Library Services
There are many useful databases for Information Studies. Listed below are some of the key databases for the subject.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Offering access to full-text journals including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and MIS Quarterly, plus business videos from top providers. BSU spans various business topics, from current trends to historical information and global perspectives.
Inspec indexes journals and conference proceedings in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing, control engineering, manufacturing and production engineering, communications and information technology.
Web of Science and SCOPUS are large interdisciplinary databases which include relevant material for Information Studies.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Web of Science. Defaults to a ‘Core Collection’ search, covering the main Web of Science journals database; select 'All Databases' option from the drop down menu to cross-search all of UCL's subscribed Web of Science products, including Biosis, MEDLINE etc.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
"Standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines or definitions." (BSI)
More information on using British Standards Online is available.