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RESULTS     Resources (ALL Subjects, ALL types) : 296

  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library
    Subject Coverage: Computing
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Aerospace & High Technology Database
    Subject Coverage: Aviation and aerospace, lunary and planetary exploration
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Algology Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)
    Subject Coverage: Reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Aluminium Industry Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Aluminium processes, products, applications, developments
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • American Chemical Society
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • American Institute of Physics Online Journal Publishing Service
    Subject Coverage: Physics, Engineering, Science
    Type: eJournal service
    See: Scitation

  • American Mathematical Society
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • American Physical Society
    Subject Coverage: Physics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
    Subject Coverage: Microbiology
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Analytical Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Analytical sciences
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Animal Behavior Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Aggression, learning, foraging and ingestion
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Annual Reviews
    Subject Coverage: Science, some Psychology
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • ANTE (Abstracts in New Technology and Engineering)
    Subject Coverage: Engineering, Technology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Applied Science & Technology Full Text
    Subject Coverage: Applied Sciences, Technology
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Aqualine
    Subject Coverage: Water resources, treatment, pollution
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    Subject Coverage: Arts, humanities
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • arXiv e-Print archive
    Subject Coverage: Physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology
    Type: Digital repository

  • arXiv: Mathematics
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: Digital repository

  • arXiv: Quantitative Finance
    Subject Coverage: Quantitative finance
    Type: Digital repository

  • arXiv: Statistics
    Subject Coverage: Statistics
    Type: Digital repository

  • ASCE Civil Engineering Database
    Subject Coverage: Civil Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)
    Subject Coverage: Aquaculture, oceanography, marine environments
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources
    Subject Coverage: Marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources
    Subject Coverage: Oceanography, limnology, coastal structures
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
    Subject Coverage: Aquatic pollution, prevention and control
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Aquaculture, culture of fish and other organisms
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Molecular biotechnology, cell/tissue culture
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
    Subject Coverage: Social services, psychology, sociology, health information
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Atypon Link
    Subject Coverage:
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
    Subject Coverage: Bacteriology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • BHI (British Humanities Index)
    Subject Coverage: Literature, language, political science, philosophy
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • BioEngineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Biomedical engineering, biomaterials, biotechnology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Biological Sciences
    Subject Coverage: Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, agriculture, veterinary science
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Biology Digest
    Subject Coverage: Biology, life sciences
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Biosis Previews
    Subject Coverage: Life sciences, biomedicine
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Biotechnology and bioengineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Biotechnology Research Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Biotechnology (medical, agricultural, environmental) and bioengineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Biz/ed
    Subject Coverage: Business, economics
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Blackwell Synergy
    Subject Coverage: Multidisciplinary
    Type: eJournal service
    Accessed via: Wiley InterScience

  • BRE (Building Research Establishment) Bookshop
    Subject Coverage: All Subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • British Library Integrated Catalogue
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • British Standards Online
    Subject Coverage: British Standards (full-text)
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • BUBL LINK
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Multi-subject gateway

  • Business Source Premier
    Subject Coverage: Business, management, economics, finance
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • Butterworths' Tax Direct
    Subject Coverage: Tax law
    Type: Reference source
    See: LexisNexis Butterworths

  • c2k (Chemistry2000)
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Calcium and Calcified Tissue Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Biology of bones and teeth, ubiquitous role of ionic calcium
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Cambridge Journals Online (CJO)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • CBA (Construction and Building Abstracts)
    Subject Coverage: Building, Construction
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • CCH Accounting and Auditing Publications
    Subject Coverage: Accountancy and Auding
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • Census Dissemination Unit (CDU)
    Subject Coverage: UK Census data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • Ceramic Abstracts / World Ceramic Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Manufacture, processing, applications, and properties of ceramics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • CERN Document Server (CDS)
    Subject Coverage: Particle physics and related areas
    Type: Digital repository

  • ChemBioFinder.com
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Web-based information service

  • ChemDex
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Subject gateway

  • ChemIDPlus
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry: structure and nomenclature for NLM cited substances
    Type: Reference source

  • ChemIndustry.com
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Web-based information service

