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Resource centre members have access to some of the most powerful journals and databases for academic and professional research, reference and news. These include Hinari, Emerald, Infotrac and Oxford Journals.

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HINARI

HINARI (The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) gives access to all the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences.

AGORA
AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), an FAO initiative, gives access to journals covering agriculture, fisheries, food, nutrition, veterinary science, and related biological, environmental, and social sciences
Emerald full text
Available to Resource Centre members only. Instant access to the latest research and global thinking. search 35,000 full text management articles from 130 world-class journals. Emerald publishes the world's widest range of management and library and information services journals, as well a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.
Emerald management reviews
Available to Resource Centre members only. Emerald Management Reviews is the ultimate timesaving tool for management researchers. It contains reviews of every single article from the world's most prominent management journals. It allows users to pinpoint exact articles instead of having to sift through a mass of inappropriate material.
Oxford university press journals online
Available to Resource Centre members only. OUP is widely recognised as one of the world's premier journal publishers, successfully combining traditional values of quality and service together with innovative use of the latest technologies. Access to over 190 titles in Science, Technical, Medical, Social sciences, Arts & Humanities, and Professional studies.
Infotrac custom journals
Available to Resource Centre members only. Infotrac Web Custom Journals contains 600 UK journals in all disciplines - 268 of these titles are available in full text with the rest as bibliographic citations. It also contains 500 international journals.
Infotrac Newspapers
Available to Resource Centre members only. A collection of 45 UK newspapers and 5 international newspapers with daily updates and a backfile extending to 1996 for some titles.
Oxford English dictionary online
Available to Resource Centre members only. OED Online is widely regarded as the ultimate authority on the English language. Provides access to the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions, and includes over 2.5 million quotations to illustrate how words have been used over time plus at least 1,000 new and revised words each quarter.
Oxford reference online
Available to Resource Centre members only. A vast online library that includes over 100 Oxford University Press reference books such as the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, the Oxford Dictionaries of Law, Physics, Engineering and many other subjects, plus the mighty Oxford English Dictionary. It contains over 1.5 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates and quotations.
Keesing's World Events
Available to Resource Centre members only. Keesing's Online covers a wide range of events in all countries of the World linked to a variety of subjects within politics, economics, social affairs, science, environment and nature. Track world events in contemporary texts from their beginnings right through the present, for example, the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall or the career of Nelson Mandela from his imprisonment to his presidency.
Encyclopeadia Britannica
Available to Resource Centre members only. EB Online includes the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet Directory to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Thomson Learning Library Reference
Access to Gale's large databases and reference libraries, including the Times Digital Archive, the Literary Resource Centre and the Gale Reference Library.
Blackwell Journals
Over 600 prestigious journals within physical sciences, life sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities.
Taylor & Francis Journal Collection
Full text access to over 1000 academic journals in science, social studies and humanities.

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