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.
Indexes thousands of high quality, peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length abstracts and links to cited references and citing articles.
Full text of all articles published by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1947, covering computing and information technology.
Provides access to the full text of 18 IMechE journals. Also includes the IMechE archive, giving access to the full text of all IMechE journals from 1847 to date now published by SAGE
IEEE Xplore Digital Library offers discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
Lancaster University subscribes to the following collections:
Search journals published by the American Chemical Society
Overton is a searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. It collects data from 182 countries and over a thousand sources worldwide with more being added all the time.
Scientific publisher of biology, biophysics, chemical science, materials, medicinal drug discovery and physics high-impact journals.
Provides access to a searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
Contains thousands of full-text journals, mainly in the sciences, but also includes other disciplines such as management, social sciences and arts & humanities.
A digitised archive of journals, books, reports, and personal documents that explore the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge, tracing the changes from the Newtonian world to that of Einstein, from the horse to the automobile, from medical treatments based on humors and bloodletting to antiseptics and epidemiology.
To get started you can use OneSearch to find and access journals and conference papers available through the Library. OneSearch covers all subject areas, so you may find you get a large number of results which you will then need to refine in order to be relevant to your topic.
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It's important that you use journal articles and conference papers in your studies at University. They give you:
In computing, many academics publish in conference proceedings rather than in academic journals. You can search for both using the Library databases.
The University subscribes to subject specific databases which you can access using your Lancaster username and password wherever you are. Databases are the best way to find journal articles and conference papers on your topic as they index and provide access to articles from thousands of different journal titles and conference proceedings.
Lancaster University subscribes to around 250 databases but not all will be relevant for your topic. You can find the key databases for your subject below, or through the Databases A-Z list.
PQDTGlobal is considered the world’s most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. The collection comprises millions of searchable citations from 1861 through to the present day, together with over a million full-text, graduate dissertations and theses added since 1997. Annually, around 70,000 new, full-text documents are added to the collection from 700+ academic institutions worldwide.
