Education

Indexes and abstracts over 650 journals covering health, social services, economics, politics, race relations and education.

Provides details of over 1 million UK and 2 million US books including author, title, price, ISBN, publisher and availability.

Covers a broad range of subjects, including all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences. Provides unlimited full-text access to current and back issues of nearly 200 peer-reviewed journals.

A highly interactive eBook database that spans all academic subject areas. There are over 70,000 titles available for you to view in full text format. Many of these titles are also listed in the library catalogue.

Provides abstracts of journal articles and reports relating to education from 1966 to date.

Provides abstracts of postgraduate theses accepted by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Irish theses now have their own collection and this collection can be searched separately by clicking on Irish Theses from the Index to Theses homepage.

Indexes the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, etc. in a wide range of disciplines. It enables you to track emerging ideas and new research in specific fields before the material appears in journal literature.

JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly Tables of Contents (TOCs): 21,134 journals (including 5,124 selected Open Access journals) from 1589 publishers.(updated 23/01/13)

You can create your own account and set up alerts for new content in journals your interested in.

Contains over 34,000 full-text sources including 12,000 news sources (eg. the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Business & Finance, Financial Times;) and a huge range of company, financial and industry sources.

With up-to-date online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content based on the largest language research programme in the world, Oxford Dictionaries Pro is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked English language resource. It offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing.

This corresponds to the 20-volume 2nd edition of the OED. It covers words from across the English-speaking world and also offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the international phonetic alphabet.

Full text access to 180 OUP journals in Life Sciences, Medicine, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Law, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Research Starters™ - Sociology provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Access 1999 onwards.

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300 periodicals.

Is the OCED's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals.

Full-text electronic access to over 1000 Taylor & Francis titles. This is a multidisciplinary resource including arts, humanities, science and social sciences.

The online version of Ulrich's Periodicals Dictionary, providing bibliographic information on serials published through out the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly.