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Over 2,500 international business periodicals within the ABI Inform Global, Trade and Industry and Dateline databases. Full text: 1971 - current.
*See also ProQuest One Business - an extended collection that includes ABI/INFORM and more.
Aims to increase communication among researchers - provides abstracts of top quality research papers, full text documents, and alerts.
Association of Computing Machinery journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings.
Free collection of 10,000+ historically significant reports from the Aeronautical Research Council (ARC) and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, precursor of NASA). These resources are selected and evaluated by Library staff at Cranfield University.
All aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including agricultural engineering, technology, economics, sciences, entomology, food and nutrition.
One of the most comprehensive search engines in food and agricultural scientific literature providing access to millions of bibliographic records in 90 different languages (note: AGRIS indexes references but does not store full text articles). This is the platform through which the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides support to its member countries to make their research outputs visible and accessible.

AIAA articles and papers. Full text: meeting papers 1963 - current, journal articles 2007 - current. For earlier content, please check hard copy in the Kings Norton Library.

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Video content via the dedicated AIAA Video Library site. Includes videos for 2020, 2021 and beyond, including AIAA Aviation, AIAA Propulsion and Energy, AIAA Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium and AIAA SCITECH.
AIP is a not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and publishes content in the fields of the physical and related sciences. Cranfield has access to four journals: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and Physics of Fluids.
Contact library@cranfield.ac.uk for a password to access these articles on aircraft and engine operation, maintenance costs, performance, fleet planning, aircraft selection, trading, and freighter aircraft performance and selection.
All Cranfield University alumni can enjoy the benefits of this free web-based library service. In order to qualify for access, you must have graduated with a Cranfield Degree (at Shrivenham this means a degree course after 1984).
Over 30 science magazines and peer-reviewed journals published by the American Chemical Society.

Nearly all Forum Proceedings from 1943 to today and papers from more than 50 Specialists' Meetings. Full text: Includes all downloadable content ('no payment' will display during checkout), excludes content that requires shipping.

American Petroleum Institute (API) provides online public access to key industry standards, most of which were previously only available for purchase. These standards will be available as "Read Only" access, and will be accessible on publications.api.org. These documents are available for public interest purposes only, and will not be able to be edited, downloaded, printed, or shared.

Note: Please create an account for read only access to the standards.  

Access to 14 journals published by the American Society of Agronomy.
Analytical science information. Covers 100+ journals, including Analytical Abstracts from 1980 - current, equipment manufacturers' application notes, standards and books.
Alternate Name(s):American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Journals
Search this journal title from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Note that access to the most recent full text articles may not be available until after a 6 month or 1 year delay.
From Cornell University, this free, open access archive has 579,000+ ePrints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
ASABE focuses on agricultural engineering, food, and biological systems. Full text: 2001 - 2017.
Access papers published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Full text: all ASME journals since 1960, and all conference proceedings from 2008 onwards.
Industry-leading standards and technical engineering information created by technical experts, covering a broad range of engineering disciplines.
Contact library@cranfield.ac.uk for a password to this monthly newsletter from airline consultancy Aviation Economics. Covers aviation-related companies, industry developments, airline management, and financial/market databases.
Contact library@cranfield.ac.uk for a free 12 month subscription to this journal. It provides an analysis of emerging trends, programs and technology in aviation and space technology.

Focuses on the programs and technologies shaping all sectors of the aerospace and defence industry market – commercial, military, space, business aviation and MRO. It enables you to monitor engine and airframe programs, global manufacturers, the short and long-term impact evolving technologies are having, and more. Note: this subscription does not include access to Data Tools content.

