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ACM DigitalLibrary | ASME Digital Library |BioMedCentral | Business Source Premier (EBSCO) | Emerald Fulltext | IEEE Xplore | Ingenta Connect | Institute of Physics journals | JSTOR | Oxford Journals Archive| Project Muse |PsycArticles | Sage Journals Online | ScienceDirect | Springer Link | SwetsWise | Synergy | Wiley InterScience
ACM Digital Library
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ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery. The Digital Library gives access to the full text of ACM journals, magazines and transactions along with abstracts of their other publications - our subscription does not cover the full text of conference proceedings, many of which are available in the library in print form.
ASME Digital Library
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ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is a collection of journals from 1980 to present. We subscribe to the following Transactions of the ASME - Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Tribology, Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement Control, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Design. For off campus access look the journal up in the library catalogue and follow the link - you will need your Athens username and password. To access the full text of an article on ASME you need to first go to the table of contents (labelled HTML TOC or PDF TOC) then click on the title of the article you want to bring up a link to full text.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central provides free access to refereed online journals in Biological Sciences and Medicine.
BioMed Central is part of a wider movement by universities here and in the US to make scientific research freely available on the internet. It works by charging authors to submit their papers then making them freely available to readers. Membership has been paid for centrally in the UK by JISC, a joint committee of the UK Higher Education funding bodies so UK academics can submit papers free of charge to BioMed Central journals.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
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Business Source Premier is a collection of academic journals, trade publications and popular business magazines covering a range of topics of interest to business, economics, management and public administration students alike:
Accounting; banking; finance; international business; management; marketing and regional studies.
Business Source Premier allows access to full text articles from 3,600 journal titles, including 1,050 peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Emerald Fulltext
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A collection of about 160 full-text management and engineering journals from the publisher MCB Emerald, back to 1994. Subjects include business management, marketing, finance, human resources management, health management, education management, library and IT management, production management and materials science and technology.
IEEE Xplore
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Access IEEE Xplore off campus (Athens username and password required)
IEEE Xplore gives access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library of electrical engineering and computer science literature. Current issues of journals are available plus an archive (variable length) of:
- IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines
- IEEE conference proceedings
- IET journals
- IET conference proceedings
- Current IEEE standards
Ingenta Connect
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Ingenta Connect provides online access to 1000s of journals across many disciplines and from many publishers, back to the 1990s. The user can either search Ingenta Connect by subject, or browse limiting to "subscribed content". Colour coding enables the user to see at a glance which articles have full-text online access within the results of a search.
Institute of Physics journals
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The site contains the full text of Institute of Physics journals which we subscribe to at Swansea. You can see a list of these by clicking the "Journal subscriptions at your site" link near the top right of the screen. We also subscribe to the historic archive which contains the full text of all IOP journals published between 1874 and 1998. An Athens password is needed for off campus access.
JSTOR
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JSTOR is an electronic archive of journals from the very first issue up to a "moving wall" of between 1 - 8 years before the current publication. The 24 subject areas covered are mainly in the Humanities & Social Sciences:
African American Studies;
African Studies;
Anthropology;
Archaeology;
Asian Studies;
Classical Studies;
Ecology;
Economics;
Education;
Finance;
Folklore;
Geography;
History;
History of science and technology;
Language and Literature;
Latin American Studies;
Mathematics;
Middle East Studies;
Philosophy;
Political Science;
Population studies;
Slavic Studies;
Sociology;
Statistics.
Oxford Journals Archive
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We subscribe to the Oxford Journals Archive which contains Oxford University Press journals from their beginning to 1995. In some cases these go back to the 19th century. It covers a wide range of academic subjects. We also subscribe to some more recent journals via this gateway.
Project Muse
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Our subscription to the Humanities Collection within Project Muse gives us access to the full text of recent years of about 150 academic journals, including very many concerned with literature. There are also journals on philosophy, religion, film studies and other subject areas. In the Article Search screen you can limit your search to journals within the Humanities collection by ticking the box to the left of "Only content I have full access to".
PsycArticles (Ovid interface)
Sage Journals Online
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Sage Journals Online contains journals in the disciplines of :
Life sciences (Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology)
Medicine
Physical Sciences ( Computer science, Engineering, Materials Science)
Social Sciences.
ScienceDirect
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SCIENCEDIRECT provides access to more than 1,100 journals, mainly science & technology, medicine, psychology, business, management, social sciences and some arts & humanities. The journals are published by Elsevier, Academic Press, Churchill Livingstone, Mosby, Pergamon and others.
Coverage is mainly from January 1995 to the present day although LIS has also purchased backfiles for the following subjects:
Chemistry;
Economics;
Mathematics;
Psychology.
Backfile collections allow full-text access for many years back to the very first issue of a journal.
Springer Link
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Springer Link has a collection of over 400 journals published by Springer, Birkhäuser and Urban & Vogel. This collection is particularly strong in the fields of mathematics, engineering and the life sciences. Access generally goes back to about 1997. Nearly all the titles are in English, with a very few in German.
SwetsWise
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SWETSWISE provides a single point of access to a range of full text electronic journals from a number of publishers in all subject areas.
Synergy
Synergy has now merged with Wiley InterScience. Titles which were formerly accessed via Synergy will be available via the Wiley InterScience interface.
Wiley InterScience
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Wiley InterScience provides full text access to 458 journals from 1997 onwards in the following subject areas:
Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials, Science, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
