How do I find out which databases I can use

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How do I find out which databases I can use?

• The library database pages on the world wide web
• http//www.library.qmul.ac.uk/databases/index.htm
• Library leaflets

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Ebsco Business Source Elite

• Indexes over 1000 journals in business and
  economics
• Provides full text to over 400 journals including
  Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Industrial
  Economics, Journal of Financial Planning
• http//search.epnet.com
• No password on campus. ATHENS password off- campus

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BIDS Bath Information Dataservices

• is a group of databases, which includes
• IBSS - The International Bibliography of the
  Social Sciences
• Ingenta journals
• http//www.bids.ac.uk/

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BIDS-IBSS the International Bibliography of the
Social Sciences

• Covers books periodicals from 1951
• 2400 journals and 7000 books per year are indexed
• Updated weekly
• Good for contemporary history

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Web of Science

• Covers all subjects, but is divided into Arts
  Humanities, Social Sciences and Science
• Altogether, 7500 journals are indexed
• The database contains references from 1981
• Its very up to date - updated weekly
• On the world wide web at http//wos.mimas.
  ac.uk/
• Sometimes referred to as Web of Knowledge
• Covers all subjects - surprisingly useful for
  history, though sometimes difficult to narrow
  down historical periods

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Connecting to BIDS and Web of Science

• From any pc inside or outside the campus linked
  to the world wide web
• direct to web address or use links from QM
  library web page
• BUT....
• You need an ATHENS username and password

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Electronic journals

• Go to the librarys electronic journals web pages
  to see the full range of electronic journals
  available at QM
• http//www.library.qmul.ac.uk/journals/index.htm
• Or check the library catalogue to find our paper
  and/or electronic holdings of particular titles

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Ingenta Journals

• Provided by BIDS
• A big source of electronic journals, usually
  recent years.
• We get access only to the ones that we subscribe
  to
• You may be asked to pay if we dont subscribe.
  Use interlibrary loans instead

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JSTOR

• An electronic archive of journals
• Back issues not current
• Usually back to the start of publication
• Journals such as American Journal of Sociology,
  Gender Society, Economic Journal, Journal of
  Economic Literature.
• Available off-campus with ATHENS username
  password
• http//uk.jstor.org/ or link from the QM
  librarys webpage

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Newspapers

• Electronic files of the UK broadsheets back to
  the beginning of the 1990s on Proquest
• Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
• Times on microfilm Times Index fills the gaps
• http//www.library.qmul.ac.uk/collections/newspape
  rs.htm
• for more information

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Keynote market reports

• We have purchased 60 reports on subjects selected
  by staff last year
• Go to
• http//www.library.qmul.ac.uk/socsci/keynote.htm
• to find out which ones we have

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Emerald Full-text (Human Resources Suite)

• IncludesCross cultural management, Equal
  Opportunities International and Human Resource
  Management International Digest, Personnel
  Review, Women in Management Review.
• You can search the whole database, but we only
  have access to the Human Resources Suite
• http//www.emeraldinsight.com/ft
• ATHENS off campus

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ZETOC

• Access to the electronic tables of contents for
  over 20,000 journals in all subjects
• produced by the British Library
• No password needed on campus. ATHENS off campus.
• Zetoc Alert is an email current awareness service

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COPAC

• access to the merged online catalogues of 20 of
  the largest university research libraries in the
  UK and Ireland the British Library
• includes the University of London Library,
  Institute of Historical Research (SAS) and the
  LSE
• covers books and periodicals
• no password needed
• http//copac.ac.uk

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British Library Public Catalogue

• http//blpc.bl.uk/
• use it to locate material or as a guide to what
  exists
• you can use the British Library if the material
  you require is not available easily elsewhere
• ask me for a form

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University of London Library _at_ Senate House

• You can borrow from there
• Take your QM card and register there.
• http//www.ull.ac.uk/

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SCONUL RESEARCH EXTRA

• Under this scheme you can borrow from other
  academic libraries, apart from QM and Senate
  House
• Go to www.sconul.ac.uk and choose using
  different libraries
• You need to get a form signed at the library
  counter

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ATHENS PASSWORDS

• Validates you to use several different
  information sources
• BIDS-IBSS
• Web of Science
• e journals off campus, including JSTOR
• Needs to be set up using a college computer

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Library PIN number

• To find out any information about your loans or
  reservations, without going to the counter, you
  will need both your College ID card AND your
  Library PIN Number
• You should get this number when you register with
  Computing Services
• You can change your PIN number on the computer
  screen