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See below for an alphabetical list of the electronic databases, e-book collections, and e-journal collections to which the library subscribes. Access to these e-resources is restricted to the students and staff of Brunel University for licensing and technical reasons. For more information on how to access the databases on-campus and off-campus see the How to login web page.

Why use them?
The databases, e-book and e-journal collections allow you to discover what articles/chapters are available in journals, conference proceedings, e-books and other forms of literature. Each resource has an information section attached to it explaining in more detail about the database or collection.

Subject listings
To view the relevant databases, e-books and e-journal collections for your subject use the Subject gateways.

Help
For help on searching see the Tips on searching section. If you need any further help using the resources either visit the help desks or contact your Subject Liaison Librarian.

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	Abstract Database		Full Text Database		Market Research		Raw Data

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Name	Type	Information
ABI Inform		References, and often full text access, to journal articles in business and management, economics and finance, computers, environment, government and law and social issues and policy.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Academic Search Complete		Contains full text articles from over 5,000 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
ACM Digital Library		Provides access to articles and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. The collection is updated monthly.  VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
AMED		References to journal articles in complementary medicine, palliative care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation. Click on link will take you directly into Amed. Once in Amed, use the Change Database link to see the full list of Ovid databases.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
American Film Institute Catalog (AFI)		AFI is a filmography database documenting 48,300 American films dating from 1893-1972. Athens validation is required for off campus access.More...
Archival Sound Recordings (ASR)		ASR is a JISC-funded project to increase access to the Sound Archive's extensive collections. By March 2009, it will make 8,000 hours of digitised audio freely available to the Higher and Further Education communities of the UK. Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
ASCE Research Library		Includes access to all online ASCE Journals (32 journals - 1983 to present). All full-text papers are provided in PDF format, and these may be searched by selecting the "All Digital Journal Papers" option within the search utility.  VPN software is required for off campus access.
Australian Education Index		Index of journals in the fields of education and training, from 1976 to date. The database is updated quarterly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

B
Name	Type	Information
BankScope		Financial data on 27,600 world banks. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
BIOSIS Previews Backfile 1969-2008		JISC Collections has licensed the BIOSIS Previews Backfile 1969-2008 in perpetuity and this is now freely available to all UK universities, colleges and research councils. Select the BIOSIS Previews tab on Web of Knowledge to begin searching. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
British Education Index		Index of 350 British and selected European journals in the fields of education and training, from 1976 to date. The database is updated quarterly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
British Nursing Index		References to articles from nursing journals published primarily in the UK, covering nursing, midwifery and community healthcare from 1985 to the present. The click on link will take you directly into BNI. Once in BNI, use the Change Database link to see the full list of Ovid databases.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
British Standards Online		Provides access to the full text of all current British standards. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
BURA		BURA (Brunel University Research Archive) aims to showcase the University's research outputs by making them freely available to the public via the Internet.
Business Source Premier		Contains full text articles from over 2,300 journals covering all business disciplines. Also provides access to market research reports country reports, industry reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

C
Name	Type	Information
Cambridge Journals Online		Cambridge Journals Online provides full text access for over one hundred journals published by Cambridge University Press in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Cancer Handbook		A collection of over 100 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
CEPR Papers		Papers focusing on key economic discussions published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Over 3000 Discussion Paper abstracts are currently available online and all Discussion Papers published since the beginning of 1999 (i.e. from DP2050) are available as electronic PDF files. VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
CINAHL		References to journal articles in nursing and allied health topics, from 1982 to date. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Classical Music Library		Classical Music Library contains thousands of legally licensed recordings from EMI, Hyperion, Vox, Vanguard and other classical music labels, spanning early music to contemporary composers. You must use headphones when listening on Library PCs - please ask at the Help Desk. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
Cochrane		Full text database of systematic reviews. More...
Compendex		Brunel University Library no longer subscribes to this database. The data are now available on Scopus.