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A database of banks worldwide, information sourced by Bureau van Dijk from a combination of annual reports, information providers and regulatory sources.
Contains detailed information on over 38,000 banks (28,000 US and more than 10,000 Non-US), with 5 years' history for listed banks and 3 years' for unlisted.
Available only for Shrivenham campus customers (Cranfield Defence and Security). Searchable database of reports from radio, television, news agencies, and press from 150 countries. This database requires a password issued by the Library - please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk.
Supports the open dissemination of quality peer-review bioscience journals from developing countries. The platform hosts journals from 16 countries containing timely research on public health, international development, food and nutritional security.
An open access publishing house providing free access to peer reviewed biomedical research.
Bloomberg - contact library@cranfield.ac.uk for information

Bloomberg (terminals available only in SOM Library) includes information on Equities, mergers and acquisitions, stock indices, commodities, currencies, economic data and statistics, government bonds, hedge funds, futures, credit default swaps, shipping and news. It also has company profiles, financial statements, analysts’ forecasts, industry sector information and stock ticker data for the last 3 months.

BMI provides access to global financial data, including reports, analysis, strategic content and forecasting. Subjects include autos, defence and security, oil and gas, power, renewables and water. It also provides full text access to reports on Hot Topics and areas of special interest, for example the implications of Brexit.

BoardEx currently contains full details on over 17,000 company boards and 670,000 Individuals board directors and senior managers. Our coverage consists of over 2,000 UK, 7,200 US company boards and a further 7,000 companies worldwide. BoardEx data is managed by our team of 250+ research analysts, ensuring its depth, quality and accuracy. To register to use this service, please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk with details of your research requirements.
Access more than 100 journals published by Brill before 2010 in the subject areas of biology, humanities, international law, science and the social sciences. Full text :pre-2010 access available for the Brill Journals Archive titles.
British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
Search the integrated catalogue of the British Library's collections.

Access British Standards and ISOs as well as technical handbooks, codes of practice, guidelines, specifications for product dimensions and performance. 

*Note: You need to download a plugin to download British Standards. Contact library@cranfield.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Thousands of scholarly business publications including 1,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Also includes book content, conference proceedings, country, industry and market reports. Mobile app available. Full text: variable, 1922 - current.

Accessibility note: EBSCO includes text-to-speech functionality and allows DRM free PDF downloads of some eBooks. Find out more at Accessibility | EBSCO.

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Over 171 journals published by Cambridge University Press stretching back from 1827 through to approximately 1996. This does not reflect our full text.
Financial and market data covering publicly traded companies. Includes access to Compustat data (fundamental financial and market information on both active and inactive companies, indices and industries for North America companies back to 1962) and investment research reports (also known as broker or analyst reports) which can help in the understanding of the investment decisions made by companies and industries.

To register for on/off-site access: Select the link to Capital IQ, open the homepage, click on "New User?" and use your Cranfield email address to register for an account.
The Current Agricultural Research Information System identifies current agricultural research projects being carried out in, or on behalf of developing countries.
The Cranfield Collection of e-Research, CERES, is a digital repository of research output from Cranfield University. It includes journal pre-prints and peer-reviewed journal reprints, digital theses and dissertations, book chapters, working papers and technical reports. All items in CERES are full text.

Relevant and up to date airline intelligence and insightful news on the industry. The following modules are included in ch-aviation university PRO access: News, Airlines, Airports, Fleets, Fleets Ownership, PSS. (Excludes: Schedules, Capacities, Contacts, Downloads.)

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*Note: First time users, please go to https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/subscribe/free to sign up for an account before attempting access.

 

 

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. ChemRxiv gives researchers across a broad range of fields related to the chemical sciences the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and receive recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.
Free service providing access to millions of chemical structures, their properties, patents, articles and commercial suppliers, as well as integration to other online services.
The accompanying data sets to the book Civil jet aircraft design by Jenkinson, Simpkin and Rhodes. Contains the aircraft data file, engine data file, airport data file, atmosphere and airspeeds and units and conversion factors.
Built on more than a decade of data collection by the Grantham Research Institute at LSE and the Sabin Center at Columbia Law School, Climate Change Laws of the World covers national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a other sources of updated information on the effects of interventions in health care.
Compustat - please see Capital IQ for access
Available as part of Capital IQ. Financial and market data covering publicly traded companies. Compustat Global also offers data models specific to industrial companies and financial services sectors.
CORD is Cranfield's institutional data repository, where researchers store research data that must be preserved if there is no appropriate funder or subject repository (e.g. NERC data centres).
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers. To find theses, run a search, then use the Type menu at the top of your results to select Thesis.

