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This guidance is to support all Proquest databases (see list below).

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical for scientists researching the world's living aquatic resources. Providing citations with abstracts from journal publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature for all marine science disciplines, covering literature produced from 1971 up to the present date.
Australian Education Index This link opens in a new window
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The Australian Education Index is a comprehensive collection of educational research documents relating to educational trends, policy, and practices. The database is Australia's largest source of education information. Coverage includes trends and practices in teaching, learning and educational management. You may not be able to access the full text of all of the results you find in ERIC. Coverage: 1977 - current.
Biological Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
British Periodicals Collections I, II, III and IV This link opens in a new window
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Providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
Design and Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window
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This database is the premier source of information for all aspects of design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.
Ebrary This link opens in a new window
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A collection for academic books with over 60,000 titles covering a wide range of subjects.
Electronics and Communications Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database provides bibliographic coverage on circuits, components and materials, photonics, control and systems, telecommunications, equipment and instrumentation, power systems and electrical engineering.
Environmental Impact Statements This link opens in a new window
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United States database of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) undertaken to inform the government and the general public on the effects of developments on the environment. Links to digest and full text.
The United States National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that U.S. federal agencies or anyone receiving federal funding prepare detailed analyses of any of their actions that significantly affect the quality of the environment. Almost all developments, such as roads, houses and airports, have an impact on the environment. Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management This link opens in a new window
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Environmental sciences abstracts and citations drawn from scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
This multidisciplinary database provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. ProQuest Deep Indexing: Environmental Science supplements the database with access to over a million indexed charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs, and tables from the scholarly research and technical literature for selected records.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
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This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. You may not be able to access the full text of all of the results you find in ERIC.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
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This database provides citations with abstracts from geosciences journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses (Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities). The database covers materials relating to North America published from 1693, and materials for the rest of the world from 1933.
Subjects indexed in the database include:- Areal geology, economic geology, engineering geology, environmental geology, extraterrestrial geology, geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics, hydrogeology and hydrology, marine geology and oceanography, mathematical geology, mineralogy and crystallography, palaeontology, petrology, seismology, stratigraphy, structural geology, surficial geology. The database is provided on the Proquest database platform.
IBSS - International Bibliography of The Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
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Provides references and, in many cases, abstracts for journal articles, books and book chapters in the social sciences, from 1951 to current.
IBSS has particular strengths in politics, economics, sociology and anthropology. Click on the TDNet links to check for full-text. No password on campus. Off campus VPN or Institutional login.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The database includes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. You may not have online access to everything you find in the database.
Materials Research database This link opens in a new window
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A collection of databases covering metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering applications. The coverage starts between 1965-1986 depending on the database.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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This database includes information about scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run and currently contains more than 2 million records. Not all records have full text available online.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Search over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research.
No password on campus. Off campus Institutional login

Natural Science Collection - ProQuest
The Natural Science Collection includes the Agriculture & Environment Science database, Biological Science database, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Databases (as part of this it incorporates the abstract and indexing database ASFA - Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts). The collection includes full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Coverage is from 1946 - to the present.

Oceanic Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database provides citations with abstracts from worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database covers literature published from 1981 to the present date.
Subjects indexed include:- Biological oceanography, ecology, physical and chemical oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, marine pollution, nonliving marine resources, navigation and communications, maritime law, desalination, ships, shipping, marine biology. The database is provided on the Proquest database platform.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
PILOTS This link opens in a new window
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Searchable database of citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
Click 'login' for on campus access. For access off campus, click 'login', enter 'University of Southampton' in the institutional field followed by your institutional username and password.

SciTech Premium Collection - ProQuest
The SciTech Premium Collection from ProQuest includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and includes full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Coverage is from 1946 - to the present.

Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers.
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Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This database provides bibliographic coverage on all aspects of theory, production and application of solid state materials and devices - as well as the new high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology.

Technology Collection - ProQuest
The Technology Collection includes the Advanced Technology & Aerospace and Materials Science & Engineering Databases. It combines broad indexing coverage of the scholarly literature in advanced technology, computer science, engineering, materials science and related areas with full-text titles full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. Coverage is from 1962 - to the present.

Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, all of which has been reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.