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ACM Digital Library includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and full texts.
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Index for finding journal articles, also includes books, book chapters, etc. Covers all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including aquaculture and fisheries, and animal and veterinary sciences.
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Aids and Cancer Research Abstracts (via ProQuest)

This comprehensive database provides bibliographic data from the worldwide scientific literature as related to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics. Information featured in the database concentrates on both basic science research and clinical applications.

A great U.S. site for historians, exploiting source material in the Library of Congress.

Searchable list of mobile apps useful for education.

Archway provides access to information on archaeology journals holdings in over 20 university, museum and private libraries in one searchable resource. The website has not been fully updated since August 2005 however, although the journal locator section is static, the citation index and the ToC index are updated as new journals are made available online. ARCHway is widely used by the academic community.

An index to articles, letters, editorials, etc published in over 1,300 journals worldwide.

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ASFA (via ProQuest)

Index for finding journal articles. Covers anything to do with the 'wet environment'. Includes: aquaculture, fisheries, aquatic science, aquatic organisms and oceanography.

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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts. This database spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals and periodicals, from more than 16 countries. Access till May 2012

Covers journal articles, essays and book reviews on biblical studies, world religions, church history and religious perspectives on social issues.
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Index to journal articles and reports on educational research, policy and practice. Covers material from 1979 onwards.Via Proquest which also includes British Education Index and Australian Education Index

Autism Data is a research tool for anyone researching autism and Asperger syndrome. It lists over 17,000 published research papers, books, articles, videos and other materials. The contents include bibliographic records of all the items in The National Autistic Society Information Centre Library, together with the details of research articles on autism published in journals outwith the NAS library holdings.

Searches across a range of open access archives covering the marine and aquatic sciences (aquaculture and fisheries, also geosciences, biology, ecology).

Mainly covers full text of journal articles and etheses.

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute provides full text British and Irish cases, legislation (non-consolidated), Scottish Law Commission reports, and other legal material.

Covers bibliographic information on the Baltic Sea; all marine areas from the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia in the east and north to the Belt Sea and Kattegat in the west. Covers references to reports, journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations etc.

Access to the Professional Series, which is one of the most comprehensive electronic health and safety information services available. Includes Health and Safety; Environment; Fire Safety; Food Safety; Trading Standards; Enviornmental Health; Chemicals; Offshore and Environment Guides.

NB Limited to a single user at any one time

NB The licence to this will expire at end of September 2012
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BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources. Useful for finding full text of journal articles, it searches multiple scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint servers on the Web.

An index to journal articles, books and book chapters about British, Irish and Commonwealth history covering the period from 55 BC to the present.

Index of scholarly writing about the history of western art. This bibliography includes references from over 1,200 journals. The Bibliography of the History of Art covers 1990 - 2007 and the International Bibliography of Art covers 2008 and part of 2009. RILA (Répertoire de la litterature de l'art), which covers 1975–1989 will be added to this resource shortly.

Biological Sciences (via ProQuest)

Index for finding journal articles. Covers a suite of topics within the biological sciences, including biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

Index for finding journal articles and news. Covers general biological information at the undergraduate level. Useful for keeping up to date on the latest developments in biological research.

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Database of biology, life sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences titles.
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Index for finding journal articles, and other types of publications, on biological and biomedical topics.

Subjects range from traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology and microbiology to related fields such as agriculture, pharmacology, biochemistry, ecology, bioengineering, and experimental clinical medicine.

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Index for finding journal articles. Coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, new developments across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering. Includes biochemical applications, genetic engineering, gene therapy, and cybernetics.

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A collection of key textbooks published by Gale Cengage. All of the textbooks can now be found by using the library catalogue.

Access to full text journals from Blackwell publishers

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Database containing references about the history of printed books, book distribution, conservation and libraries. To see if the reference is available from Stirling copy the name of the journal, or title of the book into the library catalogue.

Searchable full text of 18th Century British Parliamentary publications, including Parliament Proceedings, Reports, Acts, Bills and Registers.

The British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent contains more than 130,000 cartoons from 1904 onwards. Search the catalogue to look for materials available online

An index to articles and reports on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. Covers material from 1975.

Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Although the University of Stirling does not have a subscription to this resource a lot of materials are freely available.

Covers 1962 to date. Abstracts from over 400 sources in the areas of literature, the arts, cinema, economics, history, current affairs, popular science, religion, music and architecture.

