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Safari Tech Books Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Full text of Information Technology and programming publications from O'Reilly & Associates and The Pearson Technology Group. |
SCAD
See entry for Summaries of EU Legislation.
Science Citation Index
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Try clearing your cookies if you have access problems or use the alternative login. |
| Description: | Part of Web of Knowledge. Details of articles, meeting reports, letters, editorials etc. from 7,100 of the most important international science, engineering and medicine journals from 1900 to date. |
| Book reviews are only indexed for the three journals, Nature, Science and the New Scientist. Contains over 20 million references, most of which include abstracts. Email alerts available. |
| Cited Reference Searches should use this. |
| Coverage: | From 1900 to date. |
Additional Information
ScienceDirect
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | ScienceDirect provides access to 1200 journals published by Elsevier Science B.V., with full text of articles available from 1995 onwards for titles to which the University subscribes. |
SciFinder
| Access information: | Requires personal registration. Off-campus, you must be accessing the University network via the VPN service. |
| After 20 minutes of inactivity sessions will be closed automatically. |
| Description: | Bibliographic information and abstracts of articles published from more than 10,000 journals. Covers chemistry (all aspects), chemical structures and patents, chemical engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics. Information on more than 50 million chemical substances. |
| Search by chemical structure or text. Full reaction searching allows you to specify reaction sites and map atoms in the reactants. Also, information on patents, chemical suppliers and regulations. Cited reference searching is possible. |
| Coverage: | From 1800s onwards |
Additional information
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description. | Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. Updated daily. |
Scopus
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Covers 19,500 journals from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. |
| Coverage: | For some subject areas, from the 1820s onwards. |
SCOTBIS
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Scottish business information provided by the National Library of Scotland’s Scottish Business Information Service. |
| Users can register for access to the following business resources: COBRA, Frost & Sullivan , Global Reference Solution. |
The Scotsman / Scotland on Sunday / Evening News
| Access information: | Available via LexisLibrary. Select the ‘Source’ tab and select title from the A-Z list. Also available from Factiva. Click on Source and select title from A-Z list or search for title. Cookies must be enabled on your browser. |
| Description: | Full text of Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, Evening News. Scotsman and Evening News available online on day of publication, Scotland on Sunday available on the day after publication. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. |
| Coverage: | LexisLibrary: Scotsman: From 1st Jan 1993.Scotland on Sunday: From 1st Jan 1993.Evening News: From 16th Oct 1997. |
| Factiva: Scotsman : 29th August 1981 (Includes: Abstracts from 29 August 1981 to 15 October 1992. Selected Coverage from 29 August 1981 to 12 November 1996). Scotland on Sunday 17th Jan 1993 (Selected coverage from 17 January 1993 to 23 November 1996). Evening News: From 2nd April 1998. |
Additional information
For historic content consult The Historical Scotsman, via Proquest.
The Historical Scotsman [Scotsman archive]
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Archive coverage of the Scotsman newspaper. See Scotsman entry for information on finding more recent content. The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday also available to consult on Microfilm in the Main Library. |
| Coverage: | 1817 to 1950. |
Additional information
For more information on finding newspaper articles see Newspapers entry.
SCRAN
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Choose Shibboleth Log In or UK Federation. |
| Description: | 1.5 million text records of historic monuments and of artefacts held in museums, galleries and archives, plus 100,000 related multimedia resources; video or sound clips, animations, graphics, plans, virtual reality objects and in particular, colour photographic images. |
| Access to the text records and thumbnail images is freely available. Access to full resources is available under licence only, the terms of which restrict use of the material for no profit, no proliferation use in education. |
Screenonline
| Access information: | Available on campus from the British Film Institute. |
| Description: | An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring film and television clips from the BFI National Archive, and interviews with film and TV personalities. Clips are supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material specially commissioned for BFI Screenonline alongside thousands of stills, posters and press books. |
Sellier Law ebooks
| Access information: | Access on campus |
| Description: | Sellier European Law Publishers has compiled a range of books in the field of European Union law, international commercial law and private international law. The authors and editors who publish with s.elp are well-known academics and practitioners from many different European countries. The collection includes all publications on the unique Common Frame of Reference, the complete series of the Principles of European Law and all volumes of the Yearbook of Private International Law. |
Session Cases online from 1821
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The Electronic Session Cases from Justis, with coverage starting in 1821, offer all decisions reported in full, from the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in Scotland. In addition, selected cases decided at first instance and all decisions on Scottish appeals to the Privy Council, the House of Lords / the new Supreme Court are included. |
| These reports are available as printable PDFs that replicate the pagination of the hard copies. |
| Coverage: | Coverage starts in 1821. The database also includes: |
| Fraser's Court of Session Cases from 1898 to 1905 |
| Rettie's Session Cases from 1873 to 1897 |
| Macpherson's from 1862 to 1872 |
| Dunlop's from 1838 to 1861 |
| Shaw's from 1821 to 1837. |
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Si Ku Quan Shu
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Client software required. |
| On campus: This resource can only be accessed via the Client Program. This program is available on all the open access lab computers across the University. From the Program list, click on “the electronic version of SKQS”. The Client Program will then be loaded. Click on the icon of this program in the task bar at the bottom of the page. When the program is opened, click on “IP Login”. |