Central repository of Cranfield authors' research publications, awards, professional activities and other research related information (also used for REF submissions).
Collection of journals available via ACSESS: Crop Science, Journal of Plant Registrations, The Plant Genome, Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education.
Cranfield University's Research Ethics System - helps ensure all our research conforms with appropriate ethical principles and standards.
This digital library collection highlights books, articles, reports, and other publications of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).
A comprehensive Body of Knowledge to inform and underpin education and professional training for the cyber security sector (version 1.0 published Oct 2019 is available on this site under 'Resources & Publications'). The project aims to distil knowledge from major internationally-recognised experts to provide much-needed foundations for this emerging topic.

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Europe E-theses portal.
Historical, global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data.
*Note: New users need to register for a LSEG Workspace Account and download Workspace to access the Excel add-in and Datastream. Datastream charting is available via Workspace web.
The DBLP computer science bibliography provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
DARE supports the development and sustainment of the Defence Intellectual edge, through the collection, collation, curation analysis and dissemination of Defence and Security related research, and by facilitating the application of knowledge, experience and intellect of the Defence Academy community, to issues of key importance to Defence. DARE supports Defence Academy Strategy Action 10; “Develop intellectual knowledge and facilitate its exchange driven by research.” To achieve this, DARE collates research papers authored by members of the Defence Academy and from across the wider Defence community. It also allows members of the Defence community to offer potential, contemporary, topics for research, which can then be undertaken by course members and students. The DARE team are available to provide support to students, particularly around DARE usage (including finding a topic, and uploading completed papers).
Maps and map data of Great Britain. Make maps online or download to use in GIS and CAD software. Provides access to Environment Digimap, Geology Digimap, Historic Digimap, and current Ordnance Survey maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales. The "Marine" files are not available.
Create a personal account to use this service: login, click on Ordnance Survey collection, and follow the registration pages as directed. EDINA will email within two working days to confirm your Digimap account is active.
A quarterly publication covering cyber crime and digital forensics. This resource requires a password issued by the library, please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk for details.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
Unclassified reports added to the Defense Technical Information Centre. Previously known as STINET.

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A collection of eBooks covering a range of subjects. Full text titles are also listed in the Library catalogue. Non-subscribed titles can be previewed for up to five minutes.

An eBook collection covering a wide range of subjects including business, management, engineering, technology and computing. Full text access: available only to our purchased and subscribed titles, all of which are also listed in LibrarySearch. Mobile app available.

A broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research including: Business Source Complete, E-Journals, eBook Collection, ERIC, GreenFile, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Regional Business News.

Selection of journals specialising in ecological science covering peer reviewed articles, news, fact sheets and teaching resources.
Aims to increase communication among researchers - publishes abstracts of top quality research papers, includes full text documents, and provides alerts.
Gateway to information sources on international development.
Electronic Journals Service (EJS) provides access to more than 8,000 electronic journals containing more than 4 million full text articles. Mobile app available.
Articles from Emerald's international portfolio. Covers a spectrum of management disciplines as well as a substantial number of engineering, applied science and technology titles. Email alerts available. Full text: varies, archive access back to 1994.
An encyclopedia structured in themes: Fluid Dynamics and Aerothermodynamics, Propulsion and Power,Structural Technology, Materials Technology, Dynamics and Control, Environmental Impact and Manufacturing, Vehicle Design and System Engineering.
The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, sponsored by The Society for Archaeological Sciences, is a reference resource comprised of over 480 entries contributed by scholars from all over the world and provides a broad overview of the scientific principles and techniques that allow for a more rigorous interpretation of archaeological data. It outlines how to study the characteristics and properties of materials, as well as instrumental techniques and relative methods currently applied in field and laboratory work.
The Encyclopedia provides detailed information on best industry practice in the following areas: Engines Fundamentals, Design, Hybrid and Electric Powertrains, Transmission and Driveline, Chassis Systems, Electrical and Electronic Systems, Body Design, Materials and Manufacturing and Intelligent Transport Systems. Full text available: up to 2017.
An A-Z encyclopedia providing a comprehensive, definitive, and up-to-date reference of the main areas of specialist and expert knowledge and skills used by those involved in all aspects of the forensic process. A reference work for all professionals working in the field, this resource provides essential information for forensic scientists, doctors, practicing and academic lawyers, paralegals, police, crime scene investigators, analytical chemists, behavioral scientists, and toxicologists. It covers all topics which, either as part of an established forensic discipline or as a potentially useful emerging discipline, are of interest to those involved in the forensic process. This work represents the interdisciplinary nature of forensic sciences.
This database is available for customers based at Cranfield campus and MKU. Launched in 1978, The ENDS Report is published monthly by Environmental Data Services Ltd (ENDS). It covers environmental policy and business. The site includes a database, updated daily, of current UK legislation, plus consultation papers, regulatory guidance and official reports. Weekly email bulletins also available.

Register for an individual account via https://www.endsreport.com/register to use the additional functionality: e-journal, bulletins, special reports, guest access to ENDS Compliance policy library.
Covers chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science. Includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
Aims to increase communication among researchers - publishes abstracts of top quality research papers, includes full text documents, and provides alerts.

Index providing comprehensive coverage of educational related literature. Major subjects covered include higher education, information resources, testing and evaluation, and teacher education.

Validated engineering methods, data, principles, worked examples, programs, and equations on aerospace, process, structural, and mechanical engineering topics.
Contains all the patent documentation available to European Patent Office examiners and the latest patent applications from all the EPO member states.
[Temporarily unavailable due to a cyber attack at the British Library. View alternative sources of theses]. Run by the British Library, EThOS provides access doctoral eTheses from participating UK Higher Education institutions. Search across 500,000+ theses. Register for free to download a copy or request for print copies to be digitised, normally at no cost.

This site is a source for free downloads of government and military standards, specifications, handbooks, and documents. It.allows you to search and download a large number of current, historical, and free government and non-government specifications, standards, and documents, including Military Specifications (PRF, DTL, MIL, JAN, DoD), Military Standards and Drawings (MS, AN, AND) and Military Handbooks,Federal Specifications and Standards.
A single reference for the majority of information you need to develop your export effort, including the Kompass directory of 11 million companies. Full text: the Premium content, including Kompass directory, is restricted to on-campus only.

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Dow Jones service covering over 10,000 global press sources including over 2,000 newspapers and 4,000 trade publications. Also an excellent source of company information and financials. Full text: variable, up to 30 years archive - current.
Please note: as part of our licence terms no text and data mining is permitted within Factiva and downloading is restricted to what you can physically read at one time.
A financial information database of UK and Irish companies updated daily with up to 10 years of data. Search by any of 300 criteria including geographic location, SIC code or activity description, number of employees, etc. Display or print data in a variety of customisable formats or export to other applications such as excel spreadsheets. A Peer Analysis and Statistical Analysis option allows you to analyse the data further.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations repository covers water and agriculture, fisheries, country profiles, emergency prevention systems, plant genetic resources and satellite imagery.
Contains over a million time-series records covering international statistics in the areas of agriculture, food balance, fertiliser and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, agricultural machinery.
Aims to increase communication among researchers by publishing abstracts of top quality research papers; making available downloadable full text documents; and providing alerts.
Register with Vault to create your own personal account and have access to the following: downloadable career guides, employer profiles and rankings, discussion boards, industry blogs and news covering the latest trends and issues, leadership development profiles and Vault's job board, which matches employers and recruiters.
Browse the Library's collection of printed cutaways from Flight International

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Search over 7 million freely available U.S. patents. Patent information includes a summary, details of any claims made, drawings and citations. You can also choose to search for keywords within individual patents.
Search Google Scholar for scholarly, peer reviewed articles on any topic. From off-campus, remember to set your Scholar Preferences to include Cranfield University.

Research database covering topics from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Mobile app available.

