Databases: complete alphabetical table
This is an alphabetical table of all databases offered by the Library. Please note that the use of these services is governed by the relevant licence conditions.
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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17th and 18th century Burney collection newspapers | 1700-1800 | Network | Full text papers |
18th century collections online (ECCO) | 1701-1800 | Network | Full text ebooks |
19th century serials edition (NCSE) | 1800- | Network | Nineteenth century periodicals and newspapers |
19th Century UK periodicals | Various | Network | Historical periodicals archive |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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AATA Online: Abstracts of international conservation literature | 1932- | Network | International conservation literature |
Academic research database repository | Various | Network | Research database repository (Japan) |
ACM Digital Library | 1947- | Network | Association for Computing Machinery full text |
Acta Sanctorum | 1643-1940 | Network | Online version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, examining the lives of saints |
Aerial Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | High resolution aerial photography of Great Britain |
Altmetric Explorer | Various | Network | Uses altmetric data to identify which articles and journals are receiving attention online |
AM Explorer | Various | Network | Cross-search primary source collections from archives around the world |
AMECO database | Various | Network | Annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). |
America in protest: records of anti-Vietnam war organizations | 1967-1975 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
America: history and life via EBSCO | 1955- | Network | History and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present |
Annual bibliography of English language & literature via LION | 1920- | Network | Books, journal articles, book reviews & dissertations |
Anthropological index online | 1957- | Network | Index to articles from the Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum |
APA PsycArticles® via Ovid | 1894- | Network | Full text literature covering psychology and related disciplines |
APA PsycInfo® via Ovid | 1806- | Network | Covers psychology and related disciplines |
Apabi Digital Library | Various | Network | Chinese multidisciplinary e-books, newspaper and statistics collection |
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) via ProQuest | 1987- | Network | Health services, social work, sociology, psychology |
Architectus | Various | Network | Resources for teaching and learning in Architecture and the Built Environment |
Archives hub | Various | Network | Search across archives held at UK institutions |
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 | Various | Network | Primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities |
Archives unbound | Various | Network | Topically-focused primary source historical documents |
Aristoteles Latinus | Various | Network | Complete corpus of medieval translations in Latin of the works of Aristotle |
Art, Design & Architecture Collection via ProQuest | 1973- | Network | Coverage of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts |
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) via ProQuest | 1974- | Network | Abstracts of literature on modern and contemporary art |
Arts and Humanities Citation Index | 1975- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
arXiv.org | Various | Network | Electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the sciences, maths and statistics. |
Asiatic Research Institute | Various | Network | East Asia-related research |
ASM Handbooks Online | Various | Network | Handbook volumes, including Supplements and Desk Editions on ferrous and non-ferrous metals and materials technology. |
ASME Digital Collection | Various | Network | Journals, conference proceedings and books from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) via ProQuest | 1987- | Network | Health services, social work, sociology, psychology |
ASTM Compass | Various | Network | Standards and technical engineering information |
Atkins court forms via LexisLibrary | Various | Network | Encyclopaedia of UK civil litigation forms, precedents & procedure |
Atla religion database via EBSCO | Various | Network | Index of religious and theological literature |
Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland | Various | Network | Locations and key details of hillforts in Britain and Ireland |
Australian education index via ProQuest | 1977- | Network | Australian education literature |
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals | 1934- | Network | Comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Bank of Japan | Various | Network | Full text access to research and statistical data on finance and the economy |
Bank of Korea | Various | Network | Full text reports, research papers and working papers from Korea's central bank |
Bess of Hardwick's Letters | c.1550-1608 | Network | Full text transcriptions and digitised images of Elizabeth Talbot's letters |
Bible in English | Various | Network | 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century |
Bibliography of Asian studies | 1971- | Network | Asian studies |
Bibliography of British and Irish history (BBIH) | Various | Network | Provides bibliographic data on historical writing, dealing with the British Isles and with the British Empire and Commonwealth |
Biobank | Various | Network | Public portal for the UK Biobank repository |
BIOSIS Previews | 1969- | Network | Biological sciences |
BMJ Best Practice | Various | Network | Clinical decision support tool for healthcare professionals |
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) | Various | Network | On demand TV and radio service for education |
Britain on Film | Various | Network | Films about life in Britain from the BFI archives |
British and Irish archaeological bibliography | 1695- | Network | Bibliographic data, with some abstracts |
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) | Various | Network | Provides access to freely available British and Irish public legal information. |
British Education Index via EBSCO | 1975- | Network | Education literature |
British history online | Various | Network | Medieval and modern history of the British Isles |
