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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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| America in protest: records of anti-Vietnam war organizations | 1967-1975 | Network | Primary source historical documents |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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zetoc | 1993- | Network | Access to British Library Electronic Table of Contents |