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Databases

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Education Databases
  • Education Research Complete (ERC)
    This bibliographic and full text database coves scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. ERC also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. It also provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,780 journals, full text for more than 870 journals, full text for 71 books and monographs and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

  • Dialog Datastar Education
    This database contains the following indexes:

    Australian Education Index (AEI) — contains references to articles in over 200 Australian education journals and relevant articles from other Australian and international journals.

    British Education Index (BEI) — contains references to articles in 350 British journals and a selection of European journal articles in English.

    ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre) — this resource is the largest educational database in the world. It contains references to American journal, and some international, articles on education and related topics. ERIC is now available from the ERIC website at http://www.eric.ed.gov/.

    This database does not give access to the full journal article or book chapters. However where there are references to reports and papers from the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and the European Educational Research Association Annual Conferences links are provide to the full document if available. It also allows full text access ERIC digest.

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Multidisciplinary & Subject Abstracts & indexes

The electronic resources listed below are multidisciplinary, some cover single subjects such as Business, Psychology and Sociology but they are useful as they include education related topics.

  • Business Source Premier
    Contains full text journals, abstracts and market research data. Apart from business related subjects e.g. banking, business, economics, management, sales & marketing, it also includes educational policy, education and the State and education and business. The Economist Intelligence Unit provides some country reports.

  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
    This database includes a number of full text journals. Topics covered include early years issues, education and related topics.

  • Emerald Management Xtra
    Full text of articles from over 100 Emerald business periodicals, in particular marketing and human resource management. It also includes educational management, administration and training.

  • Humanities International Complete (HIC)
    HIC provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. It also includes all data from Humanities International Index, a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities, which provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities.

  • IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
    Abstracting and indexing service covering economics, sociology, politics and anthropology. This database also provides links to the full-text of an article where our library service subscribes to the printed version of the journal.

  • PsycINFO
    This database covers literature, relevant to psychology from 1887-present and contains more than 1.5 million references to journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations published in over 45 countries. In addition to "core" psychology topics such as personality or mental health, it contains abstracts on behavioural topics from related disciplines. You can find references about health care, education, business, organizational behaviour, consumer behaviour, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, and many more.

  • Science Direct
    Subject covered by journals available through ScienceDirect include the following: Arts & Humanities, Biological sciences, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, Psychology, and Social Sciences. ScienceDirect gives access to over 1500 scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals published by Elsevier Science, including the full-text of more than 2 million scientific journal articles. Full text articles available from 1995 to date.

  • ZETOC
    The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents service contains details of 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings from1993 onwards. It allows search by subject. In addition ZETOC has a Table of Contents alerting service which will allow you to be emailed the contents pages of your chosen journals every time a new issue is loaded into the database.

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Electronic Journals Databases

There are also multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing services, which search journals from a range of publishers, and give full-text access to journals the library services subscribes to.

  • E-Journal Service (EJS)
    Provides access to many of the University's electronic journals; enables searching in the title, abstract and full text, and downloading of articles from journals in all subject areas.

  • IngentaConnect
    Full-text electronic gateway for Access to a fast-growing range of full text electronic journals from leading publishers. This web-based service allows anyone to search and browse their database of articles free of charge, and to display bibliographic information and abstracts. Further information is available on this service.

Electronic journals are listed in the library catalogue. This is continually updated.

Education journals available fromthe Education Guide to Periodicals web page, listing printed subscriptions as well as electronic titles.

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Education Newspapers

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Newspaper Databases
  • Nexis UK
    Comprehensive international news, business and company data, including full text of all the major UK newspapers and major overseas daily publications. The news coverage offered is impressive with approximately 12,000 publications from national and local newspapers, press releases, transcripts of TV broadcasts, newswires, statistical bulletins, magazines and trade journals. Also includes full text information covering news, company, industry, legal, market research and directory sources.

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  Page last updated : : 17 Jan 2012