British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

Digital archive of historic newspapers. British Newspapers 1600-1900 contains over 3 million pages of historic newspapers and newsbooks. This resource cross searches Nineteenth Century Newspapers and the Burney Collection.

British Periodicals Online provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.

Please note we only have access to a custom sub-set of 25 standards. This set is mainly related to telecommunications and cabling.
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The BSBI literature database is freely available from the Botanical Society of the British Isles. It includes information on the native and alien plants found in the wild in the British Isles.
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Access to over 1 million newspaper pages, Acts of Parliament and pamphlets from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Burney Collection can also be searched as part of British Newspapers.

A business, management and economics database with full text for more than 2,300 journals with more than 1,100 from academic titles. This database provides some full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

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Now renamed - see Leisure Tourism Database

Electronic access to Cambridge University Press journal titles for which the library has a current subscription in print format. Titles can be directly accessed via the
library catalogue.

Source of systematic reviews and evidence based practice in the fields of social welfare, crime and criminal justice and education.
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The Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations gives the meanings of legal citations.

This database does not contain information about articles within legal journals. Use one of the databases listed on the law subject research guide to locate legal articles.

CaseCheck is a current awareness service about Scots Law. It highlights recent court decisions, new bills, reports and consultations. Many of the case summaries and articles are written by legal professionals.

Access to the website is free, but you will need to register (at no charge) to use the advanced search features, to comment on posts, and to receive email updates.

Full text judgments from many British Courts. This database will also tell you if a judgment isn't yet available, for example if the case is currently being heard, or if judgment has been reserved.

Use the “Scottish Courts� option to search for Scottish judgments – the High Court option is for the High Court of England and Wales.

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The Library's catalogue records the books and journals held by the Library giving information on where they are located and, for books, whether they are available or out on loan.
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Index to articles on nursing and allied fields, health education, emergency services, occupational therapy, etc.
Covers material from 1982.

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Fulltext PostScript and PDF research articles about computing and information science.
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This is a non-profit making organisation established in February 2005, with funding from the Department of Health, to support clinical research and to facilitate the conduct of randomised controlled trials and other well designed studies across the UK.

Useful for finding information about journal articles on sports coaching.

This database is not full text but gives information about articles from good quality journals. Although the search looks old-fashioned it is still being updated (April 2009).

From 1066 to 1803

The major resource for information on evidenced based medicine. The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

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CogNet is a collection of searchable electronic texts for the cognitive and brain sciences. It includes reference works and journals from MIT press. Abstracts of important annual conference proceedings in the field are also indexed. Please note it is not possible to print from CogNet books.

CogPrints is an electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, as well as many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, and other areas that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts (via ProQuest)

Index for finding journal articles. Covers computer applications, hardware, information systems. Provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world.

Indexes conference papers in the life sciences, environmental sciences and aquatic sciences.

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Index for finding conference papers. Covers scientific and technical proceedings' papers. Provides bibliographic details (and often abstracts) for papers presented at international conferences. From 1990 onwards.
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Cross-searches a range of sources to find digital resources about British history in the period 1500 - 1900.

COS conference Papers Index (via ProQuest)

This database provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.

Provides key data from both developed and emerging markets - equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives.

Datastream is available via any University of Stirling lab PC. Instructions on how to access Datastream.

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An online service that allows you to view and create maps of any location in Great Britain using Ordnance Survey Map data. You can also download OS map data for use in other software packages, such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), drawing software and CAD.

Note - registration is required for this service: the first time you access Digimap you will be requested to register - your registration will take up to two working days to be processed.
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A collection of electronic books across a wide range of subject areas.

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A listing of sources of full text electronic books

Indexes 735,000 journal articles, books, dissertations, and working papers about all areas of economics research. Topics covered include econometrics, economic forecasting, monetary theory, environmental economics and more. Some articles are available as linked full text.

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Information about journal articles, working papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings written by academics at the leading European economics institutions. At least one-third of the articles in Economists Online are available in full text.

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Full text of every English language book up to 1700.

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Searches the content of 250 full text journals from the fields of computing, engineering and mathematics.

Most content now available through Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology and TechXtra.

Now available from Historic Books

Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century

Provides a list of the electronic journals that the library has access to.  The list can be searched by journal title, ISSN, words that appear in the title, and also by subject category.

If you don't find the journal you are looking for in the Gateway it is worth checking the library catalogue, we may have a paper copy.

