Contains thousands of full-text journals, mainly in the sciences, but also includes other disciplines such as management, social sciences and arts & humanities.
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Comprehensive information covering the biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science and agricultural science. It consists of CA Plus (formerly Chemical Abstracts) from 1907 onwards.
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An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences and arts & humanities.
Cross search two major online full-text collections from the British Library, the Burney Collection and Nineteenth Century British Newspapers, to find primary sources on all aspects of British history and culture.
Social Care Online is the UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. It includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey (informally-published) literature, books, text books and journal articles. The database is updated daily and contains around 155,000 records from the 1980s onwards.
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Thousands of e-books published by Springer. Subject coverage includes: Business & Management; Economics; Computer Sciences; Life Sciences; Biomedical Sciences.
Online database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences, spanning nearly thirty years. JAN 2024 - We currently have trial access to Springer Protocols published from 2021 to the present day. They are listed in the results as 'No Access'. However, click on the title and you should be able to download the PDF. Access ends 15 April 2024
Protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratory. They are documents that provide predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedural, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used to conduct the experiment.