British Library images online | Various | Network | Collection of British Library images available to purchase |
British Library newspapers | 1800-1900 | Network | National & regional newspapers of 19th century British society |
British Library sounds | Various | Network | Selection from the British Library's collections of sound recordings |
British National Formulary | Various | Network | Reference for clinical use of medicines |
British National Formulary for Children | Various | Network | Reference for clinical use of medicines in children |
British Pathe | 1896-1976 | Network | Archive of videos covering newsreel, sports footage, social history & entertainment |
British periodicals via ProQuest | 1681-1937 | Network | Full text papers |
British Politics and Society | Various | Network | Primary sources providing context for 19th century British politics and political reform |
British standards online | Various | Network | Full text standards |
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture | Various | Network | Primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era |
British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files, 1933-1951 | 1933-1951 | Network | Primary sources covering the growth of the British Union of Fascists and the impact of the Second World War upon them |
BrowZine | Various | Network | Downloadable tablet app for browsing current scholarly journal content |
BT Digital Archives | Various | Network | Searchable digital collection of photographs, reports and items of correspondence preserved by BT |
Burney collection newspapers | 1700-1800 | Network | Full text papers |
Business source premier via EBSCO | 1886- | Network | Business research database |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Cabinet papers 1915-1978 | 1915-1978 | Network | Online resource about the history of the cabinet |
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics | Various | Network | Essays on major authors, periods and genres |
Cambridge Companions to Music | Various | Network | Essays on composers, instruments and musical topics |
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture | Various | Network | Essays on topics, figures and philosophical movements |
Cambridge Digital Library | Various | Network | Digitised collections from Cambridge University Library |
Cambridge histories online | Various | Network | Cambridge Histories ebook collection |
Carlyle Letters Online | 1812- | Network | Victorian cultural reference database |
Cataloger's Desktop | Various | Network | Cataloguing documentation online |
Cause Papers | 1300-1858 | Network | Searchable catalogue of cause papers relating to the Church Courts of the diocese of York |
Census microdata via UK Data Service | 1991, 2001 | Network | UK Census SARs (Samples of Anonymised Records) |
Chemical Database Service (now Physical Sciences Data-Science Service) | Various | Network | Data resources within the physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. |
Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1849-1996 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Child Development & Adolescent Studies via EBSCO | Various | Network | Literature on the growth and development of children |
China academic journals | 1951- | Network | Full-text database of Chinese journals |
China: National bureau of statistics | Various | Network | Economic, development and census statistics |
China: Trade, Politics and Culture | 1793-1980 | Network | Primary sources from nine archives documenting China during the period 1793-1980 |
Chinese Newspapers Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1832-1953 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Chosun Ilbo Digital Archive | 1920- | Network | Digital archive of Chosun Ilbo, the Korean language daily newspaper |
Chronicling America | Various | Network | Historic American newspapers |
CINAHL via EBSCO | 1981- | Network | Nursing and allied health literature |
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) | Various | Network | Search for Japanese books, journals and full text scholarly articles |
CiteSeer.IST | 1982- | Network | Scientific literature digital library |
CNKI | 1951- | Network | Full-text database of Chinese journals |
Cochrane Library | Various | Network | Independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making |
Codex Sinaiticus | 301- | Network | Online bible |
CogNet | Various | Network | Online publications on cognitive science from MIT |
Communist Party of Great Britain Archive | 1920-1991 | Network | Central and local party records, records of miscellaneous non-party organisations, individual deposits and CPGB history materials digitised from original documents in Manchester's People's History Museum |
Community Care Inform Adults | Various | Network | Practice-related information for social work professionals working with vulnerable adults |
Community Care Inform Children | Various | Network | Practice-related information for social work professionals working with children and young people |
Company & commercial law via LexisLibrary | Various | Network | Company and commercial sources |
Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: the Critical Edition | 1905-1965 | Network | Eliot's collected, uncollected and unpublished pieces |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science | 1990- | Network | Citations to conference papers |
Connected histories | 1500-1900 | Network | Portal for searching digital resources about early modern and 19th Century Britain |
Construction Information Service (CIS) | Various | Network | Building regulations, construction management and design guidance |
CORE | Various | Network | Aggregates open access research outputs from repositories and journals |
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) | Various | Network | International research project dedicated to the publication of medieval stained glass |
corpus.byu.edu | Various | Network | Corpus query system for researching how words behave |
Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959- | 1959- | Network | Primary sources on Revolutionary Cuba from the Casa de las Américas, Havana |
Current controlled trials | Various | Network | Clinical trial resources |
