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Access a wide range of information sources, including abstracts and indexes, full-text journals, electronic books, images, statistics and financial data by using the relevant link in the list below.
You are reminded that photocopying of print material and printing and downloading of online material is limited by Copyright restrictions.
Some databases might require specific usernames and passwords. Some do not give access to the full-text of articles.
For help in finding resources see How to Find Information in your Subject, How to do a Literature Search or How to do a Citation Search.
We have included information about the compatibility of the sources with bibliographic management tools, (e.g.  and  ), accessibility issues  and usage helpsheets.
A-Z listing of databases
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19th century British Library newspapers | 19th century British Library newspapers offers a selection of digitised regional and national newspapers from the Victorian era. The database comprises both daily and weekly publications which have been selected to represent the whole of Victorian society.
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19th century British pamphlets | Collection of over 20,000 digitised significant British pamphlets created by Research Libraries UK. Includes the Cowen Tracts, Hume Tracts, and Knowsley pamphlet collection.
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19th century masterfile | An online searchable "index of indexes" to historical research prior to 1925. Includes citations to resources from periodicals, newspapers, books, US Congressional record, US and UK government documents and US patents.
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Academic Library | Over 300 titles covering anthropology and development studies, cultural and media studies, history, politics and international relations, with a collection of classic texts in political economy. Also contains a collection of over 150 classic fiction titles.
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Academic Search Complete | A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with nearly 6,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers abstracts for over 10,000 journals books, reports and conference proceedings.
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ACLS Humanities ebook Collection | A fully searchable collection of over 1700 high-quality ebooks in the humanities which have been reviewed and recommended by scholars. The Project is a collaboration of 12 learned societies, 95 publishers and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.
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ACM Digital Library | The ACM DL is a vast collection of citations and full text from Association of Computing Machinery journal, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
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African writers series | Key works from Heinemann's African Writers Series. This series provides works from the canon of African literature of the twentieth century, covering such authors as Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Buchi Emecheta. Trial access to 28th November 2009
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AgeInfo | AgeInfo is an information service about old age and ageing provided by the Centre for Policy on Ageing. It contains the details of over 40,000 books articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology and information on over 4,000 organisations active in the field of Old Age and Ageing world wide.
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Agricola | Contains the citations of the agricultural literature created by the US National Agricultural Library; covers worldwide journal literature and books on all aspects of agriculture.
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AHDS collections (Arts and Humanities Data Service) | A freely available resource of archive collections and digital resources developed by researchers, teachers and practitioners covering Archaeology, History, Literature, Languages, Linguistics, Performing Arts and Visual Arts.
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AMADEUS | A pan-European database containing the standardised annual accounts (for up to 10 years), consolidated and unconsolidated, financial ratios, activities and ownership on approximately 10 million companies throughout Europe. Detailed sector and peer group analyses can be performed and data exported into MS Excel.
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AMED | Contains information on alternative treatments to conventional medicine from over 400 mainly European sources. 1985 onwards. It corresponds to the printed current awareness bulletins: Complementary Medicine Index, Occupational Therapy Index, Physiotherapy Index, Rehabilitation Index, and Podiatry Index
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American Chemical Society (ACS) journals | The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in chemistry and related sciences. Access includes the archive, which provides full-text of all ACS journals from 1895.
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American Physical Society journals | Available through Scitation; The American Physical society publishes the leading international physics research journals. The Physical Review Online Archive provides access to articles in these journals all the way back to the founding of the Physical Review in 1893.
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AMS books online | Around 30 free e-books published by the American Mathematical Society on a range of mathematical topics, including analysis, differential equations, mathematical physics, logic and number theory. In PDF format - Adobe Acrobat required.
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Annee philologique | A searchable bibliographical database of classical philology (the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature or classical scholarship) with records from 1949-2005.
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Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL) | Provides information on authors and their works, including references to articles, monographs, dissertations, websites and journal articles. Available through Literature Online (LION) - choose the option 'Individual collections' from the LION home page.
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Annual Reviews online | Searchable full-text collection of this critical review series in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences
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Archives Hub | The Archives Hub provides access to over 18,000 descriptions of unique and unpublished primary source material held in archives and manuscript collections in over 80 UK universities, colleges and research institutes. The Archives Hub forms part of the emerging National Archives Network and covers a broad range of subject areas.
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ArchSearch | A Freely available catalogue from the Council for British Archeaology which contains records of over 1 million archaeological sites and monuments. Archived data includes fieldwork projects and lab-based studies which can be downloaded and analysed off line.
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Art full text | This database offers the full text of selected publications, from 1997 onwards, on the subjects of Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Fashion, Folk Art, Interior & Industrial Design, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture & Textiles.
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ARTbibliographies modern | ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary artforms. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Use the 'Specific Databases' link to select this database.
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ArticleFirst | Contains an index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals on the subjects of business, humanities, medicine, science, social science, technology and popular culture.
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ASSIA | Contains over 312,000 records from 650 journals in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
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ASTM standards online | Full-text downloads for OU staff and research students only - please contact Library Helpdesk on lib-help@open.ac.uk
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ATLA religion database with ATLASerials | Summaries of articles from nearly 1,430 journals and full text of over 130 journals (some dating back to 1949). Primarily covers religion and theology but also includes history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and psychology. Also indexes essays and book reviews.
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ATSDR's toxicological profiles | A index of toxicological effects of hazardous substances, chemicals, and compounds. Each profile includes an examination, summary, and interpretation of available toxicological and epidemiological data evaluations on the hazardous substance. Searchable
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Australian education index | Indexes over 200 Australian journals covering educational research and policy from 1976 to the present day, also includes conference proceedings and papers, research and technical reports.
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Bartleby.com | Freely available collection of modern reference books, and historical anthologies of poetry, fiction and non-fiction titles. Browseable and searchable
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Bentham Open Access | A collection of over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals in all disciplines
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BHA : bibliography of the history of art | Abstracts of the literature of the history of visual art and material culture in Europe and the New World. The database includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: International repertory of the literature of art and Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie. Before you search, remember to select the BHA, RAA or RILA databases from the list. To ensure the fullest coverage, you must select the earlier databases.
