Online databases A-Z
The University Library subscribes to over 200 networked databases, listed below. Only University of St Andrews staff and students are entitled to access these databases.
On-campus access: If you are within the university network (including Residences) on-campus access to most e-resources should be seamless.
Off-campus access: Most databases now use your University account Username and Password, for off-campus access - if you see a UK Federation WAYF / Institutional Login / Login via your Home Institution / Shibboleth login, just choose 'University of St Andrews' from the 'Where Are You From' drop-down list, click 'select' and enter your University of St Andrews account details to access the database.
Athens
usernames and passwords (for off-campus access to many
e-resources) were phased out in July 2011, and replaced by
University Computer Account username and password.
Access details are provided for each database below.
A-Z databases
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
NEW DATABASES: marked as NEW in the list below.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
full-text; over 3,000 scholarly e-books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by academics; unlimited concurrent accesses. Updated regularly. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ACM Digital Library
full-text; every journal published by the Association for Computing Machinery - journals and newsletter articles and conference proceedings, from the 1950s onward. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: in the process of being Shibbolised
ACS Legacy Archive
full-text; the complete backfiles of 23 journals published by the American Chemical Society, between 1879-1995. Relevant to all areas of chemistry, and influencing fields such as biology, physics, medicine, agriculture, and engineering. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: in the process of being Shibbolised
Acta Sanctorum
full-text; online version of the entire 68-volume Acta Sanctorum, published by the Societe de Bollandistes, between 1643-1940. Collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and includes all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Cross-searchable with the Patrologia Latina database, and also includes Brill's edition of Jan Frederik Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
full-text; nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th-19th centuries. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
America: History and Life
index; the definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexes over 1,700 journals, from 1964-present. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
American Drama
full-text; contains more than 1,100 dramatic works - plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues, etc., from the early 18th to the beginning of the 20th Century. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
American Poetry (1600-1900)
full-text; over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early 20th Century. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Anatomy TV
'contains 3D anatomy views of the hand and forearm, shoulder, hip, knee, and foot and ankle ... anatomical structures from raw medical scan data ... surface anatomy, cutaneous distribution, and nerves and arteries. Also included are common pathologies, radiological content, interactive quizzes and multiple choice questions'
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
L'Annee Philologique
index; covers all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity: ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, science, early Christian texts, papyrology, epigraphy, etc from c 500-800 A.D. Updated annually.
Note: maximum of 10 simultaneous accesses
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
index; contains over 807,000 records of secondary sources - books, articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, essay collections and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world, from 1920 onward. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Anthropological Index Online
index of over 750 periodicals held by the Museum of Mankind Library, from 1957 onward. Covers all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Updated quarterly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Anthrosource
full-text; archive of all 31 journals published by the American Anthropological Association, up to 2003, plus access to 11 current titles. Updated regularly. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Anti-Calvin (Primary Sources) - NEW
full-text; the Catholic response to Calvin's writings in sixteenth century France, edited by Dr Malcolm Walsby, School of History.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access) - when you try to access your search results, you will see a login link
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): Biological Sciences and Living Resources
index to journals in marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms and environments, including information on biology and ecology, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues. Updated monthly.
Note: access to current and pre-current year only
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Archival Sound Recordings
over 44,500 recordings from the National Sound Archive, free to University staff and students. Collections include Regional Accents and Dialects; Arts, Literature and Performance; Classical Music; Environment and Nature; Jazz and Popular Music; Oral History; Sound Recording History; World and Traditional Music, etc
On and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Archives Hub
free national gateway for access to over 22,400 descriptions of archives and manuscript collections, across a broad range of subjects, which are held in 167 UK repositories. Updated weekly
Off-campus access: freely available
ArticleFirst (for off-campus access, use link below)
index of articles from contents pages of over 15,000 international journals. Updated daily. Part of OCLC FirstSearch
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account - Shibbolised access being investigated
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
index of articles from more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and relevant articles in over 5,000 social science and science journals, from 1975 onward. Updated weekly. Part of Web of Knowledge
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ATLA and ATLAS Serials
index and full-text; combines an index to over 1,500 journals on all aspects of religion, including education, ethics, history, liturgy, observances, rites and theology, with full-text access to over 100 major religion and theology journals. Covers from 1924-present. Updated every three months. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Bankscope
full-text; provides information on over 28,000 international public and private banks, combining data from the main information provider, Fitch Ratings, and nine other sources, with searching and analysis software. Each bank report contains a detailed balance sheet, income statements, etc
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
The Bible in English (990-1970)
full-text; text of 20 versions of the English Bible from the 10th-20th Century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels, and Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Bibliography of American Literature
full-text; nearly 40,000 records of the works of c 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Bibliography of British and Irish History
free, authoritative guide to articles on British and Irish history, from the Roman period to the present day, from over 600 journals and essay collections. Compiled by academic historians, and hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, at the University of London. Updated three times yearly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Bibliography of the History of Art
index; provided free by the Getty covers European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present; indexes over 4,300 art history periodicals, and books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogues, between 1975-2007. It can be searched together with the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
Updated quarterly.
