Partnerships Introduction
Students based at partner institutions may access some of the University’s subscribed e-resources, where permissible under licensing agreements. These e-resources provide access to a wide range of e-books, e-journals, specialist databases, online newspapers and more. Partner students should contact their home institution for access details and for support in using these resources.
Information for Partnership Students
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Please use our Online Library with your ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø IT account.
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The following resources can be accessed with a separate login and password. Students can obtain login details from the library service at their home institution. Please note that not all partnerships may have access to these resources.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Business Source Complete
A definitive scholarly business database, providing a leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Education Source
Education Source is the most authoritative online resource for education research. It offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 828,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 490 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.
Humanities Source
Humanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Religion and Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed inSPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985,SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.
ABI/Inform Collection (via ProQuest)
Business, Management and Trade - scholarly and trade journal articles, dissertations, market reports, industry reports, business cases and global and trade news
British Periodicals 1681 - 1939 (via ProQuest)
Literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, music, drama, archaeology and architecture and the social sciences - journal articles
Periodicals Archive Online (via ProQuest)
Full-text scholarly journal archives from arts, humanities and the social sciences
ProQuest Central (via ProQuest)
This resource brings together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (via ProQuest)
The Vogue Archive (via ProQuest)
The full contents of Vogue magazine (US edition) with full colour page images from the first issue in 1892 to the present, with monthly updates for new issues.
Information for External Borrowers
External borrowers may borrow items from our libraries through the Libraries Together Passport or SCONUL Access schemes.
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The Libraries Together Passport Scheme enables any members of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Powys and Pembrokeshire public library services to borrow from any of .
To join our libraries you will need to complete a Libraries Together Passport form, available from your local public library or at the link above. Once completed, the form can be submitted at the Help Desk of any of our libraries and a library borrower account will be created for you. -
Library Passport users and SCONUL access users can borrow up to 5 items.
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Items are issued for 1 week and will be automatically renewed for up to 1 year, unless it has been requested by another library customer.
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Members of the public or visiting staff or students can access a selection of our electronic resources using the walk-in access Wales scheme.
External Users may access selected online resources through our Walk-in Access scheme. The service is available on dedicated computers in our Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea campuses; please check our opening hours before you visit.
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What e-resources are available?
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What you will need to acess the service
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Things to remember when using the service
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Limitations on use of the service
ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by Association for Computing Machinery and includes journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
ACLS Humanities E-books
Searchable full-text of over 800 books in several fields of history. These are frequently cited works of major importance to historical studies.
Bridgeman Education
Over 1.2 million images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists.
Brill Reference Works/ Classical World Online
Provides access to New Jacoby, the Jacoby Online (Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker), the New Pauly (encyclopedia of the classical world) and the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum online (catalogue of new inscriptions published).
British Newspapers 1600-1900
A significant digital collection of British historic newspapers.
Early English Books Online
Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
EBSCOHost databases
- Academic Search Premier
- Art & Architecture Source
- ATLA Religion Database/ ATLA Serials
- Business Source Complete
- Education Source
- GreenFILE
- Hospitality & Tourism Complete
- Humanities Source
- PsycARTICLES
- SPORTDiscus
- Teacher Reference Center
- EBSCOHost ebooks
IEET/ IET Electronic Library
Provides full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics
John Johnson Collection
Provides access to fully searchable colour images of 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
JSTOR
Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
Provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers.
Oxford University Press publications
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online
- Oxford Journals
- Oxford Journals Archive
- Oxford Reference Online
- Oxford Scholarship Online
ProQuest Databases
- British Periodicals
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database
- Periodicals Archives Online
- ProQuest Dissertation & Theses: UK & Ireland
- UK Parliamentary Papers
ScienceDirect
Access to thousands of journals articles and book ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøs published by Elsevier on subjects such as Physical Sciences & Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences & Humanities.
17th & 18th Century Burney Collection
Provides access to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).
Times Digital Archive
The complete digital archive of The Times (London).
Users will need to register to use the service, please bring along one of the following forms of identification.
- Passport/ EU National Identity card
- UK driver’s licence
- Benefit card or book
- Utility bill
- Bank or credit card statement
- NUS or student ID Card
Once you have registered you will then be granted access to the electronic resources. Please note you can only search for content within individual resources, not the service as a whole.
- To use this service you must comply with copyright laws as set out in the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 and comply with the provisions of all current UK laws.
- To abide by the University’s Acceptable Use Policy
- You may only access e-resources from one of the dedicated computer terminals in the libraries.
- You can search within each e-resource, but we do not subscribe to all content in each resource.
- Access to e-resources may be withdrawn at any time.
You may not:
- Use the service for commercial or business purposes.
- Share any materials accessed from the University’s e-resource collections or download excessive content. Users may save single copies of e-resource content to a portable storage device such as a USB stick, provided that the amount copied constitutes ‘fair dealing’ for research and private study.
- Access any sites, software or applications (such as Microsoft Office or email) outside this service from this terminal.
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