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Bible in English | This database contains 21 different versions of the English Bible, including 12 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament. Trial access to 28th November 2009
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Bible.com | A freely-available gateway to the Bible online. Contains links to various different versions and translations of the Bible in numerous languages available on the Internet
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Bibliography of metaphor & metonymy | A major source of information for anyone interested in metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language. It covers monographs, edited volumes, articles from volumes and journals, dissertations, proceedings, working papers, unpublished works and conference papers, starting from 1990.
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Bibliomania | Thousands of free eBooks, poems, articles, short stories and plays. Also study guides, dictionaries, biographies, religious texts, and popular non-fiction. American site. Searchable
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Binleys online | A fully searchable reference of UK NHS personnel, organisations and priority documents. With up-to-date contact and statistical information, and the latest NHS news
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BioMed Central | A collection of over 180 peer-reviewed, open access medical journals.
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BRIDGE : briefings on development and gender | Provides access to a range of information sources and services on gender and development. Index of policy documents, assessments and evaluations; also contains the full text of guidelines, reports on gender issues, country profiles and statistics.
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Bridgeman education | Bridgeman Art Library digital image database, with access to the visual culture of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from prehistoric times to the present.
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Brill online | A collection of reference texts relating to religion, including the 4 volume Brill Dictionary of Religion
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British history online | A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Searchable and browsable in four areas: Parliamentary, local, urban & metropolitan, and ecclesiastical & religious history. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
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British Library archival sound recordings | Searchable collection of 12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments from the British Library's sound archive. To access this collection please use the red 'log in' link near the top of the ASL homepage and then select 'The Open University (Athens)' from the menu given.
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British Library integrated catalogue | Catalogue of over 12 million items in the British Library's collections in the London Reading Rooms and at the Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa.
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British National Formulary | Provides guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs. Updated every six months, the BNF reflects current best practice as well as legal and professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines.
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British Pathe | This contains the entire 3,500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. Access and low resolution "preview" downloads are free. Microsoft Windows Media Player is required to view the clips.
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British Periodicals | British Periodicals online provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
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British standards online | Full texts of 37,000 documents, including current, historic and draft British Standards, BSI-adopted European and international standards, handbooks, Codes of Practice, guidelines and glossaries; can be printed or downloaded.
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British Universities newsreel database | Resource of British newsreel coverage from 1910 to 1979. Covers topics such as fashion, sport, crime, leisure, transport and two world wars. Searchable. Includes 80,000 digitised production documents and links to 40,000 downloadable newsreels from the British Pathe collection
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Burney Collection newspapers archive, 17th and 18th century | 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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Business monitor online | Business and economic forecasts by country; company intelligence; industry research; economic news and analyses; political, economic and business risk ratings; investments; sales and exports data.
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Business Source Complete | Searchable database of full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Also includes full text financial data, books, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, Datamonitor company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
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Butler Group research | The Platinum subscription allows OU staff to benefit from the full range of the Butler Group's products and services. This service is only available to OU employees. To obtain details of how to register for the service please contact the Library Helpdesk, email library-help@open.ac.uk
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CAA reviews | Publishes timely scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts
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Cambridge collections online | A cross-searchable library of subject based collections. Comprises the Complete Cambridge Companions, the Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics, and the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture, and the Shakespeare Survey. Each collection is updated with new Companions on publication.
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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) | CAMIO consists of over 50,000 works of art from all continents. Included are paintings, sculpture, photographs, decorative and utilitarian objects, installations, architecture, jewellery and textiles dating from 3000 BC to the 21st Century. Images can be used for education in a non-commercial manner. There is a link to rights information from each image.
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CareKnowledge (England) | CareKnowledge is an extensive database of social care information and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles and websites. Click on "Athens login" link for access (i.e. Ignore password boxes)
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Cecilia | A database containing information on collections of music materials of all kinds held in libraries, archives, museums and other repositories in the UK and Ireland.
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Census 1901 website | The 1901 Census for England and Wales Online service. A searchable, comprehensive name index to over 32 million individuals. Also searchable by address, district and institution. Contains images of the original census pages. Searching the index is free but viewing transcribed data is chargeable by the Public Record Office. See "How can I pay" section for further details
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Census Dissemination Unit | The Unit supplies academic users with computer readable data from the UK Censuses of Population. Register with the Census Registration Service for continued access
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Census Interaction Data Service | CIDS is a data support unit providing access to and supporting interaction data sets produced from UK Censuses of Population. Census interaction data relate to flows of people between places. Data sets are currently available from the 1981 and 1991 Census
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Census learning and teaching materials (CHHC) | Links to materials which are being developed to support the use of census data in learning and teaching. All learning and teaching materials are freely available for use by UK HE and FE sites and are customisable.
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Census Microdata Unit : samples of anonymised records | Samples of anonymised records (SARs) are abstracts of individual census returns, very large datasets resembling survey data. Information that could lead to the identification of an individual or household is removed. SARs from the 2001 Census are available now. Register with the Census Registration Service for continued access.
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Charles Darwin online | This site contains every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts - more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. Also a comprehensive Darwin bibliography and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important works for understanding Darwin's context. Free audio mp3 versions of his works are also available
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Chemistry Central | A collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in the chemical sciences.
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CHEMnetBASE | Searchable reference works include: Combined chemical dictionary, Dictionary of chemical compounds, Dictionary of drugs, Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds, Dictionary of natural products, Dictionary of organic compounds, Handbook of chemistry & physics, Polymers - a property database, and Properties of organic compounds.
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ChildData | National Children's Bureau databases covering: Books, reports and journal article abstracts, Children in the news, Children and Parliament, Conferences and meetings, Organisations concerned with children, UN Convention and children's rights in the UK
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CINAHL | Indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Endnote compatible.
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ClasePeriodica | Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities, offering access to over 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
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Classical music library | A fully searchable classical music database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. The Library contains music from medieval to contemporary, choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. A wide range of new content from EMI is gradually being added, to make available 54,000 extra recordings from top artists and ensembles.
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Cochrane Library | Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
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Combined chemical dictionary | A chemical database containing over 500,000 substances formerly available in CRC dictionaries of analytical reagents, carbohydrates, inorganic and organometallic compounds, natural products, organic compounds and drugs (PharmaSource).
