Sociology databases
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
- Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
- Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
- Off-air recording and media archive service.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Brill Journal Archive
- Provides access to over 50,000 articles to more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
- Included in the main library search.
British Education Index
- Covers research, policy, and practice in education and training in the UK, with particular strengths in evaluation and assessment, technology, and SEN.
- Sources include journal articles, books, reports, series, and conference papers.
- This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
- NOT included in the main library search.
British Humanities Index
- An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
- This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
Business Source Ultimate
- UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
- Included in the main library search.
Cambridge Journals Online
- Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
- Included in the main library search.
Coronavirus Research Database
- Comprehensive research and background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS.
- Includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Data Archive
- Provides access to over 5,000 computer-readable datasets for research and teaching purposes for many different disciplines in the UK.
- NOT included in the main library search.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
- The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
- Included in the main library search.
Education Research Complete
- Covers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, as well as policy, administration, funding, and related social issues.
- More than 85% of journals are included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Covers a wide range of topics, including key organisations, events, and leading figures.
- NOT included in the main library search.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via EBSCO
- The world's largest education database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via ProQuest
- This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature.
EThOS
- British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
- NOT included in the main library search.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- Focuses mainly on politics, sociology, economics and anthropology and is one of the world's largest social-science databases.
JSTOR
- UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
- A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.
Nexis
- Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
- Includes access to the Financial Times.
- Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Overton
- A searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.
- NOT included in the main library search.
ProQuest Criminal Justice
- U.S. and international criminal justice journals including abstracts and indexing for 250 titles.
- Included in the main library search.
ProQuest Sociology
- International literature of sociology and social work.
- Coverage: social work, social services, community and mental health, and crisis intervention.
- Included in the main library search.
PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)
- A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
- Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)
- Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
- Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
- Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.
SAGE Journals Online
- Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
- Included in the main library search.
SAGE Research Methods
- A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
- SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
- Included in the main library search.
Scopus
- The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
- Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Included in the main library search.
Social Policy and Practice
- Social Policy and Practice brings together data from five databases covering Behavioural & Social Sciences, Social Work and Public Health.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Social Services Abstracts
- Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Sociological Abstracts
- Indexes journal articles and conference proceedings from over 1,500 journals in the field of sociology and related disciplines.
SpringerLink
- A collection of full-text journals covering subject areas such as biological sciences, computing, engineering and environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
- Includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
- Included in the main library search.
Taylor & Francis
- Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
- Included in the main library search.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- A complete online facsimile edition of every issue of one of the most comprehensive literary publications of the 20th century.
- This digital archive an essential resource for anyone studying, or supporting the study of, modern literature, humanities and culture.
- NOT included in the main library search.
UK Data Service
- This service provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, spanning many disciplines and themes.
- Included are a wide range of quantitative, qualitative, multi-media and non-digital data, and census data from 1971 to 2011.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Wiley Online Library
- Provides access to over 200 full text electronic journals published by Wiley.
- Covers a wide range of topic areas such as business, engineering medicine, science and psychology.
- Included in the main library search.
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