Cymru 1914 | Various | Network | Primary sources relating to the First World War from the Libraries, Special Collections and Archives of Wales |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Daily Express via UK Press Online | 1900- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
Daily Mail Historical Archive | 1896-2004 | Network | Newspaper archive |
Daily Mirror via UK Press Online | 1903- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
Daily Star Sunday via UK Press Online | 2002- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
Daily Star via UK Press Online | 2000- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
DART-Europe | Various | Network | Europe E-theses portal |
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustrations | 1862 | Network | Records and images of literary illustrations |
DBpia | Various | Network | Korean scholarly journals |
Defining Gender | 1450-1910 | Network | British source material to support the study of history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective |
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) via ProQuest | 1973- | Network | Practice, theory and history of design and craft |
DETAIL Inspiration | Various | Network | Image and reference database of architecture projects from DETAIL magazine |
Dictionary of Irish Biography | Various | Network | Biographical dictionary for Ireland |
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (via Logeion) | Simultaneous searching of DMLBS and other Greek and Latin dictionaries by headword | ||
Dictionary of national biography | Various | Network | Biographical reference resource |
Dictionary of natural products | Various | Network | Natural products database |
Dictionary of Old English | 600-1150 | Network | Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries of the English language |
Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus | Various | Network | Database consisting of every surviving Old English text |
Digimap OpenStream via EDINA | Various | Network | Access to a Web Map Service (WMS) offering Ordnance Survey OpenData products |
Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Ordnance Survey, geological and historic map data |
Digital Bodleian | Various | Network | Digitised images from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries |
Digital Concert Hall | Various | Network | Streaming access to concert videos from the Berlin Philharmonic |
Digital National Security Archive (ProQuest) | 1945- | Network | Declassified U.S. government documents |
Digital Theatre Plus | Various | Network | Theatre productions and educational resources |
Digitised diseases | Various | Network | Digitised human bone specimens from 3D laser scans, CT and radiography |
Dimensions | Various | Network | Linked research knowledge system that enables discovery of, and access to, research |
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians | Various | Network | Materials from the British Library's collections, including original manuscripts, first editions and illustrations |
Dissertations & Theses via ProQuest | Various | Network | Citations for dissertations and theses accepted for higher degrees |
Dissertations in Education | 2012-2015 | Network | Masters dissertations from the School of Education at the University of Sheffield |
Dong-A Ilbo Digital Archive | 1920- | Network | Searchable scans of all pages published in Dong-A Ilbo, one of the major newspapers in South Korea |
Drama Online | Various | Network | Full text plays and supporting resources |
Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France | 1894-1908 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Dublin Castle Records | 1798-1926 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Early American Imprints, Series I via NewsBank | 1639-1800 | Network | Digitised books, pamphlets & broadsides of 17th & 18th century America |
Early English Books Online (EEBO) | 1470-1700 | Network | Page images of works in English printed between 1470 and 1700 |
Early European Books | 1450-1700 | Network | Page images of all works printed in Europe before 1701 |
Early music online | 16th Century | Network | Digitised volumes of anthologies of printed music |
East India Company | 1600-1947 | Network | Primary source documents from the India Office Records held by the British Library |
EBSCO Educational Databases | Various | Network | Education databases |
EconLit via OvidSP | 1961- | Network | Index of economic literature |
Economist | 1997- | Network | Weekly magazine-format newspaper with a primary focus on world events, politics and business |
Economist Historical Archive | 1843-2014 | Network | Complete archive of The Economist |
Education Abstracts via EBSCO | 1983- | Network | Indexing and abstracts related to education |
Education Database | 1988- | Network | Education index with full text journal links |
Educational Administration Abstracts via EBSCO | 1966- | Network | Indexing and abstracts related to educational administration |
Eighteenth century collections online (ECCO) | 1701-1800 | Network | Full text ebooks |
Eighteenth Century Journals | c.1685-1835 | Network | Digitised images of 18th century periodicals |
Electronic Enlightenment | c.1600-1850 | Network | Correspondence of the early modern period |
Emerald Insight | Various | Network | Journals and books relevant to many subject areas, including accounting and finance, management, marketing, education, information studies and engineering |
Encyclopedia of forms & precedents via LexisLibrary | Monthly | Network | Encyclopedia of UK transactional precedents |
English short title catalogue | 1473-1800 | Network | Bibliography of books, serials, pamphlets |
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive | 1880-2000 | Network | Online archive of essential primary sources for the history of the film and entertainment industries |
Environment Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Access to Land Cover Maps from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
Environmental archaeology bibliography | Various | Network | Bibliography of published reports on environmental archaeology |
ERIC via EBSCO | 1966- | Network | International education literature |
ESDU | Various | Network | Engineering knowledge base which provides validated design methods, data and software tools |
Essential Science Indicators via WoS | Latest | Network | Performance statistics and trends from counts of articles published in scholarly journals |
EThOS | Various | Network | Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library |
