Literature Searching

Successful literature searching requires proficient searching skills and techniques as well as knowledge of the relevant resources. Searching online databases for journal articles and looking more widely for ‘grey literature’, theses and open access resources will help ensure you locate all the relevant material.

LibrarySearch - The Library Catalogue
The search engine for finding University of Wolverhampton resources.
Subject Resources
These pages provide a good starting point for searching electronic resources, as well as access to subject specific databases and web pages.
EBSCO Host Databases
A broad range of full text and bibliographic databases hosted by EBSCO.
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ProQuest Databases
A broad range of full-text and bibliographic databases hosted by ProQuest.
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Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Includes journal articles, theses, books, abstracts. Links to possible full-text sources are appended to some references: "Wolverhampton Uni Links"; these do not produce full text in every case
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Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature with more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and arts and humanities.
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EThOS
A database from the British Library offering full-text access to PhD theses from the majority of British universities. Theses not immediately available for download can be digitised to order. You will need to register with the site to view content.
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Please note: EThOS is currently unavailable in its original format due to a cyber attack on the British Library in 2023.
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Web of Science
Web of Science is a research platform that provides access to an extensive range of reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines.
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WIRE
WIRE is an open access online collection of research outputs by members of the University of Wolverhampton.