The Library has over 2000 printed journal subscriptions, shelved alphabetically by title on the Library ground floor (current issues) and on the second floor (back issues). Please search the library catalogue (by going to Basic search and selecting the printed journal limit).
You are reminded that photocopying of print material and printing and downloading of online material is limited by Copyright restrictions.
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| American Institute of Physics journals | Available through Scitation; Highly cited, highly respected, and highly relevant, AIP journals are the cornerstone of many physics collections. |
| 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. |
| Bentham Open Access | A collection of over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals in all disciplines |
| BioMed Central | A collection of over 180 peer-reviewed, open access medical journals. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Cambridge Journals | A collection of over 170 journals to which the OU subscribes |
| Chemistry Central | A collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in the chemical sciences. |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete | Full text for over 60 scholarly publications in communication and mass media studies. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Electronic library of mathematics | Full text access to around 40 mathematical journals |
| Emerald fulltext | The full text of journals published by MCB; mostly management but also includes engineering and materials science titles. 1994 onwards. |
| Free Medical Journals | Access to over 1200 freely available online medical journals. |
| 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 |
| HighWire | A large archive containing science based, free, full text journals |
| 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. |
| 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- |
| 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. |
| Informaworld online journals | Full text articles from journals subscribed to by the OU. Search by keyword or browse by subject. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Internurse | A searchable database of over 9000 articles on nursing. With a news section. |
| 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" |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lawrence Erlbaum online | A small collection of journals mainly in psychology to which the OU subscribes. |
| Locus SIAM | Full-text archive of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) journals, 1952-1996 |
| 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. |
| Nexis UK | The full text of newspapers and other news sources worldwide; also contains company data, annual reports and business directory information from Disclosure, Extel, ICC, and Worldscope. |
| Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition | Fully searchable, free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. |
| Oxford Journals | A collection of over 190 OUP journals to which the OU subscribes. |
| 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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| 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 |
| PsycARTICLES | Contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from over 40 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organisations. |
| 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. |
| Regional business news | Full text for of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis. |
| 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 |
| SPORTDiscus | Searchable full text articles from over 415 journals on sports and sports medicine, 1985-. |
| Sage journals online | A collection of journals to which the OU subscribes. |
| 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. |
| SpringerLink journals | The full text of articles in Springer journals to which the OU subscribes. Subjects include science, mathematics, and medicine. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Wiley Interscience | Full text of over 900 ejournals and 190 ebooks. From July 2008 this collection will include content formerly on Blackwell Synergy. |
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