e-Library

Trial our new product, Summon

Not sure where to find an article? Try Summon. It searches for fulltext articles that you won't find on other search engines. Let us know whether you like it.

How to use the e-Library

 

1.  To check to see if we have a particular journal title in stock, use the "Search journal title" box below.

2.  To look for information on a subject, select a resource from the "Electronic Resource List" below and search it.

3.  If you want to search a number of products at once, use FIND it FAST or try the Summon search box above.

 

You will need your College Computer login in order to login to any of the e-Library resources. 

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How to access the e-Library from home

Electronic Resources List : select a product and search /browse by topic.

 

Academic Search Elite

Access to full text for more than 2100 journals across all major subject areas, from English literature to Sports and from Graphic design to Education.  Backfiles to 1985.  

Video Tutorial available Video tutorial

 

Full Text database

Art & Architecture Complete.

Full text of over 400 books and periodicals covering costume design, decorative arts, graphic arts, photography, painting, architecture and sculpture.  For use by designers, artists and college students.

 

 Full Text database
CasWeb via Mimas 

Covers several 1991 Census datasets plus 1981 Census Small Area Statistics for Great Britain. Also aggregate 2001 Census Key Statistics for England and Wales.

 

Statistical information
CHCC Historical Census Collection

Provides access to primary census resources and learning and teaching materials.

 

Statistical information

Cochrane Library 

Information to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes systematic reviews and clinical trials.  The gold standard in evidence-based health care. 

PDF Guide available PDF Guide

 

Full Text database

Computer Source

Over 300 fulltext journals and magazines covering computer science, programming, software, information systems, graphic design and animation.

 

 Full Text database
COPAC

National, academic and specialist Library Catalogue. Copac includes the catalogues of all the UK National Libraries, major University libraries and specialist collections such as the National Art Library.

 

Web Link 

Datamonitor 360

Marketline has now merged with Business Insights to form Datamonitor 360.  Via the new single interface you can access over 2,500 market reports and 10,000 company profiles covering 50 countries as well as 350 strategic management reports covering sectors such as health, consumer goods, technology, financial services and creative industries.

 

 Full Text database

Dawsonera (ebooks)

One of our two e-book sites.  Visit this link to find out what we have.  Can't find what you want here - try Ebrary.

Tutorial available  Accessing ebooks video

 

 E-Book

Ebrary (ebooks)

Over 2900 e-books on a wide range of topics to read online.  You can take notes online, highlight text you want to re-visit and bookmark your favourite books.  You can print off too - so long as you keep to copyright guidelines. Can't find what you want here try Dawsonera our other e-book site.

Tutorial available Tutorial /  Using ebrary podcast / Accessing ebooks video

 

E-Book
Economic and Social Data Service (Onsite access only)

Umbrella for the UK Data Archive (UKDA) and Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). Access to 5,000 datasets covering a wide range of key economic and social data.  Select "Login by UK Federation", select Doncaster College, then enter your College login.  You will also need to register.  This will entail activating a link sent to your email account.

 

Statistical information

Education Research Complete

The definitive resource for education research.  1200 full text journals and 500 e-books covering early childhood to higher education; instruction as well as administation, policy and funding; and specialities.

 

 Full Text database

Electronic Journals Service 

Find full text articles from Learning Resource Centres' online subscribed journals collection.

Guide available Guide

 

Full Text database

Emerald 

Over 25,000 full text articles in the fields of business, management, economics, marketing, hospitality, training, education, quality management and engineering. A full archive of articles back to 1994 is available. 

Tutorial available Tutorial

 

Full Text database

ERIC 

This education database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

 

 In-depth searching required

New Resource EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)

EThOS gives access to university PhD theses.  They are free to download once you have signed up to the terms & conditions of the service.  Just click on pricing/delivery to see the options.  Alternatively you can just browse the site to see what is available.  A good tool for dissertations or extended projects.

