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External e-Resources


Search here across the Library's subscribed electronic resources, ranging from scholarly journals to encyclopaedias and newspapers.  You can also choose to search individual resources by using the Advanced Search





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External e-Resources will search across the following databases:

 
(For a list of subscribed resources which are not included in an External e-Resources search, see Other Subscribed Electronic Resources)

19th Century British Library Newspapers

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

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British Humanities Index

Index to articles on arts and humanities topics in the English language including full text of some articles.

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Early English Books Online

Records and page images of early English books including Pollard and Redgrave's STC (1475-1640), Wing's STC (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Based on the English Short Title catalogue, the holdings of the British Library and other libraries worldwide. It provides full text access to 150,000 titles and editions published between 1701-1800.

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Visit the British Library website to view other related catalogues including the English Short Title Catalogue and the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Access to five encyclopaedia databases. Encyclopaedia Britannica's fully searchable text presented in an interactive format. Offering over 100,000 articles, 200,000 related web links, illustrations, maps, graphs and sounds.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

A number of specialist reference works in Literature, History and Religion.

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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688..

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Index to Theses in Great Britain and Ireland

A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. (Only included in a search made from within the Library building)

Ingenta Full text Journals

Comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. The Library subscribes to 30 titles at the moment.

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JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive

Access to 394 on-line journals in JSTOR's Arts and Sciences collections, I, II and III.

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KnowUK

Key information about people, places and organisations in the United Kingdom. Over a 100 reference publications, and most are unique to KnowUK.

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Netlibrary

A collection of E-books. The Library has puchased a choice of around 300 titles of Welsh and Celtic interest. We also have access to over 3000 more general titles. We will be adding to this choice in the future.

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Newsbank

Access to thousands of full-text articles from more than 20 Welsh and over 350 U.K daily and weekly newspapers.

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OCLC World Cat

A global network of cooperatively-maintained databases of bibliographic and institutional metadata.

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OCLC ArticleFirst

An index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

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Oxford Art Online

Includes the following resources: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the United Kingdom and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

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Oxford Music Online

Includes the following resources: The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.

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Oxford Reference Online

Over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database.

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ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses

Index and abstracts to theses. mostly in English, many from American universities but also from the UK, Canada and Europe. Index from 1861 onwards. Abstracts from 1988 only. Arts and Social Sciences only.

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Public Information Online

UK Parliamentary, Scottish Parliamentary and Northern Ireland Assembly official papers.

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SCRAN

Digital materials representing history and culture.

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Swetswise

Comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. The Library subscribes to around 70 titles at the moment.

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Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London) using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting.

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Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Current information about serials published throughout the world.

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The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900

A directory of over 50,000 British newspapers and periodicals between 1800-1900, including those not in English.

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ZETOC British Library Electronic Table of Contents

Access to the tables of contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis.

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Other subscribed electronic resources:

These databases will not be included in an External e-resources search and are available within the Library building only


Ancestry Library

Collection of information sources from the US and Britain, for family and local history research. This includes census, births and passenger list information. (Only included in a search made from within the Library building)

Bibliography of British and Irish History

A comprehensive bibliography of British History from 55BC onwards.

British Online Archives - Papers of Robert Clive

Papers of Robert, Lord Clive (Clive of India) relating to his service with the East India Company in India and to his landed estates in England and Wales and the papers of Brigadier-General John Carnac (1716-1800) all relating to his militry service in India, especially between 1763 and 1766.

British Online Archives - Papers of Papers of Nathaniel Phillips, Slebech, Pembrokeshire

Papers of Nathaniel Phillips, Slebech, Pembrokeshire, (?1756-1832)relating to his business interests and estates in Jamaica.

British Standards Online

Containing over 38,500 current, draft and historic British Standards.

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Burke's Peerage & Gentry

A guide to the peerage and gentry of the United Kingdom.

Classification Web

Information on Library of Congress Classification and Subject Heading schemes.

18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications 1688 - 1834

Includes parliamentary proceedings, reports, acts, bills and registers that have been compiled from the collections of the University of Southampton, University of Cambridge and the British Library.

Global Books in Print

Currently in-print books and other publications in English.

Hand Press Book File

Records for European publications c.1455-1830 contributed to the file by members of the Consortium of European Research Libraries.

In Principio Online

An index to the incipits of Latin texts from the Pre-classical Age to the Renaissance.

Periodicals Content Index (PCI)

An index to periodical articles relating to social sciences.

UK Official Publications

Official catalogue of the UK government publications including many archived documents.



Other electronic resources (standalone machines):

These databases are only available within the Library building on dedicated machines. Please ask at the North Reading Room desk for assistance

British National Bibliography

Nearly 2 million authoritative catalogue records created for the national bibliography since 1950. (1996 to 2004)

Companies House Directory

The official UK government register of United Kingdom companies.

Guardian and Observer

Full text editions of the newspapers from 1990, 1992-2001

Independent, October 1988 - December 1992

Full text edition of the newspaper, from October 1988 to December 1992.

Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd edition.

Access to more than 2.4 million illustrative quotations, providing an invaluable record of the language, tracing the various uses of each word through the centuries.

Official Index to the Times 1906-1980

Online index to articles published in the Times between 1906 and 1980.

The Times and The Sunday Times, 1990-2002 Full text database of the two newspapers organised into headings - arts, books, business, diary, law, reports, leading articles, letters etc. 1990-2002
Times Literary Supplement

Contains articles, reviews, letters and comments from the world's most influential literary review, with selected illustrations from October 1994 onwards.

Who's Who 1897-1996

Over 100,000 biographies in this amalgamation of 9 volumes of Who's Who.

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Last Updated: 09-07-2010