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Business

Business subject databases
Database	Description	Videos
	Core business database providing access to business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
	Key business research database covering marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. EBSCO, which hosts Business Source Premier, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features. A new Business Source Premier-specific video will be coming soon.
	Information on companies in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Includes: credit score and rating, security and price information, details of holdings and subsidiaries and scans of the company's latest annual reports.
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Contains market research and intelligence about companies and markets globally.
	Local, national and international news sources on all topics, including company and financial information.
	Contains demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide, as well as historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries.
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Economics

Economics subject databases
Database	Description	Videos
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Local, national and international news sources on all topics, including company and financial information.
	Covers biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Education

Education subject databases
Database	Description	Videos
	Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
	Covers all aspects of education. EBSCO, which hosts the British Education Index (BEI), recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features. A new BEI-specific video will be coming soon.
	Covers primary, secondary, higher and special education, home schooling, adult education, and related topics. EBSCO, which hosts the ERIC database, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features. A new ERIC-specific video will be coming soon.
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Abstracts and citations to academic literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
	Covers biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Geography

Geography subject databases
Databases	Description	Videos
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Specialises in resources covering Earth's air, land, and water environments including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
	Covers biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Law

Law subject databases
Databases	Description	Videos
	Collection of legal journals (including back issues) and rare and out-of-print collections.
	Collects full text UK law journals from publishers including Cambridge and Oxford University Press. Also contains full text of amended and consolidated UK legislation from 1267 onwards, and a comprehensive range of general and specialist law reports. Includes Halsbury’s Laws of England and Wales. If the link from NUsearch opens a Nexis search page, click on the 9-dot grid in the top left-hand corner and select Lexis+ UK.
	Database that indexes articles from legal periodicals and books, allowing you to search for academic commentary on a topic. EBSCO, which hosts Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, recently launched a new interface. Watch the EBSCO-produced videos for a brief overview of some of the new features. A new database-specific video will be coming soon.
	Covers significant United Kingdom cases, legislation, journals and commentary. Also US and international legal materials.

Politics and International Relations

Politics and International Relations subject databases
Databases	Description	Videos
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Local, national and international news sources on all topics, including company and financial information.
	Covers political science and international relations including dissertations, conference proceedings and working papers
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Sociology and Social Policy

Sociology and Social Policy subject databases
Database	Description	Videos
	Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
	Broad coverage of social sciences. Good for interdisciplinary and international research with resources from over 100 countries and languages.
	Covers biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
	Covers the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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