The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
A research database focused on UK education and training research, policy, and practice. It indexes more than 370,000 articles from scholarly journals and education-focused periodicals and over 11,000 theses, covering education from pre-school to university. Users can filter by educational level and age group. Coverage dates from 1929 to the present.
Subjects: Education
The most widely used collection of English corpora (highly searchable collections of texts). These 19 discrete corpora represent language use in different contexts and dialects. Allows users up to 20 searches a day.
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes research reports over 140 policy institutes on climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues. Primary sources are drawn from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets and Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research includes Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
A collection of open-access critical editions of French and Francophone texts, published by the University of Liverpool. Includes single texts and anthologies with scholarly introductions, notes, and bibliographies. Covers a range of literary and historical subjects, with texts presented in the original, in translation, or with parallel English translations.
A comprehensive news database offering full-text access to UK national and regional newspapers, international news sources, trade journals, magazines, and company reports. Coverage includes titles like The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Observer, with daily updates and global scope.
Fully searchable online access to Oxford's unabridged bilingual dictionaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Provides access to over 2 million entries from Oxford University Press’s dictionaries, language and subject reference works. Covers 22 subject areas with content ranging from quick definitions to in-depth articles from encyclopedias and companions.
A platform for full-text, peer-reviewed books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 400 non-profit publishers, including university presses and scholarly societies.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
A research methods resource created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Includes books, case studies, datasets, videos, and tools like the 'Methods Map' to support all stages of the research process. The University has access to the Core Collection and Sage Research Methods Cases.