Databases (or eResources) provide access to quality academic resources for your work. The Finding Information tab will take you through the stages to find information efficiently and effectively.
The databases have been subdivided into sections to reflect their content.
Comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
To Log in, enter your University email address and password.
Includes the following databases - Sociology, Sociological abstracts, Social services abstracts and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
To Log in off campus, enter your university email address and password
Includes over three million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
To Log in off campus, enter your university email address and password.
Educational policy, administration, evaluation and special educational needs.
To Log in, enter your University email address and password.
Provides access to research briefings produced by the House of Commons Library, the House of Lords Library and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). You can filter the research briefings by date, type, or one of 350 topics.
Provides access to citation indexes covering over 8000 top academic journals, including all references in the social sciences and humanities as well as the sciences.
To Log in, enter your University email address and password.
A database providing access to over one million statistics, forecasts, dossiers, reports and infographics including data on business, technology, politics and society covering countries and regions around the world.
Please note the following:
Website
Office for National Statistics
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK. Has a section on people, population and community.
No Login required.
.
Grey literature is the term given to publications produced by government departments, charities, business, industries, etc in short anything that is not produced commercially. It is a great source of authoritative information on quite narrow areas of research. Be careful and apply the normal criteria in establishing the reliability of the publication before you use it.
Many of the databases/eResources also have grey literature included on them.
If the library does not have the article you need you can request an inter-library loan. A copy of the article will in most cases be emailed to you within a 2-3 working days. Books can also be requested via inter-library loan, but will take longer to arrive as they have to be posted.
If you need more, please contact your Information Librarian.