Journals
Bentham Open Access - Bentham Publishers have launched over 200 peer-reviewed, open access journals and visitors can access the content (still in its infancy) of these.
BioMed Central - An independent publishing house providing open-access peer-reviewed research journals in biology and medicine.
BNET Research Centre formerly FindArticles - Search 10 million articles from over 700 publications.
- List of journals in BNET.
Britannica Online - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Searching the Encyclopedia Britannica online also allows you to search some 700 periodicals provided by EBSCOhost and ProQuest. - Which journals are available can be found by clicking on the LIST here. Alternatiely use the link to Britannica and search for your topic, then expand your search to include journal and magazine articles.
For offcampus access use this link and enter your Library user-number (039*******) when prompted.
CEEOL : Central and Eastern European Online Library - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 250 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Columbia International Affairs Online - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
CSA Illumina (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Help - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. CSA covers all you might expect from a scientific database:
CSA Arts - ArtBibliographies, DAAI Design and Applied Arts.
CSA Biological Sciences - Biological Sciences Abstracts, Biology Digest and Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts.
CSA Computing & Information Sciences - Computer & Information Systems Abstracts, Information Technology Case Studies.
CSA Discovery Guides - Discovery Guides brief you in the basics of a subject and offer recent insights. You can access full-text articles using these guides. Although only an index to periodical literature, the service offers links to the Library catalogue (Locate Document), to some of the electronic databases that the Library subscribes to, and to an inter-library loan form for requesting material not held locally. The database also offers links to Internet resources related to your search and is a very useful gateway to quality Internet documents.
- Internal access: IP address (no login required)
- Internal access Athens: Athens username and password required
- Off-campus access: Not available
CSA Education - ERIC, a national information system from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
CSA Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences & Pollution, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts.
CSA Humanities - The British Humanities Index - BHI-Net is the Web version of the British Humanities Index, the international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities. It provides abstracts from over 400 daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals of international standing, with over 240,000 records dating back to 1984 covering material on the arts, literature, cinema, economics, history, current affairs, popular science, religion, music, and architecture.
CSA: Library and Information Science - LISA Library & Information Science Abstracts
CSA Linguistics - Language and Linguistic Abstracts
CSA Natural Sciences - Biology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, aquatic, water and ocean sciences, toxicology and medical science.
CSA Medical Sciences - AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts, Physical Education Index, MEDLINE, TOXLINE.
CSA Psychological Sciences - PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)
CSA Social Sciences - Criminial Justice, Worldwide Political Science, Applied Social Science, Social Services,and Sociological Abstracts.
CSA Technology - Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, and Technology Research Database (engineering, aerospace and materials sciences).
Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ contains details of and links to 3,300+ free (open access), full-text, quality journals in its directory, 747 of which are searchable at article level. - You can also browse within the following subject categories: - Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.
DocuTicker - DocuTicker offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations.
EBSCOhost - Clicking on the link here allows you to search across multiple EBSCOhost databases at the same time. - Our EBSCOhost database subscriptions consist of:
Academic Search Premier - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Full-text coverage for nearly 4,500 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more, with coverage back to 1985.
- List of journals in Academic Search Premier.
Business Source Premier - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Full-text coverage for nearly 2,300 business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more, with coverage back to 1922 in some instances. Also provides access to many country reports.
- List of journals in Business Sorce Premier.
Regional Business News - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Business news from 75 world news sources and business publications.
- List of sources in regional Business News.
Communications & Mass Media Complete - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Full-text coverage from about 326 titles providing an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
- List of journals in Communications & Mass Media Complete.
PsycArticles (APA) - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Full-text access to 63 psychology journals from the American Psychological Association and related organizations.
- List of journals in APA PsycArticles.
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection now incorporated into Academic Search Premier - Full-text access to 575 journals on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
- List of journals in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection.
GreenFile - A freely accessible research index focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Full-text access is granted to some 4,600+ records from open-access resources.
Teacher Reference Center - An index of 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - Free abstracts covering 600 periodicals, books and reports in library and information science dating back to the 1960s.
- Access: Click on Title or Icon above : no login required for on-campus users
- Off-campus access: Click on Title or Icon above : general Library username and password required.
- Access Athens: Athens username and password required
- Access: Library barcode used as password
EEVLxtra - Cross-search mutliple databases (including CSA, Emerald, Inderscience, CISTI, Citeseer, IoP, ePrints UK and ePrints archive) for information in engineering, mathematics and computing.
EdResearch Online - The EdResearch Online database contains 14,439 online education research documents and articles. These form a subset of the Australian Education Index. 70% of the documents are linked to freely available full-text documents. The remaining 30% can be purchased online for AU$22 per article.
E-Journals.org - Hosted by the World Wide Web Virtual Library this is a comprehensive list of e-journals on the web, organised by subject category. Many offer free access or free access to an archive.
Electronic Journal Miner - The Electronic Journal Miner lists (and searches for) ejournals and other online serials that are available from publishers or directly from their producer (as opposed to those available from journal aggregators/databases). You can limit your search to free publications if you require.
Elsevier Science - Elsevier Science has become one of the market leaders in the publication and dissemination of literature covering the broad spectrum of scientific endeavors. Articles may be requested on inter-library loan.
Emerald Library - Help - A reputable database of 100+ management and business journals from the MCB University Press. There is no free full-text access except to journals the library has a paper subscription to,but users are welcome to browse the contents of journals and either purchase articles online or request articles on inter-library loan. The database also includes abstracts for computer science, civil engineering and computer and communications security.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Centre - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, 2004 more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
eScholarship Repository - An open-access scholarly publishing centre from the University of California Digital Library, and hosting over 800,000 freely available full-text downloads, from 160 participating UC research units.
