Online Databases - Alphabetical Listing

Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers.

The Digital Library from the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) gives access to over 300 journal, magazine, and conference titles, many going back to the first volume.

Online editions of the 24 core publications from the American Chemical Society, dating back to 2000.

Abstracts from 1986 onwards. Covers technical information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins.

Abstracts from 1962 onwards. Covers basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, space sciences and allied fields. Includes coverage of reports from NASA, the UK government, and other agencies.

This database includes the full text of the Audio Engineering Society's Journal archive (1953-2005), Convention preprints (1957 onwards) and Conference papers (1982 onwards).

This database documents the history of African American music in the form of an online listening service. Contains 50,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. (Please note that this service provides streaming audio, and your computer system must be compatible in order to access the audio files correctly. Please see the "Help" section on the database for more information). Off campus access is available through a link on the secure password page.

Books, articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology held at the CPA.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Coverage includes reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics, and infection and immunity in man, other animals, and plants.

1972 onwards; with Abstracts. Comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminium, including journals, reports, conferences, dissertations, books and patents.

Contains financial, descriptive and ownership information for 250,000 companies in Europe.

Database containing 50,000 tracks featuring music from America's past. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more, through a variety of different genres. Off campus access is available through a link on the secure password page.

1980 onwards; with abstracts. Analytical chemistry information from Analytical Abstracts, plus equipment manufacturers' application notes, standards and books.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology, are covered

Annual Reviews publishes analytic reviews in 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Back volumes dating back to Volume 1, Issue 1 are now available as well as the current volumes of all titles.

Abstracts from 1981 onwards. Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subject areas.

Abstracts from 1960 onwards. Major subjects of coverage include water resources and supplies management, water legislation, water quality, potable water distribution, wastewater collection, water treatment technologies, wastewater and sewage treatment, and ecological and environmental effects of water pollution.

The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in more than 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. 1975 onwards; no abstracts.

1972 onwards with abstracts. Covers aquaculture, conservation and and marine environments.

Abstracts from 1987 onwards. Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.

1976 onwards, covers both published and unpublished literature. Approximately 100 Australian journals are comprehensively indexed.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Coverage includes bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. The database also covers clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.

A British Film Institute resource with stills, video and audio clips, posters, biographies and analyses from the National Film and Television Archive, giving an account of British film and television from the early days to the present.

From 1962 onwards. BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.

1989 onwards with abstracts. Primarily intended for an undergraduate level audience, this database is a compilation of information in the area of life sciences.

Formerly three unique databases: Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, BioEngineering Abstracts, and Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts. In 2007 the three databases were merged into one under the name: Biotechnology Research Abstracts. Coverage includes genetic engineering and gene therapy, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, drug delivery and vaccines, tissue engineering, biomechanics and biomaterials, and food biotechnology, from 1980 to present.

Contains the full text of the latest ed. of the 12 vol. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, as well as 22 other Blackwell "Handbooks" and "Companions" in the subject area of Business & Management.

Please note: Blackwell Synergy is no longer available. journal titles previously available via Blackwell Synergy are now available via Wiley Interscience.

A service providing market and investment information. Only available to School of Management staff and students from a terminal in the SoM building.

Archive of digital media recordings. Allows staff to record TV and radio broadcasts. Not available to users outside the United Kingdom.

This database of education information dating back to 1976 (with ERIC dating back to 1966) indexes articles in all areas of education.

NB: to login, click "Login via your home organisation". Choose "University of Surrey" from the drop-down list. You will then see the Athens login point. Online access to over 12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments from the British Library's Sound Archives. Please note that content is still being added to the site and some collections are not yet complete.

Combines The Burney Newspaper Collection and 19th Century British Library Newspapers in a cross searchable interface.

A key database for nursing, midwifery and allied health, the British Nursing Index covers over 220 journals and has a UK focus. Please note that while some titles are available in full text not all content will be available electronically in full text. You will notice that both the BNI and CINAHL (below) are brought to us via EBSCOhost.

Provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

This database provides the full text of current, historic and draft British Standards, as well as over 16,000 BSI adopted European and international standards.

The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection contains over 1 million pages from newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets and proclamations from London, British Isles, and colonies.

Reports on the Consumer Goods, Energy, Finance, Healthcare, and Technology industries. NOTE: access is only available to staff and students in the School of Management.

Reports on the Consumer Goods, Drug Discovery, Energy, Finance, Healthcare, and Technology industries. Also includes access to selected Verdict Reports on UK and European Retail Sectors.

