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ACM Digital Library
Description: Database of papers published and marketed by the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) including journal and newsletter articles, and conference proceedings; plus citations/abstracts to material from other publishers.
Subject Scope: All areas of computing science.
Date Range: 60 years of ACM archives
Full Text: Yes for ACM publications
American Film Institute Catalog
Description: The American Film Institute Catalogue is an authoritative resource of American film information, covering the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1975, with full or short records for films from 1976 to present.
Subject Scope: American cinema
Date Range: 1893-
Full Text: Full text for certain publications
APA PsycArticles
Description: PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
APA PsycINFO
Description: PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations. Over 80,000 references are added annually through weekly updates.
Subject Scope: Full breadth of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Date Range: 1806 to present
APA PsycTests
Description: PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.
Subject scope: International in scope covering psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more.
Date range: 1910-present
Art Full Text
Description: Also includes Art Abstracts and contains bibliographic references and abstracts of articles from 280 periodicals - journals, yearbooks and museum bulletins. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from Archaeology to Television and Video. Art Abstracts currently has 400,000 records and is updated monthly. It indexes periodicals from 1984, and includes abstracts from 1994 onwards.
Art UK (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Art UK showcases art digitisations from every UK public collection and is a collaboration between over 3,200 British institutions.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Description: ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogues, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Full coverage begins in 1974 when the first volume was digitised, but entries date back to the late 1960s.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Description: Arts & Humanities Citation Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Arts and Humanities Database
Description: Provides online access to 400 contemporary specialist arts titles combined with journals from related fields including ethnic studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies and more, from 1970s to present. Titles include both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies.
Subject Scope: Visual arts, ethnic studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies
Date Range: 1970s to present
Full Text: YES for some records
ARTSTOR: Public Collections (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Artstor’s ever-growing public collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums.
arXiv (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. arXiv (pronounced "archive") is a repository of open access, electronic, preprint scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical finance and economics.
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BAILII British and Irish Legal Information Institute (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. This is a free site providing access to case law and legislation. Useful for unreported cases. Contains British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
Barbour Index
Barbour offers full text documentation on legislation, regulations and standards for Environment, Health & Safety professionals.
BASE
Description: BASE searches university repositories worldwide and currently covers some 64,000,000 papers. It is useful for searching for Open Access copies of papers which we do not subscribe to.
Subject Scope: Covering all academic subject areas
Date Range: N/A
Full Text: Yes
Berg Fashion Library
This is the leading digital resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. It includes over 150 classic and contemporary ebooks on fashion, the online Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress & Fashion, over 17,000 high quality images from museum collections, a fashion exhibition archive, and a museum directory.
https://www-bloomsburyfashioncentral-com.ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/products/whats-in-the-berg-fashion-library
BFI Player (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. 11,000 archive films are available to watch free on BFI Player from the BFI, national and regional archives, carefully selected from the vast holdings of the BFI National Archive.
BioMed Central (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. BioMed Central is a STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 287 peer-reviewed open access journals.
BMC Nursing (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. BMC Nursing is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of nursing research, training, education and practice.
BRAD
The ‘British Rates And Data’ directory, better known as BRAD, is the comprehensive online authority for essential advertising information on over 12,300 UK media titles.
BRAD empowers planners at advertisers and advertising agencies to plan the most effective media campaigns to reach the right audiences and maximise the effectiveness of their advertising spend.
An easy‐to‐use and exhaustive reference service that enables planners to save time and to assess their media options based on channel, title, circulation, editorial profile and much more.
The UK’s leading advertising and media agencies trust BRAD when planning their campaign schedules. BRAD’S clients also span marketing agencies, media owners, print services and advertising technology companies.
Britannica (Encyclopedia)
Description: 100,000 professionally edited and researched articles on just about every subject, thesaurus & dictionary of quotations, links to 800,000 full-text journal and magazine articles plus full text E-books and primary sources, World Data Analyst (current and past statistics and interactive World Atlas) and automatic citations at the end of articles.
