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.
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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.
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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.
Exampro offers thousands of past AQA GCSE questions, their related mark schemes and examiner comments, all mapped to the current specifications.
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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 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.
700+ full text ebooks covering social science subjects including business, management, marketing, criminology, education, law, media, psychology, nursing and research skills.
A multi-disciplinary EBSCO database of academic journals covering virtually every academic discipline.
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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.
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.
American Psychological Association (APA) database provided by EBSCO. Full text academic and scientific articles in psychology.
EBSCO database of full text journals covering topics in psychology and related fields.
American 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.
Full text EBSCO database containing sports and sports medicine journals dating back to 1985.