Off-campus access: freely available
BioMedCentral
full-text; 'open access' (free) publisher of over 190 peer-reviewed biomedical research journals
Off-campus access: to be added
Biosis Previews - NEW
index; details of life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Provides details of journals, meetings, patents, and books. Access via Web of Knowledge.
Coverage: 1969-present
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National - NEW
shared online TV and radio streaming service for more than 50 television and radio channels. Users can record and store programmes indefinitely, compile playlists of clips or full programmes, for personal use, or sharing, and search and view over 30,000 programmes stored in the growing archive
On and off-campus access: select 'UK Federation Login', type in 'St', click on the link to the University, and login with your University Computer Account Username and Password
BoB User Guide
For earlier off-air recordings, use TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching) - an extensive source of UK television and radio broadcast data, which also highlights programmes for which a DVD copy may be requested, if not available on BoB
Books 24x7 ITPro Collection - NEW
full-text; unlimited access to over 10,900 searchable e-books covering over 100 different technology topics - programming languages, coding methodologies, network security, telecom protocols, IT asset management strategies, etc.
On- and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
included in CREDO Reference
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Brill Archive - accessed through IngentaConnect
full-text; access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals published by Brill, before 2000. The content covers biology, the humanities, human rights, international law, science, and the social sciences
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Brill Online - NEW
provides access to the Encyclopedia of Islam Online, Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, Index Islamicus Online, Jacoby Online, and New Pauly Online (listed separately)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
British Newspapers 1600-1900 - NEW
full-text; enables cross-searching of the Burney Collection and Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers digital archives. The Burney Collection includes over 1,270 London and provincial newsbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and single-sheet ephemera, published between 1600-1800; Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers includes 49 newspapers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, published between 1800-1900. Each database can also be searched separately
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
British Periodicals
full-text; perpetual access to more than 460 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, enabling research in history, the arts and humanities, from the 17th to the 19th Century. Titles range from The Anti-Slavery Reporter and other abolitionist magazines, to the Gentleman's Magazine, the ground-breaking Penny Magazine, etc. Topics include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
index of all British cinema and newsreel releases of the 20th Century, containing180,000 stories of British newsreels and cinemagazines (1910-1983), over 80,000 digitised production documents and links to 40,000 downloadable newsreels from the British Pathe collection. Covers fashion, sport, crime, leisure, personalities, politics, transport, the two World Wars, etc.
On and off-campus access: free
BUFVC: British Universities Film and Video Council
promotes the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media in higher education. Databases include An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio (under development); the British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND); HERMES, a database of audio-visual materials for use in H.E.; the Moving Image Gateway; the Researcher's Guide Online; TRILT, a comprehensive database for UK television and programmes, and the TVTimes Project 1955-1985 (TVTiP)
On- and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Burney Collection
full-text; large collection of 17th and 18th century English news media - over 1,270 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers - gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). It includes the first illustrated newspaper, the first successful London daily, newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and a selection of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia. Covers 1600-1800.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Business Source Premier - NEW
full-text; a business research database, containing the full text of more than 2,100 journals, back to 1965. Coverage includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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CABI Archive e-Books Collection - NEW
full-text; collection of over 230 e-books published published by CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International), between 2000-2004. Subjects covered include Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Human Health, Food and Nutrition; Leisure and Tourism; and Plant Sciences. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Cambridge Companions Online
full-text; access to The Complete Cambridge Companions series composed of the two sub-sets - the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture - invaluable both for teaching and research. New Companions are added as they are published. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Cambridge Histories Online
full-text; perpetual access to over 250 volumes of the Cambridge Histories, a unique scholarly historical reference series. Includes titles such as The Cambridge Modern History, The Cambridge History of English Literature, The Cambridge Medieval History, The Cambridge Ancient History, histories of India, the British Empire, China, Japan, Africa, Latin America, Islam, Iran, economic history, political thought, literature, philosophy, etc. New titles are added as they are published. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive
full-text; perpetual access to the backfile of over 200 CUP journals, covering over a century of digitized full-text content.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Canadian Poetry
full text; more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the 18th to the early 20th Century. Updated regularly. Part of LION (Literature Online).
