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E-resources A-Z list

Use the 'A to Z' to find links to full-text e-journal databases, on-line indexes and bibliographic databases. Refer to the key (below) for access on and off campus and our e-resources FAQ for more information.

All | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

See e-resources password in tools box below for help with off campus access.

Initial enquiries should be made to the Library Enquiry Desk on x5355.

See subject guides for more specialised e-resources on your subject.

Resource of the Month

Credo Reference is a collection of 100 reference books on all subjects. Use it to find: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographies, Quotations, Bilingual Dictionaries and Measurement Conversion. Features include Topic Pages, Concept Map, Related Resources search, citation export, and how to cite the entries correctly.

See this Topic Page about Michel Foucault, with all the other links you can use to broaden your search for details about his life, his works, his contemporaries, and influences. From within one article you can follow links to other people or ideas that were closely connected with Foucault by means of clearly visible cloud tags.
As part of this entry, for example, scroll down to the list of ‘Suggested Resources’ which is a list of other databases you may search for Foucault, including our catalogue, JSTOR, World Cat, Science Direct Online, Oxford Music Online, or Oxford Art Online.
Have a look at the archive news, videos, and images of Michel Foucault, that Credo Reference have collected, as well as links to Google Books.
You could also try out the Concept Map for Foucault and see how the results are visually displayed for ease of searching.

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Academic Search Complete

Social sciences database including full text, available via Senate House Library. Requires prior registration at Senate House Library. Login with library card number and name.

Academic Video Online

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You are now able to cross-search all streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press.

Accompline and Urbaline Web

 +  In college only Covers local government urban and social policy from the 80s to date. Password from enquiry desk. Needs Internet Explorer 6.0 or above.

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)

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Includes all ACM magazines, journals & proceedings, plus some publications by affiliated organisations.

ACLS Humanities e-book

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ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of nearly 2,800 books in the humanities. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

African Writers Series (LION)

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offers access to the full text of about 300 key works from the highly accliamed Heinemann's African Writers Series, covering 1962 to the present. Stories are fully searchable and indexed.

Alexander Street Press full-text databases



Look in the A-Z list for:

American Filmscripts Online; Asian American Drama; Black Drama; Classical Music Library; Ethnographic Video Online; Latino Literature; Music Online Reference; North American Women's Drama; Opera in Video; Social Theory; Theatre in Video.

 

American Film Institute catalogue

 +  The AFI catalogue, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-1972.

American Filmscripts Online

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text database.

a-n newsletter

 + The Artists Information Company's newsletter stimulates and supports contemporary visual arts practice through information, commentary and research. It is relevant to students of Fine Art, Applied Arts, Art History, Gallery Management, Arts Administration, Curating, and Critical Writing courses. We have access to archives from November 2000.

AnthroSource

 + Full text of anthropology journal articles.

Annual Reviews

 + Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

Art Full Text

 +  Art, art history and design periodicals, 1926-present, some full-text articles.

Art Bibliographies Modern (ABM)

 + An index to 20th century visual arts exhibition catalogues, periodicals & books. Select database required.

Art Index Retrospective

 +  Art, art history and design periodicals, 1926-present, some full-text articles.

Art Museum Image Gallery

 +  The Art Museum Image Gallery is a digital resource of copyright-cleared art images and related multimedia gathered from museum collections around the world. It can be searched alone or simultaneously with Art Full Text, and Art Index Retrospective.

Arts and Humanities Citations Index

+ Part of ISI Citation Indexes ; 1975-present.

ArtSTOR

Image database for art history & architecture. From ULRLS. Register at Senate House Library first. Login with library card number and name.

Asian American Drama

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text database.

ASSIA

+ Applied social sciences index and abstracts. Health and social science. 1987-current.

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Black Drama

+ Alexander Street Press full-text database.

Bridgeman Art Library and Art Resource

+ Digital collections of art images. From CSA.

British Education Index

+ British Education Index 1975-present, also ERIC (US) 1966-present & Australian Education Index 1979-present. From Proquest Dialog Datastar.

BHI (British Humanities Index)

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Humanities index, including history and philosophy, 1962-current.From CSA.

British Online Archive

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TRIAL UNTIL 17 FEB. Access to a wide range of items to interest those researching territories colonised by Britain including: America, India, Africa, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and Melanesia.

BOB (Box of Broadcasts)

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Box of Broadcasts is an off-air recording and media archive service provided by BUFVC.

British Newspapers 1600-1900

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Contains influential national and regional newspapers representing political and cultural
segments of 17th-19th century British society.

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Cambridge Journals

+ Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections

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Part of LION (Literature Online) database.
Includes English and American poetry, drama and prose.

Classical Music Library

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Database of distinguished classical recordings to listen to. The audio selections are cross-
referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.
 

Community Care Inform

A full text resource designed to inform current practice for professionals working with children and young people. It includes sections on legislation, case law and research.
 

Credo Reference

 +  Access to 100 reference books covering a range of subjects.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Arts & Humanities collection

 +  Collection of arts and humanities bibliographic databases (ABM,BHI,DAAI)

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Social Sciences collection

 +  Collection of social science bibliographic databases.
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DAAI - Design & Applied Arts Index 

 +  Design, craft, design education periodicals from 1973 onwards.

The Data Archive

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Collection of computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities.
Most data free to academic users.
Requires registration on site if you wish to use the data.

Dawsonera E-books

 +   +   A collection of full text electronic books which may be viewed online. Titles not owned by Goldsmiths may be browsed, previewed for 5 minutes, or rented for 1 week.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

 +   The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy. Published in 2009, its coverage is 'from the earliest times to 2002'.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Free, full-text, quality controlled scholarly journals.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology

DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed
dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory,
ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific and humanistic disciplines.
From DDM

Duke University Press

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

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EBSCOhost E-books

 + A collection of full text electronic books which may be viewed online.

ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service)

+         + Linked to the UK Data Archive giving access to an extensive range of qualitative and quantitative key economic and social data. To access the datasets go to My Account and login and register.

Education Journal Indexes

 + British Education Index 1975-present, ERIC (US) 1966-present, Australian Education Index 1979-present. From Proquest Dialog Datastar.

E-Books

    Collections of full text electronic books are available from Dawson Books and EBSCO.

Elsevier ScienceDirect Online

 +  Full-text access to a selection of journals published by Elsevier, including former Academic Press titles, with some backfiles going back to 1997. We subscribe to journals in four subject collections: Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology and Social Sciences. [Full-text access is indicated by a green icon.]

EndNote Web

 +  Delivers tools to: - Search online resources - Save Web of Knowledge and British Library records directly to an online library - Import records from other online sources. Collect and organize references - Format citations and footnotes or a bibliography. [Register for EndNote Web via the ISI Citation Indexes site - click on the orange button marked "Click here to access ISI Web of Knowledge" then look for "Register" on the right hand menu]

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

 +  Database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Educational-related literature, 1966-current. From CSA.

Ethnographic Video Online

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text database.

EthOS


Use EthOS to request a digital copy of a thesis yourself. You will need to register and login before you can order theses, though you can search without registering. 

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FIAF plus

 +  Indexes film and TV journals and has links to some full text articles. From Proquest.

Film and Sound Online

 +  See MediaHub 

Film Index International

 +  A major information resource for entertainment, films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies, Film Index International provides truly international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.

Film Indexes Online

 +  Database which allows searching of FIAF, AFI catalogue and Film Index International.

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Goldsmiths Research Online

    Our repository for College researchers and their research outputs, freely available on the web.

Google Scholar

  Google search for academic resources. [Google Help: Understanding a search result]

Grove Art Online (now Oxford Art Online)

 +  Login via your home institution.

Grove Music Online (now Oxford Music Online)

   +  Database with bibliographic references, 2nd edition, on the web. Login via your home institution.

