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Subject databases

The University subscribes to over 100 databases with varying content, such as journal or newspaper articles, eBooks, maps, streaming media, datasets and guides. The full list and links to the databases can be accessed as follows:

Portal -> My Learning -> Online databases and academic journals.

You can also use the link below, please note you will always need to log in with your user id and password.

Key Databases

ACM - Association of Computing Machinery.

Specialises in:  Computer Science, Cybernetics, Subject Coverage for ACM and IEE , HCI, Information Systems, Networking & Comms, Software Engineering

IEEExplore - The Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Specialises in: Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering. Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications.

LibrarySearch - > Eresources (Greenwich) this is a meta search engine, that looks through all our other databases 

Important note:  Whilst IEEE and ACM look at software and hardware issues, there is so much more to computing than this.  Computers are used by everyone and many people write about them and their uses in specialist journals for their profession. Therefore to improve the quality of your research, especially for your dissertation you should also consider, with a note about their content. If they do not the following:

Cite Them RIght - how to reference

EBSCO (select all) - provides journal articles, see special note below about Struggling to Get Started

Emerald - business management

Engineering Village - a comprehensive database for engineering research

Gartner - includes Industry reports, trends and focuses, case studies and best practice

Mintel - marketing reports and data on amongst others things IT lifestyle choices

Sage Research Methods - takes you through all the stages of writing a dissertation

Science Direct - provides journal articles

Springer link - provides journal articles

 

Struggling to get started?

Choosing keywords can be difficult at first if you are not sure what you are trying to achieve. When you perform a search, scroll down and find three articles you like and identify a word they have in common that you didn't use to find these articles.

There are two databases that are particularly helpful for starting off as they provide the keywords and phrases used to tag the articles.  

IEEE - select an article and look at the left menu, at the bottom it says keywords. here you will find many useful words you could use to help narrow or change the focus of your research. Note, it uses more than one indexing services you can use words from both.

EBSCO Host Research Databases -    This has broader coverage and is good for picking up the human side of computing, eg education, psychology etc. Therefore when you open EBSCO  select all

When you run a search look at Subject: thesaurus terms on the left menu and it will the main themes your search has found. Select show all it will list every keyword used, including some you may not have considered.

What to do if the full text of an article is not available.

On LibrarySearch you will find two tools to help you locate the full text of an article you could not source from our databases.

Publication Finder  

Use this to search for a journal title. If we have it, you will be given a link to the database that stocks it.  Remember to check the its with the date range of what we hold.

 Document Delivery Request

Use this to get articles for your research that we don't stock

Supporting Your Studies - Databases and Products

Studiosity+

A secure site for submitting you work for advice on grammar, context and critical thinking. Please note, this uses AI which has been trained by tutors and none of your work leaves this site or is stored for longer than one month. 

Academic Integrity Matters

This Moodle mini course discusses what is consider appropriate use of others peoples work and why correct referencing matters

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