Provides full text articles from over 2,900 English language journals published worldwide, covering all areas of business and management. Coverage can go back as far as 1886, though most journals are included only from the 1990s onwards. There is an embargo on some journals, meaning that the full text of the most recent issues may not become available until several months after publication. Also gives access to Datamonitor company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies, to Datamonitor industry profiles for various industries in selected countries, and to Economist Intelligence Unit country reports.

Allows users to cross search both databases via the EBSCOhost interface.

A freely available collection of carefully chosen cabinet papers from the National Archives, covering a range of historical topics.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers bone metabolism, tooth development, cartilage, fractures and bone healing.

A collection of reference works from Cambridge University Press. The subscription covers 175 titles in the Literature and Classics collection, as well as full text access to Shakespeare Survey, which has been published annually since 1948.

Transcripts of current cases and cases going back to 1996 including Northern Irish and Irish Courts, Scottish Courts, ECJ and ECHR.

Full data from the UK Census 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. NB: users wishing to access the datasets must register with the Census Registration Service first, at https://www.census.ac.uk/Register/register.aspx. At the UK Access Management Federation screen, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop down list, then enter your Athens username and password when prompted.

1975 onwards with abstracts. International coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics.

The Chemical Abstracts databases from 1907 to present. NB: to use the database, you first need to register a personal password. Please go to the secure password page (link appears on the right of this page), and click on the link for the SciFinder Scholar registration form. You will need to register using your .surrey.ac.uk e-mail address.

The full text of four major reference works in chemistry, including the Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers studies relating to the neurobiology, chemistry, and physiology of taste, smell, internal chemoreception, and chemotaxis.

A key database for nursing, biomedicine and allied health, CINAHL indexes more than 2,900 journals. The database also provides access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, and standards of professional practice. Now available as CINAHL Full Text which provides access to over 600 journals in full text.

A database of classical recordings offering over 50,000 tracks from more than 30 different labels. Includes recordings from earliest times (eg. Gregorian chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. (Please note that this service provides streaming audio, and your computer system must be compatible in order to access the audio files correctly. Please see the "Help" section on the database for more information). Off campus access is available through a link on the secure password page.

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, including systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane systematic reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.

1970 onwards with abstracts. Engineering, technology and applied science are covered in this database.

Abstracts from 1986 onwards. Focuses on polymers and ceramics reinforced with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates.

1981 onwards with abstracts. Includes artificial intelligence, CAD/CAM, control engineering, mathematics, computing and optical technology.

1982 onwards. Papers presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis is the life sciences, environmental sciences and aquatic sciences.

Full-text database. A major document library for civil engineering, containing the full text of standards, government and industry reports, Building Regulations and much more.

Contains 50,000 tracks covering important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz. Off campus access is available through a link on the secure password page.

Abstracts from 1965 onwards. Covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments.

1980 onwards with abstracts. International coverage of corrosion science and engineering literature.

A searchable collection of real transcripts of therapy and counselling sessions and first person narratives of the experience of mental illness and its treatment. Includes 30 Sage reference works. Biweekly updates.

Formerly Xreferplus. Search dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotations; with excellent cross-referencing across whole database.

Abstracts from 1966 onwards. Covers civil engineering and its complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation.

A collection of over 60 abstracting and indexing databases, covering a range of subjects, but with an emphasis on biosciences and engineering/technology. Databases can be searched individually or a number of databases can be cross-searched. Individual CSA databases are also listed on these pages.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing basic research studies but also including neural diseases such as Alzheimer's

Searchable access to the expertise of over 500 universities in Commonwealth Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Malta. Detailed information about its member universities, the people who work there and the work they do. Material on sources of funding available at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level for those who wish to study abroad in a country other than their own.

Part of the Film & Sound Online database, this sub-collection has over 50 hours of copyright-free classical music and associated scores, covering much of the core repertoire plus rarer pieces from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Adaptation and manipulation is permitted.

Only available on PCs on the ground floor - please ask at the Information Desk for details . Published by the National Resource Centre for Dance at the University of Surrey, DCAB indexes major articles, obituaries and reviews from UK and foreign periodicals.

Now available on PCs on the ground floor in the Library - please ask at the Information Desk for details. The catalogue of the Dance collection of the New York Public Library on CD-ROM. (NB: this CD-ROM database is no longer updated. See the link to "New York Public Library Dance Collection Catalogue" for up to date information.)

