General Resources
Most databases require an Athens username and password
Use SFX links when full text not available.
Online journal collections
IngentaConnect Full text journals.
Google Scholar If you are off campus use this link and then click on "Save Preferences" to access UWS electronic journals via Google Scholar.
NewsBank Newspapers Full text access to a wide range of newspapers.
Oxford University Press Full text journals.
SAGE Journals Online Full text journals.
Springerlink Full text journals.
Swets Full text journals.
Taylor & Francis journals Full text journals.
Wiley Online Library (now includes Blackwell-Synergy journals). Full text journals.
Zetoc Table of contents of over 20,000 research journals.
Databases of general interest
Adept Scientific Purchase academic software at discounted prices.
British newspapers 1600-1900.
British Periodicals Searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
Burney Collection
17th and 18th century newspapers and news pamphlets.
Eighteenth Century House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Frankfurter Allgemeine Free registration required.
Index to Theses Search for theses in UK and Ireland. On campus only.
John Johnson Collection Fully searchable colour images of 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Landmap Satellite imagery of the UK. If you are asked to authenticate on Landmap, do the following: search for West of Scotland, log in with your Athens account, and then complete the Landmap registration form.
19th Century British Library Newspapers. Full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers .
Nineteenth Century House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Research into Higher Education Abstracts 1995- On campus only.
SCRAN A searchable archive of Scotland's history and culture.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) No password required.
Statistical Accounts of Scotland Historical data from the 1790's and 1830's.
Twentieth Century House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers
QUICK LINKS
Guides and online help: general material
Find an electronic journal (A-Z list of e-journal titles)
Library Catalogue (for eBooks and stock on the shelves)
UWS Government Publications blog
Useful Internet sites: General
Useful Internet sites: Research
EThOS Theses from the British Library
ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Use the library catalogue to search all collections at once. Limit the Collection pull-down to "Electronic books".
USEFUL INTERNET SITES
Selected web sites in a range of subject areas
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