A to Z of Library Databases
Academic Search Complete 
Full-text access to more than 8,000 journals (over 7,000 peer-reviewed) and indexing for almost 12,000 covering the following disciplines: business, communications, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, education and nursing.
Coverage: Varies according to title.
Basic Searching 
| Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 3,000 full text e-books from 250 publishers including most humanities disciplines.
Coverage: Varies according to title.
ACM Digital Library
Citations and full-text access to approximately 95% of all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journals, transactions, proceedings and newsletters.
Coverage: 1991 - present.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Full-text access to all 53 peer-reviewed titles from the American Chemical Society. Includes archive access to all titles, some as far back as 1879 (Journal of the American Chemical Society).
Coverage: From 1st issue of 1st volume for each title except 'Chemical and Engineering News': 1998 onwards only.
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Full text access to 30 AIP journals focusing on interdisciplinary and applied topics in physics, astronomy and related fields of science and technology.
Coverage: Varies according to title.
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Full-text access to eleven AMS journals.
Coverage: 1996 to present where available. | Search Tips
American Medical Association (AMA)
AMA Journals are among the most widely circulated family of peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. Each journal ranks among the top clinical journals in its respective field in terms of citations. Provides full text access to JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) plus 13 speciality journals.
Coverage: Varies according to title
AMA backfiles: Access to the full archive now available.
American Physical Society (APS)
APS strives to 'advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics'. Provides full text access to the 18 APS journals with archival access to all APS titles as far back as 1893 through PROLA (Physical Reviews Online Archive).
Coverage Varies according to title
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Full text access to 36 journals published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The database also provides access to Applied Mechanics Review (AMR) - 2000 to present and to all current ASME Conference Proceedings - 2008 to present.
AM Primary Sources - on trial until 15th April
Empire Studies offers a rich array of sources for the study of the British Empire.
Area Studies: India is a vital resource for the study of empire, the government of British India and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712-1942.
Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 amplifies the voices of women in Britain and Ireland across three centuries, illuminating issues of gender, class, race, disability, sexuality, religion and more.
Annual Reviews
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 34 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesising the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
Coverage: 1996 - present.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
ASSIA is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Coverage: 1987 - present | Basic Search | Advanced Search
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
Produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials provides coverage dating back to 1908 with indexing for some journal titles extending back into the 19th century. Full-text journal articles and reviews are selected for inclusion by leading religion scholars.
EBSCO Library Guide
Audit Analytics
Audit Analytics is a premium company intelligence service providing independent research to the investment, accounting, insurance, legal, regulatory and academic communities.
The DCU subscription covers public firms in the US, Canada and Europe (including the UK) and contains detailed research on active audits, including auditing fees, auditor tenure and changes, financial restatements and key auditing matters.
To access the Audit Analytics data, users must first register at https://go.auditanalytics.com/academic-registration.
As part of the registration process, a DCU email address is required.
Once registered, click on https://auditanalytics.com/ to enter your login details and gain access.
For a quick guide to the platform, click this link: https://go.auditanalytics.com/Academic-Getting-Started
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)
ABC releases data for the UK media industry to use when trading print, digital and event advertising.
They are a leading industry-owned auditor for media products and services, with specialist skills in digital ad -trading.
DCU staff & students must register using their DCU email.
Better Regulation
Better Regulation provides an up-to date and comprehensive database of consolidated domestic and EU legislation, plus an extensive library of official publications and expert commentaries.
Module areas include Company Law, Competition, Data Protection, Financial Crime & AML, Financial Services, Pensions and Tax Law.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. As well as providing details of publications, the Bibliography provides links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain, Ireland and the USA, and it provides links to online text where available.
Basic Searching | Advanced Searching
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Browse and search research articles of 175 journals.
Coverage: All research articles.
Bloomsbury Irish Law Online
Covering 8 practice areas, Bloomsbury Irish Law Online provides fully searchable, instant access to 1000s of pages of quality legal commentary. Practice areas included: Irish Tax • Irish Company Law • Irish Property Law • Irish Employment Law • Irish Wills & Probate Law • Irish Criminal Law • Irish Civil Litigation Law • Irish Intellectual Property & IT Law.
BMJ
Provides access to a wide range of medical journals, including BMJ, and covers a broad spectrum of medical specialities. All journals are peer reviewed and titles such as Thorax, Heart and Gut are leaders in their fields.
