Licensed digital collections
You can consult all the electronic resources listed below in our George IV Bridge Building. [List last updated: 31 July.]
These licensed digital collections are available though our electronic resources search service at dedicated workstations. With a reader's ticket you can access a growing number outwith the Library – see the remote access list below.
Resources with remote access |
You can use the following resources outwith the National Library. For some of them you need to register for remote access.
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 17th- and 18th-century newspapers and news pamphlets from the collection of the Rev Charles Burney. Contains almost one million pages and approximately 1,270 titles.
More about '17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century British Library Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 19th-century newspapers. The complete runs of 48 national, regional and rural daily and weekly publications from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
More about '19th Century British Library Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century UK Periodicals: A multi-part collection which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century, from art to business and from children to politics. The first series (1.2 million pages) focuses on women's, children's, humour and leisure titles.
More about '19th Century UK Periodicals' | Register for remote access - British History Online: Provides full-text access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Some content has restricted access.
Access British History Online. - British Library Catalogue: Access to the British Library online general catalogue of printed books.
Access British Library Catalogue - COBRA – The Complete Business Reference Adviser: A comprehensive, practical and continually updated information resource. For anyone looking to start a business, write a marketing or business plan, or conduct research into a new market.
More about COBRA | Register for remote access - COPAC: Provides access to the merged catalogues of 22 of the largest university and research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Access COPAC - Credo Reference: Full text, cross-searchable collection of over 400 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Over four million entries and one million images. Titles cover areas of knowledge from the arts to atlases and from science to Shakespeare.
More about 'Credo Reference' | Register for remote access - Early American Imprints, 1639-1800: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans, 'Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800' provides full-text access to more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages of early American publishing.
More about 'Early American Imprints' | Register for remote access - Early English Books Online (EEBO): A work in progress which, when complete, will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
More about EEBO | Register for remote access - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Part 1 and 2: With the addition of ECCO Part 2, this full-text digital archive now contains over 36 million pages from around 200,000 books printed between 1701 and 1800. Every significant title published in the UK and former British territories in the 18th century. Plus thousands of works from the Americas.
More about ECCO | Register for remote access - Environment Index: Indexes a wide range of periodical articles on environmental issues.
More about 'Environment Index' | Register for remote access - FamilySearch: Online access to the International Genealogy Service, provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This provides access to their history research database containing just under 100 million names.
Access FamilySearch - Frost & Sullivan: Detailed industry analysis on chemical, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare, IT and manufacturing markets worldwide.
More about 'Frost & Sullivan' | Register for remote access - GreenFILE: Bibliographic database of nearly 300,000 records covering environmental concerns, with full text for selected titles.
Access 'GreenFILE' - Global Reference Solution: Contact and basic financial information on over 100 million businesses in more than 200 countries, covering registered companies, partnerships and sole traders.
More about 'Global Reference Solution' | Register for remote access - Infotrac Custom Newspapers: Full-text newspaper database, featuring over 30 Scottish titles, 30 titles from the UK and Ireland, and 20 international titles.
More about 'Infotrac Custom Newspapers' | Register for remote access - Journal Citation Reports: A key reference resource for the evaluation and ranking of the world's leading journals by impact factor, total citations and articles, and cited half-life. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Web of Science'.
More about 'Journal Citation Reports' | Register for remote access - LISTA – Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts: Bibliographic database covering librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via EBSCOhost.
Access LISTA - Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926: Provides access to the digital facsimiles of over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926, consisting of 10 million pages of critical legal history.
More about 'Making of Modern Law' | Register for remote access. - Making of the Modern World: Provides access to the digital facsimiles of 61,000 works on economics and business published from 1450 through 1850. Consists of 12 million pages of fully searchable full-text, covering commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
More about 'Making of the Modern World' | Register for remote access - MLA Directory of Periodicals: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this online directory contains details of over 5,500 journal titles and series publishing articles on language, literature, folklore, or pedagogy, of which 4,400 are currently indexed in the 'MLA International Bibliography'.