| Off campus/own PC: To access SKQS on your own laptop or desktop computer at home: Download and install the Client Program from here: |
| http://us.subscriptionv3.skqs.com/skqs/download. |
| Once the client program is installed, open the program and select IP Login. Please ensure that you are within the University IP range either by using the university wireless network or the VPN connection. |
| Description: | Digital version of the definitive Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu, the great collection of Chinese classics compiled from 1773 to 1793 under Qianlong Emperor. It encompasses 3,503 titles or 79,337 volumes of works on all subjects divided into four broad categories. The East Asian Collection in the Main Library has a reprint of the complete collection bound in 1,500 volumes. |
Social Care Online
| Access information: | Free access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | UK social care information: research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites. Produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). Updated daily. |
Social Sciences Citation Index
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Try clearing your cookies if you have access problems or use alternative login |
| Description: | Provided by Web of Knowledge. Indexes 2,100 core journals in all areas of the social sciences, plus relevant items from 3,500 scientific and technical journals. Contains over 2.3 million reference, over half with abstracts. |
| Coverage: | From 1956 to date. |
Social Services Abstracts
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Bibliographic coverage of current research focussed on social work, human service and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and human development. |
| Coverage: | From 1979 with monthly updates. |
Sociological Abstracts
| Access information: | Access on campus. Available off campus using the VPN. |
| Description: | Primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. |
| Records added after 1952 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles. |
SPIE Digital Library
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The SPIE Digital Library contains over 313,000 research papers from the Proceedings of SPIE and the Society's 9 scholarly journals with around 18,000 new papers added each year, and more than 120 eBooks from the SPIE Press catalog. |
| Notes: | Access is licensed until the end of 2011. |
SPIRES High-Energy Physics Literature Database (SPIRES-HEP)
| Access information: | Free access for all from Stanford University. |
| Description: | Searchable, full-text repository containing more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports and conference papers. Additional databases include HEP related institutions, researchers, conferences and experiment summaries. Email alerts or RSS feeds available. |
| Coverage: | From 1974 onwards. |
Additional information
Limited cited reference searching is possible via CiteBase but for a published paper also use the Science Citation Index:
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Covers serial and monographic literature in sport, recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Full text is available for 550 titles. |
| Coverage: | From 1949. |
Additional information
NHS Staff and other authorised users:
SPRESIweb (from the German for Storage and Retrieval of Chemical Structure Information)
| Access information: | Available as a full evaluation trial from the Chemical Database Service. Freely available to members of UK Academic institutions listed (including University of Edinburgh). Registration is required to use this service. |
| Description: | Chemical structures and reaction information of over six million structures and nearly four million reactions. Plus information such as chemical and physical properties, reaction conditions and keywords abstracted from the primary literature. |
Springer e-books
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The collection includes all Lecture Notes titles; plus all English language e-books published from 2005 to 2011. |
| Individual titles will be included in the Library Catalogue, but it is also possible to search or browse the publisher's site to access material. |
State Papers Online, part II
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | This collection covers - the Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509 - 1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council. |
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | A free version of the service may be used by clicking the "non-academic login" button. The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe. |
STAT!Ref
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Online collection of Nursing and medicine-related books, including MedCalc 3000, a computerised medical reference and tool set. Individual titles are listed in the library catalogue. |
Summaries of EU legislation (replaces SCAD)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The “Summaries of EU legislation” website presents the main aspects of European Union (EU) legislation in a concise, easy-to-read and unbiased way. It provides approximately 3 000 summaries of European legislation, divided into 32 subject areas corresponding to the activities of the European Union. |
The Sun [newspaper]
| Access information: | Available on and off campus via LexisLibrary. Select the ‘Source’ tab and select title from the A-Z list. Also available on campus and via the VPN from Factiva. Click on Source and select title from A-Z list or search for title. Cookies must be enabled on your browser. |
| Description: | Full text of the tabloid newspaper, The Sun, available online on day of publication. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Sister paper, news of the World is also available via LexisLibrary and Factiva, see separate entry for details. |
| Coverage: | LexisLibrary: from 1st Jan 2000. |
| Factiva: From 1st Jan 1996. |
Additional information
For further information on see newspaper entry.
Sunday Express
| Access information: | Available on and off campus from LexisLibrary. Click on Source tab and select Sunday Express from A-Z list. |
| Description: | Full text of published articles available within two days of publication. Note that some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Daily Express available via Factiva. |
| Coverage: | From 2nd Oct 1999. |
Additional information
For further information on see newspaper entry.
Sydney D. Gamble Photographs
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Approximately 5,000 photographs, primarily of China from 1917-1932 but including photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco and Russia. |
| Maintained by Duke University Libraries, text and images in the collection are available for use in research, teaching, and private study but may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission. |
| Coverage: | 5,000 photographs, 1917-1932. |
This article was published on Sep 7, 2011
