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Electronic Bibliographic Databases

Psychological Databases

PsycINFO via Proquest (Formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) - This database is very useful for identifying literature in clinical psychology, family therapy psychotherapy, forensic psychology, general psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychotherapy,  organizational psychology, and related fields. Full text links to many journals. Athens Password.  Need help. 

The Pep Archive  - This PEP Archive is hosted by EBSCO and  offers the full text of 17 premier psychoanalytic journals (some dating back to 1920 whilst the most recent additions date from 2003) and the full text of over 20 classic psychoanalytic books. PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) publishes this archive, updating it annually. Need help? Click on "more information" when you get into EBSCO. Athens Password. Need help

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Athens Password. Need help

PsycArticles- a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of adverts and editorial board lists. Athens password. Need help?

PsycBOOKS -
a full-text database of more than 800 scholarly books and 13,000 chapters
585 books published by APA, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002
217 classic resources in psychology
Exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology; more than 1,500 authored entries. Athens password. Need Help

Autism Data is the ideal research tool for anyone researching autism and Asperger syndrome. It is, as far as we are aware, the only database of published material on autism open for all to access on the web. It lists over 17,000 published research papers, books, articles, videos and other materials.  The contents include bibliographic records of all the items in The National Autistic Society Information Centre Library, together with the details of research articles on autism published in journals which are not part of our holdings. Every entry has an abstract and has been assigned keywords to help with searching.
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Medical Databases

BioMed Central - Scientific publisher providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research. Athens password.

BMJ Journals Collection
Comprises of 22 leading medical titles on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine. Available in print and online. Athens password

British National Formulary - The official website of the British National Formulary, providing UK Healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Athens password.

CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981. Need help?

Health Business Fulltext Elite
This database provides full text from more than 480 journals. Health Business Elite provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.  Need Help? 

Medline -
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.  Hosted by EBSCO. Need Help?

Ovid On-line -  Journals@Ovid.
This database is an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

PubMed- A free version of Medline provided by the a service of the National Library of Medicine, open to all. No password required

 

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General Databases

ZETOC - This British Library database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year, containing almost 15 million article and conference records. You can also register to receive contents pages of your favourite journals, using the zetocAlert service. Athens password. Need help?

The UK Statute Law Database - The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made

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Social Sciences and Social Care


Economic and Social Data Service ESDS - ESDS resource archiving and disseminating large-scale government, qualitative and other social science datasets via the UK Data Archive. Athens password.

Social Care Online- A free database of social care information produced by the Social Care Institute of Excellence. The database replaces the former electronic Library for Social Care (eLSC) and incorporates data previously available in CareData. No password required. Need help?

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Educational Databases

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. Its produced by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, and the National Library of Education.
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British Education Index (BEI) A free reduced version of recently added records to the British Education Index.
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Education-Line. Education-line is a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
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Last Updated: 29/09/2008