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Full text access to Association for Computing Machinery journals and conference papers from 1985 to the present.
The early history of African American poetry.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Allied and Complimentary Medicine covers complimentary medecine, psychotherapy, diet therapy, occupational health, physiology and rehabilitation.
American Chemical Society Legacy ArchivesContains the complete backfiles of 23 journals published by the American Chemical Society between 1879 and 1995.
NB. Make sure you set the Date Range in the Search Criteria box "From: 1879" "To: 1995".
Plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Over 40,000 poems from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Leading UK agency for supporting artists' practice. Includes A-N Magazine.
Off-campus access: click on "Athens login" at the top right.
Worldwide coverage from 1920 onwards.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
The British Library Sound Archive, one of the world's largest sound archives, offers a ground-breaking online digital resource of sound recordings reflecting the broad spectrum of its holdings.
Incorporated into the Art Full Text database. Taken from leading art journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks, and references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings. Material from 1984 is indexed, with added abstracts from 1994.
Abstracts of contemporary art journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues etc., going back to the late 1960s.
Indexes and abstracts articles from international periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins from 1994 to the present. Images in indexed periodicals are available and selected periodicals are full text.
Indexes international art journalism from 1929 to 1984.
Digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
An abstracting and indexing tool for health and social sciences. Coverage from 1987.
Index of articles, papers and reports relevant to Australian education, from 1979 onwards.
Comprehensive bibliography of articles on architecture and design, surveying over seven hundred American and international journals.
Allows staff and students to access BBC archive clips for use in presentations, lectures, coursework and media.
The works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Comprehensive art bibliography covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
Provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Medical journals. (Note: not all titles are subscribed).
A selection of nursing and health related handbooks.
A classified directory of media advertising in the UK and Republic of Ireland, covering print, internet, television and radio advertising. Also gives access to the Media and Marketing journal.
Password access
Image database covering world art from ancient to modern times.
Full text articles from 80 journals published by Brill before 2000. Covers biology, the humanities, human rights, international law, science, and the social sciences.
Bibliographic references to British and selected European English-language periodicals in the field of education and training, from 1975.
Abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities. Provides abstracts from over 400 daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals of international standing.
Up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines. For access, register on the site.
Digital collection of British historic newspapers. Contains: 19th Century British Library Newspapers, and the Burney Newspaper Collection.
Nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English-language titles
Full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on standards for medicinal substances and pharmaceutical products in the UK.
Access : click "login" to access BP2010 on-campus - BP2009 & off-campus access currently unavailable.
Authoritative and most current site for all BSI publications.
Click "BSOL Subscribers" (top right, blue in yellow box) to link to search screen.
Newspapers and news pamphlets from the 17th and 18th century. Mostly published in London - but includes some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
EBSCO's BSP provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, (including full text for around 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications). Updated daily, the coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Art images from prominent museums - prehistoric to contemporary times.
A service allowing you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.
Provides access to a wide range of social care materials. Includes articles from key journals and special reports.
Click on "Athens login" for access
Access to full-text judgments, updated daily. All judgments are fully categorised and classified. Searchable by Case Name, Date, Subject, Judge or names of legal representatives involved.
Password access
Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which allow users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. Registration required.
Comprehensive source of information for nurses, and allied health professionals. Scroll down the EBSCOHost menu for the CINAHL link.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
Reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care.
Essential guide to engineering literature, offering references and abstracts to journal articles; part of Ei Engineering Village 2.
Latest information and current trends in high technology. Full text covers over 300 publications.
One of the IHS Ti databases, providing source documents for standards and specifications in the building industry.
A digital reference library containing high-quality reference books. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
Off-campus access: click "Login with your Athens username and password".
CSA Illumina provides various databases, including: Art Bibliographies Modern, ASSIA, British Humanities Index, Design & Applied Arts Index, and Design Abstracts Retrospective.
Videos of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
International index to design and craft journals.
A retrospective complement to Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI), covering design journals and yearbooks published between 1900 and 1987, the year in which DAAI began.
DH Data is the database of the Department of Health's Library and Information Services. Part of HMIC.
Australian Education Index, British Education Index & ERIC.
Online maps and mapping data of Great Britain, at a series of pre-defined scales; includes collections from Ordnance Survey and Landmark. A registration form will need to be completed when a user accesses Digimap for the first time.
Based on the respected journal Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin produced by Which?. It provides independent and reliable information on drugs and treatments.
Facsimile page images and keyword-searchable full text for more than four hundred works of American prose fiction published before 1850.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
The full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Over 200 complete works in fictional prose.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Electronic book service.
Huge collection of ebooks covering all subjects.