British Council Film Archive (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online collection is freely available to everyone. The British Council Film Archive is an archive collection of over 100 short documentaries about wartime Britain, made by the British Council during the 1940s.
British Nursing Database
An extensive and up to date nursing and midwifery database, covering over 200 UK journals and other English-language titles
British Standards Online (BSOL)
Middlesex University has access to a Custom Collection of up to 300 British Standards. Please contact the Science & Technology librarians (SATLibrarian@mdx.ac.uk) to request full-text access to Standards not currently in our subscription.
Business Source Complete
Description: Business Source Complete is our most comprehensive business database with content from peer reviewed (scholarly) journal and magazine articles. Most articles are full text. Business reports with industry, company and country profiles are also included.
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CABI - Leisure Tourism
A great source for tourism, leisure and hospitality information.
Access to over 190,000 abstracts (including over 9,500 full text documents), 4,250 news and review articles, and over 2,550 eBook chapters
Cambridge Journals Online
Description: Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through the Cambridge Journals online service.
Campbell Systematic Reviews (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. International research evidence on the effects of interventions in crime and justice, education, international development and social welfare.
Capital IQ Pro
Capital IQ Pro is a financial database that provides easy-to-use tools for financial statement analysis, comparables analysis, financial modeling, sector analysis, and charting, plus high-level overviews of industries, financial markets, and regional economies. Ideal for researching companies (both public and private), deals (M&A and security issuance), and private equity and venture capital deals.
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications and sources.
Choral Public Domain Library (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Choral Public Domain Library is a virtual library which focuses on hosting over 32,000 vocal and choral music scores.
CIAO
Description: A wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Subject Scope: Theory and research in international affairs
Date Range: 1991 to present
Full Text: Yes
CINAHL
Find nursing, midwifery and allied health article references from more than 3000 journals
Date Range: 1981 - present
Full Text: No (partial)
Cite Them Right Online
Description: Cite them right online covers a comprehensive range of source types, alongside detailed advice on referencing and its importance in academic work
Subject Scope: For use by students in Business, Criminology and Sociology, Health and Education, Science and Technology and Work Based Learning. Art and Design, Law and 3rd year H&E should follow the links in the Referencing Library Subject guide. https://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/plagiarismreferencing
Cochrane (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Cochrane Library (UK access) is a collection of six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It is the main resource for finding Systematic Reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions.
Computer Source
Description: Searchable database of c750 publications (mostly journals), providing access to the latest information and current trends in high technology including topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Subject Scope: All areas of computing and information science.
Date Range: Various dates, but full text information dates as far back as 1985.
Full Text: Full-text access to c300 publications. Citation/abstract only for c450 publications.
CORE (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
Curia (Court of Justice of the European Union) (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Curia is the search tool for the European Court of Justice. It contains all the publicly available information relating to cases brought before the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.
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DERA (Digital Education Resource Archive) (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The IOE UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of all documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education.
Design and Applied Arts Index
Description: DAAI is an international index to the contents of design and crafts journals since 1973, and is the only database devoted to this subject area. Subjects covered include advertising, jewellery, metalsmithing, packaging, graphic design, fashion, textiles, design management etc. In addition DAAI also includes other searchable databases: international directories of associations, journals, educational establishments, archives and special collections.
Digital Theatre+
Description: The Digital Theatre+ platform is on an easy-to-use platform with access to award-winning theatre productions and a wealth of engaging educational materials.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Drama Online
Description: A collection of over 1000 plays drawn from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists, plus over 100 scholarly works providing critical analysis and contextual information.
Date Range: N/A
Subject Scope: Plays range from classics to contemporary writing.
Full Text: Yes
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ECONBIZ (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Journals, working papers and conferences in business studies and economics
Economist
A leading magazine providing quality analysis on international business and world affairs.
