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Humanities index (formerly British Humanities Index)

Covers a wide-range of arts, politics and humanities subjects with a strong focus on UK publications.

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Oxford Reference

Oxford Reference provides over 17,000 concise definitions and in-depth, specialist encyclopedic entries on all aspects of philosophy

Periodicals archive online

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically.

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Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

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Web of Science

Covers a wide variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching allowing you to discover who has referenced a particular work since it was published.

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Wiley online library

Access to the online library of journals published by Wiley, particularly in chemistry, physics and psychology.

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Newsbank

NewsBank provides access to information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. The resource has content from leading news providers worldwide so has global coverage with newspapers available from a variety of countries in numerous different languages. The resource also provides access to image copies of UK national newspapers so you can view the content as it would have appeared in the print version.

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