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Online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content from HighWire Press. Most of the articles are freely available, although a selection are pay per view.

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Access to papers from the Interscience/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). Register for a free account to download papers.
Full text access to UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, China, Mexico and Global industrial reports (including risk rating reports) in a broad range of areas, such as water supply, transportation, manufacturing and defence. Most reports are updated multiple times a year. IBIS World is the only available source of industry research for many industries.
Contains a range of transactions, minutes, journals and proceedings published by the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1836-2002.

Full text access to IEEE journals, transactions and conference proceedings from 1988 onwards, select content from 1872. Also includes all current IEEE standards and the Morgan & Claypool Computer & Information Science (CIS) Collection 5. 
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IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) journals portfolio includes over 40 journals, covering a wide range of engineering and technology fields. As well as publishing current research Open Access, all articles published from 2013 are freely available.
Online access to all journals published by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers from their first issues until today.

Register for access to shared INCOSE documents including the Systems Engineering Handbook and INCOSE symposium papers via Wiley Online Library (available under the "Content Library" on the INCOSE site). Registration instructions under “more …” 

Details of articles from over 13,500 publications from many different publishers, covering areas of engineering and the sciences. Some full text availability, including access to the Brill Journal Archive (full-text Brill journals up to 1999).
Operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the INIS Repository contains over three million bibliographic records covering nuclear science and technology.
IOPscience offers access to IOP Publishing's journals and contains more than 300,000 articles published between 1874 to present.

Online access to freely available eBooks published by IWA in the field of water and wastewater. 

The Library subscribes to fourteen online journals published by IWA in the field of water and wastewater. An additional four titles published in association with Elsevier are available via Science Direct

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Information and analysis on the air, land, naval and joint defence platforms, weapons and systems in service and under development around the world. Includes Data Analytics and specifications analysis.

Ready to search like a Librarian: Learn more with the Understanding the basics guide (with links to the Defence Equipment & Technology help)

Full text access available via ASTM from 1972 to 2005 (volume 17 - 50). Articles published from 2006 (volume 51 - present) can be accessed via Wiley Online Library.
(If prompted with login page, please choose "Academic Access", select Cranfield University)
JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). Keep up to date with new issues of journals you follow by setting up an alert. You will need to register (free) in order to save your settings.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Register for a free personal account to read up to 100 articles online for free every 30 days.

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Online eBook collection and technical reference centre for engineers and scientists. The individual eBooks are also listed in the Library Catalogue.

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Land Information System, operated by Cranfield University, contains soil and related information for England and Wales. It includes spatial mapping of soils at a variety of scales as well as corresponding soil property and agro-climatological data.
Libby - Overdrive
includes Audiobooks
includes Audiobooks

Libby (OverDrive) hosts a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, including some foreign language books. To access:

1. Download the Libby app from Google or Apple, or go to https://libbyapp.com/ to use Libby in a browser.
2. Find your organization, e.g. Cranfield University.
3. Enter your Cranfield University username and password 
4. Start borrowing or browsing the digital library! 

A Libby help guide is available at https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/index.htm.

 

*For Cranfield staff only: Currently, Libby can only be downloaded onto a staff members device that has been registered with InTune.

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Search Cranfield University's collection of books, eBooks, and full text articles in this cross-search tool.
LinkedIn Learning provides online courses and videos designed to help you gain new skills and enhance your career prospects. You can register for a free account with a Cranfield University email address. You do not need a LinkedIn profile to use LinkedIn Learning. You can also find LinkedIn Learning videos in Library Search.
Full text archive of mathematical journals of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) up to 1996.

