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.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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.
ProQuest: all databases and collections This link opens in a new window
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".

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.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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.)
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] This link opens in a new window
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"

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.

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
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.

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.

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.