D
Name	Type	Information
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)		DAAI contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and firms. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

E
Name	Type	Information
Early English Books Online		EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
EBSCOhost EJS		Ebscohost EJS contains the electronic versions of over 300 journals subscribed to by Brunel Library; from around 1997 onwards. This database covers many disciplines. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Economic and Social Data Service		Four separate resources which provide information on key economic and social data including government surveys and economic time series data.  Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Elsevier E-Books		Over 300 selected titles from four of Elsevier's E-Book collections (engineering, mathematics, environmental science and materials science) are available via ScienceDirect. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Emerald		. Articles from prestigious management journals, full text from 1994. Covers all major management disciplines including marketing and human resource management and also includes engineering topics. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Encyclopedia of Risk Analysis and Assessment		A collection of over 300 specially commissioned peer reviewed chapters from Wiley Interscience. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access.
ERIC		Over 700,000 records with abstracts focused on US education, from 1966 to date. The database is updated monthly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Ergonomics Abstracts		Ergonomics Abstracts is an international abstracting service, spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
ESDU		ESDU provides validated, up-to-date engineering data for the aerospace, structural, process and mechanical engineering disciplines. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
EThOS		EThOS (the Electronic Theses Online System) provides access to full text UK theses. To download a thesis, you will need to register. Most theses are free, but some will only be made available for a fee.

F
Name	Type	Information
FAME		Company financial data on 2.4 million UK and Irish businesses.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
FIAF		See International Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF).
Film & Sound Online		Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material, including the Wellcome Film Collection. Several hundred hours of high-quality material can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Film Index International		Provides information on approximately 100,000 films and references to articles about films.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Film & TV		A collection of over 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels taken from the ITN/Reuters archive. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for access: login via the UK Federation button and find Brunel University (OpenAthens). More...
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, JISC Collections Selection		The JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English. The collection covers the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for access. More...

G
Name	Type	Information
GMID		Global market research reports and business statistics. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
GreenFILE		GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. It includes a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Grove Music Online		Oxford Music Online includes the full text of Grove Music Online, together with the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

H
Name	Type	Information
HEED (Health Economic Evaluations Database)		Includes over 37,000 references, with indexing covering both the costs and health effects of an intervention. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Hein Online		Online law journal library, covering mainly US, but also international and some UK journals. Also access to the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library and the Supreme Court Library.   Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Henry Stewart Talks: Marketing and Management Collection		A collection of audio visual lectures and seminars. VPN software is required for off campus access.
Historical Abstracts		Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers		The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) contains bibliographic records and searchable full text for papers printed between 1701-2003. More...

I
Name	Type	Information
IBSS		International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, from 1951 to date. Coverage includes Anthropology Sociology, Economics and Politics. Some linked full text is now available. Updated weekly.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
ICE Virtual Library		Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published between 1836 and 2001. Access to the ICE proceedings from 2001 to date is available separately. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
IEEE/IET Electronic Library		Provides access to all IEEE and IET transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988, plus IEEE standards. The database and journal collection are updated weekly.  VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
IFS Online		The International Financial Statistics database, provided by the IMF give access to 32,000 times series and cover more than 200 countries. Where data has been collected, coverage goes back to 1945. VPN software is required for off campus access. More... If IFS is unavailable due to maintenance: please use the ESDS version of IFS online - there are other IMF datasets on this service, too. You will need to register for the ESDS service before you may use the UK Federation service to login. See the ESDS user guide for help.
Index to Theses		British and Irish theses (Ph.D. and M.Phil.), and also some Masters dissertations VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
Information Science Reference		A collection of around 60 electronic reference books from IGI Global (formally IDEA), including Handbooks of Research and Encyclopedias. Topics covered include information security and ethics, knowledge management, e-business, web technologies, and HCI. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
InfoSci Journals		Provides access to all Information Science journals from IGI Global (formally IDEA). These peer-reviewed journals focused on cutting-edge, specialised topics in advanced technology research as well as the organisational, managerial, behavioral, and social implications of technology. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
Ingenta Journals		Provides access to electronic journals from over 26,000 publications, from many disciplines. Full text is available for the journals the library subscribes to. The collection is updated daily. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
INSPEC		Brunel University Library no longer subscribes to this database. The data are now available on Scopus.
Institute of Physics		Provides access to the full text of 32 IoP journals, from 1874 to date. Also includes the IoP historical archive, giving access to the full text of all IoP journals from 1874-1996. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
International Abstracts in Operations Research		This database is no longer subscribed to by Brunel University Library. The data are now available on Web of Knowledge. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access.
International Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF)		FIAF is a bibliographical resource offering access to hundreds of academic and popular film journals from around the world. It contains over 400,000 article citations from more than 330 periodicals. Athens validation is required for off campus access. More...

