Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a full text library of over 150,000 eighteenth-century printed books, with more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages. Each title has a full citation record from the English Short Title Catalogue and is fully searchable - including full-text and illustrations.

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.

AbeBooks is a large online marketplace for books. Including new, second-hand, rare, or out-of-print, books, via a community of over 13,500 independent booksellers. Free Website.

A bibliographic database from LION which contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, book reviews and doctoral dissertations published around the world from 1920s onwards. Includes the full text of 61 journals.

Covers North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications. 1990 onwards. Updated monthly.

Online bookshop. Free Website.

The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. Free website

Archival Sound Recordings contains approximately 12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. The collections include: Accents and dialects; African Writers' Club; Amphibians; Art and design interviews; Beethoven String Quartets; British wildlife recordings; David Rycroft Africa recordings; Ethnographic wax cylinders; Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings; Oral history of jazz in Britain; Records and record players; Scientists' lives; Soundscapes; and St Mary-le-Bow public debates.

The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in over 145 UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although complete catalogue descriptions are provided where they are available. Free Website.

A searchable database containing full-text articles from journals, magazines and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. All individual serial titles can be accessed by searching the Library catalogue by Periodical Title. All individual ACM Digital Library titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library ACM subscriptions

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials available for free on the internet. It includes 46 databases covering 7 jurisdictions. The system contains around 7.5 gigabytes of legal materials and around 400,000 searchable documents with about 15 million internal hypertext links. See also: BIALII Openlaw Project. Free Website.

BANKSCOPE is a database of 29,199 banks worldwide and contains information on over 29,199 (13,757 US) banks around the world including: 16 years of detailed accounts (country specific "as reported" and standardised), ratios, ratings and rating reports, ownership, country risk and country finance reports.

Indexes and abstracts 1,400 journals, also books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers' catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. Abstracts are in either French or English. Incorporates the complete contents of International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA).

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Free Website.

A bookshop on the Internet. Covers 1.5 million titles and provides a personalised service for members. Free Website.

The British Library online catalogue covers the Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library. Free website.

British Newspapers, 1600-1900 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles. This interface searches: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th century British Library Newspapers

British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.

Catalogue of selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas. The A/Z of Subject Terms is particularly useful. Free Website.

Database of British newsreel production between 1910 and 1979. It contains 160,000 records from 21 newsreels and cinemagazines, and is designed to make information on the newsreels available for academic study. Search the database for its historical coverage of the 20th century or read about the newsreels themselves and the people who produced them. Free Website.

Provides the full text for over 8000 business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,500 academic journals. BSC offers information in nearly every area of business including: management, economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. Includes the full text of journals such as: Accounting Review, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, etc. The database includes full text country economic/political data, such as EIU country profiles & reports, OECD economic surveys, and others from Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, as well as market research reports from Datamonitor, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. All individual Business Source Complete titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library BSC subscriptions.

Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through the Cambridge Journals online service. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual CJO titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library CJO subscriptions

Casetrack includes transcripts from the Court of Appeal, High Court, and Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Census.uk provides a one stop gateway to data and support services which w users and researchers in UK Higher and Further Education to access the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses. It provides one-stop registration for the Census Dissemination Unit (CDU) at MIMAS (University of Manchester); UKBORDERS at EDINA (University of Edinburgh); the Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER) (Universities of Leeds and St Andrews); and Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (University of Manchester). Registration via Census.ac.uk also provides access to other data services including CHCC - Historical Census Collection from AHDS History (University of Essex) and the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).

