Brunel Library provides access to a wide range of subscription databases, both full-text and bibliographic, where you may search for research literature, news and data. Browse the A-Z list below or, if you are not sure which database to use, consult the relevant Subject Guide to get recommendations on the best database for your search.
Contains full text articles from over 5,000 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work.
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Provides access to articles and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. The collection is updated monthly. Brunel's institutional login is required for access.
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Alexander Street Press is a publisher of award-winning online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. We have access to two collections on ethnography and education. You must use headphones when listening on PCs in the Library. These can be borrowed from the Help Desk.
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AFI is a filmography database documenting 48,300 American films dating between 1893-1972.
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Annual Reviews publishes authoritative reviews in 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences with access to volumes until 2008, only. NB: The Library no longer subscribes to this database so there is no access to articles published since 2009. The exception to this is 'Annual Review of Psychology' where we have access from 2020 to current.
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Provides access to over 70 full-text American Psychological Society (APA) books on psychology, therapy and health published during 2016 and 2017.
APA PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association.
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Psychology and related topics; APA PsycInfo contains abstracts of articles from almost 2300 journals, dissertations and books, from 1872 to date. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded. This abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker to check for full text online sources.
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Provides access to more than 40 ebooks on electronic and computer engineering published by Artech House.
Includes access to all online ASCE Journals (32 journals - 1983 to present). All full-text papers are provided in PDF format, and these may be searched by selecting the "All Digital Journal Papers" option within the search utility. Civil Engineering database subject headings may be searched on the ASCE's Civil Engineering Database.
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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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BFI Player replaces the former BFI Inview service which provided access to more than 11,000 archive films selected by the BFI National Archive. The images can be browsed according to broad political and economical themes. In 2022 the BFI plans to make available a new service for UK libraries based on BFI Player. The content on this service will come from the BFI National Archive as well as national, regional and cultural partners, including material not available on BFI Player. We also plan to make this service available to other educational institutions.
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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. For the avoidance of doubt, 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 or BIOSIS Previews from the 'select a database' tab on Web of Knowledge 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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Black Ballad is a UK based media and data platform for and by Black women. The site has hundreds of articles, videos & podcasts about the experiences of Black women that range from identity, health, motherhood, politics, literature, pop culture, finance and more.
Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing economic and business news, analytics and 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, and access the Bloomberg Market Concepts e-learning programme and certification.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Berg Fashion Library
Berg Fashion Library provides access to a diversity of resources including Berg encyclopaedia of world dresses, reference works, e-books, images, as well as museum directory and exhibition archives.
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
Access to real-world cases on challenges facing the fashion business, such as sustainability, technology, ethics and leadership.
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A collection of 22 leading medical journals on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine published BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. The Library reinstated the subscription to this database and access to current articles has been restored.
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Search for Brunel as your home institution. 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. You will need to register and confirm your Brunel email address when you first access the new site. For service issues see the current service status web page.
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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 the recommended citation style.
Index of 350 British and selected European journals with more than 175,000 references to journal articles in the fields of education and training, from 1976 to date. This abstract only database is updated quarterly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
This database moved to EBSCOhost from ProQuest in August 2014 - if you have any alerts running at ProQuest you should be able to access these but you will need to set up the same alerts at EBSCOhost to ensure continuity.
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British Library Newspapers 1800-1900
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 NewsVault permits cross-searching of the majority of the British Library's collections of historical newspapers published between 1800 to 1900.
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British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds is the new name for Archival Sound Recordings. 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. You must use headphones when listening/viewing on PCs in the Library. These can be borrowed from the Help Desk.
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) provides free access to the British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children to all members of higher education institutions. NICE Evidence search, https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/, also provides access to BNF content. BNF is published jointly by BMJ Group and Pharmaceutical Press. For more details see: http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/publication-information.
(Please note that there is no access to BNF and BNFC on the Medicines Complete database but you may register for a free personal account via Medicines Complete as a non-commercial user - use your Brunel email address).
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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British Nursing Database (BNI) is a leading bibliographic database. It supports the 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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British Periodicals traces the changing attitudes and assumptions of British Writers over a period of 250 years. It consists of 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, hosted on the new ProQuest integrated platform (this has the option to search other databases, too).
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Provides access to the full text of more than 50,000 British and adopted European and international standards. It is updated daily.
Due to changes in security of the BSOL platform, fileopen plug in is required to access the PDF content on this platform. (Brunel managed devices already have this installed)
In addition you will also need to change your browser settings in order to download PDFs from BSOL. 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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BURA
BURA (Brunel University Research Archive) aims to showcase the University's research outputs by making them freely available to the public via the Internet. No ID is required for access.
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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Cambridge Journals Online provides full text access for over two hundred journals published by Cambridge University Press in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also available: access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (bought by JISC Collections) comprising 171 journals.
