E-Library databases
Psychology
Counseling and Therapy in Video - collection of over 300 hours of video including filmed footage of actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, consultations, lectures, presentations and interviews covering psychotherapy, counselling, social work and psychiatric counselling. Create your own playlists and clips from the collection which can be annotated and shared with colleagues. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
PsycINFO via Ebsco - very useful for identifying literature in clinical psychology, family therapy psychotherapy, forensic psychology, general psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, psychotherapy, organisational psychology, and related fields. Full text links to many journals. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
The Pep Archive - hosted by EBSCO and offers the full text of 17 premier psychoanalytic journals (some dating back to 1920, whilst the most recent additions date from 2008). The archive offers the full-text of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, and over 50 other classic psychoanalytic books. PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) publishes this archive, updating it annually. Need help? Click on "more information" when you get into EBSCO. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
PsycArticles - full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals, with the exception of adverts and editorial board lists. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
PsycBOOKS - a full-text database of more than 800 scholarly books and 13,000 chapters. 585 books published by APA, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. 217 classic resources in psychology. Exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology; more than 1,500 authored entries. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
Autism Data - an ideal research tool for anyone researching autism and Asperger syndrome. It is, as far as we are aware, the only database of published material on autism open for all to access on the web. 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 which are not part of our holdings. Every entry has an abstract and has been assigned keywords to help with searching.
No password required
Education
British Education Index (BEI) - Free Collections, including Education-line - a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice, includes a free, reduced version of recently added records to the British Education Index
No password required
Social Care
UK Data Archive - resource archiving and disseminating large-scale government, qualitative and other social science datasets via the UK Data Archive. Shibboleth password, you may be required to register with the UK Data Archive site to access some information.
Social Care Online- a free database of social care information produced by the Social Care Institute of Excellence. The database replaces the former electronic Library for Social Care (eLSC) and incorporates data previously available in CareData. No password required
Medical
BioMed Central - scientific publisher providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research. No password required to browse/view/download articles, but users required to register with the website to search the database (registration is free)
BMJ Journals Collection - comprises 22 leading medical titles on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine. Available in print and online.
British National Formulary - the official website of the British National Formulary, providing UK Healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner.
CINAHL with Full Text - the world's most comprehensive source for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 600 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.
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Health Business Fulltext Elite - full text for more than 480 journals. Health Business Elite provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
Medline - provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Hosted by EBSCO. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
PubMed - a free version of Medline provided by the a service of the National Library of Medicine, open to all. No password required
General
ZETOC - this British Library database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year, containing almost 15 million article and conference records. You can also register to receive contents pages of your favourite journals, using the zetocAlert service. Shibboleth/Institutional Password
The UK Statute Law Database - The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. No password required
