Use the Library's Discovery service or individual databases to search the contents of journals and link to the full-text where available. You can also save searches and set alerts to be informed when new publications are added to Discovery or literature database which match your search/research topic.
These selected journal collections are cross-searched by Discovery
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.
Searches contents of journals published by the American Psychological Association and associated publishers covering psychology, behavioural sciences and related disciplines.
Searches literature on emotion, behaviour, psychiatry, mental processes, anthropology and observational & experimental methods.
Alternative login route: Use https://journals.sagepub.com/ then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page and then "Institutional login".
700 journals from the publisher SAGE spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Many of these are available in full text, but not every article on the site.
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.)
Alternative login route: Use https://link.springer.com/ then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access.
Searches contents in journals published by Springer.
Use to find academic journal articles and ebooks published by Wiley.
Heriot-Watt does not have access to everything on the Wiley website - use Discovery to check if we have access to a specific journal.