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Aims to increase communication among researchers by publishing abstracts of top quality research papers; making available downloadable full text documents; and providing alerts.
Aims to increase communication among researchers by publishing abstracts of top quality research papers; making available downloadable full text documents; and providing alerts.
Online archive of postgraduate Master's theses completed at Cranfield University. (For Master's theses completed at Shrivenham campus, please see the Shrivenham Repository).
Note: New additions to the Masters Theses collections are on hold pending a retention policy review by the University Education Committee. For specific theses not in the Masters Thesis Archive or Shrivenham Repository, contact library@cranfield.ac.uk
A searchable database comprised primarily of data sheets and spec sheets supplied by manufacturers and distributors. It includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, fibres and other engineering materials.
Mintel is the UK's leading source of consumer related marketing intelligence information.
A freely available resource for the molecularly imprinted polymer community, maintained by Mike Whitcombe. Search the literature database, or find information on courses, jobs and scientific meetings.
This ESDU Handbook has been prepared to meet design requirements with regard to aerospace structural metallic materials properties for both designer and customer.

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Searchable database of NASA's scientific and technical literature, including research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. Many available in full text.
Website of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Includes sections for health information, scientific resources, grants and funding opportunities and press releases.
A digital library developed for NHS staff, patients and the public. Two key resources are NHS Evidence and Clinical Knowledge Summaries.
Contains over 3 million publications covering business and management studies; health and safety reports; environmental research reports and site clean-up technology; international market reports, training tools and materials.
This is an extract from the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD) showing only the current (promulgated) documents, bearing security classification appropriate for the website. To find out more about STANAGs, please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk – our Barrington Library Reports Section team will be able to advise you about additional access subject to security clearance.
Get the full text of several reports series here, including RTO and AGARD.
Full text access to all Nature Complete journals, with the exception of new titles for the first twelve months of their publication. 150+ journals are available, including all of the Nature and Nature Reviews titles, with subject areas covering chemistry, earth and environment, life sciences and materials science. Full archive access is also included where available.
Aims to increase communication among researchers by publishing abstracts of top quality research papers; making available downloadable full text documents; and providing alerts.
A catalogue containing the electronic versions of theses and dissertations submitted to a number of universities in Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. The catalogue is fully searchable by author, title and subject
This service from the library of the NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory) in The Netherlands allows for searching of the NLR technical publications database for publications published since 1997.

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O'Reilly (formerly Safari)
includes Audiobooks
includes Audiobooks

A collection of more than 32,000 IT and software, engineering, maths, business and personal/professional eBooks from leading publishers.

Search and browse a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources. It contains over 20 million resources.
Read and download the books, reports and data of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development covering 80 countries and 17 industry-themed collections.
Open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.

Overton contains over 7 million policy documents and guidelines from over 31,000 organisations across 180+ countries. It includes grey literature from leading global universities, research funders, NGOs, publishers, and think tanks, as well as government reports and legislation.
 

If you wish to save searches, tags or bookmarks, you can register for an individual account via the 'login' link in the top right corner of the site.
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Search and browse the full text of journal articles published by Oxford University Press. Please note that articles published after 1995 will not be full text.

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Global market research service and international consumer lifestyles. A source of in-depth statistics for 205 countries, including historical data and future forecasting. International business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. Includes market research reports, country profiles, company market share and brand share rankings published by Euromonitor. Coverage: 1977 - current (+ forecasts).
Community website from IOP publishing. All content on the site is freely available but free registration is required to access some features.
Collection of terrorism and security eBooks covering regional security, humanitarian and peace operations, weapons of mass destruction, intelligence, defense and national security, and military affairs. Also includes newspaper feeds and commentaries on current conflicts.
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million works from thousands of universities (our subscription does not include full text access). Within dissertations and theses is a wealth of scholarship, yet it is often overlooked because most go unpublished. Note: Our subscription does not include full text.
Includes access to ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; and Entrepreneurship Database. Full text: 1971 - current (with some embargoes).
One Business also includes access to scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, company reports, industry reports, dissertations, books, and videos.

Articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. Mobile app version available. Coverage: 1894 current.

Index of international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

PLoS publishes 6 peer-reviewed, open-access journals that include original research as PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, and PLoS Pathogens well as timely feature articles.
A list of all our online journals. Search by journal name to discover if we provide full text access to an article.
A free digital archive of medical and biomedical science journal literature. Part of the US National Institutes of Health. Allows searching using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

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Full text of over 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Mobile app available.

