Databases are useful resources to search for good quality subject-specific research and find journal articles on a topic. . Here are some useful subject databases. Unless otherwise specified, you will need your Single Sign On username and password (the same as for MyDMU and email) to access them within and outside the university.
Two EBSCO 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.
Scopus indexes scholarly journals covering science, technology, textiles, health, medicine and social sciences from 1960s to date. You may need to 'activate' your personal Elsevier account on first use of this resource. You can find more information about Scopus by clicking on the online support guide at https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home.
These are some more databases that you may find useful in your research
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. The database also includes more than 70,000 videos from the Associated Press. This collection of videos is updated monthly and includes footage from 1930 to the present day.
This online 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 (CPA). 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.
An online bibliographic database covering all aspects of psychology, including psychiatry, pharmacology, and applications in nursing, education, management and criminal justice. The resource indexes journal articles, book chapters, reports and dissertations from 1887 to date.
The ScienceDirect platform provides online access to full text journals and eBooks published by Elsevier. You may need to 'activate' your personal Elsevier account on first use of this resource.
Definitive site for all publications from British Standards Institution, with bibliographic information for more than 39,500 documents.
To download and print PDF documents from British Standards, you are required to have the FileOpen plug-in installed on your device. You can still view documents online without the plug-in.
You can download the FileOpen plug-in from the FileOpen website.
To download, please save the document to your device first, and then open the file.
DMU registered staff and students (authorised users) may print one hard copy and may download one single electronic copy of any of the Documents (the Permitted Copies). The Permitted Copies may not be used to build a hard copy or electronic reference collection that exceeds 5% of the total Documents under our subscribed products. The Permitted Copies must be destroyed or removed when our subscription to BSI ends and/or on completion of your degree programme and/or contract (whichever applies). Authorised Users may copy up to 10% of the content of any of the Documents for use in another document for other authorised users. All copied content must contain the phrase “Copyright BSI Standards Limited © {Date} (where {Date} is the Date of the copying).
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