Academic Search Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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ACM Digital Library
- Subject coverage: articles and conference proceedings published by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and citations of major computing publishers
- Type of content: journal articles, conference proceedings
- Date range: 1985 to present
- Level of access: full text articles; full text of conference proceedings from 1991 only.
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Art & Architecture Complete
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- Subject coverage: art, architecture, design
- Size/scope: over 1,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, books, images
- Level of access: full text of over 600 titles.
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BoB
- Subject coverage: access TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option. Option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days. Search BoB to access other users' recorded programmes. Permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra. Content plays in your web browser with access available both on and off campus.
- Type of content: TV and radio programmes
- Date range: 2007 to present
- Level of access: BU staff/student login required; registration required on first use. Available off-campus, but not outside the UK.
Ebook Central Academic Complete
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: 146,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: business and economics; computers, engineering and applied science; education; humanities; science, medicine and allied health; social sciences
- Type of content: academic books
- Level of access: full text.
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EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
IEEE Xplore
- Subject coverage: Scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
- Type of content: books, conferences, courses, journals & magazines, standards. About Content in IEEE Xplore.
- Date range: 1988 onwards
- Level of access: abstract records and some full text articles
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JSTOR Images
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database
- Type of content: thousands of images/art work contributed by partnering institutions like universities, museums, community and private collections from around the world
- Level of access: search results exclude items outside of our subscriptions.
Kanopy
On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link
- Subject coverage: multi-disciplinary database of educational films
- Size/scope: 1,930 videos
- Type of content: online streaming audio-visual.
BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)
O'Reilly
- Subject coverage: digital library of e-books and videos covering subjects such as business, computing, programming, design and engineering
- Level of access: full-text.
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PressReader
- Subject coverage: newspapers
- Size/scope: over 2,000 UK and international newspapers
- Type of content: all major daily and business newspapers, also general business and industry publications
- Type of content: facsimiles of newspapers
- Date range: last 365 days for most titles (The Guardian last 14 days only)
- Level of access: full text.
Scopus
- Subject coverage: Sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
- Type of content: Citation data
- Date range: 1841-present
- Level of access: Some links to full text available.
Stash
Access to a growing archive of thousands of motion projects, showcasing a collection of motion design, animation and VFX projects plus behind-the-scenes features and interviews.
Web of Science
Note: Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University
- Subject coverage: arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope: citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
Web of Science consists of:
Science Citation Index 1899-present
Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
Medline 1950-present
Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
- Type of content: academic journal article
- Date range: 1945-
- Level of access: some links to full text.