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
The Cecil Papers - NEW
full-text; a collection of approximately 30,000 16th and 17th century manuscripts, consisting principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert Cecil, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612), both Secretary of State to Elizabeth I.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Centre for Economic Policy Research: Discussion Papers
full-text; cutting-edge research with direct relevance for economic policy, political and financial issues. Provides the full-text of all Discussion Papers from 1999 onward, and abstracts for over 3,000 Discussion Papers
Off-campus access: direct connection to University network only
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
full-text; comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals, policy briefs, teaching materials and course packs, from 1991 onward. Updated monthly.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Cochrane Library
full-text; high-quality databases to inform healthcare decision-making, including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane Review Methodology Database, and others
Off-campus access: freely available
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science (via Web of Knowledge)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science and Humanities (via Web of Knowledge)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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CREDO Reference
full-text; over 544 major reference books - dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, books of quotations, atlases and subject-specific titles covering everything from arts to astronomy, science to Shakespeare. Contains over three million entries, 60,000 images, 90,000 interactive maps and 180,000 audio pronunciation files. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
CrossFire has now been replaced with Reaxys
Current Index to Statistics
index to hundreds of journals and over 11,000 books in statistics, probability, and related fields, from 1975 onward. Produced by the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: direct connection to University network only (VPN access)
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Datastream Advance
Off-campus access: to be added
Defining Gender 1450-1910 - NEW
full-text; large collection of original source material for those studying history, literature, etc., from a gendered perspective. Includes ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Key topics covered are: Conduct and Politeness; Domesticity & the Family; Consumption & Leisure; Education & Sensibility, and The Body
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Dictionary of National Biography
now under Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Off-campus access: to be added
Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
provides current Ordnance Survey maps and data for the whole of the UK, either to download or to use within GIS or CAD applications, or as simple or customised maps generated online, for viewing and printing. Digimap Marine is also subscribed to
Note: initial registration required upon first access
On- and Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Digimap Marine
Information being added
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Digital Karl Barth Library
full-text; first major collection of Karl Barth's works - hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings - together with text analysis tools. Updated quarterly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
DocumentsOnline - Licence Agreement Under Review
full-text; access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources, of wide relevance to many subjects e.g. social history, sociology, law, international relations, politics, history and military history, art history and architecture. Many historical maps, diagrams, photographs and films are also included.
Off-campus access: to be added
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Early American Fiction (1789-1850)
fulltext; Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
full-text; more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
full-text; Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Early European Books
full-text; traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the end of the 17th Century, with full-colour, facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources. Being issued as series of annual collections, each offering access to the pre-1701 printed holdings of one or more major libraries, regardless of language.
Collection 1 - over 2,600 rare and valuable imprints from the Royal Library, Copenhagen; covering all its15th & 16th Century Danish and Icelandic imprints, ranging from the earliest works printed in Denmark, through to later works from astronomers and alchemists.
