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| Info | Database title |
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 | SafetyLit Includes summaries of doctoral theses, scholarly reports and journal articles about injury occurrence and risk factors. Items are considered relevant if they concern any of the pre-event or event elements of the Haddon Matrix; the epidemiology of injury; or the financial, personal, or societal costs or consequences of the any injury or risk factor. |
 | SAGE Campus SAGE Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 250+ hours of structured online learning. The courses are self-paced and instructor-led, comprising of a mix of quality content, video, interactives, and formative assessments to build practical skills for study, research and the workplace. The courses cover critical skills and research methods that can be applied across all stages of academic study, including navigating information, data literacy, research skills, data science skills and getting published. Faculty can assign courses or students and researchers can self-enrol. First time users need to Register using the link on the SAGE Campus site. |
 | SAGE Journals An independent international publisher of academic and professional journals, books, and electronic media. |
| SAGE Knowledge eBooks Includes SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. |
| SAGE Research Methods A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. The database links SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Includes access to Cases and Datasets. |
| SAGE Royal Society of Medicine Journals The Royal Society of Medicine Journals, published by SAGE, range in scope from primary research to clinical practice, covering topics from experimental medicine to venous disease. |
| SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science) An abstracting/indexing database with links to open access full-text for journals from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa. |
| Science (Gale OneFile) Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. |
| Science & Engineering (Alexander Street) A video collection that offers a wide-ranging survey of engineering, environmental studies, natural history, and the physical and biological sciences, and focuses on their practical, ground-level applications. |
| Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science Core Collection) Provides access to bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading scientific and technical journals across 150 disciplines. Cover-to-cover indexing ensures access to every significant item from a journal, including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, and more. Select this database from the 'Editions' filter. |
| Science Database (ProQuest) Supports academic research in both the applied and general sciences with access to full-text titles. Subject coverage includes: General science, Materials science, Aerospace,Engineering, Computers, Physics, Telecommunications, Transportation, and Military. |
| Science Online Access all content from print Science (from AAAS), plus additional enhanced material only available online. Includes ScienceXpress (electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print), Science News (daily news service) and Science Classic (digital archive, 1880-1996). |
| Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 (NCCO) This archive of journals, books, reports, and personal documents covers scientific research and discovery during the nineteenth century. |
| ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Access full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering. |
| Scientific Style and Format Online A reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields. It has been fully revised to reflect today’s best practices in scientific publishing. |
| SciFinder-n Refer to: CAS SciFinder-n |
| Scitable (Nature Education) A free science library and personal learning tool from Nature Publishing Group. Access evidence-based articles, connect with a global community of faculty, researchers, and students, and, contribute to the Scitable community by uploading material. |
| SciVal (Elsevier) SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 5,500 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. SciVal enables you to navigate the world of research and devise an optimal plan to drive and analyse your performance. For access to, and support with this research product, contact your Subject Librarian. |
| Scopus (Elsevier) A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. The database includes more than 5,000 international publishers including Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage. |
| Scotsman (1817-1950) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The complete digital archive of The Scotsman from 1817-1950. |
| Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) Provides administrative support to Scottish courts and tribunals and to the judiciary of courts, including the High Court of Justiciary, Court of Session, sheriff courts and justice of the peace courts, and to the Office of the Public Guardian and Accountant of Court. Access selected judgments and opinions for individual cases. |
| Scottish Legal History (HeinOnline) This collection includes the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series (1936-present), Supplementary Series Vols. 1-3 as well as books, abridgments and links to scholarly articles relating to Scottish legal history. |
| Screen Studies Collection (ProQuest) The Screen Studies Collection includes current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. The collection provides access to the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International. |
| Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law (HeinOnline) This collection contains the Selden Society Annual Series, the Supplementary Series, and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society. It also includes the Publications of the Ames Foundation and a number of legal classics, digests, encyclopedias. Access is provided to early English case law with links to other online publications in early English history. |
| Serials Directory (EBSCOhost) Provides access to bibliographic information, as well as current pricing structures, for popular U.S. and international serials, including newspapers. |
| Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale Cengage) Access the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. |
| Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (Short Title Catalogue Flanders) (STCV) A free online bibliography of all books printed in Flanders (the northern part of Belgium, Brussels included) from 1601 on to 1800. |
| SJR: SCImago Journal & Country Rank An open access portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyse scientific domains. |
| Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law (HeinOnline) This collection brings together legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. |
| SNL Energy Log in for access to energy information on a Web-based platform that integrates news, data and analytics in real time. Note: First-time users must register for access by clicking on the New User link on the login page and entering their @otago.ac.nz email address. |
| Social Care Online (SCIE) The UK's largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work. Resources include legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey literature, books, text books, and journal articles. Links to full text are included where available. |
| Social Science Database (ProQuest) A database that provides full-text access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology. |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) A collaborative database of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. SSRN includes an Abstract Database containing scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing full-text documents. |
| Social Sciences (Alexander Street) This video collection covers a broad range of subjects concerned with humanity’s efforts to understand itself and the world. Through raw field recordings, documentaries, newsreels, counseling transcripts and sessions, and much more, users can examine and connect personal, social, and spiritual aspects of the human condition. Search across the following collections: Anthropology Online, Ethnographic Video Online, Business Education in Video, Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video, Education in Video, Environmental Studies in Video, 60 Minutes: 1997-2014, Meet the Press, and Current Affairs in Video. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection) Provides access to the bibliographic and citation information from the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines. Cover-to-cover indexing ensures access to every significant item from a journal, including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies, abstracts, and more. Select this database from the 'Editions' filter. |
| Social Security Appeal Authority of New Zealand Decisions (NZLII) Contains the decisions of the Social Security Appeal Authority of New Zealand (NZSSAA). |
| Social Theory (Alexander Street) A selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. The database includes content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons. |
| Social Welfare at the British Library Portal The portal offers information on all aspects of social welfare in the UK and overseas, with a particular emphasis on policy development, implementation and evaluation. Resources include full-text research and evaluation reports, Parliamentary papers, consultations and policy proposals. Also included are details of books, journal articles, official papers, theses, archived websites and datasets in the British Library's collections. |
| Society of Biblical Literature – Ancient Near East Monographs (ANEM) This Open Access monograph series focuses on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras. |
| Sociology Database (ProQuest) This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. |
| South African Acts Online Provides free access to significant South African legislation, including amendments and Regulations, in an online format. |
| South African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) A free database that publishes legal information which comprises mainly of case law and legislation from South Africa. |
| Species 2000 A taxonomic database with a goal to collate a uniform and validated index to the world's known species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes). |
| SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) An important source of literature for sports and sports medicine journals, providing full-text content from many well-known and respected sources. |
| Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video (Alexander Street) A video collection in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and more. |
| Sports Tribunal of New Zealand The Sports Tribunal is an independent body that determines certain types of disputes for the sports sector. Access full-text Tribunal decisions. |
| SPRILIB: A Polar and Glaciological Bibliographic Database This database covers the literature of all subjects relating to the Arctic and Antarctic published in a wide range of languages. It also offers comprehensive coverage for all aspects of snow and ice throughout the world. |
| Springer Protocols (SpringerLink) Springer Protocols is a database of over 55,000 reproducible laboratory protocols in biomedicine and and life sciences, providing researchers with reliable and accurate lab techniques. |
| SpringerLink Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Subjects include: architecture, design, behavioral science, biomedical and life sciences, business, economics, chemistry, materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics, statistics, medicine, physics, and, professional and applied computing. |
| SpringerReference A broad collection of electronic major reference works (encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies and data collections) updated and peer reviewed by leading academics and scientists. |
| Standing Orders of the House of Representatives Standing Orders of the House of Representatives are the rules of procedure for the House and its committees. Access the current version online. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A dynamic reference work with high-quality and authoritative discussions of values, science, religion, politics, and ideas in general. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. |
| Statistics New Zealand Free search for official New Zealand statistics on the Census, Business, Education, Agriculture, Households, Industry and much more. |
| Supreme Court (Courts of New Zealand) The Supreme Court is New Zealand's final court of appeal. Access case summaries, transcripts and decisions of public interest. |
| Supreme Court of New Zealand (NZLII) Contains decisions of the Supreme Court of New Zealand (NZSC). |