EBSCOhost research databases
Included in Encore
EBSCOhost research databases
Included in Encore

Jurisdictions:
Content types:
Offsite access availability:
IALS staff, fellows & students
SAS staff, fellows & students (other than IALS)

Description

Collection of databases containing e-journals, e-books, abstracts and other material. Covers science, the humanities and social science, including law. 

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Access

The EBSCO Host Research Databases are part of the subscription services offered to readers by the SAS libraries and Senate House Library (SHL). Onsite access is available to all academic members of IALS library, but remote access is restricted to users from SAS and SHL.

Select one or more databases from the list, then click ‘Continue’.

Content
The available databases include:-

  • Academic Search Complete: over 8,000 full-text academic journals and an indexing/abstracting service covering more than 12,000 journals and more than 13,000 monographs/reports/conference proceedings/other material; covers the social sciences, the humanities and science
     
  • Business Source Premier:  over 2,000 economics and business journals.
     
  • Ebook Collection: a multidisciplinary collection, including several hundred law titles by a range of publishers, in English, German, Spanish and other languages.
     
  • Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson): index covering more than 1,000 law journals,  yearbooks, bar association publications, university publications, government publications and more; the main focus is on common law jurisdictions -  including the US, UK, Canada and Australia - and international law
     
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: abstracts from hundreds of library and information management journals

The other databases available on the EBSCO Host platform are the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection; the bibliography, European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750; GreenFILE, a collection of full-text or abstracted environmental publications; Regional Business News, a US source; Teacher Reference Center, abstracts from education periodicals; 

Searching
Basic and Advanced Search facilities are available. 

To limit a search to a particular subject and/or country, in Advanced Search, use the ‘Select a field’ menu to choose Subject Terms and/or Geographic Terms. 

Search tips and other guidance are available via the Help menu.

Reading and downloading
Some of the databases provide full text access to resources whereas some are indexing services only. 

The full text content provided via EBSCOhost, including articles and ebooks, is available in several formats which vary according to the publisher. The available formats of each text are detailed alongside the description of the content and include HTML, EPUB, and PDF formats. 

Some full text articles and ebooks can also be downloaded in accessible PDF and EPUB formats. 

Accessibility
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The EBSCOhost platform complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and provides the majority of its indexed and full text content in accessible formats, including HTML, EPUB, and PDF.

There is a built-in Text-to-Speech function available via EBSCOhost for full text articles in HTML format (such as via Academic Search Complete database). Where this is available, a button labelled ‘Listen’ will be displayed above the HTML text. There are options to change the reading speed and highlighting/scrolling of text, and the audio can be downloaded as an MP3 file. 

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