EEB builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Ebooks
(for off-campus access, use link below)
database of details of nearly 700,000 e-books available through libraries worldwide
Updated daily. Part of OCLC FirstSearch
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account - Shibbolised access is being investigated
ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
(for off-campus access, use link below)
details of articles in over 5,000 international scholarly journals
Updated daily. Part of OCLC FirstSearch
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account
ECONLIT
indexes over 400 major journals, as well as essays, books, book reviews, dissertations and working papers on economics. The world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. Covers from 1969-present. Updated monthly. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006
full-text; primary research resource providing comprehensive weekly analysis of international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Contains complete searchable facsimile copies of all 8,000 issues of The Economist for this period, and complements The Times Digital Archive 1785-1885.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
EDINA databases
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
full-text; contains 11 major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-64, 24 separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and 100+ adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th to the 19th Century. Includes all prefatory matter, annotation and accompanying essays. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Editoria Italiana Online - NEW
full-text; guaranteed perpetual access to the 2007 and 2008 content of 460 monographs and 64 periodicals from Casalini's Editoria Italiana Online's Italian Studies subset
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
full-text; every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th Century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
ECCO now forms part of JISC Historic Books, which enables you to cross-search over 300,000 books from the following significant collections:
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
- 19th Century books from the British Library collection (never available before online)
JISC Historic Books is included in the new JISC eCollections service, along with JISC Journal Archives and JISC MediaHub
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
full-text; Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Eighteenth Century Journals - NEW
full-text; rare periodicals and newspapers printed between c.1685-1815, illuminating all aspects of 18th Century social, political and literary life. Content drawn from the Bodleian Library's Hope Collection, and The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (contents)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Electronic Enlightenment
full-text; offers 'unrivalled access' to the letters and lives of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Includes thousands of correspondents, tens of thousands of documents and hundreds of thousands of scholarly notes, all cross-searchable.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Emerald Fulltext - cancelled 2011
Encyclopaedia Judaica - NEW
full-text; online version of the 22-volume standard encyclopaedia on Judaism. Over 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, plus bibliographies, a chronology, maps, photographs, illustrations, etc. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online - NEW
full-text; perpetual access to over 13,000 articles on every aspect of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Part of Brill Online
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences - NEW
full-text; perpetual access. ELS contains over 4,700 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed articles written by leading international scientists. Over 6,000 illustrations and photographs are included, as well as dictionaries, multimedia, glossary terms, extensive links to scientific resources, workgroup and personalisation features, etc.Updated daily.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Encyclopedia of the Qur'an - NEW
full-text; perpetual access to the most comprehensive reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language, with nearly 1,000 entries. Part of Brill Online
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
English Drama (1280-1915)
full-text; combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to the early 20th Century. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
English Poetry (600-1900)
full-text; the works of more than 1,250 English poets, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the 19th Century. Poets who were established before 1900 are included, but those principally active in the 20th Century are excluded. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ERIC
index; (Education Resource Information Center); contains more than 1.3 million records and links to over 323,000 full-text documents, dating back to 1966. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue)
British Library
Off-campus access: freely available
Expanded Academic ASAP
index and full-text; from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images - from 1980 onward
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Faber Poetry Library
full-text; Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Factiva
full-text; news resource covering more than 10,000 international business and news publications, over 500 international newswires, etc
Off-campus access: - Being checked
Film and Sound Online
a number of subject collections of film, video and sound material for downloading and use in learning, teaching and research
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Information being added
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Gale NewsVault
Information being added
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Geobase - cancelled Oct 2011
GeoRef - being cancelled from end Sept 2012
Comprehensive database of the world's geosciences literature, from 1785-present (North America); 1933-present (rest of the world). Contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, reports, conference papers and theses, and links into available full-text.
Updated weekly. Part of Engineering Village.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Global Insight (formerly World Markets Research Centre)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
full-text; online business information system providing key business intelligence on countries, consumers, lifestyles, markets and companies. It offers a range of international market research. Updated regularly.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Great Britain Historical Database Online
database of British 19th and 20th statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports 1851-1861, Employment, Demographic, Mortality, Marriage, Trade Union, Poor Law and Small Debt statistics
On- and off-campus access: register initially with the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), then use University Computer Account Username and Password
GreenFILE
index of articles on all aspects of human impact on the environment - global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc. Includes some full text. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
(The) Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003), Proquest Historical Newspapers
full-text; searchable newspaper archive, yet to be completed, currently covering 1959-2003. The complete database will cover every page from every available issue of The Guardian (1821-2003), The Manchester Guardian (1828-1959), and The Observer (1791-2003)User
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
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Handbook of Psychology
Off-campus access: to be added
HeinOnline
access to several legal research databases - English Reports 1220-1867 (full-text); Foreign and International Law Resources Database (full-text); HeinOnline's Index to Legal Periodicals and Law Journal Library (more than 1,250 full-text law and law-related journals)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB) Database (formerly the Hand Press Database)
descriptive records for 'hand-press' book holdings in major European national, university and research libraries, including works in Latin, Middle French, and other archaic languages. Covers 1455-1830. Updated annually.
