Passport (Euromonitor International)
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- Subject coverage: online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world
- Size/scope: 24 industry categories for 80 countries. Economy ander data for 210 consum countries
- Type of content: marketing research reports
- Level of access: full text.
Patent Server: United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Subject coverage: US patents
- Type of content: patents, searchable by patent number to 1975 and by full text from 1975
- Date range: 1790 onwards
- Level of access: full text.
PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database)
- Subject coverage: physiotherapy
- Type of content: abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
- Level of access: bibliographic and abstracts.
PEP-Web Archive
- Subject coverage: a comprehensive collection of psychoanalytic literature in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Turkish from the foremost authors and publishers in the field
- Type of content: journals, books and videos
- Level of access: full text.
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Pevsner Index
- Subject coverage: Pevsner's Buildings of England
- Size/scope: index
- Level of access: CD available from the Help Zone at The Sir Michael Cobham Library.
PILOTS
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- Subject coverage: includes journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
- Type of content: reference work
- Date range: 1871 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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.
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
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- Subject coverage: copyright
- Size/scope: materials from UK, US, France, Italy and Germany
- Type of content: laws, cases, debates
- Date range: 1450-1903
- Level of access:some full text available.
Project Muse - Humanities Collection
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- Subject coverage: articles from journals in the humanities from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies
- Type of content: journal articles
- Level of access: full text articles.
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PsycARTICLES
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Size/scope: 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1894 -
- Level of access: full text.
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PsycBOOKS
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Size/scope: over 64,619 chapters from over 4,317 books
- Type of content: book chapters
- Date range: 1620 onwards
- Level of access: full text.
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PsycINFO
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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PubMed
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database focusing on medical and life sciences
- Size/scope: includes over 18 million citations from Medline
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1948 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
The Purple Guide
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- Subject coverage: guide to health, safety and welfare at music and other events created by the Events Industry Forum in consultation with the UK events industry. Aims to help those who organise music or similar events so that they can run safely. This publication is designed to replace 'The Event Safety Guide' ("Purple Guide" HSG195) originally published by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in consultation with the industry.
- Size/scope: multiple chapters (content updated regularly)
- Type of content: event health and safety recommended standards, information and guidance
- Level of access: full text.