Coverage: Varies according to title
BMJ Best Practice
BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision support tool offering a step-by-step approach to help manage patient diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
It is freely available to residents in the Republic of Ireland via a national licence funded by the HSE National Health Library and Knowledge Service. Register to set up a free personal account and customise your experience of the platform. A BMJ Best Practice app is also available to download.
Books in Print
A comprehensive database of worldwide English-language titles.
NOTE: only one DCU user can access it at any one time.
British Education Index
The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. It covers all aspects of education from preschool to higher education. Sources include education and training journals, mostly published in the UK. Some international literature is included. EBSCO Library Guide
BNF
The British National Formulary is the authority on the selection and use of medicines. The BNF is organised for quick reference and provides information for healthcare professionals on safe and effective use of medicines, and the management of common conditions.
Business Source Complete (previously known as Business Source Premier)
Full text access to over 3,500 journals covering accounting, economics, finance, international business and management. It also includes full-text books, company profiles, country economic reports, market research reports, trade journals and business magazines.
Coverage: Varies according to title | Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts | EBSCO Library Guide
Cambridge Journals Online
Full text access to approximately 420 peer-reviewed journals covering all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences: mathematics and applied science, neuroscience and biomedicine, history, language and linguistics, political science and international relations. Now includes access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive, the complete digital archive of Cambridge journals, providing instant online access to two centuries of academic excellence and publishing history from Cambridge University Press.
Cell Press
Cell Press publishes over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies. Full text access to 56 Cell Press titles including Cancer Cell, Cell, Cell Metabolism, Developmental Cell, Molecular Cell, Neuron and Structure.
Coverage: Varies according to title.
CERL (Heritage of the Printed Book Database)
The HPB Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file.
CINAHL Complete
Indexing for approximately 3,800 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Full text of approx 750 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials
E-tutorials : CINAHL Headings Tutorial | CINAHL Basic Searching | CINAHL Advanced Features |
EBSCO Library Guide
Cite Them Right
Online referencing tool, Cite them right is now in its 12th edition and has also been re-envisaged as this user-friendly online platform. Contains information on referencing all of its sources in Harvard (author-date). However, there is also information about referencing in APA; MHRA; MLA; OSCOLA; Vancouver and Chicago styles. Remember to always use the referencing style recommended by your lecturer. Cite them right online works on your tablet or smartphones, so you’ll always have the guidance you need at hand.
Cochrane Library
Part of the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Library is considered to be the prime source of evidence-based healthcare. Contains Systematic Reviews, Controlled Trials Register and more. This database is freely available to anyone on the island of Ireland.
Help/Tutorials
Communication Source
The most comprehensive communication database available. Communication Source provides more than 670 full-text journals from the fields of mass media, communications theory, linguistics, organisational communication, phonetics and speech pathology.
It incorporates Communication Abstracts and Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC).
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts
EBSCO Library Guide
Compendex
Compendex is a major interdisciplinary engineering database offering abstracts from 5,000 engineering journals, conference papers and technical reports. Covers 175 disciplines and major specialities within these broad engineering areas: mechanical, civil, environmental, electrical, materials science, chemical, optics, solid state physics, control, and engineering management. Available through EI Engineering Village.
Coverage: 1969 to date | Video Tutorial (4:05)
Covidence
Covidence is a web-based tool designed to streamline the systematic review process. It will also be useful to those conducting scoping, integrative or other comprehensive reviews. Covidence enables review teams to efficiently screen abstracts and full text, conduct risk of bias assessment and easily extract and store data. It includes customisable data extraction forms and automatically populates tables and Prisma flow chart.
To create a Covidence account using the DCU Library's institutional license, you must first request an invitation using your DCU email address. Once you accept the invitation* (this will take the form of a one-time use link via email) you will be sent to the login page where you can sign up to, or sign in (if you had previously signed up as an individual) to Covidence.
Once completed, to sign-in on an ongoing basis, click here. Covidence has a YouTube channel with helpful video tutorials.
(* if you do not receive this email within minutes, please check your spam folder)
For this and further information on Covidence visit the DCU Knowledge Support page
CSD (Cambridge Structural Database)
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a highly curated and comprehensive resource. Established in 1965, the CSD is the world’s repository for small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures. Containing over 1.25M entries from x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses, this unique database of accurate 3D structures has become an essential resource to scientists around the world.
You may search the database by clicking on the link above, but if you wish to download the software to your own PC/laptop please contact Emma Stapleton (emma.stapleton@dcu.ie) for details of how to do this.
Datastream Advance
This resource has been replaced by Eikon.