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A collection of over 100 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience.
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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/chemrps), but we suggest you contact the provider first: chemrps@akoscheminformatics.de
Produced by NISC, 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 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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The expanded version of the CINAHL index, CINAHL Plus provides an even wider scope of nursing and allied health journals, as well as a higher number of records, full-text and cited references. Content includes additional allied health literature and biomedical resources and records date back to 1937. 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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Classical Scores Library contains many of the most important classical scores and manuscripts. It allows for the study and analysis of more than 49,000 scores. You may access Classical Scores Library through Alexander Street Press's Music Online interface.
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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 short screencast (1 min 50 secs) showing how to access ClinicalKey Student via Brightspace.
Full text database of systematic reviews. 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 March 2024 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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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 on 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.
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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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. (Note: you may need to download the lastest version of google chrome to view videos on this platform)
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Drama Online provides access to over 650 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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Access to over 1,400 scholarly e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.
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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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ProQuest Ebook Central provides access to over 1,200 authoritative ebooks covering a wide range of subjects. They can be read online and, where permitted, a section of the evbook may be downloaded. Many of them are titles that have been included on reading lists. Ebook Central is designed for patrons with accessibility needs. For more information see: https://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral/home. and http://libguides.brunel.ac.uk/informationsources.
EBSCO offers high-quality eBook and audiobook titles from leading academic publishers.
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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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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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UK-based Education in Video, has been producing instructional videos showing actual classroom footage since 2008. 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 on campus.
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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.
Over 300 selected titles from four of Elsevier's ebook collections (engineering, mathematics, environmental science and materials science) are available via ScienceDirect.
Emerald Case studies. 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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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.
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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A collection of over 300 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience.
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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.
Education Resources Information Center provides access to over 1.4 million bibliographic records with abstracts focused on US education, from 1966 to date. This abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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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. Please note: On February 15th, 2019, the URLs to access the InCites platform will be updated. The existing URLs will remain available until March 15. To access Journal Citation Reports, please bookmark https://esi.clarivate.com
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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.
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Electronic Theses Online Service: Access to records of over 250K doctoral theses from UK Higher Education institutions, with full text availability for an increasing number.
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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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. Formerly published by Jordan Publishing, this content transferred to Lexis Library during 2017 where you may access the following titles:
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Provides information on approximately 100,000 films and references to articles about films.
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Note: first time users should follow this special FT registration link. You must be on campus to register. Use your Brunel University email address to create a unique username and password. 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 28 November, 2005.
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Fitch Connect 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 Connect log in, then they will provide one for you.
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.
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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Jisc is pleased to announce the launch of a new search tool licenced to solve the problem of finding spatial data from hundreds of thousands of public-facing geospatial web-services, including Airbus' Vision-1 satellite imagery which will become available on Geospatial data (see below) in early 2020.
Mintel Market Sizes is the new name for Global Market Navigator or GMN (formerly called Snapshots) provides market data for 22 consumer industries across 54 countries. Search by country and industry or market to produce a customised report. MMS contains the data previously available in GMN / Snapshots, including international reports, too.
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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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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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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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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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.
eHRAF Archaeology is an online cross-cultural database containing information on world’s prehistory. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. eHRAF Archaeology is a unique resource designed to facilitate comparative archaeological studies.
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. If you are unable to open IEEE Xplore with the link above, try the IEEE Xplore mirror site.
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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.
Access to 96 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 (IET Journals flipped to Gold Open Access from 2021). IET journal articles published prior to 2013 are not accessible on Wiley Online Library or on the IET Digital Library because we do not subscribe to the IET Journal Archive. You may, however, request an item not included in our collection via our Interlibrary loans service. Note also, we do not hold access to IET.tv.
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 valid active Brunel email addresses will allow access to the content.
The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of thousands of reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to 1996. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content – thousands of hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. Formerly hosted at the BUFVC Archives (in collaboration with Bournemouth University’s Centre for Broadcasting History) the content is being moved to Learning on Screen and may not be available in 2022.
Access to 24 electronic reference books from IGI Global (formally IDEA), including Handbooks of Research and Encyclopedias. Topics covered include information security and ethics, knowledge management, e-business, web technologies, and HCI.
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.
InfoSci-Journals provides access to all Information Science journals published between 2008 and 2013 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. (NB: usually no access is available to content from 2014 onwards or prior to 2008).
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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FIAF is a bibliographical resource offering access to hundreds of academic and popular film journals from around the world. It contains over 400,000 article citations from more than 330 periodicals.
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Until further notice, free worldwide access to publishers' content provided by the Internet Archive, including scholarly books from many University Presses. Please see the National Emergency Library's FAQs for details.
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. Journal Citation Reports may also be accessed via Web of Science. Journal and Highly Cited Data is the module name for Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators which are now supported on the InCites platform - for more details see: Journal and Highly Cited Data.