On- and off-campus access: with Username and Password obtainable from jmy
Historical Abstracts
index; covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, etc. Indexes over 1,800 journals, from 1955-present. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HOCPP)
full-text; page images of over 200,000 House of Commons Sessional Papers. Covers 18th Century (1688-1834); 19th Century (1801-1900); 20th Century (1901-2004), and Current (2004 session onwards)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Huguenots (Primary Sources) - NEW
full-text; a collection of texts offering a comprehensive survey of the original writings of the French Huguenot authors, 'from the first stirrings of radical dissent in the 1530s through to the end of the century'. Edited by Professor Andrew Pettegree.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access) - when you try to access your search results, you will see a login link
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library
full-text; access to all the IEEE/IET full-text journals from 1988 onward. All titles are listed in the E-Journals page and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Index Islamicus
perpetual access; international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Part of Brill Online
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Index of Christian Art
Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Index to Theses
comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
InformaWorld
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
IngentaConnect
a hosting service through which provides access to many e-journal subscriptions. E-journals are also listed on the E-journals pages and in SAULCAT. Updated weekly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography - NEW
full-text; perpetual access to authoritative, comprehensive information on the discipline of human geography and related interdisciplinary subject areas - philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, people, social/cultural, political, economic, development, health, cartography, urban, historical, and regional geography.
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
International Medieval Bibliography
the leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. Provides details of over 300,000 articles from 4,500 periodicals and 5,000 conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues. Updated regularly.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
International Tables for Crystallography
full-text; perpetual, access to articles and data tables relevant to crystallographic research, and to crystallographic methods applications in sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials
Off-campus access: to be added
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - NEW
full-text; more than 80 volumes of poetry by approximately 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ISI Proceedings: Science
Updated weekly. Part of Web of Knowledge
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Jacoby Online
perpetual access; combines Felix Jacoby's monumental Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker and a new edition of Brill's New Jacoby, with new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars, as well as offering fully-searchable facing English translations of the Greek texts. Part of Brill Online
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
fully searchable colour images of 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
JORUM
Journals Citation Reports (JCR): Science and Social Sciences - NEW
a unique research tool which provides a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate and compare the world's leading journals, by tabulating and aggregating citation and article count data, back to 2005. Covers 10,000+ scholarly and technical journals from over 3,300 international publishers, in science, technology, and social sciences.
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
JSTOR: Complete Collections (full-text periodicals archive)
full-text; all titles are listed in the E-Journals page and in SAULCAT
Searchable through SEEKER
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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King James Bible
Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Landmap
high quality spatial data download service which is enhanced and supported by a range of learning materials. Optical, Radar, Elevation and Feature collections provide a unique combination of remotely sensed imagery and spatia data
Initial Registration required
On- and Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
index to nearly 700 journals, plus books, reports and proceedings, covering librarianship and information management. Covers from mid-1960s onward. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
LION (Literature Online)
full-text; consists of 25 databases offering more than 350,000 searchable works of English and American poetry, drama and prose from the 8th to the 21st Century, plus 228 full-text literature journals, key criticism and reference resources, essays, biographies, bibliographies, etc.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Literary Theory
Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Lyell Collection - NEW
full-text; permanent access to the Geological Society of London's complete collection of earth science e-journals, Special Publications and major book series.All titles are listed in the E-Journals page and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
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Manuscripts Database (St Andrews)
NB: implementation of a new database interface is currently underway
Marine Digimap
hydrographic and marine data for viewing and downloading, from SeaZone Solutions Limited. Two datasets are available - Hydrospatial (in ESRI and MapInfo formats) and Charted Raster (GeoTiff format)
Note: initial registration required upon first access
On and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Mass Observation Online
covers the social and cultural history of Britain from 1937-1965, through interviews, conversations, surveys, diaries, etc.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews
reviews international mathematics literature. Contains signed reviews and bibliographic data from January 1940 to the present. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered.
Updated daily
Off-campus access: direct connection to University network only (VPN access)
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
over 100 digitised full-text historical sources for Medieval and Early Modern Britain. Published by Tanner Ritchie in collaboration with the University of St Andrews Library. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Medieval Sourcesonline
hundreds of original full-text medieval history documents. Developed from the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series, MSO offers over three thousand pages of medieval sources. Includes link to the Manchester Medievalportal, a gateway to other medieval material on the Internet. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
MEDLINE
Updated monthly.
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account
Middle English Compendium
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Mideastwire.com
daily e-mail newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora
Daily Briefing Alerts: e-mail: info@mideastwire.com from your University of St Andrews email address with 'subscribe' in the subject line - this will register you to receive daily briefing e-mails
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
MLA Modern Language Association) International Bibliography
index to over 3,000 international journals and series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies on literature, language, linguistics and folklore, from 1963 onward. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America. Part of LION (Literature Online).