Electronics and Communications Abstracts (via ProQuest)

Electronics and Communications Abstracts tracks every relevant source of information necessary to keep abreast of this complex, highly competitive discipline. This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications.

Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.

A collection of about 200 electronic books covering a range of subject areas.
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Fulltext electronic library includes 110 journals on marketing, general management, human resources and other management areas.
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Index of publications on energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the U.S. Department of Energy. Covers: chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. Many records link to full text of publications.
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Online catalogue of printed materials (books, serials, pamphlets) produced in English-speaking countries between 1473 and 1800. Still a project in progress.
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An annotated database of references on environmental enrichment and refinement of husbandry for nonhuman primates.
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Environmental Impact Statements (via ProQuest) US source

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that U.S. federal agencies or anyone receiving federal funding prepare detailed analyses of any of their actions that significantly affect the quality of the environment. Almost all developments, such as roads, houses and airports, have an impact on the environment.

Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead. NEPA does not prohibit the federal government or its licensees/permittees from harming the environment, but requires that the prospective impacts be understood and disclosed in advance and may mandate various modifications and safeguards designed to protect the environment.

In recent years, EISs have looked increasingly at biodiversity. Most EIS documents will include a description of major habitats and a list of the plant and animal species present. They also pay particular attention to the presence of threatened species. Where the effects are considered significantly harmful to threatened species, an additional document, the Species Impact Statement (SIS), may also be prepared.

ProQuest has produced EIS Digests since 1985 and as a result has indexed records and synopses of all the EIS full-text records included in this file. Currently, the full-text, including maps and SIS, is available for statements issued in and since 2003. By adding the full-text to these records, ProQuest has provided a single source where users can find the full-text of all EIS statements and be able to search using words from the full-text as well as unified and systematic indexing terms.

EIS Digests records from 1985 to date are also included in this collection to assure a complete search for any topic. EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.

ESPM (via ProQuest)

Index for finding journal articles. Covers environmental information including: environmental biotechnology, engineering and pollution.

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ERA Online gives access to eight abstracting journals in the field of international education.
Covers material from 1995.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is an index produced by the US Department of Education. It covers journal articles, books, book chapters, conferences and dissertations in educational related literature. Covers material from 1966. Via Proquest which also includes British Education Index and Australian Education Index

Provides access to international macro and micro time series and surveys disseminated by MIMAS as an ESDS service provider. Presently this includes the OECD Main Economic Indicators and National Statistics Databank.The ESDS will replace the MIMAS Timeweb resource. Access first requires ESDS registration, complete the form on their website.

This service provides access to information which shows trends, productivity and impact in the sciences. It uses journal article publication counts, citation counts and cites per paper.
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Free access to the full text of all EU official publications since 1952.

Access to over 10,000 digital archival television objects from 26 European countries. A useful resource for anyone interested in Europe's cultural or televisual history

EUR-Lex is the main website for EU law. It contains the text of the Official Journal (L and C series), which includes legislation, international agreements, preparatory acts and parliamentary questions.

Judgements from the European Court of Justice and the Court of the First Instance can be found on this site, along with Commission documents (COM series and some of the SEC series), consolidated legislative texts and the treaties. EUR-Lex incorporates the old CELEX site.
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Primary historical documents from Western Europe. EuroDocs contains transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.

Provides links to European Union Green Papers published since 1984. Some are available in full text, others are summarised.

Provides links to European Union White Papers published since 1985. Some are available in full text, others are summarised.

A bibliography of works printed in Europe which relate to the Americas before 1750.

Contact details, profit and loss, balance sheets, ratios etc for UK companies. 2.8 million active and 4.2 million inactive companies are included with 10 year coverage.

Contains full text from the following law report/journals: Family Court Practice, Family Law Journal, Child & Family Law Quarterly, Family Law Reports, International Family Law. It includes full text access to the following books: Hershman & McFarlane: Children Law and Practice ;
Duckworth: Matrimonial Property and Finance ; Family Law Precedents Service ; Emergency Remedies in the Family Courts.

Now replaced by MediaHub

Film and sound clips downloadable in full or in segments. May be used freely in learning, teaching or research. Collections include Films of Scotland, the Imperial War Museum and the St George's Hospital Medical School Collection.

Provides access to todays paper (and the previous weeks) and all of the additional material on the FT.com website.

If you are looking for the fulltext of the Financial Times (London) for older articles (1982 onwards) use NexisUK.