More about 'MLA Directory of Periodicals' | Register for remote access - MLA International Bibliography: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this detailed online bibliography covers modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series, 1,000 book publishers, dating from 1963, with selected full-text access. Access is via EBSCO-Host.
More about 'MLA International Bibliography' | Register for remote access - Public Information Online: A full-text database of the House of Commons and House of Lords Papers from 2006. Also includes Scottish Parliamentary Papers from 2008 and Northern Ireland Assembly Papers from 2008.
More about 'Public Information Online' | Register for remote access - The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707: Provides access to the original text and modern translations of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707. Available from St Andrews University.
Access the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707. - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present.
More about 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' | Register for remote access - Sabin Americana, 1500-1926: Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s, consisting of over six million pages from 29,000 works.
More about 'Sabin Americana' | Register for remote access - SALSER: Provides information on serials held in Scottish academic and research libraries.
Access SALSER - Science Full-Text Select from WilsonWeb: Full text of over 360 journal titles across the broad spectrum of science and technology.
More about 'Science Full-Text Select' | Register for remote access - Standards Infobase: Database of standards from all the major national and international standards bodies.
More about 'Standards Infobase' | Register for remote access - Times Digital Archive 1785-1985: This includes every entire page – with advertisements and images – of each issue of 'The Times' from 1785 to 1985.
More about 'Times Digital Archive' | Register for remote access - Web of Science: Database of over 10,000 research journals indexed in the 'Science Citation Index', the 'Social Sciences Citation Index' and the 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index'. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Journal Citation Reports'.
More about 'Web of Science' | Register for remote access
Full list of digital collections |
Art and literature
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 17th- and 18th-century newspapers and news pamphlets from the collection of the Rev Charles Burney. Contains almost one million pages and approximately 1,270 titles.
More about '17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century British Library Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 19th-century newspapers. The complete runs of 48 national, regional and rural daily and weekly publications from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
More about '19th Century British Library Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century UK Periodicals: A multi-part collection which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century, from art to business and from children to politics. The first series (1.2 million pages) focuses on women's, children's, humour and leisure titles.
More about '19th Century UK Periodicals' | Register for remote access - Blackwells Compass Journals: Full-text access to peer-reviewed survey articles from across entire disciplines. NLS users have access to History Compass, Literature Compass and Philosophy Compass.
- Celtic Culture – A Historical Encyclopedia (via NetLibrary): A five-volume online encyclopedia, with over 1,500 articles describing the Celts from prehistory to the present. Access the encyclopedia along with 3,500 other e-books.
- Early American Imprints, 1639-1800: Based on the renowned 'American Bibliography' by Charles Evans, 'Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800' provides full-text access to more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages of early American publishing.
More about 'Early American Imprints' | Register for remote access - Early English Books Online (EEBO): A work in progress which, when complete, will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
More about EEBO | Register for remote access - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): ECCO offers full-text access to approximately 30 million pages from some 150,000 books printed between 1701 and 1800; in essence every significant title published in the UK and former British territories in the 18th century, along with thousands of works from the Americas.
More about ECCO | Register for remote access - Electronic Enlightenment: A full-text archive of the correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century. Contains over 53,000 letters and documents from over 6,000 correspondents.
- English Poetry: The English Poetry Full Text Database: Contains the works of 1,350 poets from the period 600-1900.
- Oxford Music Online: Full-text access to the 'New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians', the 'New Grove Dictionary of Opera', the 'Oxford Dictionary of Music', and the 'Oxford Companion to Music'.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this online directory contains details of over 5,500 journal titles and series publishing articles on language, literature, folklore, or pedagogy, of which 4,400 are currently indexed in the 'MLA International Bibliography'.
More about 'MLA Directory of Periodicals' | Register for remote access - MLA International Bibliography: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this detailed online bibliography covers modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series, 1,000 book publishers, dating from 1963, with selected full-text access. Access is via EBSCO-Host.
More about 'MLA International Bibliography' | Register for remote access - Naxos Music Library: Provides online access to over 90,000 tracks, 6,000 CDs and 7,000 composers from the Naxos music label, covering primarily classical music, but including jazz, world and New Age artists.
