Multidisciplinary
Some useful resources covering several subjects.
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: |
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801; printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages; printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars; with false imprints claiming publication in London, in any language. Contains every item in Pollard and Redgrave A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640 (STC); in Wing A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. |
| Coverage: | 1473-1800. |
| Note: | Use code "ed_itw" when following links from ESTC to ECCO. |
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service
| Access information: |
Access on and off-campus. Registration required for full-text access and there may be a delay of some days in receiving required copy. EThOS is currently unavailable due to a cyber-attack on the British Library at the end of October. Colleagues at the British Library are working to restore services but there is no timescale for the resolution of this outage. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 08/12/2023. |
| Description: | British Library service providing full text of thousands of UK Higher Education theses (free to staff and students of the University of Edinburgh). |
| Additional information: |
Items unavailable from EThOS may be available through the Inter-Library Loan service (I.L.L.): Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) Service For more comprehensive searches of theses awarded in your subject area, use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. Each title is listed in DiscoverEd. About 4-5% of Artstor images migrated into Jstor are not accessible outside the United States. |
| Coverage: |
The collections currently available are:
The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. Userguides to the various collections can be found at https://guides.jstor.org |
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Biographies of over 60,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2013. This resource is updated in January, May and September. |
Oxford English Dictionary Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Fully searchable online version of the Oxford English Dictionary the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language. Includes etymologies, quotations and pronunciation guides. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus |
| Description: | Complete text of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the subject areas below. |
| Coverage: | Archaeology, Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Computer and Information Science, Earth Sciences and Geography, Economics and Finance, Education, Environmental Science, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work and Sociology. We have access to over 20,700 e-books. |
Periodicals Archive Online via ProQuest
Periodicals Archive Online via Journal Archives
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. The Library's ProQuest subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024 - NB applies to collections 6-10 only, collections 1-5 are purchased content. |
| Description: |
An archival databases of digitised journal backfiles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Archive Online covers 37 subject categories, in a number of languages, and is divided into 10 collections:
Periodical Archive Online is a mix of purchased content, marked (P) above and subscribed content, marked (S) above. |
| Coverage: | From journal first issue up to 2000. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | A database of journal articles citations in the arts, humanities and social sciences. covers 37 subject categories, in 44 languages and dialects. |
| Coverage: | From journal first issue up to 1995. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Millions of searchable citations to worldwide dissertation and theses. Around 70,000 new dissertations and theses added annually. |
| Coverage: | Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. |
| Full-text: | 1997 to date, with selected coverage from earlier years. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 16 million author profiles, 70,000 institutional profiles, 5000 publishers, 70 million records, 1.4 billion cited references, covers over 20,000 journals from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. |
| Coverage: | For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. |
| User guide: | https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home |
| Note: | The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). |
| Note: | If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested. |
Web of Science Core Collection
| Access information: |
Access on and off campus. |
| Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science. | |
| Description: |
Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available. |
| Coverage: |
Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards). Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards). Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards). |
| Help: |
Finding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'): |
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR): |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Global database containing tens of millions of bibliographic records on all subjects from 1000 A.D. to date, for all types of material catalogued by libraries, including books and digital resources, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, films, videos. No abstracts. |