EUR-Lex | 1951- | Network | European Union law |
Euromonitor International Passport | Various | Network | Business intelligence |
European bibliography of Slavic and East European studies | 1991- | Network | Slavic and East European studies |
European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection | 1790-1840 | Network | Volumes from the Corvey Castle Library |
European views of the Americas via EBSCO | 1493-1750 | Network | Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Faber Poetry Library | 1925-1999 | Network | The works of fifty poets from the Faber Poetry list |
FAME | Various | Network | Company and financial information |
Film Scripts Online | Various | Network | Scripts and screenplays from American classic cinema and beyond |
Financial Times | Various | Network | Online edition of the daily newspaper featuring international business and economic news |
Financial Times Historical Archive | 1888-2016 | Network | Newspaper archive |
Find DVDs (BUFVC) | Various | Network | Catalogue of media materials for higher education |
First World War poetry digital archive | Various | Network | Archive of resources about First World War poetry |
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (1974-1996) | 1974-1996 | Network | Translated and transcribed media reports from around the world |
Foreign Office files for China | 1919-1980 | Network | British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan |
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan | 1947-1980 | Network | British Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan |
FRANTEXT | Various | Network | Thesaurus of French texts |
From cemetery to clinic | Various | Network | Digitised pathological data from archaeological leprous skeletons |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Gakujutsu kenkyu detabasu ripositori | Various | Network | Research database repository (Japan) |
Gale Primary Sources | Various | Network | Cross-search Gale historical collections and newspapers |
Garland encyclopedia of world music | Various | Network | Research into world music |
GB3D Type Fossils Online | Various | Network | Database of UK macrofossil species type specimens |
GeoConvert | Various | Network | Matches UK postcodes and census geographies |
Geology Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Geological maps and data |
Geospatial Data | Various | Network | Digital mapping products licensed by Jisc |
Global barometer surveys | Various | Network | Social, political & economic studies data |
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange | Various | Network | Original sources demonstrating the history of major commodities which changed the world |
Global Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | OpenStreetMap and other map data sets |
Global library of women's medicine | Various | Network | Web library of clinical information about women's medicine |
Google Scholar | Various | Network | Search tool dedicated to academic content |
Gough Map of Great Britain | 14th Century | Network | Interactive, searchable edition of the Gough Map |
Grove music online | 2000- | Network | Musicology, composers and performers |
Guardian (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1821-2003 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Halsbury's Laws of England via LexisLibrary | Various | Network | General encyclopaedia of English law |
Han' guk Unhaeng | Various | Network | Full text reports, research papers and working papers from Korea's central bank |
Hartlib Papers | Various | Network | Full-text edition of the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600 - 1662), 'intelligencer' and man of science |
HeinOnline | Various | Network | UK and international law and law-related journals, legal history and government documents |
Henry Stewart Talks: Business & Management Collection | Various | Network | Video lectures and case studies |
Historic Digimap via EDINA | 1843-1996 | Network | Historic map data |
Historical abstracts via EBSCO | 1955- | Network | History of the world (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present |
Histpop: Online historical population reports | 1801-1937 | Network | British population reports for Britain and Ireland |
Huguet: dictionnaire de la langue francaise du XVIe siecle | Various | Network | Renaissance language dictionary |
Humanities Index | 1962- | Network | Abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) via ProQuest | 1951- | Network | Anthropology, economics, political science and sociology |
IEEE Smart Grid Research | Various | Network | Access to Smart Grid Vision and Research documents via IEEE Xplore Digital Library |
IEEE Xplore Digital Library | Various | Network | Scientific and technical content published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IET Digital Library | Various | Network | Engineering and technology content for students and practitioners |
Illustrated London News Historical Archive | 1842-2003 | Network | Digital edition of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper |
In Mozart's Words | c.1770 | Network | Annotated correspondence of Mozart |
Independent Voices | Various | Network | Alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the latter half of the 20th century |
India, Raj and Empire | 1615-1947 | Network | Manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland exploring the history of South Asia |
INIS | Various | Network | Nuclear science and technology |
Intelligence reports from the Vietnam Information Group | 1967-1975 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) via ProQuest | 1951- | Network | Anthropology, economics, political science and sociology |
International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages | Various | Network | Supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters |
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) | Various | Network | Collection of databases indexing journals and other reference sources for film studies |
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive | 1887-2013 | Network | Newspaper archive |
International Historical Statistics | 1750-2010 | Network | Key economic and social indicators |
International index to film periodicals | 1972- | Network | Index of articles relating to film, video and television |
International medieval bibliography | 1967- | Network | Bibliography of the European Middle Age (c. 450-1500) |