Dictionary of Irish Biography
The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It contains almost 11,000 signed biographical articles which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, painting, music, the stage, science, medicine, engineering, entertainment and sport.
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations Abstracts is the largest single source of information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses available. You can choose to either search dissertations and theses produced by students at Dublin City University (Dissertations & Theses @ Dublin City University) or the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I) or both.
Dublin Castle Records
Also known as The British in Ireland, Dublin Castle Records, 1798-1926 contains records of the British administration in Ireland prior to 1922. This collection comprises materials from Series CO 904, The National Archives, Kew, UK.
Dynamed
DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically -organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources.
Econlit
EconLit covers abstracts for over 400 economic journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations in the fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
Also available: E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts
EBSCO Library Guide
Economist Intelligence Unit - Viewpoint (EIU)
Combining expert political insights, policy analysis and economic assessments with cutting edge medium and long-term political and economic forecasting; EIU Viewpoint provides extensive and up-to-date country analysis across 320 key economic indicators.
Also included are the latest demand and supply outlooks for six major industries: automotive, consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications.
Coverage: full access to the following countries - France, Germany, Japan, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Education Research Complete
Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full- text for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 80 books and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts
EBSCO Library Guide
EI Engineering Village
EI Engineering Village is the interface for Compendex and Inspec databases. You can also carry out a combined search of the two databases and remove duplicate records.
Help - Tutorials
Eikon
Eikon is a financial data product incorporating both Datastream and Thomson One into a single package. Providing access to extensive market information for listed companies, users can obtain current data of exchange-traded instruments (stocks, options, futures, indexes etc). In addition, Eikon provides historic equity data ranging from several months to 20 years. Access is available via username and password to both the web-based version and the desktop application, should you wish to use the Datastream Excel Add-On.
Contact us for access details at subject.team@dcu.ie
Thomson Reuters has created a series of training videos to take you from the basics of Eikon up to advanced projects. Access these via the Thomson Reuters website.
N.B. So that others can gain access to Eikon, it is imperative that you completely log out once finished your session. See guide here for instructions.
EMBASE
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), is the most comprehensive database in biomedicine and pharmacology and gives you access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects with over 11 million records. The EMBASE journal collection is international with over 4,500 biomedical journals from 70 countries. Allows simultaneous searching of the Medline database.
Coverage: 1974 - present | Video Tutorials
Emerald Management Xtra
Access to full text of Emerald's 216 management and marketing journals. Additional reviews of articles in the top 300 management journals from other publishers.
Encyclopedia of Language and Education
In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.
Environment and Planning
Environment and Planning is a collection of four urban and regional planning journals. They focus on everything from the environment and nature through planning and policy to theory and design. Available through SAGE journals online.
ERIC International
ERIC International consists of two abstract databases which can be searched together or separately:
- The Australian Education Index is Australia's largest source of education information. Its sources include reports, books, journal articles, online resources, conference papers, book chapters and theses. Coverage: 1977 to date.
- ERIC (the US Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's largest education database, indexing over 650 journals, as well as grey literature. Publication types include journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports and policy papers. Coverage: 1966 to date.
ESRI reports
Full-text of the Economic and Social Research Institute publications. Search or browse and download PDF documents. Covers a wide range of topics including education, health, gender issues, housing, industrial development, and social disadvantage.
European Newsstream
European Newsstream enables users to search a wide selection of Irish, European and UK news content with archives back to the 1990s, including newspapers such as The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, Financial Times and The Guardian, newswires, journals, and websites in full-text format. Substantial backfiles are available for most newspapers, providing full-text access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features published in each.
FAME
Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies, summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses. For a broad range of hints, tips and video tutorials, check out the Fame Learning Zone. To access, sign into Fame and select ? from the upper right-hand corner for the HELP menu.
Family Law Online
Access to the Family Law Reports, Child & Family Law Quarterly, and International Family Law Journal. Provided by LexisNexis
Film Indexes Online is now known as Screen Studies Online
Findmypast
With Findmypast, you can get the complete Irish and British family history experience, to connect you with your ancestors and bring your story to life. Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more.
GeoRef
GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
Geoscience World
Provides full text access to peer-reviewed articles from high impact geoscience publications. GeoScienceWorld is the result of a collaboration by six leading earth science societies and one institute to develop cooperatively an electronic research resource for earth sciences. It is interoperable with GeoRef, the bibliographic search database published by the American Geological Institute which includes information on over 3500 publications. Coverage: varies according to title.
