Thursday 31 May 2018

MMU LIBRARY OPAC: 172.16.18.4:8001






























































































































































































































































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RESOURCES:
Journals, databases and mixed packages
SUBJECT COVERAGE
URL LINK
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aip
AIP Citation offers online access to a robust collection of close to 1 million articles from leading Physical Sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, standards, and magazines published by AIP Publishing and AIPP’s publishing partners.
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America Physical Society Access to the Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society. 
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The BIR promote and encourage the study and practice of the art and science of radiology radiobiology and the medical applications of nuclear science in all their aspects and the study of kindred sciences. It has access to online journals and resources on radiologists, medical physicists, oncologist, radiographers and radiobiologists.
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CSP currently owns and publishes 24 diverse international journals with distribution in more than 175 countries, and provides publishing services to an additional 15 titles. Cover fields across the spectrum of science and engineering, with a focus on fundamental and applied sciences.
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The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database (The Cochrane Collaboration ) that provides information about Cochrane groups.
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ebsco
The databases provide access to just over 16,500 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.
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EBSCO Religion and Theology Collection
Religion and theology
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Publish books and journals across a range of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.
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Management and library & information services journals. The service also provides access to leading titles in marketing, business disciplines, engineering and materials science.

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Covers the geosciences e-resources.  It shares the courtyard with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Linnean Society of London
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Access to information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.
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JSTOR Home
Covers Economics, History, Political science, Archeology, African Studies, Music, Art & Art History, Business, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics 
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Liverpool University Press
Covers history, modern languages, literature, arts and art history, history, Jewish Studies, Poetry
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Biomedical Research, Life Sciences, Complementary, Engineering, Informatics, Law, Economics, Medicine, Surgery, and Nursing.
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Publishes journals and online databases across the Life, Physical and Applied Sciences and Clinical medicine.
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OSA - The Optical Society - 100 Years
Covers optics, biomedical, spectroscopy, photonics.
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Policy Press

Publishes over 120 peer reviewed books each year and 7 journals in a wide range of print and digital editions for researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and the informed general reader as well as for libraries and other institutions globally.
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Subject strength: biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, ecology, microbiology and many more
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Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Science, Materials, Medicinal Drug Discovery and Physics high-impact journals and books.
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Subject Strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Scientific, Technical and Medical. 
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SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences.
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Taylor and Francis Online
Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts, Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies. 

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Subject strength: Research, health, art & humanities.
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The journals present original research from international scholars in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Biological and Medical Sciences, and Physical Sciences.
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Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education Engineering, Law Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, Psychology, Social Sciences. 

E-BOOK PACKAGES


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Subject strength: Area  & ethics studies, art & pacific studies, art & architecture, creative writing, education, film theater & performance arts, history, language & linguistics, library science & publishing, literature, medicine & health, music, philosophy, religion, science technology & mathematics, social sciences, studies by time period and women’s studies gender & sexuality. 
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taylor
Offers instant access to the world's premier Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Built Environment, STM and Law content.

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Covers print, manuscripts and archival, graphic & ephemera, and digital collections.

henry
Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing and Management collection.
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HST - Libraries in a Digital Age
Library and Information Services
Subject strength: digital libraries
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hstallks
Subject Strength: Agriculture & environment, biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, clinical medicine, disease disorders & treatment, methods, immunology, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, reproduction & development
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science; Architecture, Imaging Science & Photographic Technology, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science Information Systems, Software Engineering, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence.  
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Lexis Library delivers thousands of trusted legal, tax and regulatory sources, such as: Butterworths, Halsbury’s Laws, Tolley’s, Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law and Civil Court Practice. Plus, wide-ranging primary source materials including all England Law Reports, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, Atkins Court Forms among others.
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Covers accounting, environmental studies, health & medical care, government & politics, people, consumer information. 
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ProQuest preserves rich, vast and varied information – whether historical archives or today’s scientific breakthroughs – and packages it with digital technologies that enhance its discovery, sharing and management. For academic, corporate, government, school and public libraries, as well as professional researchers, ProQuest provides services that enable strategic acquisition, management and discovery of information collections.



OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES



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Universal content
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CARI Journals

Subjects covered: biological science, business and economics, development policy, engineering, medical and health science, physical science, social science
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Directory of Open Access Journals
Is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered: science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities
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ACS Publications
ACS Publications stands alongside Chemical Abstracts Services in supporting the American Chemical Society's goal to be the most authoritative, comprehensive, and indispensable provider of chemistry-related information, in keeping with the ACS's Vision of Improving People's Lives Through the Transforming Power of Chemistry. Subjects covered: agricultural and food chemistry, natural products , environmental science etc.
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The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs.
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Is a non-profit offering public access to titles in science and medicine. Since 2003 they have published a variety of journals, including PLOS Biology and PLOS Medicine, which rival existing elite titles such as Science and Nature
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Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
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PubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education. PubAg is part of the AGRICOLA family of products. PubAg contains full-text articles relevant to the agricultural sciences, along with citations to peer-reviewed journal articles.
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The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database lists bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in agriculture and related sciences.
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Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 participating countries.
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PubMed comprises approximately 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources. 
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Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences (Ecology, Oceanography, Geology, Meteorology, Zoology, Human biology, Botany). It allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. Protocols category will let you search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources, compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, downloadable programs and collaborations. 

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TEEAL
Is a digital collection of research journals for agriculture and related sciences.
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Is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising livestock.
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is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
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BenthamOpen
Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences. BENTHAM Open provides researchers a platform to rapidly publish their research in a good-quality peer-reviewed journal. All peer-reviewed accepted submissions meeting high research and ethical standards are published with free access to all.
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WorldWideScience
A global science gateway, providing one-stop searching of over 90 national and international scientific databases and portals from more than 70 countries. Users can search and translate 400 million pages of science and technology information
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Palgrave Macmillan offers a combined portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed E-Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Subject strengths: Biomedical/Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics.

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ebrary
Subject coverage: Anthropology, Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Fine Arts, History, Language & Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences and Technology.

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Subject covered: physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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cabi
CAB Direct is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. It contains the following datasets:
Crop Protection Compendium - http://www.cabi.org/cpc/
Animal Health and Production Compendium - 
http://www.cabi.org/ahpc/
Aquaculture Compendium - 
http://www.cabi.org/ac/
Forestry Compendium - 
http://www.cabi.org/fc/

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NCBI
NCBI bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare.
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Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Materials Science, Computer Science & Communications
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Medicine & Healthcare, Physics & Mathematics.
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Provides access to over 30 journals across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.































































































































































































































































































































































































































PUBLISHER
SUBJECT STRENGTH
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TAYLOR AND FRANCIS Ebooks
Agriculture  & Environmental Sciences, Arts, Behavioral Sciences, Bioscience, Computer Science, Development Studies, Development Studies, Environment, Social    Work, Urban Studies; Earth Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry; Education,  Engineering & Technology, Environmental Studies & Management, Geography, Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health; Museum, Heritage Studies & Visual Arts; Physical Sciences, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Sports, Leisure, Travel & Tourism, Urban Studies
E-Book Central
This database offers e-books from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas such as: Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, Medicine, Fine Arts, History, Language and Literature, Law, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Psychology and Religion
Site.ebrary.com/lib/mmu

Acoustical society of America
Access to all issues of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA); Back to Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1929
African Journal Online
Abstracts of over 250 African-published journals, with access to some full text online, and a document delivery service.
http://www.ajol.info/
IEEE
Access the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IET), which provides access, to resources in Engineering (Electrical & Mechanical) and computer science fields.
EBSCO Host
Research Databases
Over 11,000 full text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles. Access to 8 major databases: Academic Search Premier; Business Source Premier; ERIC; Masterfile Premier; Newspaper Source; Health Source : Nursing & Academic; Health Source : Consumer Edition; Medline

Edinburgh university Press
Over 30 full-text electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Has content on film and media studies

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Emerald Group publishing Ltd
Emerald Management features 140 Business and Management journals and Emerald Engineering e Journal Collection, features 19 Engineering journals. All of which are peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals plus reviews from the world’s top 300 management journals.

IOP publishing
Over 60 of the world's most prestigious journals in physics and related disciplines.
JSTOR
Access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 800 important scholarly journals in 48 disciplines.
NPG – Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Palgrave Macmillan offer a combined portfolio of over 60 peer-reviewed e-journals in the field of Business, Social Sciences and Humanities
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal
OECD
It is the world’s largest think-tank, renowned for its authoritative, internationally comparable statistics, analysis, and outlooks in economics, public policy, social sciences and Environmental issues
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides online access to over 430 full-text journals from 70 publishers in humanities and social science. MUSE pricing meets library needs around the world.
Springer ejournals
Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies. Springer ejournals cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, human sciences, social sciences and economics.
Taylor & Francis Online Journals
More than 1,300 titles in humanities, social sciences and applied sciences.

University of Chicago Press
The Journals Division publishes journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields.
Wiley Online Library
Access to the full text of over 500 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals.

Wiley Online Library (formerly Synergy)
Over 840 peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of academic disciplines.