Internurse | 1995- | Network | Peer-reviewed nursing content |
Irish Newspaper Archives | Various | Network | Irish newspapers from the 1700's to the present |
Irish Times / Weekly Irish Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1859-2017 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Various | Network | Online bibliography |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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James Madison Carpenter Online Catalogue | 1929-1955 | Network | Online catalogue of the Carpenter Collection of British and American folklore and folklife |
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) | Various | Network | Official documents of the Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy |
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) | Various | Network | Research on labour issues and policies |
Japan Knowledge | Various | Network | Multi-source reference database of Japanese history, society, language and culture |
Japan Times Digital Archive | 1897-2017 | Network | Newspaper archive |
Japan: Statistics bureau | 2006 | Network | Economic and financial statistics |
Japanese law translation | Various | Network | Japanese laws and regulations translated into English |
John Foxe's The acts and monuments online | 1563-1583 | Network | Online version of the protestant martyrology by John Foxe |
John Johnson Collection | Various | Network | Online archive of printed ephemera |
John Strype's Survey of London | 1720 | Network | Online edition of Strype's Survey of London |
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism | 1997 | Network | Wide geographical, cultural and chronological coverage |
Journal Citation Reports via WoS | Latest | Network | Citation data from scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings |
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) | Various | Network | Peer-reviewed scientific video journal |
JSTOR | Various | Network | Journal archive collections, books and primary sources |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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KCNA Watch | Various | Network | Interface for accessing and searching official North Korea media |
Kikuzo II Visual | Various | Network | Japanese newspaper, magazine and photo archive |
Kindai Digital Library | 1868-1912 | Network | Japanese texts from Meiji period |
Kluwer Arbitration | Various | Network | Arbitration related material, covering international jurisdictions |
Kokugogaku kenkyu bunken | 1954-2004 | Network | Index to material related to the study of the Japanese language |
Kokuritsu Kobun Shokan | Various | Network | Official documents of the Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army |
Kompass | Various | Network | Business information |
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) | Various | Network | Korean government-funded economic research institute |
Korea Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1956-2016 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
KRpia | Various | Network | Primary resources on Korean Studies |
Kyobo Scholar | Various | Network | Full text database of Korean scholarly ejournals |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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L'Annee Philologique | Various | Network | Database of scholarly works relating to Greek and Roman civilization |
La Guerra Civil Espanola | 1936-1939 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Lane's Masonic Records | 1717-1894 | Network | Authoritative listing of all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges |
Late Medieval English Scribes | Various | Network | Online catalogue of scribal hands which appear in the manuscripts of major Middle English authors |
Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 1973- | Network | Developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching |
Legislation.gov.uk | 1267- | Network | UK legislation online |
Leisure tourism | 1973- | Network | Information from the leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture sectors |
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) | Various | Network | Database of early books and manuscripts that document the English language from the beginning of printing in England to 1755 |
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online | Various | Network | Encyclopaedia of Medieval Studies |
Lexis Library | Various | Network | Legal sources including case reports, legislation & legal journals |
Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) via ProQuest | 1969- | Network | International abstracting and indexing tool for library professionals and other information specialists |
Library literature and information science full text via EBSCO | 1980- | Network | Indexing and abstracting of key library and information science journals |
Library of Latin texts | Various | Network | Online equivalent of Corpus Christianorum |
Lidar Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Environment Agency map data |
Linguistics Abstracts Online | 1911- | Network | Bibliographic database providing cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts from linguistics and language study journals |
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) via ProQuest | 1973- | Network | Abstracts of literature in linguistics and language sciences |
LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) via ProQuest | 1969- | Network | Library science, information theory, online retrieval |
Listener Historical Archive | 1929-1991 | Network | Archive of the BBC television, radio and arts magazine |
Literary Manuscripts: Berg | c19th C | Network | Primary source material from the Berg Collection on fifteen Victorian authors |
Literature Online (LION) | Various | Network | Resource for literary research |
Locating London's Past | Various | Network | Mapping eighteenth century London |
Loeb Classical Library | Various | Network | Greek and Latin literature through original text and English translation |
Logeion | Various | Network | Simultaneous searching of Greek and Latin dictionaries by headword |
London lives | 1690-1800 | Network | Manuscript sources from criminal justice and local government |
London Met epacks | Various | Network | Interactive language exercises |
London's Pulse | 1848-1972 | Network | Medical Officer of Health (MOH) reports from the Greater London area |