Emerald
Description: Emerald offers access to journal articles in the fields of Business, Economics, Management,
Marketing, Accounting, Finance and Human Resource Management.
Essential Science Indicators
Description: Essential Science Indicators can determine the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in a field of study, as well as emerging research areas.
Date Range: Based on the Web of Science journal coverage
Full Text: Statistical data
Please Note: This service is currently unavailable due to a cyber attack on the British Library systems.
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
EUR-Lex (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. EUR-Lex is an official website of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union. The Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union is published on EUR-Lex.
EUROPA (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. This is the official website of the European Union. It contains links to EU treaties, legislation and case law, and additional information about how EU law is made and applied.
European Court of Human Rights (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Provides access to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, via the HUDOC database, information on the Court structure and procedures and links to other relevant documentation.
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Fashion Studies Online
Fashion Studies feature materials on the history of fashion, costume, and clothing, including significant programs and documentaries on designers, fashion shows, textiles, garments, and accessories.
FIAF International Index to film periodicals
Description: Coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present. The database includes almost 400,000 article references from more than 360 titles. Also includes “Treasures from the Film Archives” which contains unique information about silent film holdings in international film archives.
Subject Scope: International film
Date Range:1972-
Full Text: Full text for certain publications
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Description: Film and television research.
Subject Scope: Film and television theory, preservation and restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and movie reviews. Also includes over 36,300 images from the Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive.
Date Range: In general from 1990s -
Subject Scope: Movie reviews from Variety from 1914 -
Film Index International
Description: A key information resource for entertainment films and personalities (actors, directors, producers, cinematographers etc.) produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. International coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries. The Index also includes reviews and articles about films and personalities.
Subject Scope: Comprehensive basic information on all aspects of the film industry
Date Range: 1900 -
FT.com
The first time that you access FT.com using this link you will be asked to register - Please use your Middlesex email address (@live.mdx.ac.uk or @mdx.ac.uk).
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Global Newsstream
Features full-text global news content from the present time to 1980s, from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
Google Scholar (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses and books, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
GOV.UK (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Provides links to all UK national and local government departments and many other agencies and public bodies.
GOV.UK (Publications) (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Provides links to official documents (Command and Act papers) from UK government departments and links to a range of publications including consultations, corporate, policy, guidance, research, statistical and other documentation.
GreenFILE
Description: GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Subject Scope: A unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment, drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Grove Music Online
Description: Grove Music Online is the leading online resource for music research and includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition, 2002), with all subsequent updates. It includes more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world.
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Heinonline - Law Journal Library
Description: Database of law and law-related issues including articles, comments, notes,book reviews,cases and decisions. Covers more than 90 subject areas published in 29 countries. Also an image-based database providing exact page images as they originally appear in hardcopy
Subject Scope: Legal journals and pre 1865 case reports(The English Reports)
Humanities International Complete
Description: Humanities International Complete provides full text for over 1200 journals, together with books and other published sources from around the world. It also contains all the data from Humanities International Index providing indexing and abstracting for over 2000 journals. Much of its full-text content is not found in other databases.
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IBISWorld
An excellent collection of industry research reports
IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL))
Description: Access to quality technical literature from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings, IET journals and conference proceedings, and IEEE published standards.
Subject Scope: Electrical engineering, computing science and electronics.
Date Range: Mainly from 1988 onwards, with some select content published since 1893.
Full Text: Yes
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. IMSLP stands for the International Music Score Library Project and is a virtual library of over 480,000 public domain scores and 58,000 recordings, covering over 17,000 composers. You can download full scores, orchestral parts, see varying editions, different transcriptions and arrangements, as well as sound recordings.
International Bibliography of Art
Description: Contains records and abstracts to direct researchers to scholarly journal articles, books and conference papers on the visual arts in all media.
Subject Scope: European and American art, , global art since 1945
Date Range: 2008 to present
Full Text: NO
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Description: Searches over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters.
