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What is a Database?

A database is a collection of information organised to be retrieved in an efficient way. This could be in different formats as follows:

Journal articles
Conference papers
Reports
Books
Patents
Standards

Some databases focus on a specific area while others cover a wide range of subjects, for example: Academic Search Complete covers a wide range of topics like Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Business, Political Science...etc. while Dentistry & Oral Science specialises in Dentistry fields only.

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Databases

Databases Available through the Library Portal:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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It's a full-text database including scholarly collection that is spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study.
IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) This link opens in a new window
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The IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) provides access to the core IEEE collection of technology journals. With peer-reviewed publications concentrating on theoretical and experimental papers, as well as practical applications in research, design, and specification, ASPP offers valuable research on a variety of topics. ASPP includes 179 online IEEE Society-sponsored journals, magazines, and transactions. Coverage is from 2010 to the present. Delivered via IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.
IEEE Conference Proceedings Archive This link opens in a new window
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Perpetual access to leading technology content from nearly 480,000 IEEE conference papers across more than 850 conference series. The IEEE Conference Proceedings Archive includes more than 3,700 historical IEEE conference proceedings with coverage dating from 1936 through 1999 (2000 to 2009 update is included), across numerous areas of technology. IEEE conference papers are authored by visionaries of pioneering technologies that laid the groundwork for many innovations of today and tomorrow. The collection includes all of the IEEE conference material currently available in IEEE Xplore® for the years specified.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world’s science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information
Wiley Online Library - E-Journals Collection
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Wiley Online Library features an exceptional portfolio of over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals. Half of which are published in partnership with prestigious international scholarly and professional societies. Our titles cover the full spectrum of life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities, and include many titles ranked at the forefront of their field.
Springer Link - Journals Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
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The Springer journal collection includes more than 2.500 English-language and close to 200 German-language journals. Springer is also home to the largest portfolio of open access journals, including the journals from BioMed Central and the SpringerOpen portfolio.
IET INSPEC Database
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Inspec Direct - will give you comprehensive coverage of global scientific and engineering literature, essential for all your research and academic projects.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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A scholarly business database providing full-text and bibliographic access to materials: journals, financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Included as part of the comprehensive coverage offered by Business Source Complete are indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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