- Oxford Journals Online: Full-text of over 180 journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, and spanning 1847 to date.
- Perdita Manuscripts: A full-text digital archive of the writings of early modern women authors from 16th and 17th-century Britain.
- Raj, India & Empire: A full-text digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. Taken from National Library of Scotland manuscript collections. Contains diaries, journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings, and original Indian documents of histories and literary works.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature: 'International de Littérature Musicale' (RILM) is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music, serving the global music research community. Today RILM has over 500,000 records in 215 languages from 151 countries.
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926: Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s, consisting of over six million pages from 29,000 works.
More about 'Sabin Americana' | Register for remote access - Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: A fully indexed and searchable database of over 60 volumes of lyric poetry by 51 Scottish women poets, written between 1789 and 1832, with full critical, biographical and bibliographic apparatus.
- SCRAN: Over 330,000 digital images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. Collection represents Scottish material, culture and history through the ages, from pre-history to modern day. Also contains over one million records, and over 3,000 resources such as Pathfinder Packs to aid learning and teaching.
Business
- Business Insights: Full text market research reports for over 300 industries worldwide on consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare and technology.
- COBRA – The Complete Business Reference Adviser: A comprehensive, practical and continually updated information resource. For anyone looking to start a business, write a marketing or business plan, or conduct research into a new market.
More about COBRA | Register for remote access - Factiva: Provides full text or abstracted articles from over 14,000 sources worldwide, including newspapers, newswire stories and trade publications.
- Fame: Provides full accounts for up to 10 years on 2.4 million registered companies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
- Frost & Sullivan: Detailed industry analysis on chemical, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare, IT and manufacturing markets worldwide.
More about 'Frost & Sullivan' | Register for remote access - FT.com: Provides the full text of the daily edition and five years of back copies of the 'Financial Times'.
- Global Reference Solution: Contact and basic financial information on over 100 million businesses in more than 200 countries, covering registered companies, partnerships and sole traders.
More about 'Global Reference Solution' | Register for remote access - Hoovers: Data on over 65,000 companies worldwide, including detailed company profiles, basic financial information, lists of directors and main competitors.
- Key Note: Full text coverage for almost 400 market research reports on UK industries.
- Kompass.com: Company and product information on 1.8 million companies operating in over 70 countries worldwide.
- Market Research Monitor: Provides market research reports for more than 50 countries on major consumer, industrial and service sectors.
- Marketline: Includes 50,000 company profiles on the world's largest companies, 2,000+ industry profiles and economic data on 50 countries.
- Mintel on the web: Full text of market research reports from the Mintel series in Finance, Leisure, Market and Retail Intelligence and all the MBD Industrial Reports.
Education and social science
- ALPSP Learned Journals Collection via SwetsWise: Contains the full-text of over 700 journals from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Covering the humanities, social sciences, science and technology, the content goes back to 1997.
- Blackwells Compass Journals: Full-text access to peer-reviewed survey articles from across entire disciplines. NLS users have access to History Compass, Literature Compass and Philosophy Compass.
- Electronic Enlightenment: A full-text archive of the correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century. Contains over 53,000 letters and documents from over 6,000 correspondents.
- Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: An online encyclopedia providing over 10,000 references in the field of Library and Information Science.
- Journal Citation Reports: A key reference resource for the evaluation and ranking of the world's leading journals by impact factor, total citations and articles, and cited half-life. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Web of Science'.
More about 'Journal Citation Reports' | Register for remote access - JSTOR: A full-text journal archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
- LISTA – Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts: Bibliographic database covering librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via EBSCOhost.
Access LISTA - Oxford Journals Online: Full-text of over 180 journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, and spanning 1847 to date.
- Web of Science: Database of over 10,000 research journals indexed in the 'Science Citation Index', the 'Social Sciences Citation Index' and the 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index'. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Journal Citation Reports'.