Part of the Business Source Complete database.

Part of the Business Source Complete database.

A database of company, financial and economic information. Only available to School of Management staff and students from a terminal in the SoM building.

Provides access to an index of Hispanic resources including journals, parts of collective books, book references and doctoral theses. Registration is required in order to receive alerts.

NB: To login, first click the "Login via UK Federation" button. Next choose "University of Surrey" from the dropdown list. You will then see the Athens login point. Digimap provides the UK Higher Education community with digital mapping based on selected Ordnance Survey map products, with full coverage of Great Britain for all of those products. Data is also available to download for use in GIS and CAD software. The following Ordnance Survey Datasets are included: OS MasterMap, Land-Line.Plus, 1:50 000 Scale Colour Raster, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster, 1:10 000 Scale Colour Raster and more. Please note that individual registration is required before use, special terms and conditions apply regarding the use of data derived from Digimap, and additional software may be required for advanced functions. Please consult the Using the Digimap Service web page before logging on.

Lists thesis citations only with the option to purchase entire theses online.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Abstracts from 1971 onwards. Covers papers, reports and conference proceedings in the field of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation.

The Ebrary Academic Complete Collection contains the full text of over 30,000 books across many disciplines. To access full text, additional software is required (ebrary Reader). This is freely available to download from the ebrary homepage. Open Access computer suites already have the software installed. University staff with MarkIV workstations may request the software from IT Services via staff-support@surrey.ac.uk. Please note the system/browser requirements, which can be found in the Patron Guide.

Access to any of the 16 databases currently available via the EBSCOhost interface, including Business Source Complete, British Nursing Index, Cinahl, Hospitality & Tourism Index, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, MLA Bibliography, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKs and the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.

1969 onwards with selected abstracts. Contains citations and abstracts to the literature in economics. Published by the American Economic Association.

Part of the Business Source Complete database.

Abstracts from 1985 onwards. References to US Federal Government environmental impact statements for land use, energy, defence and air transportation.

1981 onwards with abstracts. Electric circuits, electronic components & equipment, lasers, optics and communications.

First published in June 2004, the Encyclopedia of Energy takes a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of the issues involved, from the technical and economic aspects of energy generation to its social, historical and cultural importance.

The Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) produced by Elsevier, is a key biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 4,800 peer-reviewed journals, from 1974-present, in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical/experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation. There is selective coverage for nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychology, alternative medicine.

Contains the full text of English language articles in 150 journals covering business and management, including full backfiles for many titles.

Full text access (not including updates).

The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience explores all areas of the discipline in its focused entries on a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience.

Full text access via the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Full text access via the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Encyclopedia of Virology is the largest single reference source of current research in virology, covering biological, molecular, and medical topics concerning viruses in animals, plants, bacteria and insects. Now in five volumes, this new edition has been extensively revised and updated.

2006 review focusing on energy investment, energy efficiency and the return of nuclear power to the political agenda. E-book format.

1986 onwards with abstracts. The research, manufacture, properties and applications of polymers, ceramics and composites.

Pre-1865 law reports

The full text of 250 handbooks and reference works in the fields of engineering and materials science, from aerospace engineering to nanoscience

Abstracts from 1981 onwards. Covers studies relating to insects, arachnids, myriapods, onychophorans, and terrestrial isopods.

The full text of 150 handbooks and reference works in the environmental sciences fields, from environmental law to remote sensing

Abstracts from 1990 onwards. Covers the technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.

1981 onwards with abstracts.This database covers the literature relating to air, land, water and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management and water resources. Environmental policy and regulations are also included.

1986 onwards with abstracts. This is the web version of Ergonomics Abstracts.

1966 onwards with abstracts. This database contains education information and also has access to the British Education Index.

Abstracts from 1966 onwards. The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature.

ESDS Government gives access to datasets for large government surveys e.g.General Household Survey. NB: Registration is required before data can be accessed. Click on the "Login" link at the top right of the screen, then click on "Login via UK Federation". At the UK Access Management Federation screen, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop down menu. Enter your Athens username and password when prompted. If you have not already registered, click on the "Registration Form" link.

ESDS International provides access to a range of datasets including macro data from OECD, IMF, World Bank and IEA. NB: Registration is required before data can be accessed. Click on the "Login" link at the top right of the screen, then click on "Login via UK Federation". At the UK Access Management Federation screen, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop down menu. Enter your Athens username and password when prompted. If you have not already registered, click on the "Registration Form" link.