Subject Scope: Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Development Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Human Geography and Environment, Development Studies, Business and Management, Social Policy, Health, Education, International relations, Media and communication, Psychology, History, Law and Philosophy.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
Description: The International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance is a comprehensive research tool, providing a full index, with cross-references and annotations, to over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. In addition, IBTD makes available over 140 full-text journal titles and more than 360 full-text books and monographs.
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Journal Citation Reports
Description: Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.
Date range: 1997
Full text: Statistical data
JSTOR
Description: Archive of journals
Subject Scope: Language and literature, mathematics, statistics, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
Please note: Middlesex University Library does not subscribe to the whole of JSTOR but only to the "Arts & Sciences III" and "Mathematics and Statistics" collections.
JSTOR: Open Content (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. JSTOR's partnerships with libraries and publishers help them make content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. Covers open access content published in ebooks and ejournals.
This access will be withdrawn soon, given the move to the new product. Please update your links.
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Kanopy
Films online via the Kanopy streaming service. Content includes: Popular documentaries, Oscar winners and nominees, classic films, short films and independent films.
Kluwer Arbitration Law
Please Note: Middlesex University no longer has a subscription for this database
Kluwer Law Online
Please Note: Middlesex University no longer has a subscription for this database
Law Commission (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Law Commission is the statutory independent body created by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed. The site provides links to Law Commission publications, projects and consultations including Law Commission Papers and Reports.
Lawbore (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Lawbore is a free guide for law students. Link Directory includes links to key legal websites, blogs and documents, aimed at undergraduates. Learnmore provides links to multimedia law skills tutorials. Designed and maintained by The City Law School, a part of City University, London.
Le Book
Le Book is a directory of fashion industry contacts, including studios, photography agencies, PR companies.
Legislation.gov.uk (UK Legislation) (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Publishes primary and secondary UK legislation for Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) on behalf of HM Government.
Lexis+
Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes ,current awareness and Halsbury's Laws of England.
Date Range: UK case law since 1865. Journal coverage varies depending on publishers. US case law(State and Federal)-dates vary. Large collection of full text US law reviews/journals-again dates vary.
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Literature Online (LION)
see Proquest One Literature
LIVRE!
Description: Portal developed by Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (Brazilian National Nuclear Energy Commission) to enable access to free journals, magazines, bulletins and newsletters available on the Internet. The portal covers scientific journals, magazines, bulletins and newsletters.
Luxonline
Description: Online resource for exploring the work of British based film and video artists. Video clips of artists' work are supplemented by biographies, reviews and articles. Contains over 4000 films and videos by over 1000 international artists. Luxonline is a project by LUX, an arts agency which explores ideas around artists' moving image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing, education and research.
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Market Intelligence Platform
This database has been re-packaged and re-named as part of 'Capital IQ Pro'
Please go to 'Capital IQ Pro' in this database list
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
Description: A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. It is written and edited by a team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year.
Subject Scope: International Law
Date Range: Current
Full Text: Yes
Medline
Good for finding articles from the whole range of medical literature. Covers more than 4800 journals.
MIDiA Research
Reports, data, forecasts, audience insights and global trend analysis for music and entertainment sectors.
Mintel
Mintel contains marketing intelligence reports, trend analysis and market size information for a wide range of industries and across several countries. It is particularly strong for sector information in European and American countries.
Moving Image Archive (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Music Periodicals Database
Description: Music Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text) indexes over 470 journals covering a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals, from Early Music to Jazz Journal, Music Analysis to Folk Roots. The Index includes over 900,000 records.
Mutopia Project (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Mutopia project is a virtual library of public domain or Creative Commons scores which have been digitally typeset from their original score layouts. These scores are available to download in PDF, MIDI and LilyPond formats.
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National Theatre Collection
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection is now complete and contains 30 filmed performances.
NBER Working Papers
Description: Database of Working Papers designed to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication.