Grove Music Online
Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Harvard Business Review e-books collection
With over 600 titles to choose from, the HBR e-book collection includes the complete catalog of e-books published by Harvard Business Review Press.
Heinonline
HeinOnline is the world's largest image-based legal research database offering access to tens of millions of pages of research material. Fully searchable and browseable access to full-text collections, including:
- Law journal library (over 350 US and international academic law journals going back to first issues)
- US Supreme Court library (incl. US Reports from 1754)
E-tutorials
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is recognised as a leading bibliographic database for historical study. It provides indexing for over 2,300 journals published throughout the World and includes content related to History from all countries excluding the United States and Canada.
EBSCO Library Guide
HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights Portal
The European Court of Human Rights HUDOC Portal is a powerful, user-friendly information system which provides free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.
IEEE Xplore
Represents 30% of electrical engineering and computer science literature. IEL provides access to all IEEE journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings; IEE journals and conference proceedings; and current IEEE standards. Full-text is available from 1988 and selected content available from 1950.
Coverage: 1988 - present. | Help/Tutorials
InformaHealthcare
InformaHealthcare hosts nearly 200 journals in medicine, pharmacology, neurology and psychiatry. Now part of Taylor & Francis Online Journals.
Inspec
This database indexes and summarises over 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings, books, reports relating to physics, electronics, electrical engineering, computer science, control, and information technology. Access available through EI Engineering Village.
Coverage: 1969 - to date
Institute of Physics
Access the full-text of the Institute of Physics journals. Create a user account to set-up journal/search alerts. Includes access to archive from 1874.
Coverage: Varies according to title.
E-tutorials
International Medieval Bibliography
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c.400-1500), International Medieval Bibliography indexes articles from journals (periodicals) and miscellanies items (collected essays, conference proceedings and Festschriften).
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
You will need to create an account to access content. Click on 'My Data Login/Create an Account' in the top right hand corner - 'New User' - 'Create an Account'
The world's largest archive of social science data for research with over 6,300 studies from sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics and psychology.
Irish Books Search
A bibliographic resource for thousands of Irish-published, Irish-interest and Irish-authored titles - in and out of print. It also has contact information on over 500 publishers and agents worldwide with links to their websites.
Irish Newspaper Archive
A database of digitised Irish newspapers, from 1763 issues of the Freeman's Journal to modern titles such as the Irish Independent and the Galway City Tribune.
The Irish Newspaper Archive also provides access to the Radical Newspaper Archive.
Please access by clicking on Radical Newspaper Archive
Irish Times
The Irish Times current holdings, from 1995 right up to today
Irish Times Digital Archive
The Irish Times Digital archive is a searchable full-text reproduction of all editions published by the Irish Times from 1859 to 2011. Click here for current online & print editions
Irish Statute Book
Full texts of Irish legislation (Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments) from 1922-2002.
Availability: via Attorney General's homepage.
JSTOR
Archive of almost 2,000 core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics. Current content is not generally available.
vLex Justis
vLex Justis offers a global index of legal materials, including full-text access to Irish, EU, UK, and Canadian case law and legislation.
As a DCU member, it is recommended that you also set up a personal account as this gives access to a lot more features of the platform. To set up a personal account, click on 'create my account' on the vLex Justis landing page.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching.
Coverage: Access to archive 1973-2004
Access to backfiles 2005-2008
Includes perpetual access to content from 2009 to present.
LexisNexis
- Nexis Advance UK (News & Business)
The new Lexis-Nexis platform for news and business, containing full text access to thousands of newspapers and company, financial and market research data.
E-tutorials - Lexis + Library (Legal)
A comprehensive legal database containing case law, expert commentary, and primary and secondary legislation as amended.
E-tutorials
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
LLBA provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
LISA
Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 300 periodicals from around 40 countries and 20 languages, providing comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the scholarly literature related to library science. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.
E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative collection of specially commissioned articles written by scholars expert in their fields. It addresses literary works, writers, cultural movements and historical events around the world
Literature Online
With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. It runs from the 8th Century to present and includes 340,000 works of poetry, 6,000 works of Drama, 2,250 works of prose as well as 438 journals.
LWW
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of professional health information for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students. Consists of 54 titles in the biomedical field.
Online Training
Making of Modern Law
MoML provides access to 10.6 million pages of legal history relating to American and British Commonwealth law from 1800. It allows full text searching of 22,000 rare works from casebooks to local practice manuals to speeches - all of which are subdivided into 99 subject areas.
