Databases for Information Studies
Electronic resources are only available to registered network users.
| Emerald management reviews | Full text articles, and independent reviews of articles from a wide range of academic, trade and popular journals in information studies, librarianship, business and management. |
| Library literature & information science full text | Bibliographic database for library and information science. |
| LISA | Library and Information Studies Abstracts. |
| Scopus | Scopus is an abstracting and index database from Elsevier, designed to provide expert results for the non-expert researcher. Updated daily, Scopus includes the abstracts and cited references of over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in the sciences and social sciences. Scopus allows researchers to search abstracts going back to 1966, whilst references of all articles published since 1996 are also included, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of articles available including Open Access and electronic-only titles. In addition, Scopus covers 200 million quality web sources, including around 13 million patent records from four patent offices. |
| Other useful databases | |
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| ASSIA | Social Sciences database aimed at healthcare and other caring professions. |
| CiteSeer | Database provided by Penn State University, indexing articles on computing and software. |
| IBSS | International bibliography of the social sciences. |
| OvidSP | Includes MEDLINE and CINAHL and selected other databases. In addition access is provided to selected full text electronic journals. |
| PsycINFO | Psychology database. |
| ScienceDirect | An extensive collection of science, technology and medical full-text and bibliographic information, which covers social sciences. |
| SciFinder web | Electronic version of Chemical abstracts. |
| Web of Science | Large multi-disciplinary database with subject and citation indexes. Available via the Web of Knowledge. |
| ZETOC | Multidisciplinary database from the British Library containing details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year, which offers an email alerting service. |