ISGuides: Textiles and Design: Journal articles

Key bibliographic databases

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Alternative login route: Use https://www.ebsco.com/ then click on Person Icon, then Find your organization. Type Heriot Watt and select campus. Click on choose databases and choose Business Source Premier.

A business research database providing full text for 2,300 journals. Also contains some market research reports, company and industry reports and SWOT analyses.
Subject Coverage:
Marketing
Management
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Production Operations Management (POM)
Accounting
Finance
Economics

Full text availability:
Some full text online. Use the "Check for Full Text" feature in the database.

Available on the EBSCOhost platform.

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Emerald Insight
Alternative login route: Use https://www.emerald.com/insight/browse/publications then click on Login then Access through your institution

Use to search business and management journals published by the Emerald publishing group.
Subject Coverage:
Accounting, Finance & Economics
Business, Management & Strategy
Education
Engineering
Health & Social Care
HR, Learning & Organization Studies
Information & Knowledge Management
Library Studies
Marketing
Operations, Logistics & Quality
Property Management & Built Environment
Public Policy & Environmental Management
Sociology
Tourism & Hospitality
Transport

Sources:
Journal titles, Journal articles (academic)

Full text availability:
Some full text online. Use the "Check for Full Text" feature in the database.
ProQuest
Search across multiple databases covering arts and humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and technology. Particularly useful for aquatic sciences, biological sciences, biotechnology, environmental science, engineering and materials topics.
Alternative login route: Use https://www.proquest.com/ then click "Log in through your library to access more features" (in centre of screen) and then "Find your library".

Subject coverage includes:
Aerospace
Agriculture
Aquatic sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Biotechnology
Civil engineering
Computer and information systems
Conservation
Earth sciences
Earthquake engineering
Education
Electronics
Engineered materials
Engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental science
Environmental studies
Fish and fisheries
Food and food industries
Forests and forestry
Geography
Marine science
Materials science
Mechanical engineering
Medical sciences
Meteorology
Natural sciences
New technologies in engineering
Pharmacy and pharmacology
Physics
Public health and safety
Social sciences
Technology
Telecommunications
Veterinary science
Water resources

Sources:
Journal articles (academic), Journal articles (trade and magazine), Books and ebooks, Conference papers, Encylcopedias, handbooks and dictionaires, Patents, Reports, Standards, Theses and disserations

Full text availability:
Some full text online. Use the "Check for Full Text" feature in the database.
ScienceDirect
Alternative login route: Use https://www.sciencedirect.com/ then click on "Sign in" on home page and then "Sign in via your institution".

Use ScienceDirect to find academic journal articles. All the journals on ScienceDirect are published by Elsevier. (ScienceDirect covers biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, and other sciences, along with non-science subjects.)
Subject Coverage:
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Life Sciences
Health Sciences
Social Sciences and Humanities

Sources:
Journal articles (academic)

Full text availability:
Some full text online. Use the "Check for Full Text" feature in the database.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Alternative login route: Use https://www.tandfonline.com/ then "Log in" on home page and then "Log in via your institution".

Contains information on 1900+ journals covering all subject areas. Please note full text access to articles is limited to those journals to which the Library subscribes.
Web of Science [previously called Web of Knowledge]
Reference and citation data for thousands of indexed journals and conference papers. Use to for 'cited by' and reference list searching. Use "check for full text" on results to check Discovery for full-text.
Alternative login route: Use https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/web-of-science/ then "Go to product" and then select "UK Federation" regardless of location and then "Go to institution"

Web of Science includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 to date)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1970 to date)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to date)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990 to date)
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (1990 to date)
Medline (1950 to date)
Biosis Citation Index (1969 to date)
Journal Citation Reports
Index Chemicus (1993 to date)

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A lot of Textile journal tiles are indexed in Scopus. If you've been searching round the houses but haven't found the articles you know are out there, please give Scopus a go...

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is one of the leading databases of peer-reviewed citations and abstracts, covering 21,000 titles from 5,000 publishers in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Scopus recommend uses Chrome or Firefox. Results might not display correctly in Edge.
Alternative login route: Use https://www.scopus.com/home.uri then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar allows you to search for scholarly literature such as journal articles, theses and books from a wide range of sources. Use in conjunction with Discovery or key subject resources from the Library.
Subject Coverage:
All subjects

Sources:
Books and eBooks, Journal articles (academic), Theses, Websites

Full text availability:
Some full text online.