Coverage: 1800 - 1926
MarketLine
MarketLine provides accurate and up-to-date reports and quantitative data on companies, industries and countries for every major marketplace in the world. Reports include Company SWOT analysis, Industry Five Forces Analysis and Country PESTLE analysis. Databases include; Consumer Data Analytics, Country Statistics and Industry Data.
MathSciNet
An extensive database providing summaries of articles from all areas of mathematics.
Coverage: 1940 - to present.
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
The home of the most trusted reference work in international law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, as well as the recently launched Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. The two Encyclopedias can be searched and browsed together, or separately by using appropriate filters.
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.
- MEDLINE via EBSCO
EBSCO Library Guide - MEDLINE via OVID
- PubMed: is the free public interface to the MedLine database. It also links to the full text archive PubMed Central.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It comprises a collection of 1.6 million citations drawn from 4,400 journals and other key global sources. Runs from 1963 to the present. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign the descriptors to each record in the bibliography. It also provides proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names with links to brief descriptive notes.
EBSCO Library Guide
MusicPlay
This platform contains the entire Musicplay Teacher's Guide and Digital resources, which include 700+ songs, 4000+ song/concept movies and hundreds of interactive activities to support the teaching of a music curriculum in Primary schools.
National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) on SAI Global i2i platform
NSAI (National Standards Authority of Ireland) is Ireland’s official standards body. It operates under the National Standards Authority of Ireland Act (1996) and is accountable to the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. NSAI is the national certification authority for CE Marking and provides a certification service to enable business demonstrate that Irish goods and services conform to applicable standards. The i2i platform contains NSAI standards, Eurocodes and ISO International Standards with Irish annexes.
Nature Publishing Group
Includes access to Nature magazine and other titles from Nature Publishing Group covering subjects of biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, genetics, medicine, microbiology, pharmacology physics, resource & science.
Naxos Music Library
This resource streams over 2.5 million tracks, all fully indexed and searchable by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre. Staff can also avail of the instructor login to set up playlists for their students. To avail of the instructor login, contact your Subject Librarian https://www.dcu.ie/library/subject-librarians
NBER Working Papers
Full texts of working papers produced by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Over 1,200 papers are added to this database every year
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Hosted by Gale Virtual Reference Library, this e-book version of the 15-volume second edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia is fully indexed and searchable. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more
Newspapers.com Library Edition
Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to 17,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Newspapers.com can be quickly searched by viewing available titles grouped by location on a modern map. Narrow search results using title counts provided by location, or broaden the scope of results using traditional search techniques, like keyword, location and time period or newspaper name.
OECD iLibrary
The iLibrary hosts statistics and factbooks for the 34 OECD member states and for selected non-OECD countries. Its areas of focus include: economics, education, health, governance and science and technology. We have access up to the end of 2014 only.
User Guide
Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is an international open access journal publishing platform in the humanities. DCU is a governing member of the OLH.
Optica Publishing Group
Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Optica Publishing Group's portfolio offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This cutting-edge repository includes content from 19 prestigious publications, co-publications, and papers from more than 835 events, including associated videos. Our journal content offers the highest number of article citations (37%) than any other publisher in the Optics category of the 2022 Journal Citation Reports™ (Source Clarivate, 2022). With more than 400,000 journal articles, conference papers, and videos to search, discover, and access, Optica Publishing Group represents the full range of research in the field from around the globe.
O'Reilly for Higher Education
O’Reilly for Higher Education includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need. There are also proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials and audio books.
To access, click on the link above. At the drop down menu select 'Dublin City University' and select 'Sign in with my institution'. When prompted, enter your DCU email and password.
Oxford Art Online
This resource includes over 200,000 articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.
- Grove Art Online is the scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. It includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources. Video Tutorial (8:19)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells the stories of over 60,000 men and women who shaped the history of the British Isles and of Britons worldwide, from the 'earliest times' to the 21st Century. In addition to its more than 60,000 biographies, the Dictionary includes more than 500 thematic essays (setting individuals in historical context), and 11,500 portrait likenesses, researched in association with the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the ultimate authority on the English language. The largest dictionary of any language in the world, it charts the meaning and evolution of over 600,000 words over the last 1500 years.
Oxford Journals plus Archive
Consists of 242 online journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines. Includes access to JNCI Cancer Spectrum.
Coverage: Varies according to title
Oxford Music Online
Full-text access to:
- The Oxford Dictionary of Music: 12,500 entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics.