More about 'Web of Science' | Register for remote access
Government and official
- 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal, 1688-1834: Full-text database from BOPCRIS with over one million pages from 1,400 volumes of core 18th-century official parliamentary publications, including Parliamentary Papers, Acts, Bills, registers and the Journals of the House of Commons and Lords.
- British History Online – Parliamentary History: Provides selected full-text access to proceedings and legislation in the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster from the 16th to the 19th century. Some content has restricted access.
Access British History Online – Parliamentary History. - Early English Books Online (EEBO):
Contains full-text digital facsimiles of some 100,000 books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America between 1473 and 1700. Includes statutes and proclamations, and legal and parliamentary documents from both the English and Scottish Parliaments.
More about EEBO | Register for remote access. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): Offers full-text access to approximately 30 million pages from some 150,000 books printed in the United Kingdom and former British territories between 1701 and 1800, including bills, statutes, proclamations and Parliamentary papers.
More about ECCO | Register for remote access - House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Provides full text access to 19th and 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801 to 2000, with index of papers to 2004. Consists of over 9.4 million pages and 180,000 papers and bills.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926: Provides access to the digital facsimiles of over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926, consisting of 10 million pages of critical legal history.
More about 'Making of Modern Law' | Register for remote access. - Public Information Online: A full-text database of the House of Commons and House of Lords Papers from 2006. Also includes Scottish Parliamentary Papers from 2008 and Northern Ireland Assembly Papers from 2008.
More about 'Public Information Online' | Register for remote access - Raj, India & Empire: A full-text digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. Taken from National Library of Scotland manuscript collections. Contains diaries, journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings, and original Indian documents of histories and literary works.
- The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707: Provides access to the original text and modern translations of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707. Available from St Andrews University.
Access the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707. - Unbis: Provides bibliographic access to the documentary output of the United Nations, including UN resolutions, voting records etc from 1998 onwards.
Access Unbis
History, biography and genealogy
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 17th- and 18th-century newspapers and news pamphlets from the collection of the Rev Charles Burney. Contains almost one million pages and approximately 1,270 titles.
More about '17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century British Library Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 19th-century newspapers. The complete runs of 48 national, regional and rural daily and weekly publications from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
More about '19th Century British Library Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century UK Periodicals: A multi-part collection which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century, from art to business and from children to politics. The first series (1.2 million pages) focuses on women's, children's, humour and leisure titles.
More about '19th Century UK Periodicals' | Register for remote access - ALPSP Learned Journals Collection via SwetsWise: Contains the full-text of over 700 journals from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Covering the humanities, social sciences, science and technology, the content goes back to 1997.
- Blackwells Compass Journals: Full-text access to peer-reviewed survey articles from across entire disciplines. NLS users have access to History Compass, Literature Compass and Philosophy Compass.
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: A deeply indexed and fully searchable database of approximately 100,000 pages of published and manuscript facsimile material covering all forms of women's personal writings, spanning over 400 years and including source bibliography and biographical notes.
- British History Online: Provides full-text access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Some content has restricted access.
Access British History Online - Celtic Culture – A Historical Encyclopedia (via NetLibrary): A five-volume online encyclopedia, with over 1,500 articles describing the Celts from prehistory to the present. Access the encyclopedia along with 3,500 other e-books 'In Our Collection'.
- Early American Imprints, 1639-1800: Based on the renowned 'American Bibliography' by Charles Evans, 'Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800' provides full-text access to more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages of early American publishing.
More about 'Early American Imprints' | Register for remote access - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): ECCO offers full-text access to approximately 30 million pages from some 150,000 books printed between 1701 and 1800; in essence every significant title published in the UK and former British territories in the 18th century, along with thousands of works from the Americas.
More about ECCO | Register for remote access - Electronic Enlightenment: A full-text archive of the correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century. Contains over 53,000 letters and documents from over 6,000 correspondents.
- FamilySearch: Online access to the International Genealogy Service, provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This provides access to their history research database containing just under 100 million names.