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Complete dictionary of scientific biography | Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.
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Computer database | Contains computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
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Computing reviews | Aims to provide access to current research, theory and applications in all sub disciplines of computing via the review medium. CR compiles critical reviews of current publications of note in computing. CR is a joint effort between Reviews.com and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Conference proceedings citations index : Science | Access to the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.
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Country reports | Searchable database of economic reports from EbscoHost. May also browse by country, region or publisher
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Credo Reference | Access to a selection of 169 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations; also a range of subject-specific titles in a range of disciplines.
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CrossFire Service | A comprehensive chemical information database; structural and numerical information, and abstracts from the chemical literature since 1980; Beilstein covers organic chemistry, Gmelin inorganic compounds. Select Open University from the dropdown list. Then, if prompted, select General access to athens resources and then click to start the Commander. You will need to have the Commander software previously installed to access it in this way. To download the software go to http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/usingxf.html
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CrossFire Service | A comprehensive chemical information database; structural and numerical information, and abstracts from the chemical literature since 1980; Beilstein covers organic chemistry, Gmelin inorganic compounds. Select Open University from the dropdown list. Then, if prompted, select General access to athens resources and then click to start the Commander. You will need to have the Commander software previously installed to access it in this way. To download the software go to http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/usingxf.html
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CUDOS : Commonwealth Universities Database Online | Details of 700 universities searchable by name, country, ACU member status, foundation date or size. Search for research activities, study areas, staff and sources of funding. Log in with your XXX@open.ac.uk email and this password: yhkgub
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Datastream historical company accounts, | The Datastream Historical Company Accounts, 1965-2005 dataset covers accounts for companies in existence between 1965 and 2005. Data are provided for both 'live' companies (still active) and 'dead' companies (those no longer trading).
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Design abstracts retrospective: DAR | Provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of design. DAR contains more than 55,000 abstracts and is updated quarterly, with 15,000 records added per year.
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Digimap : Ordnance Survey data collection | Digimap is a service that provides Ordnance Survey Map data. Data may be downloaded to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales may be viewed and printed, subject to Copyright. Please contact the Library Helpdesk for further information. First time users should register with the site.
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Dinobase | Searchable database of information on dinosaurs. A viewable record is compiled for each species with information on classification, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, discovery, vital statistics, and images. Further features include a section on taxonomy gives the choice of simplified or full Linnean classification, and a cladogram, and a public forum, which provides a unique opportunity for the users to interact with Bristol palaeontologists.
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Directory of open access journals (DOAJ) | Access to over 1500 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified
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Dissertations and theses | 1.6 million records of dissertations, with abstracts of Doctoral dissertations since 1980 and of Master's theses since 1988; 24 page previews available for titles published since 1997; mostly American. Coverage is from 1861 onwards. Staff on campus, regional staff, full time research students on-campus, associate lecturers who live near Walton Hall and part-time postgraduate students should contact Document Delivery before ordering theses online.
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Documents online | Online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Documents are separated into topic-based categories, which can be searched or browsed. They are divided into two main areas - Family History and Other Records. OU students and staff my download documents without needing to pay.
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DUETs : Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments | This free database publishes uncertainties about the effects of treatments that cannot be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence. Systematic reviews are based on worldwide searches for reliable, relevant evidence, analysed using methods to reduce biases and the play of chance. Set up by the NHS National Library for Health
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Early English books online | Early English Books Online (EEBO) is an online version of more than 125,000 early printed books. Includes Pollard & Redgrave's short-title catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's short-title catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
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ECO : electronic collections online | A collection of over 7000 journal titles in all disciplines, providing bibliographic information and full text to those subcribed to by the OU
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Economic and Social Data Service | ESDS provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. It comprises a number of specialist data services that promote and encourage data usage in teaching and research. N.B. Registration required (on first visit only). Click Submit
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Education image gallery | Designed for educational purposes at FE and HE institutions, the Gallery provides instant access to a collection of 50,000 images. Images cover key events and multiple subject areas including history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women's studies. The gallery draws on the Hulton Archive, Photodisc and the Getty Images News Service.
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Educational research abstracts | Educational Research Abstracts (ERA) comprises selected abstracts covering the current international research in education, from seven abstracting journals in the field of education. Includes abstracts from over 500 journal titles. Links to full text where available. 1995 onwards.
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Electronic literature directory | An extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. Searchable
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Electronic Text Center | 10,000 publicly available texts including history, literature, philosophy, religion, and history of science. Languages include Latin, Apache, Japanese, and Chinese. 164,000 related images, including rare books, manuscripts, and book illustrations
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Empire online | A fully searchable database of over 70,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1962, from libraries and archives around the world. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. With biographies and chronology.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica | Provides simultaneous searching of Encylopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Book of the Year, and an internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. With world atlas and time lines.
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Encyclopedia of energy | The Encyclopedia draws together all aspects of energy, covering areas throughout the natural, social and engineering sciences.
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Encyclopedia of life sciences | Online encyclopedia regularly updated. Articles are grouped by level of complexity. Introductory articles which are useful for undergraduates and non-specialist readers needing basic concepts in a given subject. Secondary articles which are useful for advanced undergraduates and graduates with material equivalent to graduate level texts. Special essays include a number of articles covering "hot topics" and controversial issues written by eminent scientists.
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Encyclopedia of religion | The second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many heavily updated, and approximately 600 entirely new articles have been added by an international team of scholars and contributors.
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English poetry | Over 183,000 poems, comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented. Trial access to 28th November 2009
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English Reports, full reprint, 1220-1865 | Originally published in 176 volumes, the reprint contains over 100,000 cases, representative of 265 separate series of reports, arranged by courts. May be searched or browsed, and includes an index of cases.
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ERIC | 1 million references to journal articles, books, theses, conference papers, research reports; online thesaurus. 1966 onwards.