- Grove Music Online: includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
- The Oxford Companion to Music: More than 8,000 articles on range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. Help
Oxford Reference
Includes over 1 million entries across 25 subject areas from architecture to zoology. It offers the very best in quick reference information together with authoritative, in-depth articles by world-famous authors. It also offers excellent functionality, and a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations and timelines. Search three Oxford art resources together or separately:
- The Oxford Companion to Western Art contains more than 2,600 entries with reliable coverage of over 1,700 artists and their work.
- Encyclopedia of Aesthetics features articles by more than 500 globally recognised art historians, philosophers, and theorists.
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms provides 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts. Introduction
Oxford Scholarship Online: Psychology Collection
Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 400 full text e-books in the areas of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive development. Guide
Oxford Scholarship Online: Public Health Epidemiology Collection
Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to 286 full text e-books in the area of public health & epidemiology which discuss the development and assessment of public health issues that affect a diverse range of populations world wide. Guide
Palgrave Connect - Language and Linguistics Collection
Provides access to 439 e-books and spans a range of subject areas including Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies, Language and Globalization, and Pragmatics
Palgrave Connect - Social and Cultural Studies Collection
Provides access to 189 e-books and spans a large range of subject areas including sociology, social policy, social work, criminology, psychology, cultural studies, media studies, education and gender studies.
Patrologia Latina
A complete electronic version of the first edition of Patrologica Latina, a collection of early Christian theology first published between 1844 and 1855.
Passport (Euromonitor International)
A market research database providing extensive access to:
-Reports on global markets, countries, industries, companies and lifestyles
-Statistics on countries, markets and lifestyles
-Company and country profiles
-Company market share and brand share rankings
Philosopher's Index
A bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. Updated quarterly, The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries.
Coverage: 1940 - present | E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
Project Muse
Covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science and gender studies, Project Muse offers over 670 full text titles from over 60 scholarly publishers.
Coverage: Varies according to title | User Guides
PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
Backfile access to the American Physical Society (APS) journals. Access varies according to title and goes as far back as 1897 for Physical Review (Series 1).
Coverage Varies according to title.
Proquest E-book Central
DCU Library has access to over 180,000 ebook titles covering various subject areas.
PsycArticles
PsycArticles is a database of full text articles on current issues in psychology. It covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 119 journals published by the APA and allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 119 journals. You can also access the fulltext of this database via linked abstracts in PsycINFO database (see below).
Coverage: 1987 - present | E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts
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PsycBooks
PsycBooks is the APA's full text e-book collection in the area of psychology. It provides access to 778 books published by APA, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950–2002, 1,027 classic resources in psychology and exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
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PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. This database also allows seamless linking to the fulltext of articles contained in PsycArticles database (see above)
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Searching | Creating Journal Alerts | Creating Search Alerts |
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PsycTests
Produced by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycTests is a one-of-a-kind database of psychological tests and measures designed for use with social and behavioral science research. It provides
access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research.
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PubMed: see MEDLINE
PubMed: is the free public interface to the MedLine database. It also links to the full text archive PubMed Central.
Radical Newspaper Archive
The Radical Newspaper archive is a special collection of 116 radical and political newspapers, journals, pamphlets and bulletins. The special collection of early 20th century publications allows for the very first-time historians to research online the political, social and industrial unrest of the Irish nation through some of our countries most turbulent periods. The Radical Newspaper Collection hosts publications from both North and South with titles such as The Belfast Labour News, Belfast Strike Bulletin, Dublin Strike News and the Irish Workers Republic. The archive also offers Irish American publications such as the Republican Congress and many bilingual titles; An Gaedal and Saoirse Eireann.
Reaxys
Previously Crossfire. Reaxys is a database of chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions.
Off-Campus access: security settings on your web browser may need to be changed before using Reaxys.
Training: Video tutorials | Webinars
Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
REP covers Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. It includes over 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles and new links to other editorially reviewed websites.
Royal Irish Academy
The Royal Irish Academy is Ireland's leading body of experts in the Sciences and Humanities.
The Academy currently publishes six journals: three sections of proceedings—Mathematical Proceedings; Biology and Environment; and Proceedings, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature—as well as Ériu, the leading journal in Irish philology and literature; Irish Journal of Earth Sciences and Irish Studies in International Affairs.
