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What is EBSCOhost?

The EBSCOhost interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals and e- books. The databases are particularly useful for identifying journal articles and other publications on a particular topic within the subject areas covered by each database. You can also search across more than one database at a time.

Which databases are available through EBSCOhost?

America: History and Life See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Anthropology Plus See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Including the indexing from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index Online, Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of core and lesser known journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Art & Architecture Source See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design.
British Education Index (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Database of information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. Particular strengths include aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs. Useful resource for museum education.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content.
Chicano Database See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Database focusing on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants. Explores the broad dimensions of class, race and gender within the Chicano and Latino U.S. experience.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Provides references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Covering more than 400,000 records, including all issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927-2001. Over 10,000 new records are added each year.
CINAHL Plus See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 4 users at a time. The authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics.
EconLit See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 4 users at a time. Index of international publications on economics, with selected abstracts.
Education Abstracts See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Covering key areas of education and related fields, content areas include educational specialties and administration. Includes indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000 periodicals and yearbooks (indexing dating back to 1983, abstracts back to 1994) and books on education published after 1995.
Educational Administration Abstracts See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration such as educational leadership, educational management and educational research. The index contains more than 190,000 records.
ERIC (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. The Education Resource Information Center provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
GreenFILE See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index of scholarly, government and general-interest publications, covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
Historical Abstracts See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 6 users at a time. Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excl. the United States and Canada - see America: History and Life).
History of Science, Technology & Medicine (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 1 user at a time. Integrates four bibliographiesthe Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Humanities International Index See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (EBSCO) See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index to Legal Periodicals & Books provides indexing of 850 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications, as well as coverage of 1,400 monographs per year.
Library and Information Science Source See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Includes full text for more than 460 publications and indexing for hundreds of high-quality journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. LISTA indexes 580 core journals, over 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Content is also part of Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA).
Linguistics Abstracts Online See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index of articles from linguistics journals. Includes abstracts.
MLA International Bibliography See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Nation Archive, 1865-2020 See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Covering 150 years of the Nation Magazine, this archive contains thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles dating back to the magazine's first issue in 1865.
OpenDissertations See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. OpenDissertations, is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Links to full-text where available.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. This database can be accessed by no more than 8 users at a time. Index of publications covering sport, fitness and related disciplines.
Teacher Reference Center See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. The Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.

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