IELLI - Postgraduate programs: Databases
A guide for Postgraduate Students on the International Education Masters or TESOL Masters programmes within the International Education and Lifelong Learining Institute. Information about Library services and support for on and off-campus students, and t
Full list of Databases
Below you'll find a list of some of the databases you might want to use. A full list of databases can be found on our A-Z database list.
Key Databases
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Library search This link opens in a new windowUse Library Search to find Print books, ebooks and rare books; Journal and newspaper articles; Films and documentaries; Music scores.
You can also find items in the University’s Archive, Photographic and Museums collections as well as theses and research outputs from the University. -
Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection includes the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index for Science, Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFree database consisting of references to multidisciplinary articles, theses, books and abstracts. See https://libanswers.st-andrews.ac.uk/faq/93370 for information on how to set up your preferences to link to library journal holdings.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowperiodicals archive of over 2,000 leading scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Over fifty million pages of content
Education Databases
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British Education Index This link opens in a new windowprovides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK, with strong coverage of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs.
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ERIC This link opens in a new windowproduced by the US Department of Education. Provides access to education-related articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, books and monographs. 1966 to date
Reference Sources
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Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowprovides clear and current articles, biographies, country comparisons, e-books, images, news, 'On This Day', timelines, quotations, videos, world data analysis, etc - all clearly cited and referenced, providing research material for students and staff.
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CREDO Reference This link opens in a new windowoffers over 650 major reference books - dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, biographies, books of quotations, atlases and quick reference works on every subject
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Encyclopaedia Britannica This link opens in a new windowthe Britannica Academic Edition which includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus and a number of periodicals
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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new windowentries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record. Updated quarterly
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The TESOL encyclopedia of English language teaching
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ISBN: 9781118784235Publication Date: 2018Full text access to entries published up to 2022. Abstract only available from 2023 onwards.
Open Access Databases
Open Access collections are freely available academic resources - you won't need to login to access these. Universities and research funders in the UK and EU are making increasing amounts of their research publications available open access.
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new windowmade available by the OAPEN Foundation, an international Open Access monograph publishing initiative. Currently includes over 49 publishers and 1,450 academic, peer-reviewed Open Access books
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new windowaround 10,000 Open Access journals
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OAIster (via FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowa union catalog of millions of records, representing free digital resources from over 1,000 open access collections worldwide. Most records are 'harvested' from archives and repositories. Via OCLC FirstSearch, select OAIster from the database list.
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