Access FamilySearch - House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Provides full text access to 19th and 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801 to 2000, with index of papers to 2004. Consists of over 9.4 million pages and 180,000 papers and bills.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926: Provides access to the digital facsimiles of over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926, consisting of 10 million pages of critical legal history.
- Making of the Modern World: Provides access to the digital facsimiles of 61,000 works on economics and business published from 1450 through 1850. Consists of 12 million pages of fully searchable full-text, covering commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
More about 'Making of the Modern World' | Register for remote access - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present.
- Perdita Manuscripts: A full-text digital archive of the writings of early modern women authors from 16th and 17th-century Britain.
- Raj, India & Empire: A full-text digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. Taken from National Library of Scotland manuscript collections. Contains diaries, journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings, and original Indian documents of histories and literary works.
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926: Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s, consisting of over six million pages from 29,000 works.
More about 'Sabin Americana' | Register for remote access - SCRAN: Over 330,000 digital images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. Collection represents Scottish material, culture and history through the ages, from pre-history to modern day. Also contains over one million records, and over 3,000 resources such as Pathfinder Packs to aid learning and teaching.
- Statistical Accounts: The 1791-1799 and 1834-1845 Statistical Accounts for Scotland.
- The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707: Provides access to the original text and modern translations of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707. Available from St Andrews University.
Access the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707. - Times Digital Archive 1785-1985: This includes every entire page – with advertisements and images – of each issue of 'The Times' from 1785 to 1985.
More about 'Times Digital Archive' | Register for remote access - Who's Who and Who Was Who: 'Who's Who' is the recognised source book of information on people of influence and interest in all fields. This online edition contains 'Who's Who' plus the entire 'Who Was Who' archive from 1897.
National bibliographies
- Bibliographie Nationale Française: Records of the French publishing output from 1970.
- Bibliografía Española desde 1976: Records of the Spanish publishing output from 1976.
Newspapers
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 17th- and 18th-century newspapers and news pamphlets from the collection of the Rev Charles Burney. Contains almost one million pages and approximately 1,270 titles.
More about '17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers' | Register for remote access - 19th Century British Library Newspapers: A full-text digital archive of 19th-century newspapers. The complete runs of 48 national, regional and rural daily and weekly publications from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
More about '19th Century British Library Newspapers' | Register for remote access - Factiva: Provides full text or abstracted articles from over 14,000 sources worldwide, including newspapers, newswire stories and trade publications.
- Financial Times: Full-text newspapers from 1997 to date.
- Frost & Sullivan: Detailed industry analysis on chemical, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare, IT and manufacturing markets worldwide.
More about 'Frost & Sullivan' | Register for remote access - Infotrac Custom Newspapers: Full-text newspaper database, featuring over 30 Scottish titles, 30 titles from the UK and Ireland, and 20 international titles.
More about 'Infotrac Custom Newspapers' | Register for remote access - Times Digital Archive 1785-1985: This includes every entire page – with advertisements and images – of each issue of 'The Times' from 1785 to 1985.
More about 'Times Digital Archive' | Register for remote access - Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900: Bibliography of 50,000 serial publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
Reference works and catalogues
- British Library Catalogue: Access to the British Library online general catalogue of printed books.
Access British Library Catalogue - Celtic Culture – A Historical Encyclopedia (via NetLibrary): A five-volume online encyclopedia, with over 1,500 articles describing the Celts from prehistory to the present. Access the encyclopedia along with 3,500 other e-books 'In Our Collection'.
- COPAC: Provides access to the merged catalogues of 22 of the largest university and research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Access COPAC - Credo Reference: Offers searching and browsing access to over one million entries and 5,000 images in 120 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Titles cover areas of knowledge from the arts to atlases and from science to Shakespeare.
More about 'Credo Reference' | Register for remote access - Early American Imprints, 1639-1800: Based on the renowned 'American Bibliography' by Charles Evans, 'Early American Imprints, Series 1: Evans, 1639-1800' provides full-text access to more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages of early American publishing.