ESDS Longitudinal provides access to datasets, questionnaires, resources and links for the following: British Household Panel Survey; 1970 British Cohort Study; National Child Development Study; Millennium Cohort Study; English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. NB: Registration is required before data can be accessed. Click on the "Login" link at the top right of the screen, then click on "Login via UK Federation". At the UK Access Management Federation screen, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop down menu. Enter your Athens username and password when prompted. If you have not already registered, click on the "Registration Form" link.

ESDS Qualidata provides access to a range of social science datasets. NB: Registration is required before data can be accessed. Click on the "Login" link at the top right of the screen, then click on "Login via UK Federation". At the UK Access Management Federation screen, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop down menu. Enter your Athens username and password when prompted. If you have not already registered, click on the "Registration Form" link.

Full text. The Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) provides over 1200 design guides covering structural mechanical, aeronautical and chemical process engineering.

The official database for European Law, including the Official Journal, Treaties, recent Case law, Legislation in force and Legislation in preparation (COM docs).

The DART-Europe e-theses portal allows you to browse and search across 98179 open access research theses from 11 European countries. Includes some full text access.

Database providing access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union and the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe.

Available via the OvidSP platform, contains article citations from over 300 film-related periodicals with coverage from 1972 onwards. Divided into several databases - International Index to Film Periodicals, International Index to TV Periodicals, Treasures from the Film Archives, FIAF Affiliates Publications and Film/TV Documentation Collections.

NB: To login, first click the "Login via UK Federation" button. Next choose "University of Surrey" from the dropdown list. You will then see the Athens login point. Downloadable films and videos for use in learning, teaching and research. Subjects include medicine, life science, archaeology, performing arts, music, history, social sciences. Note: Some campus PCs may not have software loaded to enable you to view these films.

Film and moving-image studies resources including published scholarship or research in various forms, from film and media weblogs, through online peer-reviewed journals, to other forms of web-based scholarly writing, as well as online works of film/moving-image research by practice.

Search and read 2.8 million articles from over 900 publications

FLAG is an inventory of the collections of foreign, comparative and international law materials in UK universities and the British Library. It describes the contents of different collections noting shelf marks and providing web links to each of the libraries included in the database.

The full text of 120 handbooks and reference works in the field of food sciences, from microbiology to functional foods

This database includes full text international yearbooks, periodicals and tribunals/judicial decisions, as well as U.S. law digests.

Covering the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English.

Currently contains 14 books in subject areas relevant for English Literature, Sociology and Business.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers all aspects of DNA, differentiation and development, RNA, protein synthesis, ribosomes, nuclear proteins and chromatin, enzymes, and gene regulation.

Provides key business intelligence on countries, consumers, lifestyles, markets and companies.

Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling. Provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as full text for more than 4,600 records.

Incorporates the full text of "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera", and "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz".

This is a legal encyclopedia giving an outline of each subject of law. Its stated aim is to cover every proposition of English law, statute or case law. This online version provides full-text content of the 50 Volumes, with the Cumulative Supplement and the latest Noter-up issue.

This is a full text legal encyclopedia providing narrative on industrial relations and employment law and practice.

Abstracts from 1981 onwards. Covers aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics.

Full text historical legal research database spanning multiple library collections in law and law-related subjects, including reports, periodicals, legislation and legal classics.

Online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937, including census reports, legislation and essays as well as statistics from the Registrar General and The National Archives.

A bibliographic database covering English language academic journals and trade magazines relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There are some links to full text articles. Coverage goes back to the early 1960s.

Allows users to cross search both databases via the EBSCOhost interface.

This resource brings together 18th Century HCPP (1688-1834), 19th Century HCPP (1801-1900), and 20th Century HCPP (1901-2003/04 session). It includes over 200,000 sessional papers and supplementary material with page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.

Provides online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers. The judgments, decisions, resolutions and reports of these bodies are held in a database.

Abstracts 1982-1995. Covers aspects of research into the human genome, including cloning and medical genetics.

Covers all aspects of human nutrition including techniques, foods, physiology and biochemistry, nutrition and health, and clinical nutrition. It provides details from over 1000 academic journals, books, reports and conferences published worldwide, from 1990 to date.

Abstracts from 1995 onwards. Covers human population, demography, and societal issues involving natural resource management.

