The advanced search gives you more options to combine keywords and conduct a more detailed search
Limiting your results:
Accessing articles:
Journals are regular scholarly publications which contain articles on specific subjects.
They are important in academic research for a number of reasons:
Journals are regular scholarly publications which contain articles on specific subjects.
They are important in academic research for a number of reasons:
1. Search the Library Website for your keywords. The Library Website searches many of the databases the University Library subscribes to and is the best place to start your research. You may well find enough data that you do not need to search any other databases.
2. If you don't find the results you need from the Library Website you could search the databases individually. This page shows some of the databases likely to be most useful for the School of Computing, but you can find the full list here on the databases page.
3. Do you already know the name of a journal? Type the title of the journal in Electronic Journals A-Z: it will show you if we have full-text access to the e-journal.
The University Library subscribes to a selection of database collections - the majority are research databases containing journal articles, but we also have ebook collections, film, tv & newspaper archives, and other specialist information.
Research databases contain:
Abstracts (short descriptions of what an article or paper is about)
Full journal articles (if they are part of the subscription package)
Conference papers on specific subjects
Browzine allows you to create your own online bookshelf from our collection of journals.
It's available through the 'Find' menu on the Library website - select 'Browse electronic journals' from the drop-down menu and start building your bookshelf.
Use the Electronic Journals to check whether the full text of a journal is available electronically - this is useful if you are looking for a specific article. N.B. Search for the journal title rather than the article title.
A good way of keeping up-to-date with current research is to subscribe to alerts from your favourite journals.
JournalTOCs is a free service which allows you to set up alerts.
The research databases listed below contain journal articles, abstracts and conference papers that will be useful for Life Sciences.
Use the search box on the library website to search across a selection of databases or access them individually by clicking on the title links and, if asked, entering your University email address and password.
Peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences from the American Chemical Society.
Journal articles from a wide range of biology topics. Some full text articles are available. Includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
Full-text general-interest and specialist peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical sciences.
High-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
Access data drawn from over 1,500 scholarly and technical journals in the sciences and social sciences. This service includes both the JCR Social Sciences Edition and the JCR Science Edition.
Access to 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.
The Physical Sciences Data-science Service is a new National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. It provides access to web-based data services which are freely accessible for academic users from the UK.
Abstract and index database comprising more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Access full-text articles and some eBook collections published by the Royal Society of Chemistry covering all aspects of chemistry and material science.
Includes archive material dating back to 1841.
Full-text access to scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals.
SciFinder provides access to the world's largest and most reliable collection of chemistry and related science information.
You will need to register with the site before you can access the data. [REGISTER HERE]
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature from scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
Access to full-text peer-reviewed journal articles (but not conference proceedings) published by Springer. Content from science, engineering, social science and business fields.
A collection of related research articles from journals published by Springer Nature and its partners.
Access to journal articles and e-books for the academic, professional and business communities.
Please be aware that we do not have access to all volumes of every title in this collection. Full text coverage varies by title due to publisher restrictions.
Abstract and index database of articles from academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Access journals, reference works and current protocols covering a range of scientific, medical, technical and professional disciplines.