The EBSCO Host menu includes 16 databases, concerned with business studies, health, nursing, computing, engineering & electronics, library & information studies, sociology, etc. Each database has a separate entry in this list
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
BSP provides full text for nearly 3,600 scholarly business journals, (including full text for around 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications). Updated daily, the coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
Latest information and current trends in high technology. Full text covers over 300 publications.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
The ESDS is a national service providing access to key economic and social data.
New users need to register with the service
Full text news and artlices from the weekly publication from 1991 onwards. Choose "Select Multiple Databases", then: "The Economist", "View Titles" and "The Economist, London".
Major editions, printings and adaptions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to modern day.
Off-campus access: click "Athens users: log in" at the bottom of the first page.
EIG gives access to 50,000 images. Subjects covered include: history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women's studies. The images are available for downloading in screen-resolution format.
Selected high-quality abstracts covering current international research in education.
Off-campus access: click on "SIGN IN", then "[athens sso]".
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century.
96 complete works in English prose from the period by writers from the British Isles.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Comprehensive pharmacological and biomedical database, providing abstracts of articles from 4,600
journals published in 70 countries.
Access to over 100 academic business and management journals, full text to the end of 2004 only.
Click: "Athens login"
Access to five encyclopaedia databases. Encyclopaedia Britannica's fully searchable text presented in an interactive format. Offering over 100,000 articles, 200,000 related web links, illustrations, maps, graphs and sounds.
Gives up-to-date environmental policy news using the ENDS Report archive, and also daily environmental news headlines and sector-specific intelligence, ranging from company reports, legislation, policy briefing, and method statements, etc. First-time users will be asked to register and complete a questionnaire.
Password access
One of the IHS Ti databases, providing a comprehensive collection of product catalogues covering general engineering, the electronics industry and the process industry.
Includes Compendex, an essential guide to engineering literature, offering references and abstracts to journal articles.
4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Updates the above with 20, 000 more poems taken from 20th century.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
US-based ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the largest education database in the world. Coverage from 1966 with records updated monthly; most have an abstract.
The Economic and Social Data Service provides access to key economic and social data.
New users need to register with the service
A database from the British Library offering full-text access to PhD theses from the majority of British universities. Theses not immediately available for download can be digitised to order. You will need to register with the site to view content.
Access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - some, but not all, contain full text and images. Covers all disciplines, from 1980 on.
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, containing 140 full text volumes by 50 poets.
Off-campus access: click "Athens Users log in".
Collections of film, video and sound material available for downloading. (Previously called Education Media Online).
In-depth indexing of over 100,000 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for over 40,000 personalities.
EC and UK legislation plus guidelines for the food and drink industry.
A forensic science database providing abstracts of literature relevant to the examination of evidential materials, analytical methods and the presentation and interpretation of findings.
Includes: Expanded Academic ASAP, Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
Bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies; coverage: 1994-October 2009.
The world's largest, unbiased, web-based bibliographic resource. Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using the comprehensive database of more than 16 million book, audio book, and video titles available from 43 different markets worldwide
References and abstracts relating to human health and communicable diseases. Covers foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material.
Euromonitor's international database of country statistics and market research reports.
Off-campus access: click "Athens users log in here" on the welcome page.
Provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Includes journal articles, theses, books, abstracts. Links to possible full-text sources are appended to some references: "Wolverhampton Uni Links"; these do not produce full text in every case.
Part of Oxford Art Online. Articles on every aspect of the visual arts. Plus thousands of images. .
Off-campus access: click "Eduserv Athens login".
Part of Oxford Music Online. Includes the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Off-campus access: click "Eduserv Athens login".
Part of the LexisNexis Butterworth service. Comprehensive and authoritative narrative treatment of the law of England and Wales.
Collection of law and law-related material covering four centuries of mainly US law research. Collections include the Law Journal Library and US Supreme Court Library and are all image-based and fully searchable. The Law Journals Library contains 888 full text journals from first issues, with increasing current and UK coverage.
A database of the UK's top 300,000 companies. Allows you to view company fundamentals, including charts, ratios, latest news and director biographies. Provides focussed research into the companies, people and news that drive the UK stockmarket.
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium)Compilation of health and social care management information from the Department of Health's Library and Information Services (DH Data) and the King’s Fund Information and Library Service.
Research and news in all areas of the hospitality and tourism industry going back to 1965. Full text for 440 publications.
Searchable full text Parliamentary papers covering 1688-2004.
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences contains extensive database covering the core social science disciplines of: economics, sociology, politics & anthropology.
Online access to the ICE Virtual Library.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Log In".
