Databases are searchable electronic tools which help you to identify journal articles, books and chapters in books, conference papers and other sources useful for your studies. A considerable number of the journals indexed are available in the Learning Resource Centres in print or in electronic full-text from the library catalogue. Some (bibliographic) databases just include abstracts which summarise what an article is about, and then give you a WebBridge link back to the catalogue to check if we have the journal in-house.

Healthcare databases

• AMED - allied and alternative medicine topics.
• British Nursing Database - nursing, midwifery & healthcare topics. UK-focused.
• CINAHL Complete - nursing, midwifery & healthcare topics. International focus.
• Cochrane - gold-standard research.
• Medline - medical, dental, veterinary topics.
• PsycINFO - psychology, psychiatry and mental health topics.
• PubMed - free online database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, covering a wide range of biomedical topics

Education databases

• Education Research Complete - citations and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals. It also includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. You may also want to have a look at our guide to using EBSCO resources, which explains how to set up a personal account and save search alerts.

• British Education Index - database indexing articles from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.
• ERIC - important American database providing access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.

Management and leadership databases

• Business Source Premier - full-text database covering business, management, economics and accounting

Useful general databases

• Academic Search Complete - full-text articles on general academic subjects.
• Credo Reference - searchable digital reference guide containing 100 reference sources including subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources and quotations
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - full-text, open access articles
• ISI Web of Knowledge - research index
• Newsbank - searchable database of newspapers
• Sage Premier (to 2016) - multidisciplinary, full-text database with several education and humanities titles.