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page. This is an essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years.

The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.

Further information about FBIS

Access to the FT.com website. It also contains electronic versions of the UK, US, European and Asian Financial Times.

An index for finding journal articles. Covers human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies.
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Online database of the Publishers Association market reports on publishing in different countries.

The Member Login box is at the top of the screen.

Gives economic, demographic and marketing data for over 200 countries.

GMID includes market reports, forecasts and consumer lifestyle reports, as well as company and brand information.
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Use Go-Geo to find details about geo-spatial datasets.

Go-Geo is an resource discovery tool which allows for the identification and retrieval of records describing the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of geospatial data that exist within UK tertiary education and beyond.

Search tool for locating online books digitised for the Google Books project. Some older (out of copyright) books are available for free, others books have free previews available.

Search tool that focuses on academic/scholarly materials available on the web. An excellent supplementary tool to use along with the established databases listed on this page.

On campus you will see links next to results that say: "Univ. of Stirling Access" and "Univ. of Stirling’s Links" these can help you check whether we have full text of articles, or paper copies in the Library.

Off campus, to view Stirling's links, use the Scholar Preferences option to select Stirling (the icon is a small gear wheel on the right hand side of the Google scholar toolbar). To do this: click this Google Scholar link, then select the Scholar Preferences icon and click the "Save Preferences" button (top right).

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GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Bibliography on Latin America, continuously published since 1935, consisting of works selected and annotated by academics from around the world. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. The paper version (1935-1995) is in Stirling Campus Library at ARTS ABS Q (Level 4).

Digitised historical Hansard reports for the Houses of Commons and Lords.
Hansard is now available as part of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.

Provides full text access to 550 journals. Also abstracts and indexing for 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

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HeinOnline is a full text searchable archive of law journals. The journals are predominately American, but other jurisdictions are included.

Journal articles appear in exactly the same format as the printed originals, including charts, photographs, etc.

The English Reports Full Reprint, Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law are also available through HeinOnline.

A short video about accessing and searching HeinOnline is available on YouTube.

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Highwire Press provides free electronic access to an archive of journals mostly in the fields of science, technology and medicine. Access is to an archive of older journal issues, with the most recent issues only available to print subscribers. Details of access to each title can be found on the library catalogue.

Historic Books searches over 360,000 books. Use this to access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Early English Books Online (EEBO). Historic Books also provides access to nineteenth century books from the British Library.

World history (excluding United States and Canada) from 1450 onwards; includes other subject areas presented from a historical perspective.
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British Homeopathic Library catalogue.
A catalogue of literature references to homeopathy.


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Full text of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1715 to 2003/04, with supplementary material back to 1688. Includes Bills, House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Reports of Committees and Commissioners, Accounts and Papers, and Hansard reports.
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The HUDOC database gives online access to the judgments, decisions, resolutions and reports of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.

Click on the blue HUDOC icon to access the database. By default, HUDOC will search judgments - you can search other types of documents, such as admissibility decisions, by choosing a different option in the menu at the left of the HUDOC screen.

Indexes journal articles on legal topics. Many of these articles are from non-law journals and are not indexed by other legal databases. Coverage is from 1958-2007, so this database is particularly useful for researching the history of legal developments.

Although it is part of HeinOnline, this database is not full text - use the library catalogue to check the availability of any useful articles.
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Index for finding British and Irish PhD theses. Covers from 1950 to date, and The Retrospective Index to Theses (1716 - 1950). Short abstracts are provided from 1970 onwards.

Full text access to many Taylor and Francis journals. Note full text access is only to a subset of the titles covered by this site. To limit your search to only references with full text, choose the Journals Tab, Search, then select the My Subscriptions only option.

IngentaConnect provides access to journals published by a number of publishers. Full text access is available for only a subset of journal titles, but abstracts are available for all.

Intermid provides online access to the British Journal of Midwifery from 1996 to the present day.


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Abstracts and bibliographic information for journal articles in the fields of operations research and management science.

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This database indexes over 2600 journals and newspapers in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Covers material from 1951.

This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope and holds over 6,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.

Index to articles on medieval topics (300 - 1500 AD). Click on Enter databases, then select International Medieval Bibliography Online.
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Older issues of the journal Internet Archaeology: 1996 - 2006

Internurse provides full text articles from 14 major nursing journals.

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Media service provide information about the seafood industry, daily news and in-depth market reports and trends for the seafood industry

Subject gateway for finding quality internet resources.

