Databases A-Z
Due to terms and conditions in licensing agreement, items marked with an asterisk(*) are available to the UWI (Cave Hill) community only. Full descriptions of the databases are available at the database sites. Databases are listed in alphabetical order.
ABI/INFORM.* Via ProQuest. A major business periodicals database, coverage includes advertising, economics, financial marketing, human resources and management.
Academic Research Library.* Via ProQuest. Covers a range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Academic Search Complete.* Via EBSCO. Provides access to scholarly publications in various fields including the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, agriculture, sports and fitness and ethnic studies.
Alt HealthWatch.* Via EBSCO. "Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine."
BDENF - BIREME.
A bibliographic database on nursing.
BioMed Central. Access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection.* Via Henry Stewart Talks. Provides access to one hour lectures containing the latest research developments as well as the fundamentals from the world’s leading experts in their respective fields including Nobel Laureates and Lasker Award Winners. The collection contains well over 1,800 lectures and approximately 15 new talks are added each month.
BIREME.
A virtual health library which provides access to a number of bibliographic databases and scientific magazines of health information sources in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Business Source Complete.* Via EBSCO. Provides access to scholarly business journals. The database is updated daily. Coverage includes company information, management, economics, finance, accounting and international business. You may also use the
Business Searching Interface to search this database.
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Cabells Journal blacklist. * Via Cabells. Identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals. Specialists identify and analyze over 65 behavioural indications to flag potentially exploitative and dishonest operations. Each entry provides information on how to identify the journal in the real world as well as a comprehensive report of each behavioral indicator that was uncovered in the journal's evaluation. Using this report, users can learn more about these behaviors and decide for themselves whether to trust the journal.
Cambridge Journals Online. Includes
selected full text titles. *
Caribbean Histories - National Archives (UK). The history of the British Caribbean is explored in this exhibition through government documents, photographs and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s and discovered during a cataloguing project at The National Archives of the United Kingdom.
Caribbean Search. *
Via EBSCO
. Provides a comprehensive guide to English- Language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains over 730 full text Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newpapers, reports and reference books.
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive. * Via Alexander Street. Features a mixture of history, entertainment, and social commentary. Banyan Productions has produced a film library of the highest internatiional standards, covering documentatry, drama, music, dance, and much more, spanning the past 40 years. With more than 1,100 hours of exclusive programming,
Caribbean Studies in Video brings the oral and visual history of the people, culture, society, and identity of the Caribbean people, by the Caribbean people to the forefront
Carilaw
Cariblex (ILO).
Chicago Manual of Style.*
CINAHL.* Via EBSCO. For nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This full-text database contains searchable cited references, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.* Via EBSCO. "A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews".
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.* Via EBSCO. "Contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually".
Emerald.* Access to information in management, library and information services, engineering and applied science and technology..
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Jamaica Journal. The Jamaica Journal is the flagship publication of the Institute of Jamaica and the Caribbean’s leading cultural publication on Jamaica’s heritage.
Janus (Cambridge University Press). Janus is a self-funded project, established in October 2002 to provide a single point of networked access to catalogues of archives and manuscript collections held throughout Cambridge. The number and range of participating repositories - both University and non-University - continues to widen, promising in due course the near comprehensive coverage of archives in the city and surrounding area.
JSTOR.* The Scholarly Journal Archive offers access to both discipline-specific and multidisciplinary collections. The UWI JSTOR collections are Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business I, and Language & Literature.
Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
MasterFILE Premier * Via EBSCO. A multidisciplinary database. It includes the full text of general reference publications, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
Master File Premier Title List.
MathSciNet *, produced by the American Mathematical Society, is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides access to bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature. The database also provides links to original articles and other original documents, when available.
MEDLINE Complete* Via EBSCO. Full-text. Information on medicine and related fields, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences.
ProQuest Central * for access to the following databases:
ABI/INFORM. A major business periodicals database, coverage includes advertising, economics, financial marketing, human resources and management.
Academic Research Library. Covers a range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
U.S. National Newspaper Abstracts.
Regional Business News.* Via EBSCO. Incorporates coverage of selected business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Sci Finder * A tool which allows users to categorize references, save answers, export chemical records from CHEMCATS into Excel and print structures in grid format.
UptoDate Kluwer Health. This is an evidence-based knowledge system authored by physicians to help clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. All UpToDate content is written and edited by a global community of 4,800 physicians, world-renowned experts in their specialties.
UWI (St. Augustine, Trinidad). Library Catalogue. The catalogue of the Main Library of the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad)
UWISpace. The University of the West Indies Institutional Repository. This archive was established by the UWI Libraries to support the dissemination of knowledge by providing open access to the digitally preserved intellectual output of the University.
UWI PRESS E-BOOKS.
Published by the University of the West Indies Press. Works include Caribbean history, Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean literature, gender studies, education and political science.
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