Athens Guide

The Athens service gives staff and students at College access to a range of web-based information resources that can help them find information for course-work and assignments.

Data Bases Currently available via Athens

Blackwell-Synergy.com
Scientific, technical, medical, humanities and social science full text journals and/or abstracts.

BMJ Journals
On-line medical journals providing full text original content.

“Census” Resources
Access to learning and teaching materials and historical and contemporary Census data.  May require additional registration.

Childlink.co.uk
Database on legislation, policies, and practices regarding children, young people and families.

CSA Illumina
Search facility to access ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. (Indexes and abstracts only; no full text.)

Dialog@site
Enables searching the British Education Index.

Film and Sound Online
Collections of films, videos and associated materials for many subject areas. Requires additional registration.

Emerald Fulltext / Emerald Management Reviews
Collection of management journals covering over 40,000 articles and access to over 150,000 short reviews of articles from 400 management titles.

European Sources Online
Provides access to a broad range of information about the European Union and wider Europe.

HEFCE Extranet
Higher Education Funding Council online data collection and dissemination service

Hairdressing-Training
An online training system for the hairdressing industry

Ingenta Connect / Ingenta Select
Collection of academic and professional publications.  Access to abstracts and/or full text articles.

IOP’s Electronic Journal Service
Access to a range of journals in physics, mathematics and engineering.  Although access to the full text is limited to subscribers, a great deal of content is freely available.

KnowUK Database (Chadwyck-Healey)
Unique online reference service providing information on people, places and institutions of the UK.

MarketLine Business Information Centre (MBIC) (Previously known as Datamonitor) Collection of reports, rankings and news covering all nmajor industries.

Mintel Reports
Mintel consumer market research reports for leisure, travel and tourism

Ovid Online
Access to database and journals in Nursing and Healthcare

SAGE Online
Full text journals but not all free.  Subjects include complimentary therapy, education management, health education, nurse ethics, sociology, social work, public administration.

SCRAN Web Site
Searchable image, movie and sound archive

SilverPlatter Arc2
Access to British Nursing Index databases and IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences). (Indexes and bibliographies only; no full text.)

Thomson Gale Databases
Access to Infotrac Full Text Newspaper Database and Infotrac Onefile (newspaper and periodical database with subject search facility and access to full text and/or abstracts online).

ZETOC – BL Electronic Table of Contents
Access to the British Libtrary Electronic Table of Contents databse of over 20,000 journal titles and conference proceedings.