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EScholarship editions | More than 1,400 free electronic editions of academic books published by eScholarship Editions, mainly in the humanities, religion, history, literature, arts and social sciences
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EThOS : Electronic Theses Online Service | Over 250,000 digitised versions of British theses, available for free download. May also be purchased on DVD, or print. Registration required for first use only
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EUR-Lex : the portal to European Union law | Designed to keep users up to date on legislation in force in the European Union and new legislation as it is enacted, with the intention to make EU law more accessible to the general public. The site has 8 sections: Treaties, the Official Journal, Legislation, Legislation in preparation, Parliamentary questions, Documents of public interest, Preparing Enlargement and Case-law. The site is searchable and is available in all official European Community languages. The full text of many documents is available to download
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FAME | Companies House data on 440,000 UK and Irish companies, plus 30 business ratios; 10-year runs; analytical and graphics capabilities.
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FIAF International Film Archive database | FIAF contains the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972 forward), International Index to Television Periodicals (1979 forward), Treasures from the Film Archives, Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications and the International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections. NOTE: Before searching select 'FIAF databases' from the list.
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FictionConnection | A searchable database of fiction in print, from Bowker. Multiple search modes by topic, character, genre, place, timeframe. NOTE: For on campus use only
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Fifty lessons | A searchable and browseable video collection of over 300 case studies from more than 120 world-class business leaders, on all aspects of management.
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Film and sound online | A set of collections of film and video, fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, which can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. Also includes the Culverhouse Classical Music Collection containing over fifty hours of copyright-free classical music by some of the most famous composers from 17th to the 20th centuries. (Previously Education Media Online)
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FOODnetBASE | The full texts, cross-searchable, of over 120 handbooks in the food sciences, including microbiology, product safety, packaging, and biotechnology
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FreeBooks4Doctors | A collection of over 360 freely accessible online medical text books.
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Freeze frame | A searchable collection of photographs illustrating polar exploration from the 19th century. A JISC digitisation project, hosted by the University of Cambridge. Includes resource packages including biographies, expedition summaries, history of polar photography, and galleries of photos by topics such as ships, and wildlife.
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Geology Digimap | Digimap is a service that provides British Geological Survey Map data. Data may be downloaded to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales may be viewed and printed. Geology Digimap provides maps of solid and drift geology, with the BGS Lexicon of named Rock Units. First time users should register with the site.
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GeoRef | Access to the earth sciences literature of the world. Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses, 1785-. Updated twice a month.
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GeoScienceWorld | Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. With full-text access to the journals
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Getty provenance index databases | Searchable database of information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art, primarily of Western European paintings. Contains indexed transcriptions of archival documents, sale catalogues, and museum provenance files from all over the world.
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Global health | Global Health contains the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB abstract, 1973 onwards. It offers deep subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases, nutrition, and pharmacology.
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Global market information database (GMID) | A global market research and statistics database from Euromonitor. Data is organised into 4 types: Statistics; Market reports; Companies and shares; Sources. It can be searched by keyword or by geographic area and sector category. Data can be exported into MS Excel.
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Glossary of geology | Searchable glossary of geological terms from the American Geological Institute. Includes images. NOTE Click twice on URL to pass login page
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Go-Geo! | Resource discovery tool for the identification and retrieval of records describing the content, quality, condition etc. of geospatial data that exist with UK tertiary education and beyond. Searchable by interactive map, grid co-ordinates and place name, and keyword. The portal is a key component of the UK academic Spatial Data Infrastructure.
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Google Books | Google's searchable and browseable ebook database.
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GPO | Access to over 522,000 US government publications, 1976 onwards. Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, records judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Includes a bibliographic citation in each record.
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Grand Tour | A range of sources from the 18th century on the history of travel, including letters, diaries and journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches; architectural drawings and maps. Includes materials on European society, politics, religion, urban planning and cities.
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GreenFile | A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles on environmental issues including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recyclin. Indexing and abstracts for 384,000+ records, and Open Access full text for 4,700+ records
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Grove art online | Internet version of the multi-volume encyclopaedia, the Grove Dictionary of Art. Searchable database and web links to images from museums, galleries and art collections from around the world. Accessed from within Oxford Art Online, Grove content alone may be searched by choosing Advanced options and selecting Grove Art Online.
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Grove music online | The complete text of the multi-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., covering all aspects of classical, ancient, world and popular music; includes full text search, notated musical examples, and links to images, digital sounds and related sites. Incorporates the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Accessed from within Oxford Music Online, Grove content alone may be searched by choosing Advanced options and selecting Grove Music Online.
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Guardian (archive) | Full text of the Guardian and Manchester Guardian, 1821-2003, via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers Collection.
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HeinOnline | Mainly covers US law, but increasingly UK journals are being included. Gives access to a Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library and US Supreme Court Library.
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HERMES database | Details for over 25,000 audio-visual programmes, and their distributors, available in the UK. With a comprehensive listing of the paper materials held in the BUFVC library.
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HighWire | A large archive containing science based, free, full text journals
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Historic Digimap | Historic Digimap provides Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1843 to 1996, supplied by Landmark. You may view 4 maps simultaneously of the same location but different dates. Data may be downloaded to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. First time users should register with the site.
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Historical abstracts | A bibliographical database indexing the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada); covers over 2,000 journals published throughout the world.
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Historical population reports | Access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937, supported by ancillary documents. Full text of documents may be searched, also searchable by date and location.
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History of science, technology, and medicine | Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Integrates four bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science; Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture); Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza; Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. 1975 onward.
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HMIC : Health Management Information Consortium | Database of the Department of Health's Library & Information Services of over 174,000 records relating to health and social care management information, and the King's Fund Database containing over 70,000 records (1979 to date), mostly with a UK focus, on health management and services, social care, service development, and NHS organisation and administration. Click on HMIC in menu.
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Home Office, Research Development Statistics | The RDS manages research and collects statistics in a number of areas including crime, policing, justice, immigration, drugs and race equality. Most are pdf. documents (Adobe Acrobat required)
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House of Commons parliamentary papers (HCPP) | Searchable full text of papers, 1688 to present. These are primary source government working documents. They show how issues were explored and legislation formed in all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. Evidence and the opinions of eminent contributors outside official government circles are included in the papers.
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IBSS via Ebsco | Data from over 2,800 journals and 7,000 books in the social sciences - sociology, economics, politics, anthropology; also useful for foreign language material. 1951 onwards.
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ICDL literature database | Bibliographic information on over 12,000 books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education.
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ICE Virtual Library | Searchable archive of every peer-reviewed paper produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers since 1836.
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ID21 | Indexes 2,600 journals and 7,000 books in the social sciences; also useful for foreign language material. 1950 onwards.
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IDS HR studies | Direct searchable access to over 300 case studies published in the IDS HR Studies series since 2003. Features many of the UK's leading employers and covers a wide variety of HR topics. 4 concurrent users only. Please remember to log off after a session.
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IDS pay report | Searchable database of details of current pay arrangements applying to millions of UK employees in hundreds of organisations. Current pay structures, latest pay reviews and other conditions of employment in leading private sector companies and public sector organisations across the UK. 1 user at a time only. Please remember to log off after a session.
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IEEE Expert Now | Over 80 highly interactive online learning short courses, covering the fields of aerospace, circuits & devices, communications, computing, optics, power and energy, professional development and more. Go to the Browse menu and click on Educational Courses
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IEEE Xplore | The full text of all papers published since 1952 in the journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) - formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) - plus approximately 900 standards.
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IHS specs & standards | Searchable database of over 568,000 technical standards, integrated with more than 350,000 US Military and Federal specifications and related documents. Includes active and historical standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks, and related technical documents.
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IIMP full text | IIMP Full Text contains records from more than 430 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and over 120 full text titles, 1874-
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IMechE proceedings archive, 1847-1996 | Searchable archive of Institution of Mechanical Engineers journals. Includes IME and Institution of Automobile Engineers proceedings, Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science and Engineering in Medicine.
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Index of Christian art | The largest archive of medieval art and the most comprehensive database of Christian iconography in the world, holds descriptive records of more than 200,000 works of art held in the Morgan Library.
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Index to theses | Abstracts of UK and Irish theses accepted from 1970 onwards.
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Industry reports | Searchable database of industry profiles from EbscoHost. May also browse by industry, country, region or publisher
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Info4local.gov | A government website and email alert service, with links to relevant information and documents of central government departments, agencies and public bodies. Searchable
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InfoSECURITYnetBASE | The full texts, cross-searchable, of over 50 handbooks in the field of information and computer security, data protection, computer privacy and computer crime
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IngentaConnect | A large collection of full text journals to which the OU subscribes. Journals are from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers, covering most subject areas. Ingenta.com also offers you the chance to purchase articles from over 26,000 publications on a pay-per-view basis, delivered by fax or online.
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Inspec database | A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1969. Combined with the Compendex database.
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Intermid | Searchable online archive of peer-reviewed articles from the British Journal of Midwifery since 1996. These include clinical reviews, professional articles and in-depth research on all aspects of midwifery training and practice.
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Internet library of early journals | ILEJ makes available substantial runs of digitised 18th and 19th century journals. Freely available over the Internet, but registration is requested. Includes the Gentleman's Magazine. Large page images may be slow to download.
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Internet sacred text archive | A freely-available archive of non-copyrighted religious and mythological e-texts. The site focuses primarily on English translations of material from African, Australian and North American indigenous cultures, Asian traditions (particularly those from South and East Asia) and Neo-Pagan and Occult traditions
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IoP electronic journals | Full text of all Institute of Physics journals to which the OU subscribes - click on "journal subscriptions at your site". Also the Historic Archive which includes all articles in the IOP journals from 1874-1992 - click on "Journal Archive"
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IPoems database | Streamed and downloadable MP3 audio and flash files of modern poetry. Video JukeBox features films of poets in performance. For access, click on "Sign in", "My account", then "iPoems" or "Video Jukebox". Please do not edit the account
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Irish Times (archive) | Full text of the Irish Times, 1859-2008, via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers Collection
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ISI Web of knowledge | A multidisciplinary database which allows the cross searching of 23,000 journals, 23,000,000 patents, 110,000 conference proceedings and 9,000 websites going back to the early 1900s.
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ITKnowledgeBASE : | Current and back issues of journals, reference books, and over 10,000 articles in computing, networking, information systems management and information security
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ITN Source : moving footage | Over one million hours of footage and moving imagery from over three centuries. News, drama, celebrity, comedy, music, wildlife, natural history and film. It represents the footage libraries of Reuters, ITN, ITV Productions, Fox News & Movietone, Channel 9 News, UTV, Asian News International and other specialist collections. Register for access. Open University academics should contact their Media Project Manager if they would like to discuss using material from ITN Source in course production. ITN and Reuters footage also available via NewsFilm Online
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Jazz discography online | General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc.
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John Johnson collection | This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
When you get to the Collection home page, click on 'Log in via the Athens service' and you will be automatically be logged in.
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Journal citation reports | Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. It is available in Science and Social Sciences editions.
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JSTOR | Archive of 460 core scholarly journals from first issues (some in the 1800s), in the arts and sciences, business, ecology, language and literature, history, economics, mathematics and statistics, and music.
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JSTOR Ireland Collection | Developed in cooperation with Queen's University Belfast, this is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. It contains some 75 journals, including archival material from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. You may browse the titles displayed in this list, or search within individual journal titles. To search across journal content go to the JSTOR home page.
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Justis Parliament (formerly Parlianet) | A searchable index to the proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament back to 1979. It also includes material from the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Justis State trials | Searchable full text of the original printed volumes of old reports of trials for offences against the State, and of trials of high-ranking officials for crimes including bribery, corruption, murder, piracy, riot, sedition and witchcraft. Covers 1163-1858.
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Justis UK Acts | Searchable full text of UK primary legislation dating back to the Magna Carta
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Justis UK SIs | Searchable full text of UK Statutory Instruments from 1987.
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Keesings record of world events | Keesings is the monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs. Published continuously since 1931, it covers significant events for every country as well as the major international organizations, presented in detailed yet concise reports. Search by country, region, organization, time-frame, or keyword.
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Key Note reports | Market reports, reviews and assessments on a range of industrial and business areas, including public services. Searchable.
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Knovel | A searchable collection of full text eBooks in engineering, materials and technology. To search available full text content change the search option from 'Entire Knovel Library' to 'My Subscription'.
