Academic Search Ultimate
>> Go to Academic Search Ultimate
- 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.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
CINAHL Ultimate
- Subject coverage: the Largest Collection of Leading Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments
- Size/scope: over 6,300 journals
- Type of content: journal articles
- Date range: 1937 to present
- Level of access: full text of over 2,400 journals.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
EBSCO Host Databases
This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.
JSTOR
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database
- Size/scope: 1,500 academic journals indexed
- Type of content: academic journal article
- Date range: 1780-
- Level of access: some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
Lexis+
- Subject coverage: law and tax
- Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such as step-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
- Level of access: some full text available.
Note: You may need to clear your browser's cooke cache beforing using this resource
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Medline Complete
- Subject coverage: medical database focusing on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, toxicology, anthropology and biology. Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations
- Size/scope: 5400 academic journals indexed, 2100 full text journals incorporated
- Type of Content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1865 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
PILOTS
>> Go to PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) Database
- 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.
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.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
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.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
PsycINFO
- Subject coverage: psychology
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
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.
ScienceDirect
- Subject coverage: health, science and medicine
- Size/scope: 1700 Elsevier journals. The service includes access to Medline with links to the content of Elsevier journals
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1872 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
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.
Social Care Online
>> Go to Social Care Online - Registration is required before you can sign-in.
- Subject coverage: social care
- Size/scope: it is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and includes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
- Type of Content: research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites
- Level of access: some full text available.
Social Theory
- Subject coverage: sociology, social theory
- Size/scope: contains over 145,000 pages of works by major social thinkers (e.g. Marx, Habermas, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, Durkheim, Foucault) as well as seminal texts from lesser known figures. Coverage is international and the collection includes original works and translations
- Type of content: book chapters, scholarly papers
- Level of access: full text available.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
SocINDEX with Full Text
>> Go to SocINDEX with Full Text
- Subject coverage: sociology and social work practice
- Size/scope: bibliographic information for over 2,100,000 articles including access to the full text of over 860 sociology journals. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for 14,636 conference papers in sociology, social work practice and related subjects
- Type of content: academic journal article, books, conference papers
- Level of access: full text of over 860 journals, 830 books and 16,800 conference papers.
The contents of this database are included in mySearch
Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch
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.
Westlaw UK
Note: A one-off registration process is required to gain access. When you first open Westlaw using BU's link, select the 'Access through OpenAthens' option, then create your individual profile and you must enter your BU email account to register. Once you have registered using your BU email account, you can select the 'Access through academic institution' option, then enter/choose 'Bournemouth University' to gain access.
- Subject coverage: legal database
- Size/scope: Statutes and Statutory Instruments currently in force and broad coverage of law report series. Some full text law journals. Contains selected practitioner's materials. Includes EU legislation and case law. Links to Westlaw International and Westlaw US on the home page.
- Type of content: legal materials
- Level of access: Some full text available.
>> User Guides You may need to click on the 'Access through OpenAthens' or 'Access through academic institution' link again to open the Westlaw user guides page (a one-off registration is required to gain access). Bournemouth University does not licence all Westlaw content and does not currently subscribe to Practical Law.