English Language and Linguistics databases

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Brill Journal Archive

  • Provides access to over 50,000 articles to more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
  • Included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

British National Corpus (BNC)

  • A 100 million-word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources.
  • Only available from one PC on Level 3 of the Frenchay Library.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

  • The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Included in the main library search.

EThOS

  • British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

  • Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers.
  • Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • Included in the main library search.

Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts

  • Indexes international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
  • Included in the main library search.

MLA International Bibliography

  • The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index.
  • Covers books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
  • Included in the main library search.

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

One Literature (formerly Literature Online)

  • One Literature covers the period 1500 – 2008.
  • Contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works.
  • Includes rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

  • Ultimate reference work on family names of the UK.
  • Covers English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish and immigrant surnames.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • An illustrated collection of over 56,000 biographies of people who shaped all aspects of Britain’s past.
  • From the 4th Century to the 21st Century.
  • Included in the main library search.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

  • The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I

  • The most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the UK and Ireland.

PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)

  • Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
  • Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
  • Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

SAGE Journals Online

  • Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
  • Included in the main library search.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

ScienceDirect

  • Explore scientific, technical, and medical research from over 1,000 electronic journals.
  • Includes business, economics and social sciences.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

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