Intute contains several databases; science and technology, arts and humanities, health and life sciences and social sciences which can be search individually or all together.

Contains information from the major journals and yearbooks worldwide in the field of political science, including public law, international law, and international relations.


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Searches across Scottish repositories of free, open access research publications: journal articles, preprints, theses, etc.

Includes: universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde

A tool for journal evaluation. Can be used to find:
- Most frequently cited journals in a field
- Highest impact journals in a field
- Largest journals in a field
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Now renamed - see: Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)

Index for finding journal articles. Provides access to:

Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science

These can be cross-searched simultaneously, or individually.

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This collection provides access to over 67,000 items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, which will be of interest for anyone studying British social history. The collection offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include nineteenth century entertainment, the booktrade, popular prints, crimes, murders and executions, and advertising.

A tool for journal evaluation. Can be used to find:
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JSTOR is a searchable digital archive collection of core scholarly journals starting with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s). Stirling University has access to the Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Arts & Sciences III Collection and JSTOR Ireland


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Resources for international commercial arbitration. Information included on conventions, legislation, rules, bilateral investment treaties, case law, journal articles and commentary.

The Knowledge Network is the new name for NHS Scotland e-Library. It provides access to a wide range of databases, electronic journals, clinical guidelines and websites in all aspects of healthcare. Some materials are freely available to the public. Students and staff in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery and those working in partnership with the NHS can apply for an Athens username and password to access the full range of resources on this site.
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Online version of the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia.
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Legal Journals Index is part of Westlaw

UK Legislation as enacted (non-consolidated) with full coverage from 1988. It includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Westlaw provides consolidated legislation.

Abstracts of journal articles about leisure, recreation and tourism from 1976 onwards.

This link goes to a shared search for all products produced by CABI. To search the Leisure Tourism Database you must type sc:3r into one of the search boxes.

The Leisure Tourism Database used to be called Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts (LRTA).
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Contains index of legal terms, legal cases, full text articles from law journals, and the Butterworths Tax Direct Service. Limited coverage of pre-1999 Scottish legislation, full coverage post devolution.
Westlaw provides consolidated Scots legislation.

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The Library's catalogue records the books and journals held by the Library giving information on where they are located and, for books, whether they are available or out on loan.
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Access to a wide range of online archival resources relating to American history.

Index covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more

Linguistics and language behaviour. Worldwide coverage of journal articles, books, technical reports, occasional papers, dissertations and book reviews.

Abstracts from journals about marketing and consumer research.

This database covers 1963-2008 and is useful for looking at the development of marketing trends.

Use the keyword search box in the middle of the screen to search Market Research Abstracts.
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From the producers of MIDIRS, a database covering all aspects of pregnancy, labour and infant care.
Covers material from 1980s onwards.
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Key database for finding journal articles in mathematics. Electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Abstracts of articles in over 1,700 journals from 1940 onwards.

Access to a wide range of audio visual materials including materials from: ITN, Films of Scotland, the Imperial War Museum, Reuters and the Wellcome Collections. Includes resources previously available from News Film Online and Film and Sound Online.

The largest database of published medical literature. Searching via Pubmed searches Medline from the 1960's to present day.

PubMed Online training tutorials
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The largest database of published medical literature. This is an easy to use interface which searches Medline from 1950 to the present day.

At the ISI Web of Knowledge homepage select Medline from the tabs at the top of the screen.

If you are using Internet Explorer 9 web browser and experience problems with Medline via Web of Knowledge, click here for information: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/news/2011/20110520.html

Online resources in Middle English (spoken 1100 - 1500). Includes Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography and Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
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Midwifery Digest is published 4 times a year. Covers news, reviews, original articles and reprints of the best maternity and infant care information from journals around the world.
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Index to articles and dissertations on language and literature.
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Ebook platform from Coutts. Note we only have full text access to some of the book titles. We have access to more than 100 titles and these are included in the Library Catalogue.

Explore the collections from Scotland's National Gallery, the Portrait Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art and the Photograhpy Collection in Edinburgh. The online collection contains information about almost 2500 works of art with more being added to the site regularly.

From the National Library of Medicine in the United States, this website provides access to digitised books about the history of medicine and a collection of American public health films from the 1940s.

Explore details of over 120,000 portraits from the sixteenth century to the present day.

The National Research Register Archive was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). Covers 2000 to 2007.