Updated 9 times yearly.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
MyiLibrary
full-text; access to over 1,000 full-text e-books purchased by the Library. Subjects covered include Classics, Geography, History, International Relations, Psychology, Science, etc; one concurrent access. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Naxos Music Library - NEW
digital sound database containing the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues and titles from 50 other labels. Described as 'the world's most comprehensive collection of classical music online', it allows streamed access to over 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks.Over 500 CDs are added monthly; 3 concurrent-user access.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Naxos Music Library Jazz - NEW
one of the most comprehensive collections of international Jazz music available, offering streamed online access to more than 22,600 tracks from over 2,300 albums. Over 500 artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.
Regularly updated; 3 concurrent-user access
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
NetLibrary - NEW
full-text; access to over a growing collection of full-text e-books purchased by the Library. Subjects covered include Physics, Geography, International Relations, etc; one or two concurrent accesses. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Economics Online - NEW
Off-campus access: to be added
New Pauly Online
perpetual access to Brill's New Pauly, a standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. It contains both Brill's New Pauly and the complete original Der Neue Pauly. Brill's New Pauly is the English version of the authoritative Der neue Pauly, published by Verla Metzler since 1996. Part of Brill Online
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Nexis UK
full-text; covers regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, country reports, transcripts of television broadcasts, magazines, trade journals, etc
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers - NEW
full-text; complete runs of 49 full-text national, regional, and local 19th Century British newspapers, which reflect the social, cultural and political developments of British society at that time (1800-1900)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Nineteenth Century Fiction
full-text; over 250 British and Irish novels from between 1782-1903, from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists such as Austen, Scott, Dickens, Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals: Series I
full-text; nearly 100 titles, selected by academics, covering the events, values and themes that shaped the 19th Century world. Series 1, on New Readerships, focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK between 1800-1900, charts the rise of children's entertainment and education, the increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies, and also covers the political spectrum of women's writing, reflecting the changing attitudes and influences of the time
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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OCLC FirstSearch Databases
access to: ArticleFirst; Ebooks; ECO (Electronic Collections Online); MEDLINE; WorldCat; WorldCatDissertations
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account
Optics Infobase
Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Art Online
searchable access to the entire text of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, with extensive image links, timeslines, and other research resources.
Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
full-text; over 57,200 commissioned biographies of the lives of 'people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2004 - everyone from the 4th century BC Greek explorer Pytheas to the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal.' Includes over 10,600 portrait illustrations, extensive internal cross references, links to web resources such as the National Register of Archives, etc.
Updated three times yearly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.
Updated quarterly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Journals
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
offers up-to-date, accurate, and authoritative translations for millions of words and phrases in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, from and into English
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Music Online
searchable access to the entire text of Grove Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, as well as timelines, biographies, guides, images and other research resources. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Reference
Updated regularly. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Oxford Scholarship Online
full-text; access to over 2,862 Oxford University Press e-books in Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Palgrave Connect
full-text; Palgrave Macmillan's e-book platform for access to over 2,400 e-books purchased by the Library. Subjects covered include Politics & International Studies, Religion & Philosophy, Social & Cultural Studies, Language & Linguistics, Economics & Finance, History, Business & Management. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Parker Library - NEW
full-text; a digital collection of 538 English mediaeval manuscripts held by the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The collection consists of 538 manuscripts which span from the sixth-century Gospels of St Augustine to sixteenth-century records relating to the English Reformation. High-resolution full-text, extensive tagging, complete descriptions and citations help to enhance the study of this material
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Past Masters - NEW
full-text; permanent access to 190 full-text online editions in Philosophy and English Letters. InteLex's Past Masters series offers definitive editions of the works of seminal figures, and includes published and unpublished works, articles and essays, reviews and correspondence.
Off-campus access: being confirmed
Patrologia Latina
full-text; all 221 volumes of the Patrologia Latina; including all notes, glosses, indexes and Migne's column numbers. Covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to Pope Innocent III in the 13th Century - the works of over 1,000 authors. Permits the most detailed textual analysis. Cross-searchable with the Acta Sanctorum database, and also includes Brill's edition of Jan Frederik Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Periodicals Archive Online Collections 1-IV
full-text; archive of hundreds of major full-text arts, humanities and social sciences journals, published between 1770 and 1995. It also includes journals of historical interest that began publication in the 19th Century. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Philosopher's Index
index to books and over 300 journals of philosophy and related inter-disciplinary fields. It covers the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysic logic, political and social philosophy, as well as material on the philosophy of education, history, language, law, religion and science, from 1940 onward.
