Due to terms and conditions
in licensing agreements, access to certain databases, are restricted
to registered students, current faculty and staff of the
University of the West Indies, Mona. Resources to which
this applies are indicated as such. Access to these resources
is available as follows:
On Campus:
from any computer workstation connected to the University's local
area network i.e. in the Library, Computer Labs, Faculty Offices
etc.
Off Campus
using the ISP (Internet Service Provider) of your choice you will
be asked to enter your UWI staff or UWI
student Id number and your UWI_Mona or
Student domain password
International databases:
Biomed
Central (Access
restricted to UWI Students and Staff) Primarily an electronic
publishing platform for scientists. There are over 50
journals published in electronic format by BIOMED.
EbscoHost Research Databases
(Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff).
Provides access to the following databases.
Emeraldinsight-
Full text:
Electronic Management Research Library Database (Access
restricted to UWI Students and Staff). contains over 25,000
management articles from its archive back to 1989 and provides
access to over 130 journals. such as the European Journal of
Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production
Management, Personnel Review, The TQM Magazine and Library Management.
Faculty
of 1000 biology
First
Search from OCLC (Access restricted
to UWI Students and Staff). Provides access to more than
15 databases, including:
BasicBIOSIS:
Covers the basic core of life science journals. Includes popular
and scholarly science journals.
EconLit: Journals, books, and working papers
on economics
ERIC: Journal articles and reports on education
topics
GPO: U.S. government publications
MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including
dentistry and nursing
MLA: Indexes books, essay collections, working
papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in
literature, language and linguistics,
WilsonSelectPlus: Full text articles in science,
humanities, education and business
WorldCat: OCLCcatalog of books, web resources,
and other material worldwide
HighWire
Press (Journals database)
(Provides access to over 15 million articles from over 4,500
PubMed journals, including 839,086 free full text articles from
825 HighWire-hosted journals in the Biological, Physical, Medical
and Social Sciences.
HINARI
- provides free or low cost online access to the major journals
in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit
institutions in developing countries. Please contact the Librarian
at the Reference Desk for Username and Password.
IEEE database-
The IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) provides access to the IEEE's core collection of over 120 engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals.
This package does not include the full text of conference proceedings, IEEE standards and IET journals. Full text of Transactions starts from 1998.
JSTOR
-- offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
The UWI library has access to the Arts & Sciences I, Arts
& Sciences II, Business, and Language & Literature Collections.
MathSciNet
-- a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical
literature since 1940.
Medline
(PubMed) The National Library of Medicine's search service that
provides access to over 10 million citations in Medline,
PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating
online journals.
NetLibrary
- "digital version of books and database
content that you can access 24 hours" each day!
NLM
database The NLM Gateway
allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway
searches MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, LOCATORplus, MedlinePlus,
ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM,
and HSDB)
Popline
from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program provides
citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population,
family planning, and related health issues.
Project
Muse - is a unique collaboration between
libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable
and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities,
arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
ProQuest
(Access restricted
to UWI Students and Staff.) providing access to:
- ABI/INFORM
Global includes 1800 worldwide business periodicals
for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions,
management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising,
marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation,
computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast
access to information on 60,000 + companies with business
and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal
- Academic
Research Library
Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business,
children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences,
social sciences, and women's interests.
SCIFINDER SCHOLAR - Bibliographic database, which provides chemical and
related scientific information offered by the Chemical
Abstracts databases. Information accessed are patents
and journal references, substance information,
regulated chemicals, chemical reactions and chemical
supplier information. Access is limited to three
concurrent users and it is available in the Science
Library. Contact the reference librarian in Science
Library 935-8202 or ext.2202. Access is available in the Main Library in the Postgraduate
Reading Room.
STN
International
(Fee based, contact the Science Librarian for more information)
is the online scientific and technical information service dedicated
to meeting the information needs of scientists, engineers, and
information professionals throughout the world. STN provides
a complete collection of in-depth databases in science and technology
to give you quick, direct links to the literature, patents,
and chemical catalogs.STN is operated by Chemical Abstracts
Service (CAS)
SwetsWise
(Click on login via IP authentication)
Web
of Science - Science Citation Index expanded with
5 years backfiles.
Westlaw
(please contact the Reference Librarian
or the Periodicals Librarian, Main Library for user name and
password) Westlaw is West's online legal research service.
It provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of
statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal
resources, along with current news articles and business information.
West
Indian databases
Cardin: Contains
disaster related information gathered from the English, Spanish,
French and Dutch speaking Caribbean. It is produced as part
of the activities Caribbean Disaster Information Network
Caren:
the Science Library's in-house database on the Caribbean
environment.
Caribbean
Child Development Centre's Online Publication Database
Caribbean
Digital Library -
A web service
of ECLA's Caribbean Documentation Centre. It provides access
to Caribbean documents on the web and is artranged by 21 broad
headings.
Caribbean
Studies Database, 1991 -1996 produced by
the Department of Library & Information Studies, indexes
Caribbean studies submitted by final year undergraduate students
at the University of the West Indies, Mona, in fulfilment of
the requirements for the Faculty of Arts & Education UC3X0
courses. (unavailable)
Carilaw
(Caribbean Law Online)
Carindex:
an index of social sciences and humanities literatures published
in the Caribbean.
Medcarib:Contains
information on all aspects on health and medicine relating to
the English speaking Caribbean and Suriname. Produced by the
Medcarib Network for which the Medical Library is the Regional
Coordinating Centre.
Mona
Online Research Database
West
Indiana:
indexes articles found in non-West Indian journals, chapters
from books, conference papers, off prints and pamphlets
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