Databases

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News and Newspaper Databases

APA PsycArticles
This full-text psychology database is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Additional information about ASSIA and how to use it is available
here
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
A digital platform offering systematic and comprehensive coverage of education and childhood studies around the world.
Campbell collaboration library of systematic reviews
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions.
This resource is freely available on the internet. No authentication is required.
CINAHL Plus with full text
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, includes references to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, the Cochrane Review Methodology Database and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register.
This resource is freely available on the internet. No authentication is required.
CogPrints
CogPrints is an archive for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy,and Biology which are relevant to the study of cognition.
Criminal Justice Database - ProQuest
The Criminal Justice Database is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals.
Additional information about the Criminal Justice database and how to use it is available
here
Educational Administration Abstracts
Educational Administration Abstracts comprises bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, educational leadership, educational management, educational research.
Education Database - Proquest
The Education Database covers the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education and also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
Additional information about the Education database and how to use it is available
here
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC contains references to articles and reports on education topics; adult, career and vocational education, assessment and evaluation, disabilities and gifted education, educational management, elementary and early childhood education, higher education, information technology, language and linguistics, reading and communication, teacher and teacher education, urban education.
GreenFILE
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Multidisciplinary open access collection of impact evaluation records, systematic reviews and evidence gap maps covering education, health, transport, agriculture, business, social protection, public administration
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

LLBA - Linguistics and language behaviour abstracts
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) 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.
Additional information about Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA) and how to use it is available
here
MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost Research Databases)
MEDLINE searches citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, and provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and more.
Military Database - ProQuest
Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering.
Additional information about the Military Database and how to use it is available
here
Open Grey
Open Grey is an open access resource containing bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe until 2005.
Open Grey
Open Grey is an open access resource containing bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe until 2005.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
Additional information about ProQuest Central and how to use it is available
here
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Open
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses.
Psychology Database - Proquest
Psychology Database covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications.
Additional information about the Psychology Database and how to use it is available
here
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
PTSDpubs
The PTSDpubs bibliographic database provides citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Religion Database - ProQuest
Religion Database covers formal theological studies and worldwide religions. In addition, there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations.

ProQuest Religion Database is also searchable as part of ProQuest Central.
Research Library - ProQuest
Additional information about the ProQuest Research Library and how to use it is available
here
ScienceDirect
Science Direct is the website for journals published by Elsevier, offering extensive and unique full text coverage of authoritative titles from the core scientific literature. QM has access to subject collections in Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience and Economics.
SCOPUS
Scopus is the world's largest scientific abstract and indexing database, covering material in Science, technology, medicine and the social sciences.
Social Science Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.
The Social Science Citation Index is now accessed as part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Social Science Database - ProQuest
Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more.
ProQuest Social Science Database is also searchable as part of ProQuest Central.
Additional information about the Social Science Database and how to use it is available
here
Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Self-registration is required to access material.
Social services abstracts - Proquest
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Social Services Abstracts is also searchable via ProQuest Central.
Additional information about Social Services Abstracts and how to use it is available
here
Social Services Knowledge Scotland
Social Services Knowledge Scotland provides access to a wide range of quality assured information and knowledge resources across the sector. The search facility will simultaneously search a huge repository of resources, websites, policy documents, journal articles and books with links to full text where available.
Full access to SSKS is available to the following groups:

Staff of NHS Scotland (including contractors such as general practitioner staff, community pharmacy staff, dental surgery staff)
Undergraduate or postgraduate students working or training with NHS Scotland
Social services, public library staff and other local authority staff
Voluntary sector organisations
Other partners of NHS Scotland, (including staff in higher and further education, Scottish Government staff, nursing homes, the armed services and patient/public representatives on NHS groups)
For full details about eligibility and to register for an NHS ATHENS username and password for access please see the Knowledge Network's eligibility and registration page web page at
http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/login.aspx
Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy
SEP is a dynamic encyclopedia covering all areasd of philosphy and ethics where each entry is kept up to date by a group of experts in the field.
Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy
SEP is a dynamic encyclopedia covering all areasd of philosphy and ethics where each entry is kept up to date by a group of experts in the field.
Statista
Extensive multidisciplinary statistics platform including forecasts, reports, studies, dossiers. For off-campus access click Login (top right). In the new window, click Campus Access. In the next window, go to “If you have access” to select our university from the list under “Off Campus” and click Check Access when you’ll be prompted to input your QMU credentials.
Violence and Abuse Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Web of Science
Web of Science® provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals—and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Canadian Newsstream - Proquest
This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
Global Breaking Newswire
Full textt coverage from 58 Newswires from around the world
International newsstream - Proquest
International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
NewsBank UK (off campus access)
Explore credible, vetted news sources from across the UK & Ireland to stay informed on events, people and issues related to business, government, economy, sports, culture, and more. Features a variety of local, regional, and national credible news and information,
NewsBank UK (on campus access)
Explore credible, vetted news sources from across the UK & Ireland to stay informed on events, people and issues related to business, government, economy, sports, culture, and more. Features a variety of local, regional, and national credible news and information, Also available remotely 24/7 on any device- please see Newsbank off campus link.
News on screen
The world’s leading resource for the study of newsreels and cinemagazines. The newsreel data is based on the original issue sheets, and includes title, release date, issue number, library number, synopsis, length, camera operator and keywords.
This resource is freely available on the internet. No authentication is required.
Times Digital Archive 1785-2008
As the “world’s newspaper of record,” The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2008 makes 223 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art and architecture, and more. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable — every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.