Updated weekly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Philosophy Online (formerly Poeisis)
access to the current, recent, and back issues of over 50 philosophy journals and series, with full-text links into journals subscribed to by the Library. Non-subscribed journals can be searched, and relevant titles and abstracts displayed, plus full-text access to some journals that have been discontinued. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Photographic Archive Database (University of St Andrews) - currently undergoing development
On-campus access: no password required
Picture Post Historical Archive - NEW
unique archive of the complete Picture Post, the pioneering illustrated newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957, and containing thousands of images
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Poiesis (see under Philosophy Online)
Project Muse (Humanities Collection)
a collection of 146 academic full-text e-journals in the humanities. See http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ for subscribed content (marked in green). All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Proquest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text
the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day
Off-campus access:use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
PsycARTICLES
full-text; a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Covers over 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), and other allied publishers. Part of EbscoHOST. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
PsycINFO
citations, with abstracts, to over 2,400 journals in psychology and the behavioural sciences, from 1887 onward. Also includes references to book and book chapters. Compiled by the American Psychological Association. Topics covered include all aspects of psychology, as well as behavioural aspects of education, medicine, sociology, law and management. Part of EbscoHOST.
Updated weekly.
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
full-text; collection of 570 journals and 48 books and monographs, particularly strong in child and adolescent psychology, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, observational and experimental methods, and various areas of counselling. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT. Part of EbscoHOST.
Off-campus access : use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
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Reaxys
web-based system for searching the world's most extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry database, by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. It is based on the CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases, and covers over 3,800 journals and patents from various patent offices, from 1771 to date.
Reaxys is the successor to CrossFire
Off-campus access : access using University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access) is coming soon!
The Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) - NEW
search the Proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707
Off-campus access: freely available
RefWorks
web-based bibliographic management software
REGARD
details of all research funded by the ESRC since the mid-1980s
Regional Business News
full-text; comprehensive coverage of over 80 U.S. regional business publications
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Religion Index (ATLA)
citations to literature on all aspects of religion, including education, ethics, history, liturgy, observances, rites and theology. Covers periodical articles, books, book chapters and book reviews - now under ATLA with ATLASerials
rock's backpages
the 'ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism'. Provides over 13,000 searchable, full-text articles, interviews and reviews from the world's best music writers and critics, from the late 1950s to the present day. Also includes Mp3 audio files of original artist interviews. Updated weekly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
over 2,000 state-of-the-art articles,covering the broadest range of topics in the philosophical canon, as well as philosophy from all continents and all periods. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) eBook Collection
full-text; more than 998 high quality, chemical science reference books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry between 1968-2008. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Journals Archive
full-text; journals archive covering more than 150 years of research between 1841-1996, allowing access to over 200,000 articles. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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Safari Books Online
full-text; technical and digital media e-books for programmers and computer scientists. All titles are listed in SAULCAT
One simultaneous user access to database
Off-campus access: direct access to University only (VPN access)
Available via EDINA. Updated regularly.
Off-campus access: freely available Science Citation Index (SCI)
Updated weekly. Part of Web of Knowledge
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ScienceDirect
Updated daily.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
details and abstracts of articles from 9,500 journals, back to 1900; information on more than 23 million chemical substances; 15 million single- and multi-step reactions, over 2 million experimental properties, more than 1 billion predicted property values, chemical structure and full reaction searching; details of patents, chemical suppliers and regulations, etc.
Unlimited access; updated daily
SciFinder Mobile offers unlimited access
On-campus access:
Web access - NEW - self-register for access; login using your University Computer Account Username and Password, then register with your University e-mail address
Off-campus access: use your self-registration Username and Password for access to SciFinder web and SciFinder Mobile
SCIPIO
details of art and rare book sales/auction catalogues from all major North American and European auction houses, as well as private sales, from the late sixteenth century onwards
Please note: SCIPIO records are included in the WorldCat database
Scopus - NEW
index and abstract; Scopus is classed as 'the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources'. It offers comprehensive access to details of published scholarly material in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
The Scotsman Digital Archive, 1817-1950, Proquest Historical Newspapers
digital newspaper archive containing every issue of The Scotsman between 1817 and 1950
On- and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Scottish Bibliographies Online
free; the Bibliography of Scotland (BOS) and the Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG). BOS is a general bibliography of Scottish material published since 1976; BOSG contains material of all dates published in Gaelic. Updated quarterly.