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Henry Stewart Talks. Marketing & Managment Collection. Journalism Series


 +  Cutting edge commentaries on the critical issues facing journalism at the practical, theoretical and media industry level.

Historical Abstracts

   +  Historical Abstracts database covering World history 1450-present day (excluding North America) in books, articles and dissertations.

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Images

A guide to digital images, copyright and College slide collections.

Independent Radio

 +  Three projects which bring together the archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1976. Includes thousands of hours of content available online. Access by Goldsmiths computer username and password.

Index to Theses

 + Online version of printed index to UK theses.

Informaworld

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals

Ingenta

 + Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

IBSS

 +  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. From off campus, use the Shibboleth log-in link and then, from 'Specific databases' link, choose IBSS.

International Index of Music Periodicals

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

Internet Movie Database

Film database. Freely available.

ISI Citation Indexes

+ Arts and Humanities Citations Index (1975-), Social Sciences Citations Index (1898-), Science Citations Index (1970-), Science, and Social Sciences & Humanities Conference Proceedings (1990-). Register for EndNote Web.

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Journal Citation Reports

 +  Journal performance metrics tool that delivers quantifiable statistical information based on citation data for journals, categories and authors. From ISI.

JSTOR Art and Sciences Collections I and III

 +  Goldsmiths College members have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections I and III. The collections provide access to a complete back run of each journal, dating back to Vol.1, and are updated to a "moving wall" 2 to 5 years behind the most recently published issue.

JSTOR Art and Sciences Collections I to V

Additional JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections II, IV and V are available via Senate House Library (together with I and III). Requires prior registration at Senate House Library. Login with library card number and name. [Access to 'e-resources' for holders of library cards within the ULRLS.]

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Latino Literature

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text database.

The Literary Encyclopedia

 

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A reference source with details of authors, works, and literary and historical topics. No password required within College. From outside College, either use Shibboleth or make a personal user account by clicking "Login". Use your College email address to verify your identity.

Literature Online (LION)

 +  Includes around 35000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose. 228 full text literature journals, and other key criticism, and reference resources.

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Materials database information on innovative products, processes and materials.

For off campus access create a free personal account via the website using your goldsmiths e-mail address as your username.

Material ConneXion

In College only

Materials database information on innovative products, processes and materials.

For off campus access create a free personal account via the website using your goldsmiths e-mail address as your username.

MediaHub

+ A JISC-funded collection of film and video. High-quality materials for download, in full or as segments, for learning, teaching and research. Covers subjects from medicine & the life sciences through archaeology, media studies, performing arts, music to philosophy, history, the social sciences and more... From Edina.

Medline

+ Medical bibliographic database, available through ISI Web of Knowledge. In ISI, click on the large green button and then the yellow Medline search tab.

MIT Press

+ Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

MLA (Modern Languages Association) International Bibliography

 +  Worldwide literature, linguistics, theatre, customs and folklore, communications bibliographic database.
NB if searching for an author's name either as subject or author, the name must be arranged as: Heaney, Seamus or Eliot, T S

Music Online Reference

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text database

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Newspapers

Access to Proquest archive collection and links to national daily newspapers.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

In college only Contains influential national and regional newspapers representing political and cultural segments of 19th century British society.

North American Women's Drama

+ Alexander Street Press full-text database.

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OpenDOAR

Search service for the full-text of material held in open access repositories listed in the OpenDOAR Directory (including Goldsmiths Research Online). [About OpenDOAR]

Opera in Video

 +  Alexander Street Press full-text databases

Orlando

 +  Women's writing in the British Isles from the beginnings to the present.

Oxford Art Online (incorporating Grove Art Online)

 +  Database with bibliographic references. Includes access to Bridgeman digital image collection. Login via your home institution.

Oxford Music Online (incorporating Grove Music Online)

   +  Database with bibliographic references, 2nd edition, on the web. Login via your home institution.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Register at Senate House Library first. Login with library card number and name.