More about 'Early American Imprints' | Register for remote access - Early English Books Online (EEBO): A work in progress which, when complete, will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
More about EEBO | Register for remote access - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): ECCO offers full-text access to approximately 30 million pages from some 150,000 books printed between 1701 and 1800; in essence every significant title published in the UK and former British territories in the 18th century, along with thousands of works from the Americas.
More about ECCO | Register for remote access - Global Books in Print Plus: Complete English-language bibliographic information from the United States, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Canada and the Oceanic States.
- Journal Citation Reports: A key reference resource for the evaluation and ranking of the world's leading journals by impact factor, total citations and articles, and cited half-life. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Web of Science'.
More about 'Journal Citation Reports' | Register for remote access - MLA Directory of Periodicals: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this online directory contains details of over 5,500 journal titles and series publishing articles on language, literature, folklore, or pedagogy, of which 4,400 are currently indexed in the 'MLA International Bibliography'.
More about 'MLA Directory of Periodicals' | Register for remote access - MLA International Bibliography: Produced by the Modern Language Association, this detailed online bibliography covers modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series, 1,000 book publishers, dating from 1963, with selected full-text access. Access is via EBSCO-Host.
More about 'MLA International Bibliography' | Register for remote access - Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED): The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. OED contains the history and meaning of over half a million words and traces usage from over 2.5 million quotations worldwide.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Tells the stories of over 50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present.
More about 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' | Register for remote access - Oxford Reference Online: Full text, cross-searchable collection of over 175 premium reference titles from Oxford University Press with over 1.4 million entries.
- RNIB Library Catalogue: Catalogue of over 170,000 items available for loan and/or sale in audio, large and giant print, braille and Moon. The catalogue includes books from RNIB, Calibre and Torch Trust.
Access RNIB Library Catalogue - SALSER: Provides information on serials held in Scottish academic and research libraries.
Access SALSER - Ulrich Periodical Directory: A powerful serials research tool, Ulrich's is a bibliographic database comprising 250,000 serial titles, including electronic publications, from over 200 countries. Offers direct links to tables of contents and full-text articles. Updated weekly.
- UnityWeb: Access to bibliographic and location information covering over 450 UK and Irish libraries.
- Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900: Bibliography of 50,000 serial publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
- Who's Who and Who Was Who: 'Who's Who'is the recognised source book of information on people of influence and interest in all fields. This online edition contains 'Who's Who' plus the entire 'Who Was Who' archive from 1897.
Science
- ALPSP Learned Journals Collection via SwetsWise: Contains the full-text of over 700 journals from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Covering the humanities, social sciences, science and technology, the content goes back to 1997.
- Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts: Covers information on marine, freshwater and brackish environments, including their biology, ecology, pollution, and industrial aspects from over 5000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings and translations. Records are provided from international organizations and from many countries, including the UK, USA, mainland Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic, Mexico and China. All information is given in English, but non-English titles are also given. 1971- current.
- Electronic Enlightenment: A full-text archive of the correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century. Contains over 53,000 letters and documents from over 6,000 correspondents.
- Environment Index: Indexes a wide range of periodical articles on environmental issues.
More about 'Environment Index' | Register for remote access - GreenFILE: Bibliographic database of nearly 300,000 records covering environmental concerns, with full text for selected titles.
Access 'GreenFILE' - Journal Citation Reports: A key reference resource for the evaluation and ranking of the world's leading journals by impact factor, total citations and articles, and cited half-life. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Web of Science'.
More about 'Journal Citation Reports' | Register for remote access - JSTOR: A full-text journal archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
- Oceanic Abstracts: Database focusing exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. 1981- current.
- Oxford Journals Online: Full-text of over 180 journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, and spanning 1847 to date.
- Science Full-Text Select from WilsonWeb: Full text of over 360 journal titles across the broad spectrum of science and technology.
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- Standards Infobase: Contains information on standards from all the major national and international standards bodies.
- Web of Science: Database of over 10,000 research journals indexed in the 'Science Citation Index', the 'Social Sciences Citation Index' and the 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index'. Available via 'Web of Knowledge', alongside 'Journal Citation Reports'.
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