The Social Sciences Citation Index, 1981-date, consists of bibliographic entries for academic articles made available for searching by title, author, keyword, subject etc. Citation searching is a valuable resource for researchers. Many entries in the sciences have very detailed abstracts. Has a US bias Index to theses UK and Ireland theses from 1970 onwards. The index can be searched by author and keyword.
Entry is mostly via publishers' homepages.
Passwords are given when they are necessary. Access to full text articles from leading publishers of scholarly and academic journals, but only bibliographic details are available if the Library does not have a current subscription to the title in question. Where the Library has paid for access to particular titles, then full-text will be available. This service indexes over 18,000 journals, from late 1988 onwards. It is particularly strong in science and information technology, but full text has to be paid for.