the U.K. Parliamentary Papers in perpetuity and this is now freely available to all UK universities. The collection contains bibliographic records and searchable full text for House of Commons papers and Hansard reports printed between 1701-2003.

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Alternate Name(s):Human Anatomy Atlas
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Images

Visible Body is an online program that covers anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations, quizzes, augmented reality, and more. To access the Visible Body resource please click on the “Visible Body” link in the blue menu bar at the top of the screen. A mobile app is available for iPad® and/or iPhone® and for Android™ devices.

Please note: Visible Body will not run on Internet Explorer (IE11 and below). The recommended browsers are Firefox, Chrome and Safari. MS Edge may run into a 4GL memory error so we recommend that you close the browser and open Firefox. If you need support please view the following web pages:
 

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Alternate Name(s):Dawsonera
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There are over 1,000 ebook titles in the VLeBooks collection covering a wide range of subjects. They can be read online or downloaded for a short loan. Many of them are titles that have been included on reading lists. We recommend that you check if Adobe Reader is set to open content inside the browser so that you can read online. VLEbooks is the replacement for Dawsonera.

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Alternate Name(s):WoS
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A database with over 92 million records of journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters dating fro 1900 to present. It includes several indexing databases in one covering: Social sciences, Arts & Humanities, and Physical Sciences.  An extremely good database to use if you aren't sure where to start.

This abstract only database is updated daily. Use Article Linker (AL) to access full-text of articles etc. (where subscriptions or Open Access allow).

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Alternate Name(s):Westlaw International Westlaw Classic
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Legal
News
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Westlaw International Materials, also know as Westlaw Classic, is a global legal research library covering legal, news and business information, case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties and directories drawn from Sweet & Maxwell, Ellis Publications, Carswell and Westlaw. The collection is updated daily.

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Alternate Name(s):Westlaw Edge UK Westlaw Edge Westlaw Books
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Official publications

Also known as Westlaw Edge UK, the Westlaw UK database includes: full text UK, EU and US case law and legislation, including Annotated Statutes; English Reports; and some full text legal journals. An alternative link is available via the UK Federation below.

Westlaw UK also provides access to more than 50 Westlaw Books (look under the Westlaw Edge UK drop-down menu, top left.

The collection is updated daily. NB: If you want to download an article via email, please enter your personal Brunel email address rather than the generic Library email address or you will not receive your copy.

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Description: The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It contains administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers, gray literature—all presented as fully searchable digital images that can be analyzed, downloaded, manipulated, and compared with content from other societies and universities in the Wiley Digital Archives program.

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Wiley's main publishing platform offering over 8 million articles from 1,600 journals covering Agriculture, Aquaculture & Food Science, Architecture & Planning, Art & Applied, Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting, Chemistry, Computer Science & Information Technology, Earth, Space & Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Law & Criminology, Life Sciences, 
Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry & Healthcare, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Psychology, Social & Behavioural Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine.

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Alternate Name(s):Worldmark Encyclopaedia of Cultures And Daily Life
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Reference

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures And Daily Life covers cultural groups in Asia and Oceania, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Five volumes, organized for quick reference by continent, cover history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, rites of passage, and much more for culture groups such as Kurds, Amish, Germans and more than 530 others.

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