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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 collections, inclusive, and to the Health & General Sciences collection, as well as to 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK) and to 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.
During this period of home working JSTOR has kindly opened up expanded access to the remaining, unsubscribed collections, to 26 journal archives in Public Health, as well as additional resources on COVID-19 on the JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections to support institutions with their research and teaching until the end of June 2021, including Open Research Reports and Open Community Collections. Beyond June, Ithaka will continue to provide access to a number of freely available or 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 launced during April 2020 and includes subscriptions to 12 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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Full text of all electronically available volumes. All volumes from vol. 1 (1973) onwards. For a short while you may need to access the archiveson "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 archives 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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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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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.
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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The Literary Encyclopedia is a constantly evolving and updating repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history. Articles are solicited by invitation from specialist scholars in higher education institutions all over the world, refereed and approved by subject editors. The Literary Dictionary Company Limited is lindly extending free access until 30 June 2020.
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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Provides access to the archive 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.
LWW Health Libraries (Made Incredibly Easy! series) 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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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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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.
Indexes sources in medical research including biomedical and physical sciences, North American bias, from 1948 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.
Mintel Reports (formerly Mintel Academic) provides access to market research reports and data on lifestyle trends including eating and drinking habits, clothing and footwear.
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Mintel Market Sizes (formerly called Global Market Navigator, GMN or Snapshots) provides market data for 22 consumer industries across 54 countries. Search by country and industry or market to produce a customised report. MMS contains the data previously available in GMN / Snapshots, including international reports, too.
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Music Periodicals Database (previous title: Index to International Music Periodicals or IIMP) is a bibliographical resource 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 770,000 records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication.
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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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The Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (PSDS) replaced the National Chemical Database Service (NCDS) during the summer of 2019. To gain access to the PSDS, please register your details and your Brunel University email address. PSDS is a collaborative service provided by Science & Technology Facilities Council, EPSRC, UKRI and University of Southampton on behalf of the UK academic community. It brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in chemistry and related fields. This is an EPSRC-funded facility which allows free access to a suite of commercial databases for UK university staff and students. For more information see the learning resources and videoas and a list of online scientific resources.
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Provides current 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. Also includes access to Nature Archives between 1987 and 1996.
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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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Collection of e-Books available for free via the National Center for Biotechnology Information. No ID is required for access.
Please note: Nexis migrated to a new database called Nexis Advance UK (as of 5 September, 2019). Nexis Advance UK provides access to full text access to regional, national and international newspapers, business trade journals, company reports and country reports. (This database was previously called LexisNexis Business & News).
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NHS EED was produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK. until April 2015. EED assists decision-makers by systematically identifying economic evaluations from around the world, appraising their quality, and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. It is hosted on Cochrane Library.
Over 26,000 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.
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.
Offers comparable statistics on health and health care systems for 30 OECD countries, with some time series going back to 1960
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.
OpenDissertations 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 with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, MA, USA. It includes abstracts and full text theses available on the British Library's EThOS service.
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Includes access to more than 35,000 book titles plus more than 30,000 hours of video within the information technology and computing subject areas 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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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.
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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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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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.
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.
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Full text of over 200 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Please note that the text of the full and definitive Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is not available via Oxford Reference Online. See the entry above to access the latest edition of OED.
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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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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 and an overview of the new Passport interface here https://go.euromonitor.com/video-academic-2021-new-passport-interface.html?wvideo=myq7jjjs8g . Also see the Market Research Library Guide< https://libguides.brunel.ac.uk/marketresearch > for training recorded by Brunel librarians on using Passport and other market research databases.
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Performing Arts Periodicals Database (previous title: International Index of 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 100 of the indexed journals from around the world. It currently includes half a million records, the majority from the ten 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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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 new 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." 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
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.
Politics Trove
Oxford University Press offers access to a suite of 35 ebooks and resources which spans international relations to European politics, ideologies to strategy and security studies until 31 July 2020.
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 (nor before January 2006).
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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ProQuest's new platform provides online access to seven ProQuest databases including full-text sources like ABI/Inform and British Periodicals; some indexes such as DAAI, IBSS, IIMP and IIPA which either contain abstracts only or limited full-text sources; and a database listing calls for conference papers, COS PapersInvited. This database searches all these sources simultaneously, or you can change your selection.
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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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APA PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association.
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Psychology and related topics; APA PsycInfo contains abstracts of articles from almost 2,300 journals, dissertations and books, from 1872 to date. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded. This abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker to check for full text online sources.
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US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. 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.
Refinitiv Workspace combines exceptional data, news and content coverage with cutting-edge web technology that is fast, light and intuitive. Refinitiv Workspace provides access to company financial data and economic indicators as well as news, analytics and productivity tools. Full functionality is accessible via the University Horizon software and some capability through web and mobile platforms. 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 (only via the Horizon software) 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 Refinitiv Workspace.
See the Data and Statistics Library Guide for information on accessing the database and training by Brunel librarians. You will also find links to online training and certification offered by Refinitiv.
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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The Enhanced Business Searching Interface in this EBSCOhost database allows you to browse:
The Royal Society has extended free access to its content including the journals and the picture library until further notice.
Provides access to more than 5,900 journal articles and 77,000 technical papers from 1998 onwards published by the Society of Automotive Engineers on the new SAE MOBILUS database. The new database references thousands of papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology.
Please note that some items on SAE Mobilus database are not included on our subscription. To check for full text access, use the filters on SAE Mobilus labelled: "My Access" and "Full Text Content". Only abstracts are available for the non-subscribed content such as papers published by external institutions or for SAE articles published prior to our subscribed years (1998 onwards). If such a paper is not available from an alternative source then it may be purchased from the Inter-Library Loan Service. See also the SAE MOBILUS guide to learn more.
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Includes access to more than 35,000 book titles plus more than 30,000 hours of video within the information technology and computing subject areas 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.
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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 e-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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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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SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. It provides access to over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and beyond. For guidance see SAGE's LibGuide and methods map.
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Provides access to the Elsevier digital library, covering over 2500 publications. Most are available in full text after 1995. The collection is updated daily.
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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. Use Article Linker (AL - link to full text) to check for full text online sources.
If you are being asked to register your email address and you prefer to use an anonymous session, try the following link instead: https://www.scopus.com/home.url. You may need to double-click the email button, then sign in via "Insitution" and enter Brunel as your home institution to enter via Brunel Sign In.
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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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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.
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.
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.
Macmillan Skills for Study is a self-paced online learning resource. There are videos and a dozen interactive modules to help you improve your study, research and employability skills. Use the "Institution Login" button and find Brunel University to sign in to your personal learning account. Please note that you may only take each module once during your session.
Social Care Online is produced by The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It has a Google-type standard search, is updated daily, and is free to use! Register or log in to make best use of the resource and access all the following features: links to available resources; advanced search; export results; saved searches function; and email alerts.
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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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The full-text server SSOAR archives works 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.
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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Sport and sporting injuries abstracts, from 1949 to date, also providing 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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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.
JISC Collections has licensed Springer Protocols and this is now freely available to all UK universities until December 2017 -- this archive includes content published between 1980 until 2012
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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 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 Academic Liaison Librarian for advice).
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This index of over 280 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, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science & mathematics, and more.
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UK-based Teachers TV, now called Education in Video, has been producing instructional videos showing actual classroom footage since 2008. 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 on campus.
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Also known as Broadcast Listings, TRILT provides access to Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching, hosted by the BUFVC. Listings for more than 475 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards Custom auto-alert emails for forthcoming programmes up to 10 days in advance. To access the database on Learning Online, type in "Brunel" in the "Where are you from?" box, select "Brunel University" and sign in with your Brunel network account.
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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). For more details see: IntraBrunel.
TVTiP is a fully searchable database of the programmes listed in television listings magazine TVTimes from September 1955 to March 1985. 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.
Twentieth-Century Drama contains over 1,900 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. The final version will contain 2,500 plays.
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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.
Please note IE10 is not compatible with the UK Data Service. On campus you may use Chrome, Edge, Firefox ESR or IE11 via the Start > All Programs menu.
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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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. It may be accessed via Ovid using the link on the right hand side of Ovid's navigation bar to Visible Body. 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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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. See the VLEbooks help page and LibAnswers for guidance if the ebook does not open correctly. Please note that VLeBooks uses digital rights management (DRM) software - you are advised to ensure you are using at least Adobe Digital Editions when you read an ebook on your computer or prtable device. VLeBooks is the replacement for Dawsonera.
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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Clarivate's Web of Science Core Collection indexes journals and conference proceedings in the arts and humanities, social science and science and technology, providing abstracts to the majority of peer-reviewed articles, from 1970 to date, hosted on the Web of Science platform. This abstract only database is updated weekly. Also includes BIOSIS Citation Index (up to 2008), Medline and SciELO Citation Index. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
Clarivate also provides an open access tool called Kopernio - a free, easy-to-use browser plugin that helps you save time accessing full-text journal articles by bringing your institutional subscriptions as well as open access content into your workflow at your point of need. Kopernio works where you do, on campus, off-campus at home or when traveling to conferences. The browser extension is integrated with over 20,000 academic websites including Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar.
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Westlaw International, or Westlaw Classic, is a global legal research library covering legal, news and business information. It covers case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties and directories drawn from Thomson Reuters businesses, including Sweet & Maxwell, Ellis Publications, Carswell and Westlaw.
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Also known as Westlaw Edge UK, this 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 a collection of 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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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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Full text of most journals published by Wiley. Incorporates Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy.
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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.