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1881-1995 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 | 1800-1926 | Network | Digital images of legal treatises on US and British law |
Making of the Modern World Parts 1 & 2 | 1450-1914 | Network | Digital facsimile images of primary sources |
Manufacturing Pasts | Various | Network | Sources relating to the history of manufacturing in Leicester |
Manuscripts Online | 1000-1500 | Network | Primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain |
Mass observation online | 1937-1972 | Network | Online archive of Mass Observation |
Materializing Sheffield: place, culture, identity | Various | Network | Exploring Sheffield's history and identity in terms of its cityscape and material culture |
MathSciNet | 1940- | Network | Reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature |
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law | Various | Network | Peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law |
Medieval Book Makers, Owners and Users | Various | Network | Linking manuscripts with patrons, scribes, owners, places and organisations |
MEDLINE via OvidSP | 1946- | Network | Medical literature |
MEDLINE via WoS | 1950- | Network | Medical literature |
Migration to New Worlds | Various | Network | Primary documents on 19th and early 20th century migrations to the New World and Australasia |
Mintel Academic | Various | Network | Market research reports on a range of UK consumer and industrial products and services and European Retail Intelligence |
Mintel GNPD | Various | Network | Monitors worldwide product innovation and new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets |
MLA Directory of Periodicals | Various | Network | Information on journals and book series that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography |
MLA International Bibliography | 1926- | Network | Subject index for books, articles and websites on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics |
Title | Dates | Access | Description |
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Nano (Nature) | Various | Network | Nanoscience data, synthesis methods and literature |
NASA astrophysics data system | Various | Network | Physics, astrophysics, and instrumentation |
National Archives of Japan | Various | Network | Official documents of the Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army |
National Assembly Library of Korea (NALK) | Various | Network | Scholarly journals, ebooks, archived newspapers, doctoral theses and government documents |
National bureau of statistics of China | Various | Network | Economic, development and census statistics |
National Diet Library (NDL) | Various | Network | National library (Japan) |
Naver news library | 1920-1999 | Network | Searchable online news archive for four major Korean newspapers |
Naxos music library | Various | Network | Online collection of classical music |
Naxos music library jazz collection | Various | Network | Online collection of jazz music |
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1851-2015 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
News on Screen (BUFVC) | 1910-1983 | Network | Database of British newsreel and cinemagazine production |
Nexis | Various | Network | News content from a range of UK national and regional newspapers, international and foreign language news sources |
Nihon Gaiko Monjo (Documents on Japanese foreign policy) | Various | Network | Nihon Gaiko Monjo is a multi-volume set of publications detailing Japanese foreign policy since the Meiji era (1867) to the Taisho era (1926) |
Nihon rodo kenkyu kiko | Various | Network | Research on labour issues and policies |
Nineteenth Century Collections Online | Various | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Nineteenth century serials edition (NCSE) | 1800- | Network | Nineteenth century periodicals and newspapers |
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | 1800-1899 | Network | Searchable facsimiles of historic U.S. newspapers |
Nineteenth Century UK periodicals | Various | Network | Historical periodicals archive |
NK News | Various | Network | North Korea news, analysis, and opinion |
NK Pro | Various | Network | Databases and research tools about North Korea |
Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós: Torquemada en la Hoguera | 1889 | Network | Online 'open critical text' edition of Torquemada en la hoguera |
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Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1791-2003 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Observing the 1980s | Various | Network | Resources on Britain in the 1980s |
OECD iLibrary | Various | Network | Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, featuring books, papers and statistics |
Oil and Gas Directorate, North Sea Geographical Information System | 1992- | Network | Datasets produced by Oil and Gas Directorate, North Sea Geographical Information System |
Old Bailey proceedings | 1674-1913 | Network | Details of criminal trials held at London's Central Criminal Court |
Old maps online | Various | Network | Search for online digital historical maps |
Olive Schreiner Letters Online | 1871-1920 | Network | Full-text transcriptions of letters by the feminist, socialist writer and social theorist |
Online Froissart | 1326-1400 | Network | Online edition of Jean Froissart's Chroniques |
Open Book Publishers | Various | Network | Peer-reviewed open access monographs in humanities and social sciences |
Open Dissertations | Various | Network | Citations to graduate research from the early 20th century to the present |
Ordnance Survey digital map data, Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Ordnance Survey map data |
OvidSP | Various | Network | Data service including Econlit, International index to film periodicals, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES/INFO |
Oxford Dictionaries Premium | Various | Network | Fully searchable bilingual dictionaries in various languages |
Oxford dictionary of national biography | Various | Network | Biographical reference resource |
Oxford English dictionary (OED) | 2000 | Network | Second edition plus additions |
Oxford Islamic Studies Online | Various | Network | Reference works and other resources on the Islamic world |
Oxford music online | 2000- | Network | Music gateway including Grove music online |
Oxford Reference Premium | Various | Network | Collection of dictionaries and reference books |
Oxford Scholarship Online | Various | Network | Contains abstracts and full text of Oxford University Press books. |
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Papers of the Nixon Administration | 1969-1974 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England | 1275-1504 | Network | Online edition of Rotuli Parliamentorum |
Partonopeus de Blois: An Electronic Edition | c.1170 | Network | Online edition of the medieval French verse romance |
Past Masters | Various | Network | Full text electronic editions in philosophy |
PathCAL | Various | Network | Pathology and pathophysiology online tutorials |
Patrologia latina | Various | Network | Source on patristic and medieval thought |
Penn Corpora of Historical English | Various | Network | Running texts and text samples of British English prose across its history |
Philosopher's index via EBSCO | 1940- | Network | Literature on aspects of philosophy |
PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online | Various | Network | Index of philosophy books and articles |
Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (formerly Chemical Database Service) | Various | Network | Data resources within the physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields |
Picture Post Historical Archive | 1938-1957 | Network | Complete archive of Picture Post, digitised from originals in full colour |
PKULaw Legal Information Databases | Various | Network | Legal materials from the People's Republic of China |
Poetry archive | Various | Network | Database of recorded poetry |
Pre-Raphaelite online resource | Various | Network | Online resource sets out to document the material related to the term Pre-Raphaelite that is held by Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery |
Primo Central | Various | Network | Cross-disciplinary index of journal articles, ebooks and other materials |
ProQuest | Various | Network | Bibliographic and full text databases covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities |
PsycArticles (now APA PsycArticles®) via Ovid | 1894- | Network | Full text literature covering psychology and related disciplines |
Psychiatry Online | Various | Network | Publications from American Psychiatric Publishing, a Division of the American Psychiatric Association |
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo®) via Ovid | 1806- | Network | Covers psychology and related disciplines |
PTSDpubs via ProQuest | 1871- | Network | Literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma |
Public Information Online | Various | Network | Full text UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Government and Non-Parliamentary publications |
PubMed | 1966- | Network | Medical literature |
Pukhan Yon'gu Hakhoe | Various | Network | Information about North Korea |
Punch Historical Archive | 1841-1992 | Network | Archive of the satirical magazine |
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Radius Data Exchange | Various | Network | Data, news and analysis for the UK commercial property market |
Rand Daily Mail Archive | 1902-1985 | Network | Searchable digital edition of the Johannesburg newspaper |
Regional business news | Various | Network | United States business publications |
Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform | Various | Network | 19th Century Church publications, missionary society papers and personal archives |
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads | Various | Network | Annotated list of translations |
Reverso online dictionary | Various | Network | Online dictionary |
RIBA library online catalogue | Various | Network | Online catalogue indexing architectural periodicals and other materials |
Richard Brome online | Various | Network | Collected works of Richard Brome |
RICS appraisal and valuation standards (The Red Book) via isurv | Various | Network | Rules and best practice guidance |
RILM abstracts of music literature via EBSCO | Various | Network | Music scholarship |
Rock's Backpages | 1955- | Network | Online library of pop music journalism |
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape | 1770-1850 | Network | Primary source materials for the study of William Wordsworth and the Romantic period |
Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy online | 1998 | Network | Full text encyclopedia |
Russian State Library: digital library dissertations | 1944- | Network | Catalogue of digital dissertations from Russian State Library |
Russian Visual Arts | 1814-1909 | Network | Research archive on art criticism |
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S&P Global Market Intelligence | Various | Network | Global financial database |
SAE Mobilus | Various | Network | Technical papers, standards and related publications from the Society of Automotive Engineers |
SAGE research methods | Various | Network | Research tool with full text book, journal and reference content |
Science Citation Index | 1900- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
Science in the Nineteenth Century Periodical: an Electronic Index | 1800-1900 | Network | Index of science, technology, and medicine material in nineteenth century periodicals |
Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Parts 1 and 2 | 1780-1925 | Network | Historical sources including journals, books and personal documents |
ScienceDirect | Various | Network | Scientific database of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters |
SciFinder | 1907- | Network | Chemical abstracts |
SciTech Premium Collection via ProQuest | 1946- | Network | Coverage of scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, technical reports, conference proceedings and more in the areas of science and technology |
SCOAP3 Repository | Various | Network | Open access content in High-Energy Physics |
Scopus | Various | Network | Multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database |
Screenonline | Various | Network | British film and television history |
Seventeenth and eighteenth century Burney collection newspapers | 1700-1800 | Network | Full text papers |
Sketch Engine | Various | Network | Corpus query system for researching how words behave |
Social Care Online | 1980s- | Network | Information on all aspects of social work and social care |