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KnowUK | The full texts of over 70 reference books; covers people (e.g. Civil Service Yearbook, Who's Who), community (Voluntary Agencies Directory), almanacs, statistics (e.g. Regional trends), government (Municipal Year Book), health (Binley's), Blue Guides, and Which? guides.
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KnowUK local information | Information from KnowUK, images, maps and external weblinks, to give a complete guide to towns and cities in the UK.
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Landmap | Streamed satellite imagery of the UK and Ireland, and downloadable datasets: optical, radar and elevation collections. Registration required for first use.
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Landolt-Bornstein book series | Full text of the Landolt-Bornstein series of books in physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, geophysics and physical chemistry.
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Lawtel | Case law, PI Quantum Reports, statutory law, Statutory Instruments, Parliamentary Bills, Command Papers, practice directions and an index of articles from law journals. With many internal links to related material. Now includes Lawtel Human Rights. Updated daily.
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Library, information science & technology abstracts | Searchable index of 600+ periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage from 1960s.
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LISA | Covers over 500 periodicals and also conference proceedings, book chapters and reports. 1968 onwards.
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Literature online (LION) | A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.
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Locus SIAM | Full-text archive of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) journals, 1952-1996
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London gazette | Searchable archives of the London Gazette, Britain's continuously-published newspaper, dating back to the late seventeenth century. Includes the Edinburgh Gazette and Belfast Gazette. Note that to save searches users will need to register.
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Lyell collection | Searchable Geological Society publications: Journals, Special Publications and key book series
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Marine Digimap | Marine Digimap provides marine and coastal zone mapping from SeaZone Ltd., including raster marine maps of various scales and detail (derived from Admiralty Charts), which are ideal for back-drop mapping in the UK coastal zone and vector thematic marine data suitable for advanced spatial analysis and customised mapping.
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Market research reports | Searchable database of market research from EbscoHost. May also browse by title, subject or publisher
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Mass Observation online | Searchable archive of the findings of nearly every Mass Observation study from 1937-1955. From initial amateur studies, to its wartime work for the government, to its postwar reinvention as a market research organisation. Also books, previously unpublished Topic Collections, and Day Surveys, diaries and directives from the 30s. Users are advised to begin their research with the File Reports.
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MATHnetBASE | The full texts, cross-searchable, of a range of handbooks covering Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Computation, Differential Equations, Mathematical Modelling, Mathematics for Engineering
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MathSciNet | Comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature from 1940 onwards. Includes access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. 1940 onwards.
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MEDLINE | Abstracts of articles from more than 3,500 journals in all areas of medicine. International coverage. 1965 onwards. The database on PubMed also includes PREMEDLINE and HealthSTAR records.
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MetaPress | Full text articles from journals, newsletters and professional publications. The collection covers arts, business, humanities, mathematics, sciences, social sciences and technology. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
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MyiLibrary | Collections of eBooks from several publishers and organisations (mainly in health and medicine). Also general reference books (dictionaries, directories, biographies) and information sources, such as travel, weather and broadcasting.
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National Academies Press | Freely available collection of reports issued by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The NAP publishes on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Many titles are in digital PDF format.
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National Digital Archive of Datasets | NDAD preserves and provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments. The collection spans 40 years of recent history, with the earliest available dataset dating back to about 1963. Subjects include education, environment, health, population, crime and heritage.
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Naxos music library | A searchable and playable collection of classical, jazz, world, New Age and folk music from the Naxos CD label. Media Player required. There is a limit to the number of users allowed in at one time so please logout at the end of your session.
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NBER working papers | Full text of NBER working papers from 1994 on are available in pdf format and may be downloaded. New papers are added weekly. The site is searchable. NOTE: Off-campus access - see passwords link for instructions
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NetLibrary | The OU library subscribes to a collection of over 550 titles via NetLibrary, covering religious studies, general reference, business and IT. NetLibrary also includes more than 4,000 freely available eBooks.
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NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE | The full texts, cross-searchable, of over 60 handbooks in the neurosciences, including neurology, neuropathology, behaviour studies, brain, and nervous system disorders
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News@nature.com | The latest science news, including news stories from various Nature journals. Includes feature, blogs, special reports, and may be searched or browsed by subject. Archived news from 1998.
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Newsbank newspaper collection | Full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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NewsFilm Online | A selection of news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives. Around 3,000 hours of footage and 60,000 stories available for playback and download. Click on the direct access Login button
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NHS Library of Guidelines | The National Library of Guidelines is a collection of quality reviewed guidelines for the NHS. The collection is maintained by the NHS National Library of Health. It is based on the guidelines produced by NICE and other national agencies.
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Nineteenth century fiction | All major novelists are represented, including Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Eliot, Gaskell, Thackeray, Trollope, and Scott. Alongside the classic fiction of the period are many examples of hugely popular but critically neglected novels of the day. 1786 to 1837. Trial access to 28th November 2009
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Observatory on borderless higher education | Reports, briefing notes, news, surveys and research on borderless higher education. To search for and access publications, click on the 'Documents Search' button, and then 'Login Here' link (both on the right hand side of the screen). You may then have to scroll down to see the map
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Observer (archive) | Full text of the Observer, 1791-2003, via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers Collection
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OCLC Ebooks | A catalogue of over 665,000 electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Note that not all will be available as full-text
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OCLC FirstSearch | Access to ArticleFirst, ATLAReligion, ATLAS, ClasePeriodica, ECO, ERIC, GeoRefS, GPO, MEDLINE, MLA, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldAlmanac, WorldCat and WorldCat Dissertations. Also a catalogue online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
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Old Bailey Online | A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
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Organic syntheses | Searchable database of the annual serial, with detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds.
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Oxford art online | Oxford art online is a gateway into art research and the access point to Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference titles. Grove content alone may be searched by choosing Advanced options and unticking other materials.
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Oxford English dictionary | Online version contains the 20-volume second edition of the Oxford English dictionary plus the complete contents of the three additions volumes published between 1993 and 1997. Updated quarterly.
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Oxford Journals | A collection of over 190 OUP journals to which the OU subscribes.