Oxford Journals

   +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals

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Philosophers Index

From 1940 - present. Register at Senate House Library first. Login with library card number and name.

Poets on Screen (LION)

 +  Contains 896 film clips of over 50 poets reading their own and other poets' work.

Project MUSE

 +  The library subscribes to the 'standard collection.'

Proquest Online Newspapers

 + Access to archive collection of most British national and many local and regional newspapers.

PsycArticles

 +  Full text journal articles published by the American Psychological Association.

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection

 + Full text resource for key subjects within this field. Can be used in conjunction with PsycInfo.

PsycInfo

 +  Abstract database of psychological literature in behavioural and social sciences from 1800s to the present.

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RILM (Répertoire International de la Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of Music Literature

 +  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive guide to publications on music from all over the world and updated regularly. Use the 'Findit@Gold' button to search for any full text articles that may be available from subscriptions held by Goldsmiths or by Senate House Library.

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Sage Journals Online

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

ScienceDirect Online (Elsevier)

 +  Full-text access to a selection of journals published by Elsevier, including former Academic Press titles, with some backfiles going back to 1997. We subscribe to journals in four subject collections: Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology and Social Sciences. [Full-text access is indicated by a green icon.]

Screenonline

In college only Devoted to the history of British film, television and social history as revealed by film and television. Includes text, photographs, audio and video clips. The video clips can only be accessed on the college network.

Shakespeare audio plays

 +  The complete Arkangel Shakespeare contains fully dramatised unabridged recordings of all Shakespeare's 38 plays. For video recordings of Shakespeare's plays see Theatre in Video under "T" in this list.

Social Care Online

Social work and social care database from the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Formerly Caredata. Freely available on the Internet.

Social Policy and Practice

+ A leading source of evidence-based social science research. For policy-makers and practitioners working in social and public policy, economic development, and the social services. Please use institutional login for off-campus access.

Social Sciences Citations Index

+ Part of ISI Citation Indexes ; 1898 -present.

Social Services Abstracts

 +  Includes access to Proquest Full Text.

Social Theory

 +  Alexander Street Press full text-database.

Sociological Abstracts

 +  Includes access to Proquest Full Text.

SpringerLink

 + Full-text access to over 1100 journals, mainly science technology and medicine but also including humanities, social sciences and computer science, with backfiles to 1997.

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Taylor & Francis Online

+ Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

Theatre in Video

+ Alexander Street Press full-text database.

TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)

+ Indexes all television and radio programmes broadcast in the UK from 1995 onwards. Access by Goldsmiths computer username and password.

TVTiP

+ The TV Times Project 1955-1985 provides unique online access to the fully searchable listings of the London edition of the TV Times from September 1955-March 1985, covering ITV and Channel Four programmes. Access by Goldsmiths computer username and password.

Twentieth-century Drama (LION)

+  contains plays in English from around the world, published from the 1890's to present day. It contains mostly copyright texts unavailable elsewhere in electronic form, including many out-of-print works that are difficult to obtain.

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UK Data Archive

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The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences. To access the datasets go to sign up. The first time you login you will be required to register.

UK Official Publications

Includes links to UK Government Departments and related organisations. Includes access to full text publications.

University of California Press (Caliber)

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

University of Chicago Press

 +  Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals.

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Web of Knowledge (ISI Citation Indexes)

+ Arts and Humanities Citations Index, Social Science Citations Index, Science Citations Index; 1970-present. Register for EndNote Web.

Wiley

   + Goldsmiths subscription to selected e-journals

Who's Who 2010 and Who Was Who

 +  The recognised source of information on people of influence and interest in all fields. This contains the entire Who Was Who archive. Navigate by job, companies and institutions, education, address, birthdays, recreations, decorations or new entrants by calendar year.

WorldCat

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Catalogue of books in academic libraries from the UK, USA and worldwide.

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ZETOC

British Library Electronic Table of Contents, useful for a wide, cross-disciplinary search. Freely available.