FreeFullText.com - FreeFullText.com provides direct 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 (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists.
Goliath - More than 3 million articles on a wide range of business topics are available from leading journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. - Access requires a subscription. Alternatively e-mail details of the article you want to Library staff who will consider purchase.
Highbeam Research - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - An archive of more than 32 million documents from over 2,800 leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years. If asked for a username and password please ask Library staff for help.
Highwire Press Help - HighWire Press is one of the two largest archives of free full-text journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. As of 08/01/02 they are assisting in the online publication of 378,433 free full-text articles and 1million+ articles in total. The site offers some free full-text journal sites, and free access to back-issues after various time limits (e.g.1 year, 2 years, 6 months etc.)
ICAAP (International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing) - In order to raise the visibility of full-text scholarly resources on the Internet, ICAAP, in association with Sociosite, maintains a database of scholarly journals. Criteria for inclusion in this database are stringent. Only quality, full-text and inexpensive (usually free) scholarly resources are included.
- List of journals included in ICAAP.
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and IEEE Xplore - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Access to 21 society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings. - IEEE Xplore contains a comprehensive collection of full text documents, providing access to the world's most highly cited journals in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. The Library is happy to purchase relevant and appropriate articles for you directly from this resource.
INFOTRAC-College Help - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - A collection from Thomson Learning of over 15 million full-text articles from over 5000 scholarly and popular periodicals. - Articles cover a broad spectrum of disciplines and topics.
- List of journals in Infotrac. - Access: general Library username and password required
IngentaConnect - IngentaConnect is the new version combining the former Ingenta Journals and IngentaSelect (which itself was formerly Catchword). - It provides access to journals from many publishers, 28,680+ journals in total. - Those the Library has a paper (hardcopy) subscription to are available electronically for free. For others, you can search and browse the table of contents and then request articles not held locally on inter-library loan.
- List of journals in IngentaConnect held by the University library.
Mad.co.uk - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Access to the marketing and advertising magazines Brand Strategy, Creative Review, Design Week, In-store Marketing, Marketing Week, New Media Age, Precision Marketing and Televisual. - Access is via the Library e-mail and general password. If in doubt please ask Library staff for access details.
MyWire - MyWire provides an in-depth look at the topics that matter, including feature length articles from 300 leading publications in addition to breaking news from multiple sources. Registration is required but access is free.
New Left Review Digital Archive - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - Access to the content of the New Left Review from its inception in 1960 (indexed) with full-text of articles available from 1980 up until 2005. The New Left Review encompasses politics, economics, history, sociology, art and literature. The Archive can be searched by author, title or subject.
OAIster - A project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service whose goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.
OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) - The OpenDOAR service is being developed to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. It will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world.
Open Humanities Press - An international open access publishing collective in critical and cultural theory offering access to fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. The journal titles currently available include: Comos and History, Culture Machine, Fibreculture, Film-Philosophy, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Parrhesia and Vectors.
Open Science Directory (provided by EBSCOhost) - About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the ‘Open Science Directory’, amalgamating titles in resources such as DOAJ, BioMed Central, PubMed Central and Highwire Press, along with titles in special programs such as HINARI (the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative), Agora (from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), andOARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment).
PsycArticles (now available through EBSCOhost). - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. PsycARTICLES is an online database from the American Psychological Association, containing more than 39,000 articles from 53 peer reviewed journals published from 1985 to the present, with earlier years in production. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
PsyJournals - Search 25 psychology journals published by Hogrefe & Huber, but only 6 are in English, including European Psychologist which is the only one for which there is free online access.
Public Library of Science - Formed in 2000 by scientists and physicians to make peer-reviewed research freely accessible online to the world. - It includes PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and (in 2006) PLoS Clinical Trials.
PubMed Central - PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
UK PubMed Central - Provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications in the life sciences.
Questia - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - An online library that provides access to the world's largest online collection of e-books (1,500,000 titles; 67,000 complete books) and journal articles (155,000) in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine articles (185,000) and newspaper articles (1.1 million). - For details about this database please contact Library staff.
ScienceDirect Help (Access Journal search page and click on Help button) - "ScienceDirect® offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,800 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers, and incorporates the former IDEAL from the Academic Press. The collection of over 1.5 million articles, from 1995 to the present, covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines.
- List of journals in ScienceDirect
ScienceResearch.com - An Internet web portal allowing access to scientific journals and public science databases such as Elsevier, Highwire, IEEE, Nature and Taylor & Francis as well as free journal resources like DOAJ.
Scielo (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Help (Click on Help button on Journal search page) - SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of "Brazilian" scientific journals. It provides access to a collection of serial titles, a collection of issues from individual serial titles, and access to the full-text of articles.
Social Science Research Network - The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 116,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 88,100 downloadable full-text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.
Wiley InterScience Help - Wiley InterScience is the online journals service from John Wiley & Sons, providing access to over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full-text of select Wiley print books online. Access to tables of contents and abstracts is available to Guest Users.
WilsonWeb: OmniFile Select - This resource is provided via a RAIUL Library subscription. - A multidisciplinary database providing full-text articles from 2,000+ journals in the following H.W.Wilson periodical databases: - Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage begins in 1994.
- List of journals in OmniFile Select.
- Internal access: Click on Title or Icon above : general Library username and password required.
- Off-campus access: Click on Title or Icon above : general Library username and password required.
Windows Live Academic - Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names, article abstracts, and conference proceedings. - It is designed to help you pinpoint what you’re looking for and not waste time with irrelevant content.