1951 onwards. The essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. Broad coverage of international journals and books, incorporating over 100 languages and countries. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library contains every peer-reviewed paper produced by the ICE since its first meeting in 1836. Access to the individual titles within this collection is also available via the Electronic Journals A-Z

An analysis of the most recent major EU energy policies, in particular the Energy & Climate Package of Jan. 08 and the 3rd Liberalisation Package of Sept. 07. E-book format.

Provides access to the full text of more than 950,000 documents from over 12,000 publications, including Journals, Conference Proceedings and IEEE Standards. Also covers a variety of unexpected subjects including Dance, Theatre, Film & Literature.

The IMDb website consists of one of the largest accumulations of data about films, television programs, products, and video games, reaching back to each medium's respective beginning. It also includeis video clips of films and programs.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Studies relating to all aspects of immune systems in man and animals, in normal functions and disorders, are summarized

An in-depth index of over 3350 collections of personal narratives (letters, diaries, oral histories) in English from around the world. Contains 650,000 pages of full text narractive, searchable by keyword, and pointers to 3500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.

A digital archive of UK radio programmes from the Independent Local Radio Programme Sharing Scheme 1983-1990, taken from the Felicity Wells Memorial Archive from Bournemouth University.

Available via the OvidSP platform, this database provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law, including comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law, socialist law, public and private international law, and transnational commercial law.

1990 onwards, no abstracts. This is a searchable index to individual conference papers in science and technology.

Aslib's database of UK & Ireland theses. Search by author and subject, from 1716 onwards.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers Significant findings and practical applications in the agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

The full text of UK & US Newsapers: Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, New York Times, Observer, Scotsman, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Times, The Washington Times, The Sun.

Provides details of articles from over 28,000 publications, some of which are available on subscription. Pay-per-view access is also available for unsubscribed material.

1969 onwards with abstracts. Inspec provides access to the world's literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing and information technology.

Access to Information Services provided by the Institute of Hospitality, including e-books and e-journals. NOTE: access is only available to hospitality and tourism staff and students in the School of Management

Intermid is a collection of articles from the British Journal of Midwifery: the site contains all articles published in the journal since 1996, including clinical reviews, professional articles and in-depth research on all aspects of midwifery training and practice.

IPSA provides bibliographic details of journal articles in the area of international politics, dating back to 1989.

Internurse is a collection of 14 key journals for nursing and allied health. All journals are available electronically in full text.

Formed from the integration of Artifact and HUMBUL, this database provides access to a catalogue of reviewed web sites on the following broad subject areas: arts and creative industries, general arts and humanities, history, philosophy, languages, literature, cultural studies, linguistics and classics.

The full text of 30 journals (and their previous titles) from the Institute of Physics, from 1874 to 1998. Also available: several current IOP online titles.

This service contains: Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present); Science Citation Index (1900 to present); Social Science Citation Index (1956 to present); Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings.

This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering insight into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories of material include: nineteenth-century entertainment, the book trade, popular prints, crime, murders and executions, and advertising.

Science & Social Science reports for 2000 to 2004. This service from ISI provides a systematic and objective means of determining the relative importance of nearly 5000 science and social science journals.

JSTOR is a collection of full text journals, most going back to Volume 1, Issue 1 (in some cases going back to the 18th or 19th Century). Many subjects are covered across the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities. JSTOR operates a "moving wall" policy, which means that the most recent few years' volumes are not available.

JustCite is a legal reference search engine, providing a fully cross-referenced index to a comprehensive collection of UK and European legal information.

Contains the full text of over 1600 market reports, covering sectors such as Business Services, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Food & Catering, Travel & Tourism, European Markets, and Retailing. Reports are available for the last 3 to 4 years, with a selection of earlier reports also available.

Contains over 1000 full text books in materials science and engineering.

This reference service provides key information about the people, organisations and institutions of the UK. Includes the full text of over 100 books, such as Civil Service Yearbook, Municipal Year Book, Education Grants Directory, Which Guides, Writer's and Artist's Yearbook and Whitaker's Almanack.

Provides current UK and EU information, summaries of case law and links to statutes, bills and command papers. Updated daily.

The complete editorial text of two of France's leading daily newspapers. Le Monde from January 1987 to date, Le Figaro from November 1996 to date.

Full content access to the Springer series in computing (over 4,500 books).

This database indexes articles from legal journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe. More than 430 English language journals are covered. Coverage from 1986 onwards. Please note this is not a full-text journal database.