Learning and Teaching Materials to support the collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. The indexing goes back to 1937 and full text access is provided to hundreds of journals (but not all journals). All individual full text CINAHL Plus titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of seven separate databases. Five of these provide coverage of evidence-based medicine and the other two provide information on research methodology. The databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR): The CDSR contains two types of document: Cochrane Reviews and Cochrane Protocols. Cochrane Reviews are full-text systematic reviews which provide an overview of the effects of interventions in health care. Cochrane Protocols provide information about reviews which are currently being written. The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE): DARE contains structured abstracts of high-quality systematic reviews published in the scientific literature. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL): CENTRAL is a bibliography of publications which report on controlled trials. The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (CDMR): The CDMR contains two types of document: Cochrane Methodology Reviews and Protocols. Cochrane Methodology Reviews are full-text systematic reviews of methodological studies. Protocols provide place-markers for reviews which are currently being written. The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR): CMR is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. The Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA): This database contains information on healthcare technology assessments (defined as prevention and rehabilitation, vaccines, pharmaceuticals and devices, medical and surgical procedures and the systems within which health is protected and maintained). The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED): This database contains structured abstracts of articles describing economic evaluations of health care interventions.

Anyone who lives, works or studies in Essex can join Colchester Public Library. They have a number of useful electronic resources that you can consult from wherever you connect to the internet. All you will need is your Essex Libraries membership (ELAN) ticket. Useful resources include Oxford Language Dictionaries; Oxford Premium Reference Collection; CREDO Reference; Gale Virtual Reference Library; World Data Analyst; British Standards Online; Kompass Business Directories; COBRA Complete Business Reference Advisor; Oxford Art Online; The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; NEWSBANK; Infotrac Newspapers Online; Guardian and Observer Archive; Times Digital Archive. This service is provided by Essex County Council not The University of Essex, we are including this resource on this page to draw attention to other services in the area which may be useful to you for your study and research.

An online union catalogue which gives free access to the merged catalogues of 24 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland (including the British Library). There is online access to more than 20 million catalogue records, which can be searched by title, author or subject. Free Website.

Contains the full text of conventions and agreements in the European Treaty Series (ETS), plus status of ratification and explanatory notes. The site is fully searchable or can be browsed using the numerical list. Free Website.

Economic and financial data and providing daily pricing and volume information on over 37,000 equities from 57 countries, 12,000 market stock and bond indices, 87,000 macroeconomic series from the International Financial Statistics of the World Bank, OECD and other central statistical offices, over 2,000 daily foreign exchange rates, 1,000 daily and weekly interest rate series, 68,000 fixed income instruments from 23 countries. Only available in The Library Large Reading Room.

This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering c. 50,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. Section I: Conduct and Politeness (Autumn 2003); Section II: Domesticity and the Family (Summer 2004); Section III: Consumption and Leisure (Summer 2005); Section IV: Education and Sensibility (Summer 2006); and Section V: The Body (Summer 2007).

The Directory of Open Access Journals provides links to open access, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, aiming to cover all subjects and languages.

As National Security Adviser (1969-1975) and Secretary of State (1973-1977), Henry A. Kissinger played a central, and sometimes dominating, role in shaping U.S. foreign and military policy during the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Some three quarters of the 2,163 declassified documents in this collection were produced by Kissinger and his assistants on the National Security Council Staff.

DynaMed is a medical information database with nearly 3,000 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point-of-care, providing best available evidence and updated daily.

Ebrary allows for searching and viewing of books and other high-value documents from leading publishers. All individual Ebrary titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the title search. The Library subscribes to the Business and Management and the Social and Behavioural Sciences packages. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library titles

EBSCOHost offers a single point of access to the full-text of journals to which The Library has a subscription. It is also possible to search and browse the database of articles and view bibliographic information and abstracts. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

EBSEES lists books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe (formerly Communist countries) published in the eight countries of Western Europe listed below. It includes documents from all these countries, whether published in that country's language or in the languages of the countries studied. This includes national minorities and émigré publications. The database contains over 50,000 bibliographical citations to works published between 1991 and 1996. From 1996 onwards, German monographs are not listed, as users can find them through the catalogues of the German National Library in Frankfurt/Main. Free website.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a full text library of over 150,000 eighteenth-century printed books, with more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages. Each title has a full citation record from the English Short Title Catalogue and is fully searchable - including full-text and illustrations.

ECLAS is the European Commission's union catalogue and is a bibliographic data base consisting of ca. 200 000 completed catalogue records in the domain of European affairs. Free website.

EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. It contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars and many other primary sources.

Emerald is a growing collection of over 40,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious management journals. It provides access to the latest management research and practice and covers all major management disciplines. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual Emerald titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library Subscriptions

A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. The database provide users with a wide choice of document types and perspectives, within a structure of five thematic sections selected around the key topics of Empire courses: cultural contacts; literature; the visual empire - exhibitions; religion; race, class, colonialism and imperialism.

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly in Britain and North America and mainly, but not exclusively, in English from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. Originally titled the 'Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue', covering the period from 1701 to 1800, coverage has now been extended to the 15th century. The ESTC covers not only items printed in English-speaking countries, or countries under British colonial rule, but also items in English printed elsewhere and items with false imprints purporting to have been printed in English-speaking countries. The nature of the material recorded is also varied. As well as containing the works of the major figures of the period, the file also contains records of all types of printed literature which had never previously been catalogued. This includes lists of all kinds, notices, advertisements, slip-songs, election ephemera, and other single-sheet material. It also contains records for collections such as the Thomason Collection, which represents a unique 'snapshot' of English political and social history during the English Civil War and Interregnum, and the Clarke Collection at Worcester College, Oxford. Free Website.

This huge electronic database covers American education periodical literature from 1966 forwards. It is also useful for material on the international scene (eg Africa, Asia). It also includes coverage of report literature. There is a significant quantity of British material on ERIC. Free Website.

The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, ning many disciplines and themes. These data services include: ESDS Government - led by CCSR with support from the UKDA, promotes and facilitates increased and more effective use of large-scale government surveys in research, learning and teaching. This includes methodological guides, short courses and support for key statistical packages. ESDS Longitudinal - is undertaken jointly by the UKDA and the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC), based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). The service supports a range of longitudinal data collections by: creating data enhancements; providing user support and training; and promoting the increased use of longitudinal data ESDS Qualidata - provides access to, and support for, a range of qualitative datasets, and is hosted by the UKDA. The service is responsible for generating a number of data enhancements, and for providing information and training resources that focus on strategies for re-analysing qualitative data. ESDS International - provides access to, and support for, a range of international datasets both macro and micro sources. ESDS International is led by MIMAS at Manchester, with support from the UKDA. Major datasets include: IMF - Direction of trade statistics IMF - International financial statistics National Statistics Databank - selected economic time series data OECD - Main economic indicators UNIDO - Industrial demand supply balance database UNIDO - Industrial statistics database World Bank - World development indicators World Bank - Global development indicators. You must first register with ESDS to use this service.

A database of ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) funded research including all associated publications and products. Free Website.

EThOS aims to provide a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access all theses produced by UK Higher Education. The database can be searched by anyone, but individual users need to register to get access to the full text of theses. Many theses are free to download instantly, whilst others will only be available once digitisation has been requested. Free website.

The database of adopted EU legislation. It contains the full text of the consolidated treaties and all legislation in force. It also has the full text of the Official Journal C and L series for the last 40 days as well as recent judgements of the Court. Free Website.

Available on The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS). The Eurostat New Cronos database contains high quality macroeconomic and social statistics data organised into nine statistical themes; General Statistics, Economy and Finance, Population and Social Conditions, Industry, Trade and Services, Agriculture and Fisheries, External Trade, Transport, Environment and Energy, Science and Technology. Data is available for the 25 European Union countries plus Japan, the United States, the central European countries and other main economic partners of the Union. The Eurostat New Cronos database contains monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual data, depending on the variable and country selected from 1960 onwards.

FLAG is a collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries. Free Website.

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe, and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974–1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides insight into the second half of the 20th century; many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred.
FBIS Daily Reports, 1974–1996 consist of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from: Middle East and North Africa, 1974–1987; Near East and South Asia, 1987–1996; South Asia, 1980–1987; Sub-Saharan Africa, 1974–1980 and Africa, 1987–1996; Eastern Europe, 1974–1996. These media sources were monitored in their languages of origin, translated into English, and issued by an agency of the US government.