 

 Full Text database

Find it Fast

If you are not sure which resource to pick, start by using Find it Fast which cross searches multiple resources. 

 

 Full Text database

General Onefile 

Over 60 million full text articles covering all subject areas. You can e-mail articles to yourself or print them off.

Tutorial available Tutorial

 

Full Text database

Greenfile 

Over 384,000 references and links to 4,700 full text articles on the human impact on the environment. Covers global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling.

Video Tutorial available Video tutorial 

 

Full Text database

Hairdressing Training

Learn about hairdressing with this interactive resource. 

 

Full Text database
IHS Technical Indexes

Comprehensive source of technical information for the construction industry

 

Full Text database

Infotrac Fulltext Newspapers

Newspapers online. Includes backfiles of broadsheets such as the Guardian, Times, Telegraph as well as tabloids and foreign press.

Tutorial available Tutorial

 

Full Text database

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Full Text

The deifinitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts.  Includes 150 full text journals and 330 e-books.

 

 Full Text database
Intute: the best of the web 

Intute is a free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research.

 

Web Link 

Issues Online (Onsite access only)

This site has information and statistics on lots of topical issues. Anything from binge drinking and refugees, to vegetarianism, sport and abortion

 

Full Text database

New ResourceJISCHistoricBooks

Covers EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and the

Nineteenth Century books from the British Library collection.  You can read Shakespeare editions through the ages as well as other important texts.

 

 Full Text database

New ResourceJISCJournalArchives

Access to the back issues of some major publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, ProQuest, Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis.

 

 Full Text database

New Resource JISCMediaHub

Provides search results for video, image and audio resources from many different collections and incorporates the product previously known as Film & Sound Online.

 

 Multimedia database
Library and Information Abstracts 

References to articles on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and information management. Backfiles to mid-1960s.

 

In-depth searching required

Literary Reference Centre

31,000 plot summaries, 69,000 poems, 18,000 short stories, 632,000 book reviews and 8000 classic texts online along with biographical information about authors and their works.

 

 Full Text database

MPDclick(Mudpie) N.B. Offsite access for Fashion students is via your Blackboard course.

Global fashion predictions and fashion trends database. 

 

Multimedia database

New Resource National Statistics

UK official statistics online.

 

Web Link

News and Film Online 

Over 3,000 hours of footage and 60,000 news stories to choose from the ITN/Reuters archives.  Includes scripts.  You can playback or download.     

 

Multimedia database

19th Century British Library Newspapers 

Complete runs of over 48 influential 19th century national and regional newspapers representing the different political and cultural segments of British society.

Tutorial available Tutorial

 

Full Text database

New ResourceProject Gutenberg (ebooks)

Offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

 

 E-Book

Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Collection

Comprehensive database of online materials for the study of emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychology and psychiatry and anthropology.

 

 Full Text database

PubMed 

Over 18 million bio-medical references with some links to full text articles and other related resources.  Useful resource for health care, physiology, sports, dance and fitness topics. 

Video Tutorial available Video tutorial

 

In-depth searching required
Research starters (Sociology)

Study and research guides for sociology students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise summary articles written by researchers and scholars.

 

 

Full Text database

Sage journals online(6 month trial)

SAGE is the world’s 5th largest journals publisher. It’s portfolio includes more than 645 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 280 are published on behalf of 225 learned societies and institutions.  Try it and let us know what you think  hmlrc.enqdesk@don.ac.uk 

 

 Full Text database

SPORTDiscus

World's most comprehensive source for the study of sport and sports medicine.  Full text for over 490 journals with backfiles to 1985.

 

 Full Text database

Westlaw

Comprehensive resource for law and criminology.  Covers cases, legislation, legal news, current awareness updates and fulltext articles. 

 

 Full Text database

Zetoc 

Lists the contents of over 20,000 journals held by the British Library. It covers the period 1993 to the present.  Useful tool for dissertations or for tracking down references. Not full text.

 

In-depth searching required

 

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