Monday, 9 March 2015

Free Research Tools On The Web

The libraries own resources should, of course be the starting point for your research. However, there are some free research tools out there on the web which may help you to uncover some useful material. Here are some of the main ones for the social sciences.

Social Care Online is a free database maintained by the UK Government backed Social Care Institute for Excellence. It covers all aspects of social work, social care and social welfare and provides links to many full text reviews, briefings, legislation and policy documents.

The Campbell Library free systematic reviews on education, crime, justice and social welfare.

The Cochrane Library free research on all aspects of health and healthcare. 

Trip Database online search tool designed for health professionals with an emphasis on evidence-based medicine.

COPAC free access to the merged online catalogues of many major, specialist and national libraries in the UK and Ireland. COPAC doesn't give you the full text of books but will help you to identify useful titles which you can order using our document supply service.

Google Scholar - specialist search engine from Google which searches for only academic research on the web. Google Scholar doesn't have all the features to help you to refine your search like DISCOVER does - so you will probably find yourself having to trawl through many pages of results...and not everything will be available in full text.


free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, specialist and national libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. - See more at: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/applied-soc-studies/core-ab-indexes#sthash.29LWjuqi.dpuf
free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, specialist and national libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. - See more at: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/applied-soc-studies/core-ab-indexes#sthash.29LWjuqi.dpuf
free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, specialist and national libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. - See more at: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/applied-soc-studies/core-ab-indexes#sthash.29LWjuqi.dpuf

free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, specialist and national libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. - See more at: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/applied-soc-studies/core-ab-indexes#sthash.29LWjuqi.dpuf
 

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