Searchable archive of over 3000 case reports. Access to daily employment law news, selected articles from IDS Brief and key cases.
Password access
Full text access to 18 IEEE periodicals and over 350 conference proceedings from 1995 to the present.
Contains databases concerned with: construction, engineering, health & safety, and pharmaceuticals. Also includes product catalogues for construction, engineering, process and electronics industries. The service contains: Construction Information Service, Specify-It, etc.
Covers theses accepted for higher degrees by British and Irish universities. Links are given to information regarding full-text.
Off-campus access via passwords
Full text database from Thomson Gale : Expanded Academic ASAP.
Similar to SwetsWise - giving access to the University's subscription journals.
Off-campus access: click: "Sign in via Athens".
References and abstracts from computing and technical journals and reports.
Online access to the Institute of Physics journals.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Log In".
Online access to the ICE Virtual Library.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Log In".
Locate conference and symposium information, includes the search capability to locate author names and papers presented at selected conferences.
Extensive database covering the core social science disciplines of: economics, sociology, politics & anthropology.
Full text articles from thirteen nursing journals, including the British Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Wound Care.
Click "Athens user" link for access on site
A free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, in four sections: Science & Technology, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Health & Life Sciences.
Data for evaluating and comparing scholarly journals. Shows journals with the highest impact, the largest circulations; the most used etc.
ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science includes citation indexes for science, social sciences and humanities, and enables searching within thousands of scholarly journals.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
An index to the published literature of significant conferences, symposia, seminars and conventions.
Repository service for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning materials. Available to staff only.
200 key full text journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, literature and languages.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
Market intelligence reports listed by product/service types.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens" in login box.
Fully searchable Authorized Version.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
Health management and services, social care, service development, and NHS organisation and administration. Part of HMIC.
Topic-searchable full-text E-books concerned with engineering and construction.
Access from off-campus/network via:
For a demo highlighting the search features click here
Landmap and Infoterra make available orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the British Isles, in formats that are readily accessible to users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Image Processing and Desktop publishing software.
Commercial radio archive of news and current affairs recordings from 1973 - 1990s.
Part of Lexis Library. Access to a library of English and Scots law, including full text statutes and statutory instruments.
Access to an extensive set of full text legal resources, including UK Cases and Legislation, Halsbury's Laws of England, Forms & Precedents and UK Journals.
For an interactive tutorial click here. Lexis's own help sheet:
Click here for a list of full text journals available in Lexis Library
Abstracts from over 300 international linguistics journals.
Covers librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval etc. back to the mid-1960s.
Library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, criticism and reference resources. (Service limited to 10 concurrent users).
(Formerly MIDIRS (Midwifery and Infant Care)). Midwifery information services, including journal abstracts, news and a directory of organisations.
Comprehensive source of full text medical journals.
Mintel supplies independent research on UK consumer markets. Reports are written by experts in each sector.
Off-campus access: a validation code will be e-mailed to you by Mintel. If it does not arrive, click “Resend Validation Code”, and check your spam folder to see if it has been blocked.
Bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963. Covers language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts
Ebook service.
Off-campus access: click "Athens" link at foot of page.
Evidence-based resource of information about natural medicines, designed for healthcare professionals. Users need to register for a User Id.
Prestigious full text papers from all areas of science. Online content from June 1997.
A streaming audio service for classical music, also includes jazz, folk, blues and ethnic music. Recordings are taken mainly from the Naxos catalogues supplemented by tracks from other labels.
Off campus password access
Resources for dance teachers. Full text access to Dance Matters and other dance publications.
Password access
Ebook collection, including nursing and healthcare texts, English and American Literature.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in here".
Downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the ITN/Reuters Television archives.
Newsstand (national & local newspapers) is part of - Proquest Newspapers
Contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers of the 19th century.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
Full text from leading nursing journals.
Includes: Embase, PsycInfo, PsycArticles, PsychBooks, HMIC, Maternity & Infant Care, Journals@Ovid, Books@Ovid, Global Health.
Access to Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference.
Off-campus access: click "Eduserv Athens login".
This online version of the 60-volume monument of scholarship includes 10,000 portrait illustrations, themed articles, browsing by birth and death dates, a Powerpoint introduction, etc.
The Oxford English Dictionary Online allows the vast OED database to be searched by word or phrase. Results give the historical context.
A selection of nursing and health related handbooks.
Research journals from Oxford University Press. With most titles, content from 1996 onwards is only available if the University has a current subscription. But earlier content, from Vol.1, Issue 1, is available via the Online Archives.
Oxford University Press's music reference, including Grove Music Online.
Off-campus access: click "Eduserv Athens login".
The JISC collection is a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from Periodicals Archive Online. Dating from 1891 to 2000.
From Lexis - Click Sources tab (top left), then P. For law practitioners in the field of personal injury.
Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Full text services. Includes ProQuest Newspapers (British national and regional newspapers), the Economist and Nursing journals.
Full text access to a collection of archived, searchable British national and regional newspapers, updated daily.
Full text from leading nursing journals.
Large full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
Extensive bibliographic coverage of the international literature on psychology and allied fields.
Full text articles from journals published by the Amercian Psychological Association (APA).
Scholarly book titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Full text coverage of U.S. regional business publications from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires.
" ... delivers breaking news stories enabling your users to keep their finger on the pulse of the global healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical sectors."
Campus Only
International bibliography of writings on music and music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through to the present.
A database of rock music writing, comprising 8,000 articles from US and UK publications: Creem, Trouser Press, Melody Maker, New Musical Express, etc., searchable by artist, date, genre, etc.
Off-campus access via passwords
The latest evidence-based clinical procedures for nurses.
Electronic books in areas of computing, IT and mathematics.
There are 170 full text ebooks in the Safari custom collection.
Full text scientific, technical and medical journals. For a listing of the University's subscriptions, click on the 'Journal' tab, and then choose 'subscribed journals' in the display box.
For Off-Campus/non-network access it is necessary to click "Athens login" (blue, top right). On the next page click "Athens login". Ensure that "University of Wolverhampton" appears.
First-time users of Science Direct are asked to complete a user profile questionnaire.
For a list of interactive tutorials highlighting ScienceDirect features click here
The history of British film and television. Hundreds of hours of video clips from the bfi National Film and Television Archive. To play the clips, select "Windows Media" when prompted.
Information and research on all aspects of social care.
A comprehensive sociology research database, featuring over 1,600,000 records and full text of over 253 "core" coverage journals. Part of the EBSCO Host research databases - linked from the bottom of the EBSCO Host menu.
One of the IHS Ti databases, which is useful for finding suppliers, components and materials for construction projects.
Covers recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, fitness training and the psychology, history and sociology of sport in books and journals from 1949 to the present. One of the EBSCO Host databases - linked from near the bottom of the EBSCO Host menu.
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.
Find articles, ebooks, reports, images and references from many of the university’s major subject resources.
Access to over 1,000 full text journals on all subjects.
First-time users of Swetswise are asked to complete a user profile questionnaire.
Online access to the ICE Virtual Library.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Log In".
Produced by VisitBritain and Tourism Together, Tourism Insigths features articles written by tourism professionals that monitor, analyse and interpret trends in the UK tourism market.
Leading journals, online publications, collected volumes, and doctoral theses in translation studies and related disciplines.
Reports on tourism destinations from Mintel. Covers arrivals, origin markets, accommodation, transport, attractions, promotion and prospects for the future.
Off-campus access: a validation code will be e-mailed to you by Mintel. If it does not arrive, click “Resend Validation Code”, and check your spam folder to see if it has been blocked.
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching is the best source of UK television and radio data on the web.
Note: When using the site for the first time, click on "My TRILT", then "Local Contact", then select University of Wolverhampton from the institution menu. Click "change institution".
Access: From Where Are you from? box, select "University of Wolverhampton (Athens)"
African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
English poetry from the early twentieth century to the present.
Off-campus access: click: "Athens Users log in".
Boundary maps of the UK to download.
Click: Login via Athens. You may be required to complete user questionnaire.
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.
UK tv adverts, video clips and film trailers site.
Click "Members login" and enter your university email address. You'll be sent a password by email.
Visual ThesaurusAn interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Access via URL and passwords
ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science comprises science, social sciences, and humanities citation indexes, providing bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.
For a list of interactive tutorials click here .
America’s premier lexicographical work. First published in 1961, this online edition incorporates subsequent updates to take account of current usage.
Off-campus access: click “Athens Users Login”
Cases and statutes, administrative materials, law reviews and treatises, attorney profiles, news and business information.
Please note the Westlaw interface has changed. Helpsheets are available in the Learning Centres, and help and online tutorials are available on the Westlaw site.
A list of full-text electronic journals, available for browsing on Westlaw, is available here.
WGSN is the leading fashion and style forecaster, predicting the cultural climate months in advance.
Campus only password access
Electronic journals. Full text access is limited to University subscriptions only.
To view a demo of Wiley InterScience features click here. First time users are asked to register before viewing the tutorials.
Off-campus access: click on “Athens Login”.
The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents. Contains details of articles from 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings. All subjects covered, from 1993. Updated daily.
Current awareness service which allows you to be emailed the table of contents from particular journals or receive details of articles.
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