The Reports Section at Barrington Library on the Shrivenham site holds previous theses and technical reports as well as papers by Cranfield Defence and Security academic staff. For security reasons, the Reports Section has a separate library catalogue and is not publicly available. To request a full holdings search, please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk.
Research Insight - please see Capital IQ for access
Available as part of Capital IQ. Research Insight provides access to Compustat North America accounting data for publicly quoted companies (active and inactive). Current and historic information is available with annual, quarterly and monthly data back to January 1979. Over 1000+ data items are included.
A database of research funding opportunity and news relevant for the international research community. Login to see personalisation features.
Full text articles from the journals of the RSC, including their archives from 1841.

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SAE standards are internationally recognized as a trusted collection of scientific data to globally optimize the processes, practices, and products that advance technology in the Aerospace industry and are vital to ensure safety, quality, and reliability.
Also includes thousands of current aerospace material specifications issued by SAE’s aerospace materials committees. New and revised standards are added to the database automatically upon publication, so you always have access to the most current information. The specifications and materials specs are also available via SAE Mobilus.
SAE Emissions Technology Collection CD-ROM - only available in the Kings Norton Library
Provides access to a key collection of SAE technical papers on this subject from 1975 - 2000.
More than 2,200 current standards issued by SAE’s ground vehicle committees. New and revised standards are added to the database automatically upon publication, so you always have access to the most current information. The standards are also available via SAE Mobilus.
SAE Handbook 2001 CD-ROM - only available in the Kings Norton Library
The SAE Handbook is the authoritative source of ground vehicle standards.

Access all SAE Standards, all SAE International Journals, SAE Magazines, and SAE EDGE reports. Also includes every SAE Technical Paper published since 1906.

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SAE Motorsports Collection CD-ROM - only available in the Kings Norton Library
This CD-ROM covers full text images of technology papers published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) from 1970 through to 1997.
SAE Vehicle Dynamics Technology Collection CD-ROM - only available in the Kings Norton Library
Provides access to a key collection of SAE technical papers from 1990-2000 Automotive Dynamics and Stability conferences.
Access to full text articles contained within 571 journal titles from Sage going back to 1999.
Sage Research Methods supports research at all levels with material to guide users through every step of the research process. It contains books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. Methods Maps are available to help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research. Please note that the datasets and case studies are not included as part of our subscription.
Full text access from1880 is available for Science, the leading journal for original scientific research and news.
Full text access to subscribed journal articles and eBooks in the fields of science, engineering and technology. Also provides access to a current awareness journal alerting service. To search for full text content only click on the Journals or Books link in the top navigation bar, then choose All access types > Subscription and complimentary.
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CAS SciFinder-n is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the world’s largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information, SciFinder-n includes: relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing, and more.
Please contact library@cranfield.ac.uk to register for an account.
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A huge index covering publications from 5,000 publishers in all areas of science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. It has several functions that allow searchers to personalise it to their own interests. You can set up email alerts for this database. Learn more about how to best use Scopus's advanced search. If you see an authentication error message, please clear Elsevier cookies from your browser. 

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Detailed historical coverage (more than 20 years) of global new issues (IPOs) and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Also covers Private Equity, Joint Ventures and Municipal Bonds (Public finance). Please email library@cranfield.ac.uk for guidance.
*Note: New users need to register for a LSEG Workspace Account to access SDC Platinum.
Digital repository of research output from Cranfield Defence and Security. It contains a growing subset of research undertaken at Cranfield University including journal pre-prints and peer-reviewed journal reprints which are not available via the University repository (CERES). It contains full text digital dissertations, book chapters, working papers, conference papers and technical reports.
*Note: New additions to the Masters Theses collections are on hold pending a retention policy review by the University Education Committee. For specific theses not in the Masters Thesis Archive or Shrivenham Repository, contact library@cranfield.ac.uk
An electronic repository of safety knowledge related to flight operations, air traffic management (ATM) and aviation safety in general. It is also a portal that enables users to access the safety data made available on the websites of various aviation organisations - regulators, service providers, industry.
SSRN aims to improve the dissemination of social science research. It publishes abstracts of top quality research papers, provides full text documents (including papers from leading business schools) and proves alerts.
Collection of journals from the Soil Science Society of America. Full text access to articles published from 1997 onwards.
Soil-Net is a free site, developed by Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI). It offers extensive information and advice.
The most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing access to technical papers from their journals and conference proceedings from 1990 - present.
A collection of titles from SPIE Press, the largest independent publisher of optics and photonics books. Full text access to titles published between 1989 - 2019.