Covers leisure, recreation, sport, tourism, hospitality, arts and entertainment. It provides details of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, reports and theses in about 90 languages published worldwide from 1973 to date. There are some links to full text journal articles.

Provides full text law reports, legislation, journal and newspapers articles from the UK. Also includes specialist encyclopedias Halsbury’s Laws of England and Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law.

Abstracts from the mid-1960s onwards. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

1973 onwards; with Abstracts. Includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics as well as descriptive, historical and comparative linguistics.

The full text of over 18,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 228 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Abstracts from 1969 onwards. Covers issues relating to library management and information science.

The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1850 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides more than 4800 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics and grows by over 60 articles per month.

1985 onwards. Focus is on industry news, trade data, regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.

The database provides bibliographic details of over 100,000 articles about midwifery and associated subjects, drawn from over 550 journals from 1971 onwards.

Abstracts and Full-text. MathSciNet includes reviews of the published mathematical research literature and the current awareness journal Current Mathematical Publications. Includes the full-text of Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to 1979.

The full text of 90 books in the field of mathematics, including mathematics for finance, biology, medicine, engineering, physics, etc.

1981 onwards; with Abstracts. Worldwide literature coverage in mechanical engineering, engineering management and production engineering.

Medline is a key database for biomedicine and health from the National Library of Medicine. The database contains citations and abstracts with some links to full text. Coverage is from 1949 onwards.

Medline is a key database for biomedicine and health from the National Library of Medicine. The database contains citations and abstracts with some links to full text. Coverage is from 1949 onwards.

1966 onwards; with Abstracts. A comprehensive source of information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications and development. Includes journals, conferences, books, reports, patents and dissertations.

This critically acclaimed and highly respected laboratory standard in biochemistry is published by Elsevier and now available electronically via Science Direct. Access is from 1995 onwards.

Provides detailed market reports on a wide range of sectors. The Library subscribes to the following collections of reports, going back 5 years: Leisure Intelligence UK; Market Intelligence UK; Retail Intelligence UK, including UK Retail Briefing; and Travel and Tourism International, including Country Reports and Travel and Tourism Analyst. NOTE: when logging in off campus with your Athens password for the first time, you will be asked to register your details in order to receive a validation code by e-mail. Once you have input the validation code, you will be able to login with your Athens password as usual on future occasions.

MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1926 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Over 750 books in all subject areas, including 26 books in Business, Engineering and Media Studies.

Free access to the full text of books and reports from: National Academy of Sciences , National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.

Abstracts from 1975 onwards. Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, a source of information for those engaged with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.

Archive service from the National Archives offering researchers free access to databases created by UK government departments.

Archived database containing a comprehensive record of publicly-supported health research projects from early 2000 up to and including September 2007, formerly held in the National Research Register (NRR) Projects Database.

Online access to over 5,500 CDs, in streamed audio format. Content ranges from classical to jazz and folk. Please note that a broadband connection is recommended, and the maximum length of session is one hour. Other system requirements are given on the Naxos homepage.

The NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository provides a free and persistent point of access for working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO (New England Law Library Consortium) member schools.

NetLibrary provides access to the full text of over nearly 600 books that are recommended for taught courses at UniS. There are also 3,500 books that are freely available via NetLibrary, for example in the areas of classic literature, philosophy and American history

Online catalogue of the Dance collection of the New York Public Library. (Replaces the "Dance on Disk" CD-ROM).

NB: to login, click "Login via UK federation". Choose "University of Surrey" from the drop-down list. You will then see the Athens login point. Offers access to over 3000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the ITN/Reuters Television archives.

NHS Evidence (formerly the National Library for Health) pulls together electronic resources for clinical information. Some resources need a specific NHS Evidence Athens Registration. NHS staff, students and those teaching NHS groups can self-register on the website.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Covers cloning and sequencing, gene regulatory sequences and proteins, RNA processing and transport, RNA editing DNA biosynthesis, transcription factors and oncoproteins.

Allows users to cross search any or all of BNI, CINAHL, Medline and PsycINFO via the EBSCOhost interface.

Providing a full-text collection of key health & safety and environmental management material online. The OHSIS database includes documents relating to occupational health & safety, British Standards, fire safety, environmental health, offshore, environmental management and food & drink safety. These documents offer guidance and advice relating to technical best practice and regulatory compliance within the industry.

1981 onwards; with Abstracts. Marine biology, physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, meteorology and geology, environmental and legislative topics.