Subject Scope: A complete list of all NBER Working Papers with searchable abstracts, and the full texts of Working Papers (issued since November 1994) are available
Nick Hern Books
The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 625 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.
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OAIster (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources.
OER Commons (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Open Access Digital Theological Library (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. High-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives and stable public domain collections.
OpenLearn (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The home of free online learning from The Open University.
Oxford Academic
Description: Research journals from Oxford University Press in the fields of Life Science, Medicine, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law.
Oxford Bibliographies
Description: Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Middlesex University has access to the following modules only:
Criminology
International Law
International Relations
Sociology
Oxford Public International Law
Description:
OPIL is a comprehensive, single location providing integrated access across our international law services, bringing you one step closer to the perfect research solution. Oxford Reports on International Law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law provide easy access to authoritative content, essential for anyone working in international law.
Oxford Reports on International Law
Description: ORIL is a full text database of public international case law, reporting on international courts, domestic courts andad hoc tribunals. The 4000+ case reports contain the full text of each decision, headnote, as well as analytical commentary and English translations of a number of key non-English decisions.
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law
Description: OSAIL contains full-text online reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including: Authoritative treatises, which continue to define their area of law, black-letter reference works and commentaries, which will help you to answer practical questions about the law, classic works on international law, which remain influential in their field today, and flagship publications, which provide innovative perspectives on current legal problems.
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Passport
Description: Passport provides key business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It will be useful to students studying a wide range of areas including international business and marketing, economics, social science, travel and tourism, international hospitality management, international relations & environmental health.
PEDro (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Bibliographic details and abstracts of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy, randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews.
PEPweb
PEPweb is a full text database of both recent and historical Psychoanalytic research journals and ebooks including The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Description: Performing Arts Periodicals database (formerly International Index to Performing Arts Full Text) contains more than half a million indexed articles from over 256 performing arts journals. Most index entries include an abstract and an increasing number contain full text of the original article.
Project Gutenberg (Open Access Resource)
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. Project Gutenberg eBooks are mostly older literary works. Most were published before 1924, with some published in the decades after.
Proquest Natural Sciences Collection
Provides full-text access to literature in agriculture, aquatic science, atmospherics, biology, geology, earth science, and environmental science. Sources include scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, reports, books, conference proceedings and news.
Proquest One Literature
A database for literary research incorporating all of Literature Online (LION), 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works including rare and hard to find texts, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos including theatre performances, and 20,000 ebooks.
Please Note: Middlesex University no longer has a subscription for this database. Psychotherapy.net videos can be accessed on Kanopy.
PubMed (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. References to articles from bio medical journals – this covers the same content as Medline, plus some additional life sciences journals and articles which have not yet been included in Medline, books and documents.
References may include links to the full text article in PubMed Central (Open Access) where available.
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Radio Times 1923-2009 (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. Through the listings, you will also be able to use the search function to find thousands of radio and TV programmes that are already available to view or listen to on the BBC website.
Refworks
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Description: Refworks is online software that helps you collect, store and organise the references you use in your work. It makes producing a reference list or bibliography quick and easy. It is web-based, so you can access your references from anywhere, and you will never lose them if your computer fails. It integrates with Library Search for the harvesting of references and can sync with Word and Google Docs.
Royal Shakespeare Company Image Library (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Royal Shakespeare Company Image Library contains over 3000 production photographs from 1936 to today. The archive is fully searchable, including searching by thematic keywords, and each photograph has full bibliographic details including photographer and production information.
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Sage Journals Online
Description: Searches articles within over 630 journals published by Sage.
Subject Scope: Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
Date Range:
Full Text: Full text availability to a large number of Sage journals.
Science Citation Index
Description: Provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts and cited references from over 6,650 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines. The database is part of Web of Science.
Subject Scope: All science disciplines - including biosciences, computer science, medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry and veterinary science.
