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Subject databases and full-text resources

Academic OneFile

Available within MMU and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes academic journals, magazines and newspapers (including the Financial Times and the New York Times)
Date range: 1980-
Updated: Daily
Data retrieved: Abstracts with some full text and images
Service provider: Cengage
Access notes: Full-text articles available in HTML
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.

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Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Available within MMU and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: A multidisciplinary database covering all aspects of the arts and humanities, major topics include archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature and literary reviews, music, classics, philosophy, poetry, radio, television, and film, religion and theatre
Date range: 1981 to the present.
Updated: Weekly
Data retrieved: References to journal articles from over 1,000 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and their cited references (or bibliographies)
Service provider:MIMAS
Access notes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index is accessed via Web of Knowledge.

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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: The Social Sciences.
Date range: 1987 to date.
Updated: Monthly
Data retrieved: References to journal articles from over 650 English-language social science titles.
Service provider: CSA

When logging in to this database from off campus, please follow these instructions:

  • On the CSA Illumina home page, follow the link for Shibboleth login.
  • When prompted to Select your Shibboleth federation, choose UK (UK Federation) from the drop-down menu, and press the Select button.
  • When prompted to Select your home organisation, choose Manchester Metropolitan University from the list that appears and press the Select button.
  • When you see the MMU login page, enter your MMU network ID and password.
  • Once you are logged in you will see a search box to search all the CSA databases. If you want to search a specific database, follow the link to Specific databases, where you can choose which database to search.

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BHI: British Humanities Index

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Arts, economics, history, philosophy, politics in society, and also non-specialist articles in science and technology.
Date range: 1962 to date
Updated: Monthly
Data retrieved: References to journal articles from over 400 daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals.
Service provider: CSA

When logging in to this database from off campus, please follow these instructions:

  • On the CSA Illumina home page, follow the link for Shibboleth login.
  • When prompted to Select your Shibboleth federation, choose UK (UK Federation) from the drop-down menu, and press the Select button.
  • When prompted to Select your home organisation, choose Manchester Metropolitan University from the list that appears and press the Select button.
  • When you see the MMU login page, enter your MMU network ID and password.
  • Once you are logged in you will see a search box to search all the CSA databases. If you want to search a specific database, follow the link to Specific databases, where you can choose which database to search.

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British History Online

Available within MMU only (no login required)

Subject coverage: Administrative and legal history; Sources relating to national and local government (excluding Parliament), and the development of British law. Ecclesiastical and religious history; Sources relating to the churches, religious houses and other religious groups. Economic history; Records of commerce and trade, taxation, population and property. Intellectual, scientific and cultural history; Sources relating to art and architecture,science and the history of ideas. Local history; Historical and topographical sources relating to specific places. Parliamentary history; Sources relating to proceedings and legislation in the two Housesof Parliament at Westminster. Urban and metropolitan history; Sources for metropolitan London and other urban centres.
Date range: 1537-present.
Updated: Fortnightly.
Data retrieved: Places, Subjects, Periods, Sources, Maps, Text search, State Papers, or by the following regions; East, London, Midlands, North, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales.
Service provider: Institute of Historical Research.

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Croner's Electronic Europe

Available on a local basis (not via internet browsers)

Subject coverage: European Union
Date range: Not applicable
Data retrieved: Information on various aspects of the European Union.
Access notes: Available as a standalone CD-ROM at All Saints Library - Humanities and Social Science Floor.

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Expanded Academic ASAP International Edition

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes academic journals, magazines and newspapers.
Date range: 1980-
Updated: Daily
Data retrieved: Abstracts with some full text and images.
Service provider: Gale InfoTrac
Access notes: Full-text articles available in HTML.
If you are looking for book reviews in this database, an online tutorial is available.

Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.

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Index to Theses

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland
Date range: 1716-
Data retrieved: References
Service provider: Expert Information Ltd.
Access notes: For off-campus use, this service requires a non-Athens login. Follow the link for accessing it from outside MMU and you will see the login details after first entering your MMU network ID and password. Make a note of the details, follow the link to the service, and then log in as required.

