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A discipline-wide digital collection of business case studies from 2016 to 2018, designed to support teaching and independent research. Extra 'Teaching Notes' are available for tutors only: contact your library for an 'instructor verification code.'

Provides access to a range of scholarly books, encyclopaedias, and handbooks in the social sciences. Subjects include business, education, psychology, sociology, criminology, health, media, politics, and environmental studies.

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.

The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.

A full-text and abstract database of peer-reviewed scientific and technical research articles published by Elsevier. Covers a wide range of disciplines including physical sciences, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. Content dates from the early 19th century to the present.

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.

Explores evolving attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and sexual behavior from the 19th century to the present. Includes research papers, correspondence, personal writings, media, and activist materials from institutions like the Kinsey Institute, ONE Archives, and The National Archives (UK). Topics include sexology, LGBTQ+ history, criminalization, HIV/AIDS, and community identity.

Features over 1,000 rare prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, documenting how Shakespeare’s plays were staged from the 17th to 20th centuries. Includes annotated scripts, playbills, costume designs, music scores, and production notes, offering insight into historical performance practices in the UK, US, and beyond.

An annual publication of leading international Shakespeare scholarship, covering criticism, performance, and textual studies from 1948 to 2015. Each volume focuses on a specific theme or play and includes reviews of major British productions and critical works, richly illustrated with production images.

Spanning 1490–2007, this resource brigns together both primary and secondary materials on slavery, abolition, and social justice from UK and North American archives. Includes manuscripts, maps, essays, and visual sources covering the Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, abolition campaigns, and the legacies of slavery across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Islamic world.

An archival collection providing full-text access to the South China Morning Post from 1903 to 2001. This English-language newspaper, published in Hong Kong, offers coverage of regional and international events, with particular insight into Hong Kong, China, Imperial Japan, and Communist Asia. Includes articles, advertisements, editorials, photographs, and cartoons.

A collection of Behavioural Science ebooks from Springer, published between 2005 and 2013.

A collection of Earth and Environmental Science ebooks published by Springer between 2005 and 2013.

Provides access to a large collection of scientific literature, including journals, books, reference works, and protocols. Covers a wide range of disciplines, with a primary focus on science, technology, and medicine.

Combines the world’s largest collection of life sciences and bio-medicine protocols with advanced search functionality. Primarily for the life sciences, provides sets of instructions allowing scientists to recreate experiments.

A streaming video archive of over 55,000 firsthand testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust and other atrocities from the 1910s to the present. Includes accounts of the Armenian, Rwandan, and Cambodian genocides, the Bosnian War, the Rohingya crisis, and more, with supporting interviews, photographs, and documents.

A digital archive of British government documents from 1509 to 1715, including the papers of the Secretaries of State. Covers domestic administration and foreign affairs under monarchs from Henry VIII to early George I. Includes letters, reports, and correspondence from officials, monarchs, and European rulers.

An annual reference work providing detailed information on the political, economic, and cultural status of every country, as well as major international organizations. Published since 1864, it offers authoritative, up-to-date data compiled by a dedicated editorial team.

A digital library of short, expert-authored books on emerging and foundational topics in engineering and computer science. Covers principles, methods, and applications in fast-moving research areas, from 2005 to now. The University has access to Collections I–V.