J
Name	Type	Information
Jane's all the world's aircraft (JAWA)		This online database is no longer subscribed to by Brunel University Library. The data are now available in the print version shelved on floor 3 of the Library at (Ref) TL501.J35 2009
Journal Citation Reports		Science and Social Science Citation Reports, including Impact Factors. Updated weekly. More...
JSTOR		Archive collections of full text electronic journals from 1880 onwards, always from volume 1, issue 1, and including previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available. The Library subscribes only to the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and the Health & General Sciences collections. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

L
Name	Type	Information
LBC / Independent Radio News (IRN) Radio News Audio Archive		The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content – approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required for off campus access.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science		Full text of all electronically available volumes. All volumes from v. 143 (1983) onwards. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Lecture Notes in Mathematics		Full text of all electronically available volumes. All volumes from v. 1649 (1997) onwards. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Lexis Library		Full text access to UK and EU cases, legislation and journals. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Library & Information Management Current Awareness Abstracts		23,000 abstracts from over 400 library and information management journals. The database is updated monthly.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts		LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Literature Online		Provides over 4200 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. Lists more than 20,000 works by date, country and genre. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...

M
Name	Type	Information
MathSciNet		Reviews of articles from around 1,700 journals covering mathematics, from 1940 to date. The database is updated daily. VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
Medline		Indexes sources in medical research including biomedical and physical sciences, North American bias, from 1966 to date. The database is updated weekly. The link on the left will take you directly into Medline. Once in Medline, use the Change Database link to see the full list of Ovid databases.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Mintel		Market research reports and data on lifestyle trends including eating and drinking habits, clothing and footwear.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
MLA International Bibliography		A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and  series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
MLA  Directory of Periodicals		Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Music and Performing Arts Online		The International Index to Music Periodicals and the International Index to Performing Arts have combined to allow simultaneous searching of both collections of full text journals and abstracts. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

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Name	Type	Information
National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER)		Working papers published by the National Bureau for Economic Research. Coverage goes back to 1973. Some US based data (eg main economic indicators) is also available. VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
Naxos Music Library		Naxos Music Library is a listening service of over 140,000 classical tracks You must use headphones when listening on Library PCs - please ask at the Issue Desk. Naxos does not use Athens - it will open automatically via our IP address on campus - if you are off campus, please go to the resource via our password page and enter the username/password shown there. More...
NCBI Bookshelf		Full text of all Kluwer journals are now included on SpringerLink. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access.
NewsFilm Online		A collection of over 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels taken from the ITN/Reuters archive. Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required for off campus access: login via the UK Federation button and find Brunel University (OpenAthens).
Newspapers		Full text access to UK local and national newspapers via Nexis.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Nexis UK		Full text access to regional, national and international newspapers, business trade journals, company reports and country reports.  (This database was previously called LexisNexis). Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets		Over 26,000 digitised 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries archived on JSTOR by JISC. The collections focus on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Nineteenth Century Newspapers		The 19th Century Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. It also includes British Newspapers 1600-1900, and the Burney Collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers. More...

 

O
Name	Type	Information
OECD Health Data		Offers comparable statistics on health and health care systems for 30 OECD countries, with some time series going back to 1960 VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
OHE Compendium of Health Statistics		Offers historical data spanning up to 50 years primarily for the UK, but including some international comparisons. A password is required for access. More...
OSH UPDATE		OSH UPDATE contains an ever-growing collection of (currently) 19 occupational safety and health sub-files with 800,000 abstracts plus 23,000 full text documents or links to URLs, including 1300 pieces of legislation. The collection is updated regularly. A password is required for access. More...
Osiris		Financial data on 48,000 listed international companies, banks and insurance providers across the world. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Oxford Journals		The Oxford Journals collection includes some of the world's most highly cited and prestigious Oxford University Press journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Oxford Music Online		Oxford Music Online includes the full text of Grove Music Online, together with the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Oxford Reference Online		Full text of over 200 dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Oxford Scholarship Online Economics and Finance Collection		Access to over 300 titles published by OUP in the area of Economics and Finance. Subject areas include Economic History, Macro-and Monetary Economics, Microeconomics and Public and Welfare. More...

