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This page provides information, links and guides to the key resources available for you. Whether you are looking for a general FAQ about the library, information about connecting your device to the free Wi-Fi, or the most relevant database for your studies, this is the place to look.
Our resources includes a comprehensive Reference Collection as well as the usual library catalogue terminals around the building, to help you find the best information.
The Bibliography of British and Irish History is a guide to works on the history of Britain, Ireland and the British overseas. It covers books, articles and other writings published after 1901 and it is updated three times a year.
JSTOR contains the full text of journals, usually from their beginning up to about 5 years ago. For more recent years, links to the full text of articles on external sites is often given. Subjects covered include ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, politics and population studies.
This site contains a large collection of 18th, 19th and 20th Century British Parliamentary publications including parliamentary proceedings, reports, bills and registers. It encompasses all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. It also now includes the first digitised collection of 19th Century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers.
The MLA International Bibliography gives details of most journal articles and books on modern languages and literatures (including English) from the 1920s to the present. It also has details of many journal articles and books on linguistics, folklore and film. It does not include book reviews. It is part of the EBSCOhost Database Service. It can be searched individually or in combination with other EBSCOhost databases.
Project Muse gives us the full text of recent years of about 150 high quality peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities. A very high proportion are concerned with literature.
It also provides access to several hundred freely available ebooks.
This contains the full text of the twenty-volume second edition together with the New Edition which is in progress. Every three months new and revised entries from the OED's revision programme will be published as part of the growing New Edition. Many types of searches are possible: it is easy, for instance, to search the 2,400,000 quotations.
ProQuest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.
A scientific citation indexing service that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialised sub-fields within an academic or scientific discipline.
APA PsycINFO provides coverage of behavioral science and mental health fields, containing nearly 4 million citations from 2500 journal titles. PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, with ninety-nine percent of the covered material peer-reviewed.
The Times Archive provides the entire Times newspaper, from its beginning in 1785 up to 2019, including articles, photographs, letters and advertisements.
The Mirror Historical Archive provides access to the full text (full page facsimiles) of the Mirror and Sunday Mirror from 1903 to 2000.
The UKPressOnline site provides access to the full text of the Daily Express from 1900 to the present. It also includes the Sunday Express, Daily Star and Star Sunday. Full page facsimiles are provided so each issue can be viewed as it would have originally appeared (complete with photos, pictures, adverts etc.).
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 70 newspapers selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth century Britain. It includes national and regional newspapers and can be particularly useful if you are researching local or family history.
The Cambrian Index database contains hundreds of thousands of entries from newspapers relating to people and events.