Access to 12,000 working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research covering a wide range of subject areas within economics

Contains abstracts from mainly U.S. and some international publications covering criminal and juvenile justice, drug control, and law enforcement. With over 174,000 records dating back to 1972.

Digital archive of resources relating to the life of Nelson Mandela

A USA based catalogue of the full text of theses and dissertations covering many topics from a number of institutions. Although it currently focuses on United States university theses there are a growing number of European universities joining the catalogue.

Full text of the well known weekly journal that covers the latest news, ideas and discoveries from every field of science and technology.

Your search will automatically be limited to searching the New Scientist:

• Type your search words in the Enter Search Terms box


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Full text of the New Yorker magazine, 1925 - 2006.

Available on a PC behind the Information Centre (L2-08) in the Stirling Campus Library only.

Now available from MediaHub

Downloadable news film clips from the ITN/Reuters archives. Covers the whole of the 20th century.

Newsvault cross searches the following newspaper archives: the Burney Collection, 19th Century British Newspapers (parts 1 & 2) and the Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

A collection of databases containing the content of over 23,000 news and business resources from all over the world.
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Full text of selected influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of 19th century British society. This resource can also be searched as part of the British Newspapers Collection.

Collection of pamphlets from the 19th century, see more info below for details of coverage.

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Search tool from the Coutts book supplier. Allows you to search for books for sale: covers paper and ebooks.
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Index for finding journal articles. Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Covers marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

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Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition and additions).

Cross search online historical maps. Includes maps from the National Library of Scotland and the British Library.

Free access to Open University course materials. Covers topics including arts, business, computing, education, the environment, health, languages, law, maths, psychology, sciences and social sciences.

Now superseded by Legislation.gov.uk.

Covers worldwide scientific literature that pertains to birds and the science of ornithology. A major attraction is its coverage of the 'grey' literature, which is not abstracted by commercial databases such as the Science Citation Index.

Full text of many Oxford University Press journals. Note that we do not have access to the full text of all journal titles within the collection. Use the Library Catalogue to check whether we have access to a particular journal title.

The Archive includes the older issues of over 140 titles from Oxford University Press, with the oldest material dating back to the middle of the 19th century. Note that full text access is only available for older articles up to 1995. Use the Library Catalogue to check whether we have access to a particular journal title, and the dates of access.

Collection of online reference works. The Premium Collection combines titles in the Oxford Companions series with the 100+ titles that are already part of the Core Collection. These include an encyclopaedia plus a wide range of subject dictionaries, English and bilingual dictionaries (French, German, Italian and Spanish), thesauri, and dictionaries of quotations.

Provides perpetual access to over 100 legal monographs published by Oxford University Press between 2011-2012.

Stirling University Library only has access to the full text of a few electronic journals from Palgrave. Journal titles are included in the library catalogue.

Access is available on campus only.

Full text backfiles of international academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Files run from the late 18th century to the late 20th century.
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Indexes articles in journals and books on aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and philosophy of various disciplines, e.g. education, history, law, religion, science.
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A wide range of physical education sources starting in 1970, with abstracts since 2001. Best used in addition to SportDiscus and not as a substitute.

PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the USA. Covers all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

PRE is the new name for TOPIC Online. Produced by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). Articles related to the practical applications of the latest research into education.

*THIS DATABASE WILL STOP BEING UPDATED AFTER NOVEMBER 30TH 2010*
Covers all areas of nonhuman primate research worldwide. Gives bibliographic details only - no abstracts provided.

To view our WebBridge button in your results use their "set Institutional Affiliation" option to choose Stirling University Library.

Project Muse provides full text access to a wide range of journals. We subscribe to the Humanities Collection only.

The WebBridge button does not display in this database. Click on links called 'OpenURL at University of Stirling' instead.

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Bibliographic database covering science communication, public engagement with science and the broader issues of science and society. The database is being continually expanded and contains references to books, reports, journal and newspaper articles.

Access to the full text of articles from the 58 journals published by the American Psychological Association.
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Index to over 1.5 million journal articles, book chapters and dissertations all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage starts in 1887.
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.


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Searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

A collection of general reference websites selected by library staff. Includes dictionaries, directories, travel, etc.

Index for finding journal articles, also includes book chapters, books, photos, and videotapes. Covers all aspects of refinement of housing and handling conditions and environmental enrichment for all animals kept in research, testing and teaching institutions.
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RePEc is an index to over 485,000 journal articles, working papers and books in the field of economics.  Over 370,000 of these are available online.

Contains articles on philosophers and philosophical terms.
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SALSER is a union catalogue of journal holdings for Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland.

Through SALSER, users can not only discover which journals are held where; they can also connect to the participating libraries' On-line Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) for more detailed holdings information.

SALSER also provides links to useful information about library addresses, phone numbers, opening hours and lending services.

Index for finding journal articles in the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, with all cited references captured.

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Access to Elsevier journals (over 1000 titles) in various subject areas, not only science, e.g., economics, management, psychology and sociology.

Find relevant scientific information on the web; Scientific WebPlus eliminates much of the noise you get with big web search engines

SCImago has been developed by researchers in Spain and uses the information contained in the SCOPUS database© (Elsevier B.V). SCImago uses the same algorithm (GooglePageRank®) as Eigenfactor but covers many more journals.

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Most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the web. An excellent supplementary tool to use along with the established databases listed on this page.

To see Stirling's webbridge links: select Search Preferences, choose University of Stirling Library, Enable and Save.

The largest international abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. Searches 45.5 million records from 5,000 different publishers.

On-line tutorials are available here.

More Stirling specific videos are available for document searches and author searches .

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Includes an index to news articles about Scottish Companies.

SCOTBIS also includes a directory of Scottish company websites, which is searchable by company name, keyword, or SIC code.

Catalogue of chapbooks held by 4 Scottish libraries: Stirling University Library, National Library of Scotland, Glasgow University Library and Edinburgh Central Library

Provides electronic access to the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series Vols. 1-53 (1936-2008), and the Supplementary Series Vols. 1-3. Also has a number of other Scottish legal works.

Full text of the poems of 47 Scottish women poets of the Romantic period. Critical essays are also included for many authors. It is possible to search for authors by name, year of birth or death, place of birth or death, religion, ethnicity, nationality or occupation. Full text searching is also possible. The site is edited by Nancy Kushigian and Stephen Behrendt.

Searchable online database of 1 million text and multimedia records from museums, galleries and archives. Use it to find images, sounds and movies relating to culture, history and science.

Screenonline provides access to video clips from British film and television programmes. It is produced by the British Film Institute. It is possible to browse by time period, genre or location

This collection includes the Selden Society official publications, English legal history classics, and scholarly articles about early English legal history.

The Selden Society Publications are available through HeinOnline.

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The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) produces national clinical guidelines containing recommendations for effective healthcare practice based on current evidence.

Produced by Social Care Institute for Excellence, Social Care Online provides access to resources for all aspects of social care. Includes policy documents, government publications and practice orientated books and articles.
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Index covering the behavioural and social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines.

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Index to articles covering social work, social welfare and social policy.
Includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Covers material from 1979.

A gateway to information and resources about social care in Scotland. Some information is freely available, other information is only available to holders of NHS Scotland Athens accounts. Includes information and resources previously accessible from ReSearchWeb which was discontinued at the end of March 2010

Index to articles about sociological topics including social structure, inequality, social change and social problems. Covers material from 1952.

The online version of the printed magazine SportBusiness International. Contains articles dating back to 2001 focussing on all aspects of business in sport especially marketing, sponsorship and advertising.

SPORTDiscus contains citations and abstracts for over 1.5 million items about sport, fitness and related disciplines. These include journal articles, abstracts of books, theses and conference papers.

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The Social Science Research Network indexes over 150,000 full text articles about accounting, economics, politics, law and other social sciences. It also includes abstracts for almost 200,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.

You may need to create a SSRN account to download and read some of the articles on the Social Science Research Network. This account is free. However, there are other articles on SSRN that are chargeable, i.e. you need to pay a fee to access the full text. If you would like to read one of these chargeable papers, please check the library catalogue to see if it is available from an alternative source, or ask for advice at the Information Centre.

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Web version of the old (first) and new (second) Statistical Accounts of Scotland, first published in 1791-99 and 1845 respectively. Covers a wide range of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools and the moral health of the people. Keyword and phrase searching of the whole text is possible.

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Now superseded by Legislation.gov.uk. Westlaw provides access to all UK consolidated legislation.
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This new version of StirGate searches the Library catalogue and several electronic resources. More resources are being added all the time.
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The Repository holds Stirling University's most recent research theses in full text (PhD and Masters). Since September 2006 all research theses are stored in the Repository. Currently plans are for the service to grow to include other types of research materials, such as journal articles, conference papers, etc.