 

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Name	Type	Information
Project MUSE		Project MUSE Humanities Collection provides full-text online access to 164 humanities, arts, and social science journals from 60 scholarly publishers as well as links to Project MUSE content from databases such as America: History and life, Historical abstracts and JSTOR. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
PsycArticles		PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
PsycInfo		Psychology and related topics; abstracts of articles from over 1400 journals, from 1872 to date. The database is updated monthly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
PubMed Central		US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. No ID is required for access. More...

 

R
Name	Type	Information
Referex Electronics and Electrical Collection		Full text of 411 books within the electronics and electrical subject area  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

 

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Name	Type	Information
SAE Technical Papers		Technical papers published by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Front file (1998 onwards) and back file (1990-1997) available. It references thousands of papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. NB: If the PDF icon is not visible on the top banner next to Index Search then the reason you are not able to view the full text of the paper is because SAE does not have the right to incorporate it into the Digital Library. The paper may be purchased as a photocopy from the Inter-Library Loan Service. VPN software is required for off campus access. More...
Safari		Full text of 50 books within the information technology and computing subject area from the major IT publishing houses. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Sage		Access to over 220 e-journals published in collections by Sage, with up to 59 years of backfiles where available. Access to another 189 e-journals from 1999 onwards for the titles not included in the collections. A multidisciplinary database, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
ScienceDirect		Offers access to the Elsevier digital library, covering over 1800 publications. Most are available in full text after 1995. The collection is updated daily.  Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Scopus		Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 14,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. Some are available in full text. Updated daily. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Shakespeare		An international database of Shakespeare on film, television and radio hosted by the British Universities Film & Video Council. It holds over 6,500 records dating from the 1890s to the present day. Open access.
Snapshots UK		Market research reports covering overviews of the major UK industry sectors. Please note: Snapshots now includes international reports, too. You should access it in Mintel from now on. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
SPIE		The SPIE Digital Library provides access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...
SPORT Discus		Sport and sporting injuries abstracts, from 1949 to date, also providing full text to more than 400 journals listed in the index. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
SpringerLink		Full text of all journals published by Springer-Verlag and Kluwer. The database is updated quarterly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...

 

T
Name	Type	Information
Taylor & Francis Journals		Full text access to over 1200 journals published by Taylor & Francis. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Thomson One Banker		Provides access to global market data and news. Includes company accounts, shareholder information, IPO data and information on Mergers and Acquisitions. Data is provided by leading financial sources including Thomson Financial, Compustat and Worldscope. A password is required for access. More...
TRILT		Provides access to Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching - listings and archive of broadcast programme information. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access.
TVTimes Project 1955-1985		TVTiP is a fully searchable database of the programmes listed in television listings magazine TVTimes from September 1955 to March 1985. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access.
Twentieth-Century Drama		Twentieth-Century Drama contains over 1,900 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. The final version will contain 2,500 plays. Off campus access via Literature Online. More...

 

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Name	Type	Information
Web of Knowledge		Indexes journals and conference proceedings in the arts and humanities, social science and science and technology, providing abstracts to the majority, from 1980 to date. The database is updated weekly. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Westlaw UK		Database includes: full text UK, EU and US case law and legislation, including Annotated Statues; English Reports; and some full text legal journals. The collection is updated daily. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Wiley Interscience		Full text of all journals published by Wiley. Incorporates Blackwell Synergy. Brunel's Athens authentication is required for off campus access. More...
Women and Social Movements in the United States(WASM)		Provides online access to the journal of the same name. Also provides book reviews, manuscripts, images and transcripts. This is a work in progress which is being updated on a regular basis and due for completion in 2007. VPN software or a Find It search is required for off campus access. More...

 

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Name	Type	Information
ZETOC		Provides access to the British Library's electronic table of contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Brunel's OpenAthens authentication is required to set up ZETOC Alerts More...

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