1960 0nwards. OECD Main Economic Indicators containing data on national accounts, industrial production, employment, prices, business trends, finance and trade for the major world economies.

Available via ESDS International, a comprehensive tool for analysing industrial structure and performance in OECD countries.

July 1998 onwards. Full text of the OJ series.

Abstracts from 1989 onwards. Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts covers every aspect of oncogene research into the molecular basis of malignant transformations.

An aggregation of databases from worldwide authoritative sources. Contains over 800,000 references with abstracts or keywords covering issues such as the health risks of nanotechnology, corporate killing and corporate social responsibility, bioterrorism, management of road risks, preparedness and business continuity as well as basic health, safety, hygiene and working environment information.

The DNB is an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series

Database offering essential language resources, including fully searchable bilingual dictionaries (currently including English with French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Chinese), translation tools and other unique study materials that provide help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

New 2008 edition of this dictionary contains over 1850 articles, including classic articles and up-to-date text by leading economists. Regular updates. Search and browse facility.

An archive of over 500 digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

A bibliographic database of worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Produced by the National Center for PTSD, it is updated monthly and covers literature published from 1871 to the present day.

Abstracts from 1981 onwards. Covers topics relating to atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues.

Provides full-text access to over 300 humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.

PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber covering aspects of psychology.

The full text of over 900 books published by the American Psychological Association, from 1950 onwards.

The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection of 575 full text journals covers topics such as emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Allows users to cross search any or all of PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKs and the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection via the EBSCOhost interface.

1806 onwards. Database of literature in psychology and related subject areas compiled by the American Psychological Association.

PubMed is an online search interface to citations drawn from Medline and from additional life science journals back to 1948. PubMed is provided by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine. For most items, an English abstract is available and in some cases, links to full-text journals. PubMed also provides links to other sites offering full-text articles and related resources.

Company accounts, ratios and activities for over 300,000 companies in mainland China in both standardised and local detailed format.

Coverage of 75 U.S. business journals, newspapers and newswires. Full-text, updated daily.

ResearchNow has an Open Access option that provides completely unrestricted access to the working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" from participating institutional and subject-matter repositories. This is free to all readers. NB: the Library does not subscribe to the Journals and Monographs options.

Available via the OvidSP platform, RILM (Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale) provides bibliographic details of journal articles and books covering all types and aspects of music, dating back to 1967.

Abstracts from 1990 onwards. Covers risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.

A full text archive of freelance articles about popular music, from the 1950s to the present day.

Compiled by clinical nurse experts from one of the UK’s leading centres of expertise, the manual includes over 350 evidence-based clinical procedures related to every aspect of care, from handwashing to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The archive contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 (the first issue of Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society) to 1996. The backfile contains approximately 195,000 articles in 1,200,000 pages. Allows users to BROWSE ONLY.

The archive contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 (the first issue of Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society) to 1996. The backfile contains approximately 195,000 articles in 1,200,000 pages. Allows users to SEARCH and BROWSE.

The full text of over 100 books in the area of computing and information technology, from major publishers in this area such as O'Reilly, Microsoft Books, Que, and Sams. Includes the facility to cut and paste code fragments for your own use.

This package contains the full text of over 480 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, going back to 1999.

SCADPlus is the European Commission's bibliographical web database of legislation, articles and official publications from 1983 onwards.

The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in 5,800 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. 1900 onwards; Abstracts from 1991.

ScienceDirect contains the full text of more than 1,600 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

The Chemical Abstracts databases from 1907 to present. NB: to use the database, you first need to register a personal password. Please go to the secure password page (link appears on the right of this page), and click on the link for the SciFinder Scholar registration form. You will need to register using your .surrey.ac.uk e-mail address.

Searching more than 167 million science-related pages, Scirus helps you quickly locate scientific information on the Web, including reports, peer-reviewed articles, technical and medical data.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of scientific research literature and quality web sources. Updated daily, Scopus offers nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 5,000 publishers, results from 435 million scientific web pages, 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices and "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals.

Full text access via Cambridge Companions Online, the Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production published annually since 1948.

A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Over 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, including performances of traditional music from virtually everywhere in the world. (Please note that this service provides streaming audio, and your computer system must be compatible in order to access the audio files correctly. Please see the "Help" section on the database for more information). Off campus access is available through a link on the secure password page

This is a database of social, community and care work information. Freely available.

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that provides access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in more than 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. 1956 onwards; Abstracts from 1992.