Access to Springer and Kluwer journals, books, series, protocols (1980 - 2012), reference works, and proceedings.

Provides access to purchased eBooks in the area of computer science, engineering, business and management, economics and life sciences. To display purchased titles only uncheck the Include Preview-Only content option at the top of the screen.

Access the full text of MOD defence standards and NATO standards free of charge. You can also check the status of standards. You need to create an account in order to use this service – DO NOT use your Cranfield log in details, please create a unique log in.
This global business data platform provides insights and facts about 600 industries across 50+ countries. It also includes the Statista Global Consumer Survey which offers a global perspective on consumption and media usage, covering the offline and online world of the consumer. It is designed to help marketers, planners and product managers understand consumer behavior and consumer interactions with brands.

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eBooks published by Taylor and Francis in the areas of science, technology and social sciences, including CRC Press titles.To restrict access to titles that the Library subscribes to, rather than all content, choose the Show content I have access to search option. You can set up email alerts for this database.
Full text articles published by Taylor and Francis in the areas of science, technology and social sciences, including CRC Press titles.To restrict access to titles that the Library subscribes to, rather than all content, choose the Show content I have access to search option. You can set up email alerts for this database.

All Cranfield staff and students can get free access to Times Higher Education. With our institutional subscription, you can read online articles and digital editions using the THE website. You can also download the app to your device to get the magazine wherever you are.

The Toxicology Data Network cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas.
Provides a wide range of document types on turfgrass science and the management of turfgrass-based facilities, such as golf courses, parks, sports fields, lawns.

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The UK's largest collection of social research data, providing access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, cross-national surveys, census data, international macrodata, business microdata and qualitative studies.It has been formed by the merger of four established data services, including ESDS to which we previously subscribed.

Full text US patents and published applications. Patents from 1790 to 1975 are searchable only by Patent Number and Current US Classification. From 1976 they are searchable by all fields. Note: images will be read-only unless your pc has the appropriate TIFF reader. For more information, see http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm

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VLeBooks is an eBook platform from Browns Books for Students designed specifically for use in schools and colleges. All owned titles are also listed in LibrarySearch.

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The online catalogue gives details of the main printed and electronic publications. Links are provided (where available) to print-enabled pdf files.

Previously known as Web of Knowledge, WoS includes the Conference Proceedings, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Medline databases, and the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index. It covers a very broad range of subjects relating to science, technology, social sciences and medicine. The ability to carry out citation searching is a key feature.

Ready to search like a Librarian: Learn more with the WoS Core Collection Quick Reference Guide (pdf)

The Welding Journal has been published continually since 1922. Free access to all issues and advancements concerning metal fabrication and construction.
Full text access to publications on Water, Sanitation and Health from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It contains administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers, gray literature—all presented as fully searchable digital images that can be analyzed, downloaded, manipulated, and compared with content from other societies and universities in the Wiley Digital Archives program.
Full text access to over 350 online peer-reviewed journals and 250 e-books. Covers business, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, education, engineering, law, mathematics and statistics, materials science, and psychology. You can set up email alerts for this database.
In-depth MBA-level recruitment guides - including Consultancy and Maritime shipping, Finance and Brokerage providing access to recruiter profiles, with contact details and key dates for recruitment.

Workspace provides access to the world’s stock markets with access to daily and historical data. As well as providing global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials and economic data, it also provides access to IBES estimates and value chain data.

Fully searchable resource based at Cranfield University. Includes soil reports, books, maps /albums, aerial photography and satellite imagery section. Covers 288 countries and territories worldwide.
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