Access to full text journals from a number of publishers, plus table of contents access to many more.

Access on and off campus: Select "IP authentication"

Access to full text journals from Blackwell publishers

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Index to journal articles in the field of education.

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Searches 4 million items about computing, mathematics and engineering.

Use this to find articles, key websites, theses and dissertations, books, industry news, new job announcements, technical reports, eprints, etc. Most results are available in full text.
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Contains financial data for companies listed on a stock exchange. Includes company financials, earnings data, new share issues, merger and acquisition information, share prices, forecasting (I/B/E/S, First Call), news items, PDF copies of filings etc.

Searchable full text of The Times newspaper from 1785 to 2006.

Index for finding journal articles in all areas of toxicology including chemicals, pharmaceuticals and antidotes.

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Database of UK TV and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, and all national and many local radio stations from 1995 onwards.

A database of medical internet resources covering evidence based materials, including E-texts and medical images.
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TV listings from the TV Times (London edition), September 1955 - March 1985. Possible to search for programmes, production staff and performers.

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The Repository holds Stirling University's most recent research theses in full text (PhD and Masters). Since September 2006 all research theses are stored in the Repository. Currently plans are for the service to grow to include other types of research materials, such as journal articles, conference papers, etc.

An online resource for visual arts VADS provides access to over 100,000 images which are copyright cleared and free for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK

Premier resource on advertising, marketing, brands and campaigns. Includes case studies, consumer insight, industry trends, news, data and forecasts, media trends, economic and demographic data, profiles of major brand owners and much more.
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Key data, forecasts and trends for marketing, advertising and media research. Includes the latest advertising expenditure, global media costs and usage, TV viewing and newspaper trends, and a number of benchmarking tools.
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Index for finding journal articles. Covers technical and scientific literature on water-related topics.

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A service offering several databases including Web of Science (for access to the Citation Indexes), BIOSIS Previews, MedLine, etc.

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CrossSearch allows you to search multiple Web of Knowledge databases by fields such as Topic, Author, and Source. Also included in the cross search are selected external collections.

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Index for finding journal articles and conference papers. Provides access to:

Science Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science

These can be cross-searched simultaneously, or individually.


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Access to 400 digitised early rare books from the Wellcome Library's collections. Coverage includes the history of science and medicine from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

Please note that we only have access to Collection Three, not the whole Early European Book Collections.

Westlaw provides the most comprehensive coverage of Scottish law, pre and post devolution. It includes:

Full text case reports.
Full text journals.
The Index to Legal Journals (an index to over 430 legal journals covering the laws of the European Union and its member states, including the UK).
A case locator.
Consolidated legislation for the United Kingdom.
European Union legislation as it was passed (i.e. not consolidated).
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A free, online encyclopaedia. Use to find background information on nearly any topic.

Wikipedia is the largest reference Web site on the Internet. The content is written collaboratively by people from all around the world. Anyone can edit the encyclopaedia.

Remember not everyone that contributes is an expert.

Wiley Interscience hosts the content of Wiley and Blackwell Synergy journals.

WAERSA is an index for finding journal articles covering applied rural socioeconomic research.

Subjects covered include: Agricultural economics, Agricultural policy & development, Environment & natural resources, Farm economics, International trade, Rural sociology.

This link goes to a shared search for all products produced by CABI. To limit your search to only the WAERSA Database use the Subject Code: type sc:0R (zero in front of R) into one of the search boxes.

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World Cat is the world's largest network of library catalogues. It can be used to search the collections of many libraries. Please note, the holdings of the University of Stirling are not included.

80,000 images from around the world. Images can be used for non-profit educational purposes, but you should give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images.

The World Legal Information Institute provides access to full text legislation, cases and journal articles from a wide range of countries.

Click on the Advanced Search link to access the full text journals.

XpertHR offers more than 24,000 articles from many authoritative sources in HR, along with a specially commissioned employment law reference manual. It also includes a model policies and documents service.

Annual guide to publications on language and literature in modern languages. Behind in publication schedule. Online version: 1930 - 1994; paper version: 1935 -.

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A current awareness service to help you keep up to date with new papers and articles. Register your topic(s) and receive emails every time new data is loaded into Zetoc that matches your criteria.

For more details see the Zetoc Alert Quick Reference Guide

Provides access to the table of contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis.

For more details see the Zetoc Training Materials