Abstracts from 1980 onwards. Covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

1952 onwards; Abstracts from 1963. This database covers sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences. SOPODA (Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts) is also included as a subfile.

1981 onwards; with Abstracts. Covers all aspects of theory, production and application of solid state materials and devices as well as superconductivity.

1980 onwards; Abstracts. This database is a subfile of Sociological Abstracts and it provides literature on issues such as violence, abuse, neglect, ageing, environment, education, and risk assessment.

This guide will tell you which sets of standards are available for use in the Library and where to find them.

The SEP is a dynamic reference work, updated constantly by experts in the field of Philosophy. All entries are rigorously reviewed by an editorial board before publication.

Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts (STMA) is a component of Zentralblatt MATH, known as STMA-Z. Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing services in pure and applied mathematics, containing more than 2 million entries drawn from more than 2,300 serials and journals, covering the period from 1868 to the present. STMA-Z contains all entries of ZMATH pertaining to statistics.

The full text of 70 books in the field of statistics, including statistics for computing, biological sciences, business and finance, engineering, health sciences, psychology, social sciences and law

Available via Source OECD, this database provides official annual data for detailed industry and services sectors according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC). It covers a number of variables describing the structure of the economy. Data shown are derived from national structural business surveys.

Abstracts from 2003 onwards. Covers issues relating to sustainable development, including economic and legal factors.

Journal Tables of Contents (TOC) service. Search over 12,500 tables of contents from over 400 publishers, export TOC feeds to popular feed readers, and save journal titles to receive future TOCs.

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) capturing the entire newspaper, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

The TLS is a weekly literary review published in London by News International. It has included contributions from authors such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Henry James. The archive contains all of the full text published from 1902 to 2005.

Abstracts from 1981 onwards. Covers pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals, radiation, food additives, natural toxins, social poisons and drug abuse, and standards and legislation.

1999 onwards; with abstracts. All areas of toxicology, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants and mutagens and teratogens.

Translation Studies Abstracts consists of abstracts of articles from an extensive list of journals, electronic publications, collected volumes, and doctoral theses. Bibliography of Translation Studies consists of concise evaluative summaries of authored and collected volumes, offering a non-partisan guide to the literature in the area.

Translation Studies Bibliography includes abstracts of articles in the fields of of intra- and interlingual translation, intercultural communication, adaptation, interpreting, localization, multimedia translation, language mediation, terminology and documentation.

NB: To login, choose "University of Surrey" from the drop-down list. You will then see the Athens login point. Designed especially for educational users, TRILT is a database containing complete schedules for around 300 UK channels, including regional variations as well as Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish and Asian-language stations or programmes.

The UK Statute Law Database is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online

Reports on the UK and European Retail Sectors - available via the Business Insights interface.

Abstracts from 1982 onwards. Comprehensive coverage of the world literature on every aspect of virology in humans, animals, and plants is featured, with topics ranging from replication cycles to oncology.

1967 onwards; with abstracts. Covers the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

Now available via ESDS International. Contains statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

1990 onwards; ISI Proceedings is an index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology. It enables you to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields before the material appears in journal literature.

Abstracts from 1967 onwards. References to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics.

Provides full text UK law reports, legislation, journals, commentary and newspapers. Also includes material from other jurisdictions particularly useful for EU or US materials.

Coverage includes over 1100 full text journals covering the sciences, business, law, humanities, psychology and social sciences

An electronic collection of early women's writing produced by The Brown University Women Writers Project, which aims to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wider audience.

Information on higher education systems and institutions worldwide, bringing together data from the International Handbook of Universities 2009 and an additional 5,000 institutions that offer 3-year degrees in more than 180 countries. NB: Only one user from the University of Surrey may login at a time.

Abstracts from 1975 onwards. Covers comparative politics, history and theory of political science, international relations and military policy.

The WTOelibrary is an online fully cross-searchable portal of a large number of WTO (World Tourism Organization) publications in their respective languages (over 650 books in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic).

1996 onwards. A collection of up to 30 nursing and biomedical journals available electronically in full text.

Provides access to the British Library's vast index of journals and conference proceedings and allows you to set up an email alert of your selected journal contents pages. NB: you may search ZETOC without logging in, however to set up alerts you must do so. After selecting "Zetoc Alert" you will see a page headed "Authorisation required: select your home institution". Using the drop down menu under the "Universities" heading, choose "University of Surrey". Enter your Athens username and password when prompted.