Guides to the databases

Quick guides to Internet databases and e-journals

• Back to Internet subscription databases
• Back to e-journals

EBSCO    

• Click on PsycInfo, Academic Search Elite, Business Source Premier or EJS.
• A screen message will appear: “Your session has expired. To begin a new session, please click here”. Follow the instruction.
• A list of databases will appear: PsycInfo, Academic Search Elite, Business Source Premier or EJS.
• Select one (or more) by ticking the box to the left of the database title. Click on the “Continue” button.
• The screen defaults to Advanced search. Other options on the menu bar are Basic search, Visual search, Choose databases.
• Note on the list of databases, below each one, the links: Title list and More Information.
• Click on Title list to see what publications are available. Use the Find or Browse options.
• Click on More Information for tutorials, search tips, etc.
• No authorisation is required from campus computers. 

GMID    

• There are three ways to search the database: the menu search, keyword search or browse reports facility.
• Menu search: Select data from the geography AND category. Types of data include Statistics, Analysis / market reports, Companies and market share, Sources. Limit your search by de-selecting data types and click on Filter. Under category, a ‘Find category’ box allows you to enter keywords to refine your search.
• Keyword search: The search box is accessed via the menu bar. Use Boolean operators AND, OR and AND NOT. Limit your search by de-selecting information types.
• Browse reports: market reports can be accessed via the menu bar.

    

HeinOnline provides access to the Law Journal Library containing 1,200 international legal journals and the English Reports Full Reprint (1220-1865), the only legal database at Buckingham to comprehensively cover these older Reports. Select which of these two resources you wish to search, either journal articles or older English case law.     

Try it:      

Go to HeinOnline  and click on Law Journal Library and look at the alphabetical list of journals, select American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review to see the coverage of this journal. Click on Search tab / AdvancedSearch and enter under Enron in the search for box and select the relevant journal abbreviation Am. Bankr. Inst. L.Rev to find various articles. See screen shot below for this search, which can be limited by date range.      

Index to Theses     

• Select Main Search Page (at the top of the screen)
• Enter user name and password, if accessing database from  outside campus 
• Select either Quick search, Simple search, Standard search or Advanced search.  

•  Search – enter search term/s and select Electronic  content, Fax/Ariel content or Journal or book title. Click on  Go.   
• Browse Publications – by journal title, subject category  or publisher.   
• Advanced Search – enter search terms in one or more  fields and click on the Search button.   
• Where there is a letter S in an orange square next to the  article, you have access to the full text article.   
• No authorisation is required from campus computers.  
• Access from off campus computers is via Athens username and  password.   

• Click on “Advanced search”.  
• Please note that the region “United Kingdom” has already been  selected.   
• Enter a search term(s) in at least one of the following  categories: contact information, products and services, company  activity, fulltext, location, financial performance, company  details, company flags or executive information.   
• Click on “Start search”.  
• Results of your search can be printed or downloaded.  

• Click on the Start button, then click on Law, and then on LexisLibrary.
• Non-University computer access (off-campus or WIA) is by Athens user name and password (please apply to Library).
• Full instructions for using LexisLibrary are available: lexisnexis (1773 KB); you can also use the “View Tutorials” section on the LexisLibrary website. 

• The default or start page is the ”News” search form.  
• Enter a search term.
• Select a document section, e.g. ”Anywhere” or “in the headline”, “at the start”, etc.
• Select a connector, if you have more than one search term, e.g. “And”
• Enter another search term if required.
• If you wish to add an index term to narrow your search, tick the box next to the term. You can select up to 10.
• Select a source from the Select sources drop down list – the default is All English language news.
• Select a date – click on the down arrow for options.
• Click on either one of the two red “search” buttons to run the search.
• When you search in a combined source, use “Result groups” to display the results from a specific source.
• The “Result groups” feature (top left of results page) is particularly useful if your search retrieves a large number of articles.
• Select “Source type”, ”Source name”, etc. The number of documents in each source appears on the right. Click on a source to retrieve articles from that source.
• While viewing a full text article, use “Index terms” to quickly find within the current results other articles containing similar topics – tick the topics listed under ”Find documents with similar topics” at the end of the article. Then click ”Narrow search with index terms”
• There are many ways to find information from this database.
• Use the ”Companies” search form to retrieve corporate information and financial reports of a company. 
• You can also use “General Search”, which can be either an “Easy search” or “Power search” to search across the content.
• Use ”Help” (top right of screen) and ”View Tutorials” (right margin) to learn more about searching the database.

This database contains 50,000 biographies of people who have contributed to the history of the British Isles from the earliest times to the present.