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Oxford music online | Oxford music online is a gateway into music research and the access point to Grove Music Online and Oxford music reference titles. Grove content alone may be searched by choosing Advanced options and unticking other materials.
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Oxford reference online | Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
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Oxford scholarship online | A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 850 Oxford books in the areas of economics and finance, philosophy, political science, and religion. Around 200 new books are added each year.
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Oxford text archive | The Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Includes online versions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora. Searchable by author or title.
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Paley Center Seminars | A collection of interviews with celebrities, television crews, and distinguished panels. It includes 300 filmed seminars from the series held by The Paley Center for Media. Discussions feature the leading names in media discussing the creative process, contemporary issues in production, and issues such as the impact of the media on contemporary society. Trial access to 28th November 2009
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Palmers full text online | The Times full text component spans the years from 1800 to 1870. Also contains the index to the Times from October 1790 to December 1905.
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PapersFirst | An index of papers presented at every published conference, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting that is received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. 1993 onwards.
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Parliament rolls of medieval England | The series describes every parliament held between 1275 and 1504; where the rolls survive they have been fully transcribed and translated. Ten monarchs are represented, from Edward I to Henry VII. The text and its translation are available together in a new tabular format, making it easier to consult either version.
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Parlianet (now Justis Parliament) | A searchable index to the proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament back to 1979. It also includes material from the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Periodicals Archive Online | New name for PCI Full Text. Complete backfiles of over 200 journals in the humanities and social sciences. There is a limit to the number of people who can use this resource at the same time. Please logout as soon as you have finished using it.
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Periodicals Index Online | Searchable database of articles from over 4,500 journals and series in the arts, humanities and social sciences, covering the past 300 years or more. (Formerly Periodicals Contents Index)
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Philosophers index | Provides references and summaries of books and journal articles in philosophy and related fields from 1940 to date. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysical logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
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Poetry archive | A freely available, searchable online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. With a video introduction to the archive.
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Policyreview.tv | Streamed videos of speeches, discussions, question and answer sessions and interviews with senior figures from government, politics and business captured at policy-related conferences and events across the country. Policy areas include health & social care, business, criminal justice, education and environment. You may download podcasts and all the documents from an event, including PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes.
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Primal pictures | A dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy featuring three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models. NOTE: 5 simultaneous users allowed. Please remember to log off after your session.
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ProceedingsFirst | An index of every published conference, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting that is received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Records contain lists of papers presented. 1993 onwards.
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Project Gutenberg | A collection of over 13,000 freely-available eBooks. Searchable, with list of "top" authors and titles.
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Project Muse | Full text of 145 journals covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies and economics. The OU subscribes to the Humanities package only
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Proquest Historical Newspapers | Full text of the Scotsman and Daily Scotsman 1817-1950, Guardian and Manchester Guardian 1821-2003, and Observer 1791-2003. Click on database down button for titles.
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PsycARTICLES | Contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from over 40 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organisations.
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PsycBOOKS | PsychBOOKS is a full text database of books and chapters primarily published by APA. It also includes 1,500 entries from the APA/University of Oxford Press Encyclopedia of Psychology as well as a number of classic books from the early 1900's.
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PsycINFO | Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, in all fields of psychology and related disciplines from 1887 onwards. Updated quarterly.
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PubMed | Indexes 4,300 journals in the medical sciences, nursing and preclinical sciences; provides links to the NCBI's molecular biology databases. Combines MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE and HeathSTAR databases.
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Read Print | Freely available collection of classic fiction, poetry, essays and non-fiction. Includes all Shakespeare plays, and biographies of authors.
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Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 | An Open University database. RED's mission is to accumulate as much data as possible about the reading experiences of British subjects from 1450 to 1945. Seachable. You may also contribute to the database
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Reaxys | Reaxys has extensive coverage of quality, authoritative information in organic, inorganic and organometalic chemistry. It is the replacement service for the CrossFire Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. Further information about Reaxys is available from http://www.info.reaxys.com/ Trial access to 31st December 2009
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Recent advances in manufacturing (RAM) | A database of bibliographic information for all aspects of manufacturing, research and related areas. It covers items in over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.
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RefWorks | A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.
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Research starters - Sociology | Study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.
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ResearchResearch : funding opportunities and research news | A comprehensive guide to new funding opportunities and developments in research. Researchers and support staff may register for a password using the 'self registration' option from an OU networked computer. This can then be used for off campus access and will allow you to create a profile for email alerts. If you do not have access to an OU networked computer contact lib-help@open.ac.uk
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RILM abstracts of music literature | Abstracts of books, articles, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos and museum publications. 1973-.
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RIPM | RIPM provides annotated indexes to the content of complete runs of music journals published in 17 countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. The database contains over 465,800 records approximately 20,000 added annually.
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Rock's backpages | Searchable archive of reviews, interviews and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, by rock writers and from influential music publications.
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Routledge religion resource | A collection of reference titles in the field of religion, including religious encyclopedias and directories.
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RSC e-book collection | A cross-searchable library of 700+ books covering 40 years in the chemical sciences. Titles are digitised and made available as pdf files. Continually updated
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RSC journals | Access to Royal Society of Chemistry journals, current and ceased, including the earliest issues (pre-1996), which are held in the RSC Archive section. Searchable.
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Safari Books online | The full text of a range of books for IT professionals and business on management, computer science, programming, e-commerce, software engineering, etc. Users can search across the whole collection. 281 titles are available at one time. Existing titles can be swapped for others by emailing the Library Helpdesk, mailto:lib-help@open.ac.uk. There is a limit to the number of users allowed in at one time, so please log out when you have finished. Be aware that if you use the private notes system, your notes will be available to all users.
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SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System | A digital library of over 6 million abstracts from three databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and Geophysics, and the arXiv.org preprints. There are also links to some full-text articles.
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Science Direct | The full texts of over 1000 scientific, technical, medical, mathematical, management and social science journals. 1995 onwards. Provides e-mail 'alerts' to update searches and announce the arrival of latest journal issues. 'Cited by' facility lists papers that have cited any article displayed on the screen. Includes access to selected full-text encyclopedias.
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Scitable | A free educational research resource on genetics and evolution for teachers and students from Nature Publishing. Contains over 150 evidence-based articles. With "topic rooms", group discussion capabilities, "ask and expert" and creatable classroom space.
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Scopus | An abstract and citation database of over 14,000 scientific, technical, medical and social science titles, from 1966 onwards. The citation tracker allows the user to find articles that have cited specific authors or key papers.
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Scotsman (archive) | Full text of the Scotsman and Daily Scotsman, 1817-1950, via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers Collection
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SCRAN | SCRAN gives worldwide access to multimedia educational resources on international culture and world heritage through images, movies, sounds and virtual reality. There are one million records from museums, galleries, archives, the media and contemporary and performing arts. Partners include museums, galleries, archives and universities who are digitising selected parts of their collections.
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ScreenOnline | A guide to the history of British film and television, with a glossary of film and TV terms, statistics, biographies, transcripts, audio and video clips.
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Shakespeare survey | Full-text of this series, from volume 1, 1948. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
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SIAM journals online | Full-text access to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics journals to which the OU subscribes. 1997-. See Locus SIAM for archive access to journals, 1952-1996
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Social care online | A free database of social care information. Includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. Updated daily
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Social sciences citation index | Provides access to the bibliographic and citation information of over 1,950 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines, as well as 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
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Source | References to more than 20,000 international health and disability resources, many of which are unpublished, produced in developing countries and available in full text.
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SourceOECD statistics | The datasets cover economics, finance, business, agriculture, education, globalisation, international development, migration, science & technology, services, and social expenditure. In many cases, time series go back to the 1960s. You can build tables online and export data to Excel. Start by clicking on 'Statistics' toward the top right of the screen and then choose from the statistical database sets on the left.
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SPORTDiscus | Searchable full text articles from over 415 journals on sports and sports medicine, 1985-.
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SpringerLink journals | The full text of articles in Springer journals to which the OU subscribes. Subjects include science, mathematics, and medicine.
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SRM database of social research methodology | This holds approximately 45,000 references, from 1970 onwards, to literature on social and behavioural research methodology, statistical analysis and computer software, mostly with an abstract. The database is updated ten times a year. Click on "Enter database", then "IP Login" for access.
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Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia | A comprehensive and authoritative narrative treatment of the law of Scotland. The encyclopedia is arranged in an alphabetical title scheme of over 120 titles.
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Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy | Includes editorial and copyrighted information, as well as a site search engine. Offers an alphabetical index to the philosophical entries and information on individual philosophers and their beliefs.
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Statistical accounts of Scotland | Freely available sources for study of Scottish life from the 18th and 19th centuries. NOTE : Clickable map not included in free access.
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STATSnetBASE | The full texts, cross-searchable, of a range of handbooks covering general tables and formulae, SPC, reliability, quality control, statistical theory and methods, statistics and computing, statistics for engineering and physical science.
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STEER | Policy briefings from LGiU - Local Government Information Unit. To access the briefings, your will need to register. (Click on "register" at the top right of the site)
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SwetsWise | A collection of over 3500 of the journals to which the OU subscribes. To search this database, click on Publication search or Content search.
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Taylor & Francis e-book collection | The full text of over 180 titles published by Taylor & Francis across a range of subject areas including arts, business, social sciences, health and science. The e-Copy facility is not available as part of our subscription.
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Thesaurus linguae Graecae | A digital collection of most of the literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. You must set up your own individual login account. Greek fonts must be installed on your PC to view the Greek characters
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TVTip : TV Times project 1955-1985 | TVTiP is a fully searchable database of the programmes listed in television listings magazine TVTimes from September 1955 to March 1985.
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Twentieth century drama | 2,500 plays in English from around the world from the 1890s to 2003. The database features mostly copyright texts unavailable elsewhere in electronic form including many out-of-print works that are difficult to obtain. Trial access to 28th November 2009
Database feedback form
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UK Data Archive | The UK Data Archive is the curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. It provides resource discovery and support for the secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning. To access/download/order data sets Login via the UK federation and select 'The Open University (Athens)' from the drop-down menu. You will then need to register individually to receive data sets.
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UKBorders | Digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many GIS formats - MapInfo, MIF/MID, ArcView shape, Arc/Info export and several others. Available for teachers and researchers in UK Higher Education to download and use in their work.
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UKOP | UKOP catalogues the output of Parliament, devolved administrations and over 2000 government departments. It goes back to 1980 and contains over 447,000 records, many offering the full text of the original documents.
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Ulrichsweb | Over 250,000 records of serials worldwide. Walton Hall campus only. Licensed for one simultaneous user
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Urban studies abstracts | Over 40,000 bibliographic records covering urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas. Searchable
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VADS | This service provides access to over 100,000 images by searching across multiple online digital collections of visual art works.
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Web of Science | Web of Science's multidisciplinary content covers over 110,000 conference proceedings, over 10,000 of the highest impact scientific journals worldwide, including Open Access journals, ranging back to 1900.
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Welsh Journals Online | Free online, searchable, access to a selection of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Welsh and Wales-related journals held at The National Library of Wales and partner institutions. These materials cover a very wide range of subject areas, including humanities, social sciences, science and technology. The site is in development at present, and expects to host 50 titles by September 2009
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Westlaw | Legislation, cases and law journals for the UK, EU and the US. Access to material relating to the EU can be accessed via the 'EU' option and US material from 'Services' then 'Westlaw International'
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WHO Reproductive Health Library | This resource takes research evidence and puts this into practical context so that it can be used to improve health outcomes. The core content contains over 300 articles about evidence-based practices in reproductive health.
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Who's who | Searchable and browsable database of the current edition of Who's who and Who was who.
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WLR daily | A free 24 hour service from the Royal Courts of Justice and European Court of Justice, summarising the most important updates from the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal and all divisions of the High Court. The full text version will appear in the Weekly Law Reports available from Westlaw
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World Digital Library | Freely available primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, comprising images, sound recordings, journals and movies. Searchable, and can be browsed by topic, time, place and type of item. Supported by Unesco
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WorldAlmanac | Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs : the World Alamanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the USA, the World Almanac of US politics, the World Almanac for kids. Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics
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WorldCat dissertations and theses | Access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution. Over 5 million records.
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