Students and staff have access to the wide variety of databases listed below. Most databases can be accessed from all campuses. Where this varies the details are given in the Access column.
"Athens login" indicates that an Athens personal account is required for access. Further details of the Athens system is available here. Other username/password details can be obtained by contacting the Library enquiry desk by email library@paisley.ac.uk or telephone (0141-848-3759.
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Titles which are on CD-ROM are available from Enquiry desk staff. The CD-ROMs in this list are not available for use off-campus.
| Database | Access |
|---|---|
| ACM Portal (Association for Computing Machinery) | On campus only. No password required |
| ACS (American Chemical Society) ejournal collection | On campus only. No password required |
| AIP (physics) | On campus only. No password required |
| Arts &
Humanities Citation Index 1975- is a multidisciplinary index covering the
journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the
world's leading arts and humanities journals |
On and off campus. Athens login |
| Assia (social sciences) Assia (Off-campus Athens link) |
On and off campus. No password required on campus. Athens login off campus. |
| BCIS Review Online (Building Cost Information) | On campus only. Contact university library for password |
| BioMed Central Free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. | On and off campus, No password required. Free registration required for searching. |
| Blackwell Synergy Ejournal collection | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| BMJ Clinical Evidence | On and off campus. Athens login. |
| BOPCAS (official publications) | On and off campus. Contact university library for password |
| Bristol Biomedical Image Archive | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Cambridge Journals | On campus only. No password required |
| Census Resources | |
| ChildData | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
|
Cinahl Plus with full-text
Nursing and Allied Health (provides full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL)
Cinahl off-campus link |
On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| Classical Music Library | On campus only. No password required |
| Cochrane Library | On and off campus. No password required |
| On and off campus. Athens login N.B. If downloading British Standards please inform library staff of the BS Numbers. |
|
| Dictionary of Analytical Reagents | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Free access to over 700 journals covering all subjects. |
|
EBSCO
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition EBSCO: off-campus link |
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
|
EBSCO
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection EBSCO: off-campus link |
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
|
EBSCO
SocINDEX
EBSCO: off-campus link |
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| Education-Line | On and off campus No password required. |
| Emerald | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| ERIC (education) | On and off campus. No password required. |
| Expanded Academic File
|
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| Factiva.com - Global news and business information (30-day trial from 19/4/07) | On campus only. No password required |
| Facts About Britain 1945-95 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Family Spending 1989-95 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Film and Sound Online | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Film Index International | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| Frankfurter Allgemeine | On and off campus Free Registration required (see library staff for details) |
| Free Full Text Links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free | On and off campus. No password required. |
| Fuel and Energy Abstracts | Access on and off campus. No password required on campus. Athens login off campus |
|
General Business File
|
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| Hansard 1988/89- | On and off campus No password required |
| HEBS now NHS Health Scotland | On and off campus. No password required |
| Index to Theses | On campus only. No password required |
| IngentaConnect | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Institute of Physics | On campus only. No password required |
| International
Bibliography
of the Social Sciences (IBSS) 1951-
|
On and off campus. Athens login |
| International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science and Geomechanics Abstracts | On and off campus. No password required on campus. Athens login off campus. |
| Intermid (British Journal of Midwifery) | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Internurse | Athens login required. |
| IOS Press Computer science, mathematics, medicine, natural science journals (trial access until 12/8/07) | On campus only. No password required |
| ISI
Proceedings - Science & Technology
1990- covers the conference
literature in all scientific and technical fields |
On and off campus. Athens login |
| ISI
Proceedings - Social Science & Humanities
1990- covers the conference
literature in all fields of social science & arts and humanities |
On and off campus. Athens login |
| ISI Web of
Knowledge
|
On and off campus. Athens login |
| Kaye & Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants 16th ed | On and off campus. No password required |
| Keesings Record of World Events 1983-1992 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Learning Exchange (Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education) Repository of digital learning resources for social care educators | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Life Sciences Collection 1986-2001 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
|
LISTA
(Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
|
On and off campus. No password required |
| McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 8th ed | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
|
Maternity and Infant Care (formerly MIDIRS)
|
On and off campus. Athens login |
| Mintel Market Research Reports | On and off campus. Athens login. |
| Mosby Medical Encyclopedia | University Campus Ayr CD-ROM |
| National Research Register | On and off campus No password required |
| Newsbank Newspapers UK | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| NHS Health Scotland (formerly HEBS) | On and off campus. No password required |
| Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| Oxford Reference Online - Core Collection | On campus only. No password required. |
| Oxford University Press Journals | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| Proquest Nursing Journals | On and off campus No password required for on-campus access Athens login for off-campus access |
| PsycBOOKS | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| PsycCRITIQUES
(from APANet) |
On campus only. No password required. |
|
PsycINFO
|
On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| PubMed | On and off campus. No password required |
| Regional Trends 1965-1995 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Royal Society of Chemistry Journals | On campus only. No password required |
| Science
Citation Index Expanded
1970- a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150
scientific disciplines |
On and off campus. Athens login |
| ScienceDirect | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| ScotBis Scottish Business Information from the National Library of Scotland. | On and off campus. Athens login. |
| Scots Law Times Reports 1893-1995 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM Contact university library for password. |
| SCRAN (A searchable archive of Scotland's history and culture). | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Screen Online (British Film Institute). Provides access to thousands of video images, sound extracts, still photographs, time lines and essays relating to the history of British film and television. | Available only on PCs in the Library at UCA. Log in to the student network and click on the icon on the desktop for Screen Online. Headphones are available from the Library counter |
| SIAM Journals (Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics) | On campus only. No password required |
| Social Care Online UK's most complete range of information and research on all aspects of social care | On and off campus. No password required. |
| Social
Sciences Citation Index
1970- is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals
across 50 social sciences disciplines |
On and off campus. Athens login. |
| Social Trends 1970-95 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Social work research and abstracts | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. Athens login for off-campus access |
| Springerlink | On and off campus. No password required for on-campus access. For off-campus access contact university library for password. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) | On and off campus. No password required |
| Statistical Accounts of Scotland (historical data from the 1790s and 1830s) | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Swets | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| Taylor & Francis Journals | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| TRILT Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching- listings and archive of broadcast programme information | On and off campus. Athens login |
| TVTimes Project 1955-1985 Provides unique access to the listings of the London Edition of the TVTimes from September 1955 – March 1985. | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Web of
Knowledge
|
On and off campus. Athens login |
| Westlaw UK Primary/secondary law and current awareness service for UK legal, regulatory and academic markets | On and off campus. Athens login |
| Who's Who 1897-1996 | Paisley Campus CD-ROM |
| Wiley InterScience Journals | On and off campus. No password required on-campus. Athens login off-campus. |
| Zetoc
(Table of contents of over 20,000 research journals) |
On and off campus. Athens login |