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  1. ACM Digital Library

    Description: More than 3 million publications covering computing and information technology topics. This full-text digital library includes the complete collection of ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, multimedia titles and the Guide to Computing Literature bibliography.

    Coverage: 1954-

    Publisher: Association of Computing Machinery

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  2. American Chemical Society Journals

    Alternative titles: also known as 'ACM journals'

    Description: More than 40 research journals on chemical and related sciences. This digital library is published by the American Chemical Society.

    Coverage: 1996-

    Publisher: American Chemical Society

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  3. Brill Journals Collection

    Description: Hundreds of journals covering the arts and humanities, health and life sciences, engineering and technology, science and the social sciences.

    Coverage: 2000-

    Publisher: Brill

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  4. British Periodicals Collection I

    Description: Digitised page images and access to the searchable full text of hundreds of magazines and journals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  5. Cambridge Journals Online

    Description: Hundreds of peer-reviewed journals from Cambridge University Press. Subjects include humanities, life sciences, mathematics, science, engineering medicine, social sciences, humanities and law.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  6. Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014

    Description: Every issue of The Economist magazine from 1843 to 2014.

    Coverage: 1843 to 2014

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  7. EUP journals online

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Edinburgh University Press journals collection'
    also known as 'EUP Complete Collection'

    Description: A full-text journal database providing access to over 40 journal titles published by Edinburgh University Press. The collection covers arts, humanities and social sciences, and includes scientific data, online journals and research materials at undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels. Please login for onsite and remote access

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Journals, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  8. Gale Academic OneFile

    Description: Provides articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including videos from BBC Worldwide Learning and podcasts and transcripts from CNN. It also includes:
    - Full text of The Times and Financial Times, and The Economist from 1988 to the present, with no embargo
    - Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present, updated daily
    - Elsevier abstracts from 1996 to present

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  9. Gale General OneFile

    Description: Includes more than 9,000 full-text titles, over 3,700 refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers - a total of more than 14,500 titles (nearly half of which are unique to the database).
    Access is also provided to:
    - Full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present (updated daily)
    - Full-text of The Economist from 1988 to the present, with no embargo
    - Links to thousands of video files from providers including NYTimes.com Video Collection and Associated Press Video News

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Coverage: 1980 to the present

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  10. Global Plants

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Global Plants on JSTOR'
    previously known as 'JSTOR Plant Science'

    Description: An online research tool for aggregating and exploring the world’s botanical resources, aimed at those researching, teaching or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental and conservation studies

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  11. Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842–2003

    Description: Includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Covers a wide range of subject areas, combining information and the power of pictures to provide a unique perspective on many aspects of modern life.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  12. Journal Citation Reports

    This resource is part of: Web of Science

    Description: A citation database for the evaluation and ranking of the world's leading journals by impact factor, total citations and articles, and cited half-life.

    Publisher: Thomson Reuters

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  13. JoVE

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Journal of Visualized Experiments'

    Description: Library users only have access to Biology content published between August 2013 and July 2015, and any open access content

    JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is a peer reviewed scientific video journal publishing scientific research in a visual format. Access covers the Biology section (previously called General).

    Coverage: August 2013 - July 2015

    Publisher: JoVE

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  14. JSTOR

    Description: A digital library of more than 6,500 eBooks and 2,600 scholarly journals covering many topics including humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

    Coverage: 1800 onwards

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  15. Karger journals collection

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Karger medical and scientific journals collection'

    Description: A full-text database of 130 medical and scientific journals published by Karger.

    Coverage: 1991-

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  16. LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'LISA'

    Description: A bibliographic database covering librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via EBSCOhost.

    Publisher: EBSCO

    Subjects: Reference Works, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  17. Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals'
    previously known as '19th Century UK Periodicals'

    Description: A digital archive which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. This resource consists of a multi-part collection and subjects range from art to business, and from children to politics. The periodicals are presented in their original published context.

    Coverage: 1801 to 1900

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  18. Oxford Journals Online

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'OJO'

    Description: A database containing hundreds of journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, from Oxford University Press.

    This resource's content is now accessed on the Oxford Academic platform

    Coverage: 1996 onwards

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Music, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  19. SAGE Journals

    Description: Access to over 1000 journal titles across a range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. Library users have access to the Sage Premier collection

    Coverage: 2013-

    Publisher: Sage

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  20. Scientific American Archive

    Description: All 4960 issues of Scientific American from 1845 to 2005 appear in this digital archive, containing more than 133,700 articles.

    Coverage: 1845-2005

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  21. Screen Studies Collection

    Alternative titles: also known as 'ProQuest Screen Studies Collection'

    Description: Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. Includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, Journals, Music, Catalogues & Bibliographies, E-books, History, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  22. SpringerLink journal and e-book collection

    Description: A database providing access to e-books, journals, articles, protocols and reference works published by Springer. National Library of Scotland users have access to thousands of journal titles and e-books covering humanities, science, business, medicine, law, social science and engineering.

    Publisher: Springer

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, E-books

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  23. SUR Digital Archive, 1931-1992

    Alternative titles: also known as 'SUR, 1931-1992'
    previously known as 'SUR online'

    Description: A digital archive of the Latin American literary magazine from Argentina. This collection includes more than 40,000 pages; an index; and manuscript versions of content from the first issue as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.

    Coverage: 1931 to 1992

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  24. The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991'

    Description: The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929. Over its 62-year history, it attracted the contributions of literary icons such as E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf. This archive provides the complete run of the publication.

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  25. Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 2014

    Alternative titles: also known as 'The Times'
    also known as 'The London Times'
    also known as 'TDA'

    Description: A digital archive of The (London) Times newspaper containing pages from every issue from 1785 to 2014. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context.

    Coverage: 1785 to 2014

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  26. Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

    Description: Founded as a supplement to The Times (London), for more than 100 years the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. This is a digitial archive of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 to 2014.

    Coverage: 1902 to 2005

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Reference Works, Science, Journals, History, Literature, Biography

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  27. Vogue Archive

    Description: A searchable archive of American Vogue, preserving the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a record of American and international fashion, culture and society from 1892 to the present day.

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  28. Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900'

    Description: Series 2: an online bibliographic database of 50,000 Victorian newspaper and periodical publications, with 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.

    Library users have extended access until 31 July 2024

    This includes access to a further 23,000 publications, 20,000 personal names, 1,728 issuing bodies and 244 subjects through Series 3 (opens in new window), and Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900 (opens in new window)

    Publisher: North Waterloo Academic Press

    Subjects: Newspapers, Reference Works, Journals, Catalogues & Bibliographies, History

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  29. Web of Science

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Web of Knowledge'
    previously known as 'ISI Web of Knowledge'

    This resource includes: Journal Citation Reports
    Web of Science Core Collection
    Essential Science Indicators

    Description: An online portal providing access to the A&I databases Web of Science Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports, plus a number of other research tools.

    Publisher: Thomson Reuters

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  30. Web of Science Core Collection

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Web of Science'
    previously known as 'ISI Web of Science'

    This resource is part of: Web of Science

    Description: NLS customers have access to full backfile to 1900. An abstracting and indexing citation database covering over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, plus over 120,000 international conference proceedings. Part of the Web of Science Portal.

    Coverage: 1900 onwards

    Publisher: Thomson Reuters

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.