  • ChemInfo
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Web-based information service

  • Chemistry WWW Virtual Library
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Chemoreception Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Biology and sensory studies of taste, smell, and pheromones
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • CIDER
    Subject Coverage: UK Census data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • Coaching Science Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Applied sport science
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • CogPrints
    Subject Coverage: Psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science
    Type: Digital repository
    OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required

  • Colour Index International
    Subject Coverage: Nomenclature, constitution, main applications and suppliers of dyes and pigments
    Type: Product database
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)
    Subject Coverage: Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Composites Industry Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Ceramic matrix composites, fiber synthesis, laminates
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Computer & Information Systems Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Computing and information systems
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Computing & Computer Science WWW Virtual Library
    Subject Coverage: Computing & computer science
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
    Subject Coverage: Computer Science
    Type: Full-text bibliographic database

  • Conference Papers Index
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
    Subject Coverage: Science, technology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • Construction Management Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Construction management
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Copac National, Academic, and Specialist Library Catalogue
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Copper Technical Reference Library
    Subject Coverage: Copper, copper alloys and copper technology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Corrosion Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Corrosion science and engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Civil engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • CSA Illumina
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • CSA Neurosciences Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Neurobiology, motor and sensory systems, memory, Alzheimer's disease
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Cyburbia: Urban Planning Portal
    Subject Coverage: Urban planning
    Type: Web forum
    OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required

  • DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
    Subject Coverage: Art, Crafts, Design
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Delphion
    Subject Coverage: Patents
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Free service - "Basic Registration" required

  • Dialogues concerning two new sciences
    Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Collection
    Subject Coverage: Ordnance Survey map data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • Digital Dissertations
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    See: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts

  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
    Subject Coverage: All Subjects
    Type: eJournal gateway

  • EbscoHost
    Subject Coverage: Multiple subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Ecology Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, human ecology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • EconLit
    Subject Coverage: Economic theory and application
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) Technical Reports
    Subject Coverage: Computer science, electrical engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • EGi (Estates Gazette interactive)
    Subject Coverage: Commercial property news, availability, town reports.
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Individual registration required

  • EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
    Subject Coverage: Air transportation, defense programs, parks, refuges, forests
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Eldis
    Subject Coverage: Development & environment
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Electronics and Communications Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Electronics and communications
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ELS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences)
    Subject Coverage: Life Sciences
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Emerald Fulltext (MCB University Press)
    Subject Coverage: All Subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Encyclopedia of Energy
    Subject Coverage: Energy
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
    Subject Coverage: Food science and technology
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Energy Citations Database (ECD)
    Subject Coverage: Energy and energy-related scientific and technical information
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Engineered Materials Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Polymers, ceramics, and composites
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Engineering Problem Solving: A Classical Perspective
    Subject Coverage: Engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • Entomology Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, behavior
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Environment Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Environmental studies, pollution, waste management, energy, land use, and enviro
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Environmental Engineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
    Subject Coverage: Environmental sciences, pollution
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ERIC
    Subject Coverage: Education
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service)
    Subject Coverage: Economic and social data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Government
    Subject Coverage: Economic and social data, government surveys
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International
    Subject Coverage: Economic and social data, international databanks
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Longitudinal
    Subject Coverage: Economic and social data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Qualidata
    Subject Coverage: Economic and qualitative data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • esp@cenet
    Subject Coverage: Patents
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Essential Facts - Employment
    Subject Coverage: Employment law
    Type: Reference source
    Format: CD-ROM
    Location: Scottish Borders Campus
    Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.

  • Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry and chemical engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Eurostat New Cronos data
    Subject Coverage: Eurostat data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • Factiva
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Financial Times newspaper
    Subject Coverage: Business, Finance, Economics
    Type: Newspaper
    Format: CD-ROM
    Location: Riccarton Campus
    Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.

  • Flavouring Agents Database
    Subject Coverage: Flavouring agent specifications
    Type: Reference source

  • Food Additives Database
    Subject Coverage: Food additive specifications
    Type: Reference source

  • Genetics Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Chromosomes, evolutionary genetics, cell cycle
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Google Scholar
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Government Survey data
    Subject Coverage: Government Survey data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Government

  • Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
    Subject Coverage: Engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • Health and Safety Science Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Public health, safety, and industrial hygiene
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Housing Management Standards Manual
    Subject Coverage: Housing management standards
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Human Genome Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Gene cloning, gene therapy, genetic screening
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Human Kinetics
    Subject Coverage: Sport science
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • I Love Languages
    Subject Coverage: Language
    Type: Subject gateway

  • IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
    Subject Coverage: Social Sciences
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) Virtual Library
    Subject Coverage: Civil engineering
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • ICONDA (International Construction Database)
    Subject Coverage: Construction / Building / Civil Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: OvidSP

  • IDS Employment Law Brief
    Subject Coverage: Employment law
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • IDS HR Case Study Library
    Subject Coverage: Human resources
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • IDS Pay Report
    Subject Coverage: Pay agreements and structures
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (via IEEE Xplore)
    Subject Coverage: Electrical engineering, Computing
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • iLink RICS Library
    Subject Coverage: Construction and Surveying
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996
    Subject Coverage:
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Immunology Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Immunization, autoimmunity, genetics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Index to Theses
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
    Subject Coverage: Food Microbiology, microbial resistance, fermentation
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Information Technology Case Studies
    Subject Coverage: Decision support systems, e-commerce, knowledge management
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • InformaWorld
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • IngentaConnect
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Institute of Physics
    Subject Coverage: Physics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Institution of Structural Engineers Library
    Subject Coverage: Civil engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Inteletex
    Subject Coverage: Global textiles industry
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • International Energy Agency data
    Subject Coverage: IEA data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • International Labour Organisation (ILO) Key Indicators of the Labour Market
    Subject Coverage: ILO data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • International Monetary Fund data
    Subject Coverage: IMF data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • Internet Directory of Botany (IDB)
    Subject Coverage: Botany
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute
    Subject Coverage: All Subjects
    Type: Multi-subject gateway

  • Intute: Agriculture, food, and forestry
    Subject Coverage: Agriculture, food, and forestry
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Architecture and planning
    Subject Coverage: Architecture and planning
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Biological Sciences
    Subject Coverage: Biological sciences
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Business and Management
    Subject Coverage: Business, Management
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Computer Science
    Subject Coverage: Computing
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Economics
    Subject Coverage: Economics
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Education and research methods
    Subject Coverage: Education and research methods
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Engineering
    Subject Coverage: Engineering
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Geography and environment
    Subject Coverage: Geography & environment
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Humanities
    Subject Coverage: Humanities
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Law
    Subject Coverage: Law
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Mathematics
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Medicine
    Subject Coverage: Medicine
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Modern languages and area studies
    Subject Coverage: Modern languages and area studies
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Physical Sciences
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry, earth sciences, general sciences, physics, astronomy
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Intute: Psychology
    Subject Coverage: Psychology
    Type: Subject gateway

  • ISI HighlyCited.com
    Subject Coverage: Details of academic researchers - all subjects
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • ISI Web of Knowledge
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    See: Web Of Knowledge

  • Journal Citation Reports
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • JSTOR
    Subject Coverage: Business
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • just-style
    Subject Coverage: Textile and apparel industries
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • K-Essentials
    Subject Coverage: Science and engineering
    Type: Reference source

  • Key Note Reports
    Subject Coverage: Market research
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Large-Scale Absorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1-2
    Subject Coverage: Adsorption and chromatography
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • LexisNexis Butterworths
    Subject Coverage: Tax law
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Linguistics, language
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts)
    Subject Coverage: Library science, online retrieval, archives, information technology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Materials Business File
    Subject Coverage: Metals and materials industries
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • MathSciNet
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • MatWeb
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry: material properties
    Type: Reference source

  • Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Automotive engineering, naval and marine engineering, aerospace engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Mechanical & production engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • MEDLINE (CSA Illumina)
    Subject Coverage: Biomedicine
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • MEDLINE (Web of Knowledge)
    Subject Coverage: Biomedicine
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • METADEX
    Subject Coverage: Metals and alloys
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)
    Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • MetaPress
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Military handbook (MIL-HDBK-5H): Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures
    Subject Coverage: Mechanical engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • Mintel Reports
    Subject Coverage: Market reports
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • MPRESS: MathNet Preprints
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: Full-text bibliographic database

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Criminal and juvenile justice, drug control, law enforcement
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • National Research Register (NRR) Archive
    Subject Coverage: Health-related research
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers
    Subject Coverage: Economics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • NBS (National Building Specification)
    Subject Coverage: Architecture, engineering and construction
    Type: Subject gateway

  • NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Chemistry Web Book
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Reference source

  • NS Time Series Data
    Subject Coverage: NS Time data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • NTIS (U.S. National Technical Information Service)
    Subject Coverage: Science, all subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Nucleic Acids Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Gene manipulation, DNA, transfer RNA
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Oceanic Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Oceanography, marine biology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Office of National Statistics
    Subject Coverage: UK official statistics
    Type: Web-based information service

  • Offshore Engineering Information Service (OEIS)
    Subject Coverage: Offshore engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Papers Online
    Subject Coverage: Offshore drilling, exploration, production, and environmental protection
    Type: Digital repository
    See: OnePetro

  • Oil Index (Norwegian language)
    Subject Coverage: Offshore Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Free service (Remember: "Søk" = "Search")

  • OilVoice
    Subject Coverage: Oil and gas industry information
    Type: Web-based information service
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Cancerous cell growth, serine
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • OnePetro
    Subject Coverage: Petroleum Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • OneStep Industry News
    Subject Coverage: Engineering, mathematics, computing
    Type: NewsFeed (multiple sources)

  • Online handbooks (in the Library catalogue)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Reference source

  • Open J-Gate
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal gateway

  • OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Open Access repository gateway

  • Organic Synthesis
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Web-based information service

  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development data
    Subject Coverage: OECD data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • OSIRIS
    Subject Coverage: Company Information
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • OSU Virtual Finance Library
    Subject Coverage: Finance
    Type: Subject gateway

  • OvidSP
    Subject Coverage: Social sciences / Construction, Building, Civil Engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Oxford Journals (OUP)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
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  • Petroleum Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Petroleum and offshore engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    See: TULSA: Petroleum Abstracts

  • Physical Education Index
    Subject Coverage: Physical education
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Physicsworld.com
    Subject Coverage: Physics
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Pinakes
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Multi-subject gateway

  • Pollution Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Air pollution, marine pollution, waste management
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Portland Press
    Subject Coverage: Biochemistry and related
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Powder Diffraction File (PDF)
    Subject Coverage: Diffraction data (crystaline materials)
    Type: Reference source
    Format: CD-ROM
    Location: Riccarton Campus
    Please ask at the Library Service Desk if you wish to use this service.

  • PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
    Subject Coverage: Physics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • PsycArticles
    Subject Coverage:
    Type: eJournal service
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
    Subject Coverage: Psychology, behavioural sciences
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • PsychWeb
    Subject Coverage: Psychology
    Type: Subject gateway

  • PsycINFO
    Subject Coverage: Psychology and related subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • PubChem
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry: substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data
    Type: Reference source

  • PubList.com
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Free service - self-registration required

  • PubMed
    Subject Coverage: Medicine, biomedicine
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • RAM (Recent Advances in Manufacturing)
    Subject Coverage: Manufacturing and related subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Research Training Initiative
    Subject Coverage: Art, Design and Media
    Type: Web-based Research Resource Centre

  • RICS Library Direct
    Subject Coverage: Construction and Surveying
    Type: Bibliographic database
    See: iLink RICS Library

  • Risk Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Technological risks, biological risks, natural hazards
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Journals Archive
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: eJournal service
    Accessed via: RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Online Journal Service

  • RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Online Journal Service
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Sage Journals Online
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs)
    Subject Coverage: UK Census data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
    Subject Coverage: Physics, astrophysics, instrumentation
    Type: Digital repository

  • Sapling
    Subject Coverage: Architecture, planning
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Science Accelerator
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Science Citation Index Expanded
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • Science Research
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Science.gov
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • ScienceDirect
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Scirus
    Subject Coverage: Science, patents
    Type: Search engine

  • Scitation
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Scitopia.org
    Subject Coverage: Science and technology
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
    Subject Coverage: Mathematics
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Rev. Ed.)
    Subject Coverage: Science and engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • Social Science Citation Index
    Subject Coverage: Social science
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: Web Of Knowledge

  • Social Services Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Social work, human services, and related areas
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Sociological Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Sociology, social and behavioural sciences
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Solid state and superconductivity technology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • SourceOECD Economics
    Subject Coverage: Economics
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • SPE eLibrary
    Subject Coverage:
    Type: Bibliographic database
    See: OnePetro

  • Spectral Database System (SDBS) for Organic Compounds
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry: compound and spectral data
    Type: Reference source

  • SPORTDiscus
    Subject Coverage: Sports science and related subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: EbscoHost

  • Springer LINK
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Statistical Accounts of Scotland
    Subject Coverage: Statistics
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS 

  • Statistics WWW Virtual Library
    Subject Coverage: Statistics
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Sustainability Science Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Sustainable development, conservation, human impact, land use, resource manageme
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Taylor & Francis Journals
    Subject Coverage:
    Type: eJournal service
    See: MetaPress (chiefly Taylor & Francis)

  • Teaching Engineering
    Subject Coverage: Engineering
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: K-Essentials

  • TechXtra
    Subject Coverage: Engineering, mathematics, computing
    Type: Subject gateway

  • Thomas Telford Journals
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    Accessed via: ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) Virtual Library

  • Toxicology Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Pharmaceuticals, chemicals, contaminants
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • TOXLINE
    Subject Coverage: Toxicology
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Translation Studies Abstracts (TSA) and Bibliography of Translation Studies
    Subject Coverage: Translation and interpreting
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) Online
    Subject Coverage: Transportation
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • TULSA: Petroleum Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Petroleum and offshore engineering
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via PASSWORD 

  • UK Longitudinal data
    Subject Coverage: UK Longitudinal data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Longitudinal

  • UK Qualitative data
    Subject Coverage: UK Qualitative data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) Qualitative

  • UKBORDERS
    Subject Coverage: UK Census data
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt Username & password 

  • UN Common Database
    Subject Coverage: UNCD data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) data
    Subject Coverage: UNIDO data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • US Patents Database
    Subject Coverage: US Patents (full-text)
    Type: Reference source

  • Virology and AIDS Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: AIDS, immunology, antiviral agents
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • VisualElements
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry: visual interpretation of the Table of Elements
    Type: Reference source

  • Water Resources Abstracts
    Subject Coverage: Water-related topics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Web Elements periodic table (Scholar edition)
    Subject Coverage: Chemistry
    Type: Reference source

  • Web Of Knowledge
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • WELDASEARCH
    Subject Coverage: Metallurgy, joining metals, plastics, ceramics
    Type: Bibliographic database
    Accessed via: CSA Illumina

  • Westlaw UK
    Subject Coverage: UK law
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS 

  • WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
    Subject Coverage: Design, style
    Type: Reference source
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • Wiley InterScience
    Subject Coverage: Science, multidisciplinary
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
    [ Alternative Access Methods ]

  • World Bank Databanks
    Subject Coverage: World Bank data
    Type: Reference source
    Accessed via: ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) International

  • World Textiles
    Subject Coverage: Textiles and related subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Access via ATHENS 

  • WorldSciNet (World Scientific Journals)
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: eJournal service
    OFF-campus access: Access via Heriot-Watt VPN 

  • WorldWideScience.org
    Subject Coverage: Science
    Type: Bibliographic database

  • Your Journals@Ovid
    Subject Coverage: Health, life sciences, psychology
    Type: Bibliographic database / eJournal service
    Accessed via: OvidSP

  • Zetoc
    Subject Coverage: All subjects
    Type: Bibliographic database
    OFF-campus access: Primary access via Heriot-Watt VPN 
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