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19th
Century British Library Newspapers - Full
runs of over 60 influential national and regional
newspapers from the 19th century, representing
different political and cultural viewpoints.
Includes, for example, The Chartist; Cobbett's
Weekly Political Register; Birmingham Daily Post.
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Burney Collection
- The newspapers, pamphlets,
and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney
(1757-1817) represent the largest and most
comprehensive collection of early English news
media.
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Digital Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)
- Dissertations and Theses (formerly Digital
Dissertations) indexes international doctoral
dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the
present.
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English Short Title Catalogue -
Online bibliography of books published in English or
in England between 1473 and 1800, including
locations of known copies. Contains items formerly
listed in the Wing and Pollard and Redgrave Short
Title catalogues.
Please note that you may not be able to view all of
the electronic locations as these are links to
external sites.
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Exam Paper Database
- The Exam Paper Database holds many years worth
of past examination papers.
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Financial Times
1996+ (ProQuest)
- Full-text of the Financial Times Newspaper,
1996+.
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Foreign
Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
1974-1996 - The FBIS Daily Report has been
the United States' principal record of political and
historical open source intelligence for nearly 70
years.
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House of Commons
Parliamentary Papers -
Contains searchable full text of House of
Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports of
Committees and Commissioners from 1715 to the
present.
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Index to Theses
- A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts
accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great
Britain and Ireland since 1716.
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Journal Citation
Reports - A comprehensive resource that allows
you to evaluate and compare journals using citation
data drawn from over 11,000 scholarly and technical
journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 80
countries. It is the only source of citation data on
journals, and includes virtually all areas of
science, technology, and social sciences.
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JSTOR
- Archives of electronic journals in all subject
disciplines, many going back to the 1850s.
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New Scientist - New Scientist reports,
explores and interprets the results of human
endeavour set in the context of society and culture.
We have archival back to 1989.
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Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
- An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially
written biographies of the men and women who shaped
all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth
century BC to the year 2000. Does not include living
people.
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Oxford English Dictionary
- Web-based version of the Oxford English
Dictionary.
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online -
Searchable comprehensive
bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Italian
and Spanish. Also includes a range of study aids and
grammar notes.
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Periodicals Archive
Online (ProQuest)
- Backfiles of humanities and social sciences
periodicals. The Archive provides full text access
to digitised periodicals that have been indexed in
its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
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Periodicals Index
Online (ProQuest)
- An electronic index to millions of articles
published in over 5,000 periodicals in the
humanities and social sciences.
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ProQuest
- The ProQuest platform incorporates all our
subscribed ProQuest databases enabling you to find
information within a database in a specific subject
area or across databases. Research can encompass a
variety of content types and formats, including
leading journals, periodicals, news content, rare
and archival information, dissertations, research
reports, e-books, and multimedia—within and across
subject areas.
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Scopus
- An abstract and citation database containing both
peer-reviewed research literature and quality web
sources. It offers researchers a quick, easy and
comprehensive resource to support their research
needs in the scientific, technical, medical and
social sciences fields and, more recently, also in
the arts and humanities.
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The Times Digital Archive
- The Times Digital Archive provides convenient
access to an extraordinary library of back issues of
this renowned newspaper online.
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Times Higher Education (THE) -
Source
of information on higher education, bringing
breaking news, analysis and lively debate for all
higher education professionals as well as the latest
jobs.
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TLS Historical Archive 1902-2007 - The Times
Literary Supplement Historical Archive, contains
every page of every copy of the TLS published from
1902 to 2007.
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Ulrichsweb.com - A search source of
detailed information on more than 300,000
periodicals (also called serials) of all types:
academic and scholarly journals, e-journals,
peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers,
newsletters, and more.
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Who's Who
- Directory of the noteworthy and influential in
all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide,
published annually since 1849. Plus Who Was Who:
over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who’s Who
dating back to 1898: the definitive roll-call of the
last 150 years of British history.
