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English Language and Linguistics
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.
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.
Kanopy
Access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
NOT 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.
Includes access to the Financial Times.
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.
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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English Language and Linguistics resources
Library resources for English language and linguistics.