These databases provide access to books and journal articles that you can use as evidence to underpin your academic work.
ACM publishes 50+ peer-reviewed journals in computing and IT. They cover emerging and established research, practical and theoretical. ACM journals are led by thought leaders and published rapidly.
Find articles and other information from the journals, proceedings and standards published by IEEE and by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Full-text is from 1988 to present with some selected earlier content.
O'Reilly Online Learning gives you access to live training, interactive learning, a certification experience, books and videos on technologies that are shaping the future. Covering the whole range of IT professional work, topics include programming languages, networks, infrastructure operating systems, IT administration, security and more.
The British Standards Online provide full text access to selected standards along side summaries of an additional 39,000 documents.
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Open repository of over 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine
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The British Education Index is a comprehensive database of UK education research and practice from preschool to higher education, with strengths in educational policy, evaluation, technology, and SEN.
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LISTA indexes over 690 periodicals, books, reports, and proceedings on librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage is from the mid-1960s.
Statista provides access to data and statistics across various computing sectors like software development, hardware, cybersecurity and digital technologies.
Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries