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Databases

 

Due to terms and conditions of licensing agreements, access to certain databases is restricted to registered students and current faculty and staff of the University of the West Indies, Mona. Resources to which this restrictions apply are indicated as such (UWI only). Access to these resources is available as follows:

On Campus: from any computer workstation connected to the University's local area network i.e. in the Library, Computer Labs, Faculty Offices, Halls of Residence etc.

Off Campus using the ISP (Internet Service Provider) of your choice you will be asked to enter your UWI staff or UWI student Id number and your UWI_Mona or Student domain password. Remember your password expires every 42 for staff and 120 days for students, so please remember to renew your password when requested.

Test MetaLib : the Library's new search engine that allows you to look for information in numerous databases and other electronic resources at the same time.

International databases:

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings
Australian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)
Biomed Central (UWI only) Primarily an electronic publishing platform for scientists, but also provides open access to the journals published by BIOMED.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute
Canadian Legal Information Institute
EbscoHost Research Databases (UWI only). Provides access to numerous databases including:

  • Academic Search Complete: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Business Source Complete::  The World's largest full text business database. Provides full text for over 3,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly, 1,050 peer-reviewed business publications.
  • CINAHL a major resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.
  • Communications & Mass Media Complete covers communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline
  • EconLit with Full Text: contains more than 480 journals, including the American Economic Association journals.
  • Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
  • MasterFILE Premier this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975
  • MLA: Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies in literature, language and linguistics,
  • Regional Business News: Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States

Emeraldinsight (UWI only) Electronic Management Research Library Database, a full text database of the journals published by Emerald .
Faculty of 1000 Biology (UWI only) the expert guide to the most important advances in biology.
First Search (UWI only). Provides access to more than 15 databases including:

  • BasicBIOSIS: Covers the basic core of life science journals. Includes popular and scholarly science journals.
  • EconLit: Journals, books, and working papers on economics
  • ERIC: Journal articles and reports on education topics
  • GPO: U.S. government publications
  • MEDLINE: All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
  • WilsonSelectPlus: Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business
  • WorldCat: OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodical Index (UWI only) Currently indexes more than 275 academic journals with content about Latin America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Includes over 60,000 full text links.
HighWire Press (UWI only) hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content from over 140 scholarly publishers.
HINARI Provides access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences. Requires a unique user name and password . Please contact the Main Library or Medical or Science Branch Libraries.
IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (UWI only) Provides access to the IEEE's core collection of over 120 engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals. This package does not include the full text of conference proceedings, IEEE standards and IET journals. Full text of Transactions starts from 1998.
Jamaica Gleaner (Available only on Campus)
JSTOR (UWI only) -- offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. The UWI library has access to the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business, and Language & Literature Collections.
Lexis Library -- provides access to Halsbury’s Laws and West Indian Reports
LexisNexis Total Research Library (access restricted to law students with user name/password)
MathSciNet (UWI only) -- a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940.
Medline (PubMed) The National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in  Medline, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.
NetLibrary - (UWI only) a collection of electronic books NLM database The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
OARE (Online Access to Research in the Environment) provides access to one of the world’s largest collections of environmental science research. Requires a unique user name and password . Please contact the Main Library or Medical or Science Branch Libraries.
Popline from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues.
Project Muse (UWI only) - is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. ProQuest (UWI only) providing access to:
  • ABI/INFORM Global includes 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance,
  • Academic Research Library Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, education, general interest, health, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
  • Dissertations and Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses.
Science Direct
Scifinder Scholar Provides chemical and related scientific information from Chemical Abstracts Service. It includes patents, journal references, substance information, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions and chemical supplier information. Individual user registration required for the web version . Please contact the Reference Librarian in the Science Branch Library 935-8202 or ext 2202 for more information.
SwetsWise
Web of Science (UWI only) Science Citation Index expanded with 5 years backfiles.

West Indian databases

Cardin (not available at present) Contains disaster related information gathered from the English, Spanish, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean. It is produced as part of the activities Caribbean Disaster Information Network
Caren (not available at present) the Science Library's in-house database on the Caribbean environment.
Caribbean Child Development Centre's Online Publication Database
Caribbean Digital Library - A web service of the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre. It provides access to Caribbean documents on the web and is arranged by 21 broad headings.
CARIBLEX - the ILO's database of national labour legislation for the 13 ILO member States of the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. This database is maintained by the ILO's Subregional Office for the Caribbean.
 Carilaw (Caribbean Law Online)
Carindex: (not available at present) an index of social sciences and humanities literatures published in the Caribbean.
ECLAC databases various databases from The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Medcarib (not available at present) Contains information on all aspects on health and medicine relating to the English speaking Caribbean and Suriname. Produced by the Medcarib Network for which the Medical Library is the Regional Coordinating Centre.
MORD - Mona Online Research Database contains scholarly output from faculty and staff of The University of the West Indies. It covers over 6,000 entries of published and unpublished material, technical reports and expert information, linked to staff profiles and covering the period 1993 to present.Links to full text electronic documents when they exist are available.
West Indiana (not available at present) indexes articles found in non-West Indian journals, chapters from books, conference papers, off prints and pamphlets