Social Science Premium Collection via ProQuest | Various | Network | Coverage of international literature in social sciences |
Social Sciences Citation Index | 1956- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
Social theory | Various | Network | Influential writings representing trends of sociological thought |
South Eastern Gazette via UK Press Online | 1852-1912 | Network | Archive of regional newspaper for South East England |
Spanish Civil War Collection | 1936-1939 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
SPIE Digital Library | Various | Network | Optics and photonics applied research |
Sports Medicine & Education Index via ProQuest | 1970- | Network | Physical fitness, health, sports medicine |
Springer Nature Experiments | Various | Network | Research solution dedicated to protocols and methods |
Springer Protocols | 1980- | Network | Database of life sciences protocols |
Stalin Digital Archive | Various | Network | Primary and secondary source material related to Stalin |
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy | 1997- | Network | Dynamic reference work |
State Papers Online | 1509-1714 | Network | Searchable archive of 16th and 17th century State Papers |
Statista | Various | Network | Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organisations, scientific publications, and government sources |
Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) | Various | Network | Social and economic statistics |
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa | Various | Network | Primary sources on the liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime |
Sunday Express via UK Press Online | 2000- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
Sunday Times Digital Archive | 1822-2016 | Network | Newspaper archive |
Sustainable Organization Library | Various | Network | Collection of ebook and ejournal content on sustainability and social responsibility |
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Telegraph Historical Archive | 1855-2000 | Network | Newspaper archive |
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) | 1923- | Network | UK television and radio broadcast data |
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) | Various | Network | Genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant |
The Economist | 1997- | Network | Weekly magazine-format newspaper with a primary focus on world events, politics and business. |
Theatre archive project | Various | Network | Project to catalogue and make available British Library theatre archives |
Thomason tracts (via EEBO) | Various | Network | Full text ebooks |
Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China relations | 1989-1993 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) | Various | Network | Technical information and resources on timber and wood products |
Times Digital Archive | 1785-2013 | Network | Full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times |
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive | 1902-2013 | Network | Online fully-searchable edition of the TLS |
Times of India (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1838-2010 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Tobar an dualchais | 1930- | Network | Oral recordings from Scotland |
TRADA (Timber Research and Development Association) | Various | Network | Technical information and resources on timber and wood products |
Translation Studies Bibliography | Various | Network | Abstracts from publications in the field of translation and interpreting |
Tresor de la Langue Francaise informatise via ATILF | Various | Network | Dictionary of 19th century French from ATILF |
Trip Pro | Various | Network | Clinical search engine designed to allow users to find and use research evidence |
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U.S. civilian advisory effort in Vietnam | 1950-1954 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
UK data archive | Various | Network | Guidance and training on how to manage, store and share data |
UK Data Service | Various | Network | Key economic and social data, including census data from 1971 to 2011 |
UK Parliamentary Papers | 1688-2005 | Network | 18th, 19th and 20th Century UK parliamentary papers, including Hansard |
UKIRA (UK Information Resources on Asia) | Various | Network | Collection guides and holdings information |
United Nations treaty collection | 1920- | Network | United Nations treaties |
United Nations War Crimes Commission Archive | Various | Network | Finding aid of the UNWCC archive at The Wiener Library |
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VADS (Visual arts data service) | Various | Network | Visual arts digital resources |
Victorian popular culture | 1800-1930 | Network | Archive of digitised materials for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
Vogue archive | 1892- | Network | Searchable archive of American Vogue |
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Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | 1877-2002 | Network | Searchable, full text newspaper archive |
Waterloo directory of English newspapers | 1800-1900 | Network | Keyword index to 19th. Century English serials & newspapers |
Web of Science (WoS) | 1900- | Network | Multi-disciplinary databases and citation indexes |
Wellcome Arabic manuscripts online | Various | Network | Digitised manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine |
Westlaw | Various | Network | Legislation, case outcomes/reports, journals |
White Rose eTheses Online (WREO) | Various | Network | Online repository of doctoral theses from the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York |
White Rose Research Online (WRRO) | Various | Network | Online repository of research outputs from the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York |
Women writers online | 1526-1850 | Network | Full text collection of early women's writing |
Women: Transnational Networks | Various | Network | 19th Century primary sources on gender, class, and social reform movements |
World Heritage Sites: Africa | Various | Network | Visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites |
World Shakespeare bibliography online | 1963- | Network | Shakespeare bibliography online |
WorldImages | Various | Network | Visual imagery |
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Zetoc | 1993- | Network | Access to British Library Electronic Table of Contents |