Introduction
Subject databases are online tools for finding resources in your subject area, such as journal articles, conference papers, audio-visual materials and more. Find a list of key databases for your subject below.
There are also short 'How to' videos for some databases.
Subject databases
- Association for Physical Education (AfPE) This link opens in a new window
Membership includes access to the members’ area of the AfPE website and the Physical Education Matters archive (plus the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy online journal available via Library Search).
Additional login required - Education Source This link opens in a new windowEBSCO database including journals, conference papers and books on all areas of education.
- Emerald Insight
Access to Health & Social Care, Management and Education journals (not books or case studies). Change the Access type to “Only content I have access to” to limit your search to purchased content.
- Intered
Seven journal titles providing early years, primary and secondary knowledge and expertise - from news and debates to lesson plan ideas and government policy updates.
- Maths Genie
Maths Genie is a free maths revision site. It has SATS-style questions and answers and GCSE and A Level past papers, mark schemes, model answers to exam questions, video tutorials and solutions.
- Sage Catalyst This link opens in a new window
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700+ full text ebooks covering social science subjects including business, management, marketing, criminology, education, law, media, psychology, nursing and research skills.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista is a trusted source of global market and consumer data compiled by experts and regularly updated. It includes statistics, forecasts, trend analysis, dossiers, infographics, surveys, industry and market reports.
- Teaching Times This link opens in a new windowAccess to knowledge banks, teaching resources and journals on education research, creative teaching, leadership, special needs, digital learning, classroom design and more.
Additional login instructions
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary EBSCO database of academic journals covering virtually every academic discipline.
- British Library Social Welfare Portal This link opens in a new windowTemporarily unavailable due to a cyber attack on the British Library
The Social Welfare Portal provides a single point of access to the British Library's print and digital collections of research and information on policy development, implementation and evaluation. - CareKnowledge This link opens in a new windowInformation service for those working in social care providing access to the latest research, policy and practice documents published in the UK.
- Community Care Inform: Children
Provides expert-written social work practice and legal information and learning tools to help social care professionals make and evidence their decisions and keep up-to-date with best practice and the law.
- Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowLarge database of full text, scholarly articles. Covers social and health sciences, criminal justice, business, media, literature and linguistics and many other subjects.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowAmerican Psychological Association (APA) database provided by EBSCO. Full text academic and scientific articles in psychology.
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowEBSCO database of full text journals covering topics in psychology and related fields.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowAmerican Psychological Association (APA) index to citations and abstracts from journals, books, reports and dissertations, from 1887 to the present (some full text). Provided by EBSCO.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowAccess to seven full text journal collections (1995-present): Agricultural & Biological Sciences, Business, Management & Accounting, Computer Science, Health Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology & Social Sciences.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowAccess to a multi-disciplinary Wiley Online Journals Collection.
- Databases A-ZThe databases available to access via Leeds Trinity University Library