Bob gives anyone in UK Universities access to television and radio programmes from 75 free-to-air channels. Search the archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts and watch films, documentaries, news programmes and more. It is the permanent archive for BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Find some great tips about how to use BoB in these short videos.
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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
Academic peer-reviewed journal articles, professional publications and more across all business topics.
Advanced options in Business Source Complete video
Although this focuses on business, there is a lot of computing material in here and it is particularly useful for business related computing courses and modules.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
A variety of reference works, including dictionaries, which tutors may well prefer to Wikipedia, and it even tells you how to set out a reference to what you find. Try out the 'Mind Map' feature to see how your keyword links to others - useful for essay planning and dissertation work.
These short videos show you how Credo can speed up your research:
- Search tips
- Using the automated mind map
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What
- A variant of Google that searches for academic literature
Why
- Provides access to articles, books, conference papers and preprints
- Links to Full-text @ Portsmouth where available when settings are applied
How
- Simple or advanced searching allowing refinement by date, author etc
- A Library Guide to this resource is available
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
JSTOR is best known as an academic journal archive containing thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. To find the most recent years, you will need to search other databases like Discovery or go to the journal sites themselves. JSTOR also contains ebooks, research reports and 1000+ collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums and archives around the world.
For some tips on searching JSTOR, watch this short video. If you use JSTOR a lot, it's worth setting up a free, personal account so that you can use JSTOR's Workspace to store articles and notes. A personal account will also give you access to JSTOR's own AI tool which searches across JSTOR content for you, summarising articles/chapters and recommending related sources (it does not look outside JSTOR).
A unique collections of films including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases on every topic imaginable. Content can be searched or browsed.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
Knovel enables you to manipulate engineering data from a wide range of sources. In addition to full-text ebook content it also provides access to equations, materials and substances data, and interactive charts and graphs. Its materials database covers everything from mechanical to chemical properties data, corrosion data and material properties. Knovel provides interactive engineering tools that enable data analysis, and specialized data search and taxonomies that make it easy to discover answers to technical questions.
This is a video tutorial to get you started with Knovel.
https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14354/c/10545/supporthub/knovel/
This LibGuide from Elsevier provides more help and support. And this marketing page from Elsevier gives a good overview of the support for learning and teaching that Knovel and Engineering Village can offer to all "engineers of the future".
Full text articles from many news sources and trade journals both UK and international. Archives sometimes stretching back to the mid 1980s.
Particularly useful for computing news and articles - although remember that these won't be considered 'scholarly'.
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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
The national record of over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century - extremely useful for detailed biographies about literary figures.
The world’s largest database for public policy, with more than 3.2 million reports, working papers, policy briefs and data sources from more than 24,000 international organisations, NGOs, think tanks, and research centres. Topics include education, health, housing, local government, international relations, business, industries etc. and all areas of the world are covered. Use options in Advanced Search if you want to search specific countries.
Watch this short video to see how it could help you.
Additional access instructions:
Free registration required. This gives you access to 25 free searches a month.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
Wiley Blackwell supplies many of our e-journal subscriptions covering all subject areas.
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