The Library: Education: Databases

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Key Education databases

Academic Search Complete
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. It provides information on a range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences, social sciences and more.

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Association for Physical Education (AFPE)
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Access to the Members' Area of the Association for Physical Education website. Includes Health and Safety updates, newsletters, and access to the Physical Education Matters journal.

Click the purple padlock icon for the login details and instructions on how to access the Members Area.
Association for Science Education (ASE)
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A community of teachers, technicians, and other professionals supporting science education - the largest subject association in the UK providing an independent and open forum for debate and promoting excellence in science teaching and learning.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Online TV and radio recording service. You can choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 TV and radio channels. These channels include BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC 4, Film 4 and radio channels including Radio 4 and lots more. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive of at over 2 million programmes.

Logging into BoB

Please visit the Box of Broadcasts help pages for support.

Available in the UK. If you are in a non-EU country, the licence and associated exceptions in law do not apply and you may not access BoB content, even if you are an authorised user in the UK.

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Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
The Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children and families.
Emerald Insight
Contains articles from 103 management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Emerald eBook series brings together two collection of over 1,600 titles which focus on two different areas. Business, Management & Economics and Social Sciences.

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ERIC
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) provides extensive access to indexed and full text educational resources. It contains 1.6 million records, is authorative as it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Journals indexed include Action Learning: Research and Practice, Childhood Education and Research in Education, providing information on a wide range of education related subjects.

Check out this video for ERIC search tips.

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EThOS (Electronic Theses Online service)
Access to ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education for researchers Worldwide. You can search the EThOS database without having to register. You do, however, need to register and log in if you want to download a thesis from EThOS or to order digitisation of a thesis.
Henry Stewart Talks Marketing and Management Collection
Access to over 500 talks each specially commissioned from leading world authorities and practitioners. Provides access to lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. Subjects include finance, management, leadership, marketing and strategy.

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Index to Theses
See Proquest Dissertations & Theses Open
Kanopy
Kanopy is a film streaming service that gives us access to thousands of titles, including theatrical releases, training videos and documentaries.

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Leeds Beckett TV
On-demand media recording service for Leeds Beckett staff. Content includes recordings of recent and historic film and television broadcasts, as well as in-house content such as inaugural lectures and graduation ceremonies.

LeedsBeckett TV is available on and off-campus (but not outside the UK). You can ignore the security warning when accessing this database. To access the database, please click advanced then accept.

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OECD i-Library
Selected access to free content on OECD i-library
Oxford Reference
A comprehensive collection of Oxford's reference titles, organised into various subject categories.

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PressReader
PressReader has over 5000 publications from over 100 countries. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print, some titles that you can access include Computer Arts, The Guardian, T3 and lots more. It covers a vast amount of subjects from Art and Design (Wallpaper magazine) to Zoology (BBC Wildlife).

As a Leeds Beckett student you can read all these publications. Sign in with your Leeds Beckett email and password to create a personal account to access more functionality such as adding favourite publications and downloading publications to your device.

For information on how to get started with using PressReader go to PressReader Quick Start Guide
For other help with using PressReader explore PressReader's Help Center

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Project Muse
Scholarly humanities and social science journals and eBooks. You can access Project Muse titles from the 2013 and 2014 collections of History, Literature, Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non Fiction and Film, Theater and Performing Arts.

Please visit the Project Muse help pages for support.

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ProQuest
Abstract, indexing and full text databases.

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PsycINFO
Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The database also covers literature from disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

Please visit the PsycINFO help pages for support.

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Research into Higher Education Abstracts
Published on behalf of the Society for Research into Higher Education, exists to propagate knowledge about, and encourage discussion of, significant research into higher education.

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Sage Journals Online
Full text access to over 380 Sage Publication titles subscribed to by The Library mainly in the social sciences, including titles on law (mainly crime and criminal justice), business, humanities, science, technology and medicine.

Please visit the Sage Journals help pages for support.

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Science Direct
Collection of eBooks and ejournals which mainly covers the subject areas of: Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Health Sciences and Psychology.

Please visit the Science Direct help pages for support.

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Scopus
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

Check out these tutorials to help use Scopus effectively.

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Social Policy and Practice
Social Policy and Practice represents an important source of evidence-based social science research for policy-makers, practitioners, educators and students working within economic and social development, social administration, social services, and care management. Coverage (1890s to present) includes: Public & social policy - Public health - Social care - Community development - Mental and community health – Homelessness – Housing – Crime – Equalities - Law and order - Children and families - Older People.

The database comprises over 320,000 bibliographic records, including important "grey literature" sources such as semi-published reports, surveys and statistics.

Social Policy and Practice brings together data from the following 5 databases:

• AgeInfo- Centre for Policy on Ageing
• ChildData – National Children’s Bureau (NCB)
• NSPCC – National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
• Planex - IDOX Information Service
• Social Care Online - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

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Specialist Case Digests
A current awareness source. The core specialist areas of coverage within this source include tax cases, education cases, Local Government cases and intellectual property cases.

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Statista
Statistics portal, allowing you to access a wide variety of statistics, and download them as images, Powerpoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context.

Please visit the Statista help pages for support.

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Teachers TV from Education in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Provides access to all 3,530 globally-acclaimed instructional videos produced in 2008 by the United Kingdom's Department of Education to train and develop teachers' skills through demonstrations and commentary by teachers, administrators, and other educational experts.

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UK Data Service
A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. It contains single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data from 1971 to 2011.

You will need to register to use this service.
For help logging into UK Data Service please see the UK Data Service guidance.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
This is an important online resource for visual arts. It has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images. They are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research.

VADS is a service of the Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Library & Student Services department of the University for the Creative Arts.
Zetoc
Provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents. It contains details of approximately 30,000 current journals and more than 52 million article citations and conference papers. The database covers most subjects and includes material from 1993 to date. It is updated daily. Copies of all the articles and conference papers listed on the database are available from the British Library's Document Supply Centre.

Online general statistical resources

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics. The statistics fall into these main categories: Agriculture and Environment; Business and Energy; Children, Education and Skills; Crime and Justice; Economy; Government; Health and Social Care; Labour Market; People and Places; Population; Travel and Transport.

Gov.UK

Published statistics from all Government departments

2011 Census Data

Data and analysis from the 2011 Census and previous census returns

Eurostat

Official statistics from the European Union

Eurostat Publications

Including Eurostat Yearbook and Regional Yearbook with interactive map

Social Trends

Provides social and economic data taken from a range of sources, giving a broad picture of UK society today

Regional Trends

Includes a wide range of demographic, social, industrial and economic statistics, covering aspects of life in the UK regions.

Statista

Comprehensive world statistics portal, providing access to data from over 18,000 sources.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

International statistics covering: trade, economic trends, development, finance, technology, investment, population and labour force, information economy, maritime transport and sustainable development.