All the journals are hosted on JSTOR and you will be taken there when you select a journal. There you can read all of the Academy's published output in journals, from 1787 to the most recent articles published this month.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Provides online access to 54 RSC journals. The flagship journal from the RSC is Chemical Communications, which publishes short reports of the most innovative research in all areas of the chemical sciences. General chemistry is also served by New Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Society Reviews. The major areas of chemistry, physical, inorganic, organic, and materials are covered by market-leading journals PCCP, Dalton Transactions, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, and the Journal of Materials Chemistry, respectively.
Coverage: Varies according to title
SAGE journals online
SAGE Publications publishes over 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
SAGE Backfiles: access to the full archive now available.
Sage Research Methods Core Collection
SAGE Research Methods is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles and videos by world leading academics from across the social sciences. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.
Now includes:
SRM Video Collection
SRM Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills
Sage Video: Education Collection
Sage Video: Communication and Media Studies
SRM Cases: part 2
Please see our Help Page for more information on how to use the site.
Sage Video: Education Collection
SAGE Video showcases leading academics and practitioners in many brand new videos, mapped carefully and thoroughly to your course curricula. The Education Collection offers a practical view into a full range of teaching settings and situations, from early years to educational leadership, to support students needing to understand theory or how to apply it in practice. Contributors include leading authors Peter Smith on Bullying, Wendy W. Murawski on Co-Teaching, Julia Link Roberts on Gifted and Talented Education, and many more.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect offers access to the full-text of almost 5,000 Elsevier journals and navigation across 30 million records with links to 10,000 journal titles - covering all fields of science. Abstracts for some titles as far back as 1967. Full-text availability from 1995.
Coverage: Varies according to title | E-tutorials
SciFinder-n
SciFinder-n is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
Starting to use SciFinder-n:
- All users must first register and create a username and password to get access.
- You should have the most recent version of your browser installed
- You should change your browser's settings to allow popups from cas.org
- Off-Campus access: before you use SciFinder off-campus, you may need to change the security settings on your web browser.
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SciVal
Access the research performance of thousands of researchers and institutions worldwide. Registration is required for access.
Scopus
Scopus is one of the largest multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing databases of research literature and quality web sources. It offers access to over 25,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, with abstracts available back to 1966. Citation data is available from 1996. Coverage includes scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature including, arts and humanities. There are also more than 44 million patent records from 5 patent offices as well as links to 'Articles in Press' from over 5,500 journals.
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Screen Studies Online (previously known as Film Indexes Online)
Film Indexes Online is three film databases which can be searched together or separately.
- American Film Index Catalogue (AFI) is the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1974, with records for selected major films from 1975-2008.
- Film Index International (FII). Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute and based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the BFI over the past 70 years, FiIm Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 125,000 films and biographical information for more than 800,000 personalities.
- FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus is a bibliographical index of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day. It also includes full-text access to 55 journals.
SIAM Journals Online
Full text access to all 19 SIAM journals from 1997 to date.
SingUp
Sing Up Membership gives you access to teaching resources, songs and support materials in one easy-to-navigate place, empowering you to engage, enthuse and teach your pupils.
Access to this database has been reserved for specific Education classes and modules. Instructions to register will be shared via your lecturer. Please contact the Education Subject Librarian if you are looking for additional access, or if there are any issues in registering.
Social Science Premium Collection
This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Coverage: 1979 - present | E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences.
E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
Sport Discus (with Full Text)
SPORT Discus is an international database of references in all aspects of sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. SPORT Discus includes citations to over 47,500 books etc., and indexed articles from more than 2,000 current journals. Approximately 26,000 documents are added each year.
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Search | Create Journal Alerts | Create Search Alerts
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Springer Computer Sciences eBook Collection 2021
This Computer Science eBook collection provides access to 1,185 titles published in 2021.
The collection offers a rich mix of book types for all user groups, making it an unparalleled resource to excel in research and learning.
Springer Compact
SpringerLink offers electronic access to almost 2,000 journals from Springer Nature. It also offers access to the work of publishers, including Kluwer, Urban and Vogel, Steinkopff, and Birkhäuser (N.B. No content from Brill Academic). Choose Browse and Filter by Journal to view available titles.
Coverage: varies according to title.
TaxFind
TaxFind is a database of the Irish Taxation Institute providing access to tax publications, legislation, case law, articles and documentation. Access is provided for DCU users by KPMG. Username and password needed
Taylor & Francis Online
Previously Informaworld. Access to 1000+ peer reviewed journal titles published by Taylor and Francis, and a selection of journals published by Routledge and Psychology Press, covering arts & humanities, social sciences, sport, physics, mathematics, and chemistry.