Off-campus access: freely available
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Information being added
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
Updated daily.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
(The) Shakespeare Collection
full-text; authoritative research collection for Shakespeare, Renaissance, Early Modern, Literary, Performance Studies and Theatre History study. Contains the complete Arden Shakespeare texts series, 29 quartos, the First Folio, 17th-19th Century editions and adaptations, 200 prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, 400 performance related biographies, nearly 100 full text-journals, reference works, images and illustrations.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Updated weekly. Part of Web of Knowledge
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Springer e-Book Collection
Information being added
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
SpringerLink
All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
free Open Access resource; the writings of over 1,000 philosophers who donate their time to collaboratively write, referee, and offer high-quality and authoritative discussions of values, science, religion, politics, and ideas in general. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: freely available
State Papers Online - NEW
full text; permanent access. State Papers Online 1509-1714 is a searchable archive of 16th and 17th Century State Papers (Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, Ireland) and Registers of the Privy Council relevant to research in political, governmental, social, economic, and religious history.
Part I: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603: State Papers DomesticOff-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
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TEMPO: The Early Modern Pamphlets Online: The Dutch Pamphlets - NEW
full-text; access to a large collection of primary texts from the 16th and 17th centuries, on the history of the Low Countries between 1486 and 1853. The Dutch Pamphlets series comprises the complete Knuttel collection of 34,000 pamphlets from the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Van Alphen collection of 2,800 pamphlets from Groningen University Library
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access) - when you try to access your search results, you will see a login link
Thesaurus Lingua Graeca (TLG)
full-text; TLG is a digitized collection of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer (8th Century BC) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a 'comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era'. It is updated quarterly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
- NEW
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
(The) Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
full-text; the complete digital edition of The Times (London); uses keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of specific articles or complete pages. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos, etc
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Historical Archive 1902 - 2005
full-text; more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles from over 5,000 issues of the TLS, with the identities of anonymous contributors disclosed, for the first time. Ideal for research into the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th Century
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
TRILT: Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching
extensive source of UK television and radio broadcast data available on the web. Includes listings for over 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onward; enables customised automated alerts for forthcoming programmes up to 10 days in advance; and highlights programmes for which a DVD copy may be requested
On- and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
full-text; modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early 20th Century to the present. Includes 10,000 poems by over 70 African-American poets. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Twentieth Century American Poetry
full-text; includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 American poets. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Twentieth Century English Poetry
full-text; a collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present, including Yeats, Kipling, Graves, Housman, Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Benjamin Zephaniah, Carol Ann Duffy, etc., and including the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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UKBORDERS
archive of digitised UK boundary data and associated datasets for use in geographic information systems (GIS) and computer aided design (CAD) software. Provides UK 1991 Census of Population data, and other contemporary data eg Enumeration Districts, Electoral Wards and Output Areas. A variety of historical boundary data is also available, back to the 19th Century
New users: register for access, through the ESRC Census Programme
On- and off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
University of California Press Archive - NEW (via JSTOR)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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(The) W. B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995)
Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Web of Knowledge
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Web of Science
Part of Web of Knowledge
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Part of LION (Literature Online)
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 - NEW
index to articles from 45 important monthly and quarterly periodicals, from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century.
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised Access)
Who's Who and Who Was Who
a directory of over 100,000 entries for the 'noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide', published annually since 1849
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
Wiley Online Library
database which hosts full-text access to over 450 e-journal subscriptions and Wiley e-books held by the University Library. All titles are listed in the E-Journals pages and in SAULCAT
PLEASE NOTE: full-text access is only provided for journals bought by the Library
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
World Shakespeare Bibliography
details of all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare, published or produced, from 1964 onward. Updated regularly
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (proxied access)
WorldCat (for off-campus access, use link below)
Updated daily. Part of OCLC FirstSearch
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account - Shibbolised access being investigated
WorldCatDissertations (for off-campus access, use link below)
Updated daily. Part of OCLC FirstSearch
Off-campus access: use ATHENS account - Shibbolised access being investigated
World News Connection - NEW
full-text; valuable for searching and monitoring global current events and issues. Content is compiled from thousands of translated non-U.S. media sources by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), a U.S. Government agency. Coverage back to 1995; updated daily
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
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ZETOC
the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents database of over 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings, published annually, from 1993 onward. Contains over 20 million journal and conference records, covering science, technology, medicine, engineering, business, law, finance, the arts and humanities. Updated daily
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)
ZETOC Alert
current awareness e-mail alerting service that matches provided search terms, as soon as new issues of over 20,000 journals are added to the ZETOC database. Searches may be for journals, authors or keywords from the titles of articles and papers
Off-campus access: use University Computer Account Username and Password (Shibbolised access)