Databases A-Z

With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by Black and Asian writers.

The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 800 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

Overton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. It collects data from 188 countries and over a thousand sources worldwide with more being added all the time. Registration required with Cardiff Met email address.

Explanatory videos supporting the essential skills needed to complete research. Includes writing proposals, designing and managing projects, writing for publication, presenting work and securing ethical approval.

Online referencing tool to help students reference correctly and understand how to avoid plagiarism.

Vast collection of ebooks across a range of subject areas. Ebook Central ebooks are also listed within MetSearch.

ProQuest Central brings together many of our most used databases to create a comprehensive and diverse multidisciplinary research database.

Global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, insights and infographics.