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The Times of India (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
Access to the full archive of The Times of India from 1861 to present. This historical newspaper provides unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Includes access to The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838-1859) and The Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861)
Translation Studies Bibliography
Translation Studies (sometimes also called: Translation and Interpreting Studies) comprises the discipline dealing with transfer and mediation, containing aspects of intra- and interlingual translation, intercultural communication, adaptation, interpreting, localization, multimedia translation, language mediation, terminology and documentation.
It is an annotated bibliography of the vast field of Translation and Interpreting Studies.
The following categories of publications are included: journal articles, monographs, (articles from) collective volumes, reviews, reference materials, dissertations and unpublished manuscripts.
UK/Ireland Reference Centre
Combining British and Irish sources such as magazines, newspapers and reference books with other international resources, this database is the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK and Irish secondary schools.
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U.K. Parliamentary Papers
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers allows researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries. You can seamlessly access the 18th, 19th and 20th century papers, the Hansard parliamentary debates, the Public Petitions to Parliament and the House of Lords Parliamentary Papers via a single interface.
DCU subscribes to the following collections:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - 19th and 20th Century
Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918
Parliamentary Papers - 18th Century
UlrichsWeb
Ulrichsweb is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.
US Pharmacopeia
As a member of your academic community, you have been granted complimentary access to two US Pharmacopeia publications: USP-NF and Food Chemicals Codex. To register for an account using your DCU email follow these instructions.
WARC
Warc is a comprehensive marketing, advertising and media communications website which includes:
-Thousands of case studies from major markets including North America, the UK, mainland Europe and Australia, India and China.
-Articles, briefings and best practice guides that combine historical and future trends and practical tips on marketing strategy and implementation.
-Market intelligence, including advertising spend forecasts, profiles of major brand owners and in-depth conference reports.
Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge is a web-based platform which provides access to high-quality research information. Several products are available to search within the Web of Knowledge platform:
- Web of Science
WOS is a multi-disciplinary citation database covering over 10,000 of the world's highest impact research journals. It also offers the unique "citation searching" feature, allowing users to see how many times a paper/author has been cited and by whom. It consists of the three databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). - Journal Citation Reports
JCR offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Available in Science and Social Sciences editions. 2010 data now included. - Essential Science Indicators
This unique and comprehensive compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Scientific databases. It is an ideal analytical resource for policymakers, administrators, analysts and information specialists in government agencies, universities, corporations, private laboratories, publishing companies and foundations, as well as members of the scientific press and recruiters.Help & E-tutorials:
- Web of Science - Search Tips (05:37 minutes)
- Web Of Science Library Guide
Westlaw IE
Updated daily, Westlaw IE offers online access to Irish legal materials such as case reports, case digests, legal journals and unreported judgements. Search Round Hall's legal material dating as far back as 1976.
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Westlaw UK
If you are currently experiencing issues logging into Westlaw UK please click here for federated access. Skip 'sign in using one pass' and go straight to 'access through academic institution' at the bottom of the page, then choose Dublin City University from the drop down menu and login with your normal DCU credentials. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience while we rectify the situation.
Westlaw UK is an online legal database containing a comprehensive collection of UK Law Reports, legislation and Law journals as well as EU, US and International content. Combined with a highly sophisticated online platform, the constantly updated database provides superb access to UK, European and International Law. includes CELEX.
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Wiley Online Library
Full-text access to over 1,200 Wiley journals, E-books, reference works and databases covering subject areas including: business, chemistry, computer science, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematic, physics, psychology and social sciences. Register to take advantage of alerting services and stay on top of the latest developments in your field.
Coverage: varies according to title.
Wiley Backfiles: Provides access to a selected archive of 136 most used titles by IReL institutions.
Women Writers Online
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing. Their aim is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. They support research on women’s writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship. Women Writers Online is a full collection of Women Writers Project texts currently available online, covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
World Bank Open Data
"The demand for good-quality statistical data continues to increase. Timely and reliable statistics are key inputs to the broad development strategy. Improvements in the quality and quantity of data on all aspects of development are essential if we are to achieve the goal of a world without poverty."
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
The Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.
The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Coverage: 1909 - current
E-tutorials : Basic Search | Advanced Search
zbMATH
zbMATH is the world's most comprehensive and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. Currently, zbMATH contains around 5 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts drawn from more than 5,000 journals and book series, and some 200,000 books.
Coverage: 1868 - present