Audiology: Databases

Two databases covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of health and medicine.

ProQuest's Nursing and Allied Health Database is a comprehensive online resource for nursing students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals. The database offers a diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.

Indexes scholarly journals covering science, technology, textiles, health, medicine and social sciences from 1960s to date. You may need to 'activate' your account on first use of this resource.

This includes e-book access to:
Audiology and Communication Disorders: An Overview, 2nd edn by Larry E. Humes, Fred H. Bess
Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 7th edn by Jack Katz, Marshall Chasin, Kristina English, Linda J. Hood, Kim L. Tillery
and other relevant e-books.

EBSCO's Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed titles.

Available through Kanopy: 23 educational videos supporting early years professionals created by Siren Films.
Access the Siren Films videos here. When off campus, please click on the Log in to Montfort icon. You will then need to enter your DMU Single Sign On username and password to access the Kanopy site. If you have previously logged in as a DMU registered member then you may not be required to sign in again.

An online legal research service including case law, legislation and commentary materials. Also provides access to a wide range of full-text local and national newspapers.

Please note: LexisNexis terms and conditions do not permit the uploading of Lexis content into third party applications, including artificial intelligence technologies such as large language models and generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Bing, Google Bard and Harvey).

This bibliographic database of over 50,000 books articles and reports from the specialist collection on Social Gerontology held at the Centre for Policy on Ageing. The site provides information about organisations active in the field of old age and ageing and an international calendar of events about old age and ageing.

A bibliographic database covering all aspects of psychology, including psychiatry, pharmacology, and applications in nursing, education, management and criminal justice. Indexes journal articles, book chapters, reports and dissertations from 1887 to date.

Access to full text journals published by Elsevier. You may need to 'activate' your account on first use of this resource.

MEDLINE from PubMed is a medical database searched via the US National Library of Medicine. Unrestricted access.

A guide to the meaning, pronunciation, usage and history of words from across the English-speaking world.

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Definitive site for all publications from British Standards Institution, with bibliographic information for more than 39,500 documents.

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