Date Range: 1970 - present
Science Direct
Description: A leading full-text scientific database providing access to journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Social Care Online (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Social Care Online is a portal to a collection of information on social work, social care and aspects of mental health. It contains research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles and websites. Updated by SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence)
Subject Scope: Social Work, Social Care, Mental Health, Child Protection, Elderly Care.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Description: Searches the articles within 2,474 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
Subject Scope: Sociology, Criminology, Substance Abuse, Urban Studies, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Health, Social Policy, Social Work, Women's Studies, Anthropology, History, Industrial Relations, Law, Philosophy.
Date Range: 1970 onwards
Sport Discus
Description: The most comprehensive bibliographic database covering all aspects of sport, fitness and exercise science and medicine. It includes over 1.7 million records covering journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. Over 22,000 dissertations and theses are also included. Part of EBSCO Health Databases so can be cross-searched with other databases such as Medline.
Subject Scope: Sport, fitness and exercise.
Springer Open Access eBooks (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Springer Open Access has made 100s of books available for free – STEM, Social Science and humanities.
Statista
An extensive collection of statistics, reports and insights.
SubCulture Archives
An educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. Click “Log in via your University or Institution”,
Scroll to “Middlesex University” and click the Select button,
This displays the Middlesex University Sign In page where users sign in with their IT User ID and password.
Supreme Court (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The latest judgements and details of cases waiting to be heard can be accessed, along with information about the court including its rules and procedures.
The Fashion and Race Database
'The Fashion and Race Database is an online platform filled with tools that expand the narrative of fashion history and challenge mis-representation within the fashion system. Est. 2017'.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio and video for teaching, learning and research.
The Open Library of Humanities (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The OLH publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines and all academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review.
Trip (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. A medical database, designed to help identify the best available research evidence to answer clinical questions.
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UK Parliament (Open Access Resource)
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The United Kingdom Parliament website contains information about the House of Commons and the House of Lords, including a variety of internet publications such as Public Bills, Hansard for the Commons and the Lords, and the House of Commons Weekly Information Bulletin.
vLex
Formerly JustisOne. Search for cases with full text links to Westlaw and Lexis.
Vogue Archive
Description: The (US) Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present reproduced in high-colour page images. The latest issue will be added each month.
Subject Scope: Fashion, fashion history, fashion marketing, fashion photography, beauty industry, advertising, illustration, popular culture.
Date Range: 1892- present
Full Text: Yes (images and text)
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WARC
Description: World Advertising Research Centre (WARC) combines current new thinking and trends with best practice, featuring access to over 6,000 award-winning case studies, in-depth trend analysis, and research reports.
Established in 1985, WARC combines its own content with that of respected industry partners worldwide and provides detailed solutions to real marketing challenges.
Web of Science
Description: Includes:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Science
Conference Proceedings Citation Index: Social Science and Humanities
Social Sciences Citation Index
Science Citation Index
(See individual databases for more information)
Subject Scope: Arts, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences
Date Range: Varied
Full Text: No
Westlaw
Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes and current awareness.
Subject Scope: Legal journals, cases, legislation, commentary and current awareness.
Date Range: UK cases begin with 1865 and EU cases 1954. UK case law Official Transcripts begin with 1955. Commentary is the current edition.
WGSN Fashion
Description: Worth Global Style Network Fashion provides forward trend analysis and creative intelligence for designers and fashion professionals. It provides 24/7 access to future fashion, apparel and fabric trends, colour palettes, international fashion news and trade show reports.
Subject Scope: Fashion, textiles, marketing, trends, forecasting, fashion news, trade shows
Date Range: Current
Wiley Online Library
Searches articles within journals published by Wiley, covering a range of subjects including Business, Social Sciences and Health Sciences.
Full text availability to over 150 journals published by Wiley.
Women’s Wear Daily Archive
A comprehensive archive of the US’s most influential fashion journal Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images.