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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: One of the largest and most comprehensive social science databases in the world. Subjects include economics, sociology, politics and anthropology
Date range: 1951-
Data retrieved: References plus some links to full-text journal articles provided by ScienceDirect, JSTOR, etc.
Service provider: EBSCOhost

When logging in off campus, please follow these instructions:

  • When prompted to Select region or group, choose UK Higher Education from the drop-down menu.
  • Follow the link to Manchester Metropolitan University.
  • When you see the MMU login page, enter your MMU network ID and password.

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Race Relations Abstracts

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: All areas related to Race Relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Date range: 1994-
Data retrieved: Abstracts
Service provider: Ebsco

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Over 2,000 articles on all aspects of philosophy ranging from aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, and religion.
Date range: 1998-
Updated: Quarterly
Data retrieved: Provides the full text version of the printed Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy.
Service provider: Routledge

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Science Citation Index

Available within MMU and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: The Sciences.
Date range: 1981-
Data retrieved: Searchable author abstracts. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.
Access notes: Science Citation Index is accessed via Web of Knowledge.

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Social Sciences Citation Index

Available within MMU and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage: Social Sciences.
Date range: 1981-
Data retrieved: Searchable author abstracts. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Access notes: Science Citation Index is accessed via Web of Knowledge.

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Sociological Abstracts

Available within MMU (no login required) and outside MMU (login required)

Subject coverage:Major areas of coverage include:

  • Culture and social structure
  • Demography and human biology
  • Economic development
  • Environmental interactions
  • Evaluation research
  • Family and social welfare
  • Health and medicine and law
  • History and theory of sociology
  • Management and complex organizations
  • Mass phenomena and political interactions
  • Methodology and research technology
  • Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
  • Radical sociology
  • Religion and science
  • Rural and urban sociology
  • Social development
  • Social differentiation
  • Social psychology and group interaction
  • Sociology of the arts, business, education
  • Studies in violence and power
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Welfare services
  • Women's studies

Date range:1952 - current.
Updated:Monthly.
Data retrieved:Bibliographic references with some links to full-text articles.
Service provider:Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

When logging in to this database from off campus, please follow these instructions:

  • On the CSA Illumina home page, follow the link for Shibboleth login.
  • When prompted to Select your Shibboleth federation, choose UK (UK Federation) from the drop-down menu, and press the Select button.
  • When prompted to Select your home organisation, choose Manchester Metropolitan University from the list that appears and press the Select button.
  • When you see the MMU login page, enter your MMU network ID and password.
  • Once you are logged in you will see a search box to search all the CSA databases. If you want to search a specific database, follow the link to Specific databases, where you can choose which database to search.

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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (SWA)

Available within MMU only (no login required)

Subject coverage:Women and Gender Studies
Date range: 1995-
Service provider: Taylor and Francis Metapress
Access notes: Available on campus only.

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Web of Knowledge

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Subject coverage:Web of Knowledge is an integrated platform providing access to:

  • Web of Science - (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index from 1970- and Arts and Humanities Citation Index from 1975- )
  • ISI Journal Citation Reports
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • Medline

Data retrieved: References
Service provider: MIMAS

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ZETOC

Available within MMU and outside MMU (login required)

Subject Coverage: multidisciplinary
Date Range: 1993 to date
Updated: Daily
Data Retrieved: Bibliographic references to the contents of over 20,000 journals and 70,000 conference proceedings
Service Provider: MIMAS/British Library
Access Notes: In addition to searching the database, ZETOC allows you to set up an individualised Table of Contents alerting service. Select up to 50 individual journal titles and you will be notified via e-mail of the contents of new issues as they become available.
Basic keyword searches can also be saved in order to be alerted to new articles on particular topics.
A document delivery service is available. This allows you to order articles for delivery direct to your mailing address. You will be responsible for payment and will be required to submit personal details, including your credit card number, over the web. Please note that this is a much more expensive service than the Library's Interlibrary Loan service
To use the Alert services both on- and off-campus, this resource requires a login.

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Subject gateways/hubs

Intute

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Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. Because the resources indexed by Intute have been evaluated in this way, you can be sure that the resources are of high quality - unlike using a general search engine such as Google, where finding good resources from a myriad search results can be a difficult process.

You can search the whole index using the form below, or follow the link above to browse resources by subject or do an advanced or subject-specific search.

Search Intute:

Search provided by Intute. Intute is a JISC funded service.

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