The Foreign Law Guide contains current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world, it is a comprehensive source for essential information on foreign law from nearly 200 jurisdictions. click on subscriber login to access.

The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, with comment and analysis from the Financial Times team, plus a 5 year archive of the Financial Times.

The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Free Website.

A beta site from the web search engine 'Google' created in partnership with book sellers and a number of libraries, including Universities at Bavaria, Cambridge, Catalonia, Cornell, Columbia, Ghent, Harvard, Keio, Lausanne, Oxford, Princeton and also New York Public Library. Search for books using keywords or via the advanced search, look for books by author, title, ISBN. You can also browse books online and if the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. Also, if you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow it. Free Website.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Free Website.

GreenFILE, is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

Halsbury's Laws of England covers the whole spectrum of English law and provides the only comprehensive narrative statement of the law of England and Wales. Written by or in conjunction with leading lawyers, both practitioners and academics, Halsbury's Laws of England covers every proposition of English law (whether statutory or common law), and is divided into alphabetically arranged titles, making it convenient to use and enabling quick and easy research into any area of law. The text of those titles is supplemented by regularly updated annotations: all primary and secondary legislation, all leading law reports, and many specialist series of case reports are monitored for developments which affect the law set out in Halsbury's Laws. Lexis training and information is available from the University of Essex Student Associate. Please contact: Kiran Virdee by e-mail: kkvird@essex.ac.uk

The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hiic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Free Website.

HeinOnline is a database produced by U.S. legal publisher William S. Hein in collaboration with Cornell Information Technologies and the Cornell University Law Library. The database includes an extensive library of image-based full-text legal journals from the inception i.e. from volume one, number one, issue one onwards, to one or two years prior to the current year. HeinOnline includes many leading U.S. scholarly law journals, and also many non-US titles included, such as the Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, British Yearbook of International Law, Law Quarterly Review, and many more. The collections can be browsed or searched. All individual HeinOnline titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

The service provides in depth analysis of the top companies in the country. Company Guru allows you to research information including: Financial data for the UK's top 300,000 companies. Detailed data on all directors of UK listed companies Live Regulatory and AFX News Feeds Share Prices, Trades and Charts.

Hermes provides details of books, journals and catalogues held by the BUFVC and of over 25,000 UK audio-visual programmes. Free Website.

Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom. HERO is the official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations in the UK. See also: Links to HE & Other Libraries  Free Website.

The journals that HighWire supports focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM). Much content is available without subscription, although as a general rule current content is not available. Free Website.

History On-Line is a section of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) website. It provides information resources for the teaching and learning of history. There are currently over 40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university lecturers (teachers), UK current and past research (theses), and evaluated links to history-related websites. Free Website.

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource. Free Website.

HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. The Library has access to two collections 18th century (1688-1834) 19th century (1801-1900), 20th century (1901-2002/3 Session).

A searchable full-text database of the case-law of the European Court and Commission of Human Rights, from the Council of Europe. Includes decisions, judgments, reports and resolutions. Search by case title, state, application no. etc. Free Website.

One of the largest and most comprehensive social science databases in the world, this includes details of articles in over 2400 selected international social science journals, and of around 7000 books per annum. Some abstracts are available. Some material is in languages other than English, every article not in English is displayed with both the original language title and an English translation. Includes: International bibliography of economics, International bibliography of political science, International bibliography of social and cultural anthropology, International bibliography of sociology. 1951 onwards (some abstracts from 1997).

Searchable database containing access to the full text of 128 IEEE Society-sponsored transactions, journals and magazines in the fields of electrical engineering and computing science from 1998. Please note: the library only subscribes to IEEE journals. The Library does not subscribe to conference proceedings. All individual IEEE Xplore titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

IET Digital Library is a database of IEE online publications. Full online access to Electronics Letters, IEE Proceedings and IEE Review is available to members of the University of Essex. All individual IET Digital Library  titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

Published by H.W. Wilson's and available via Lexis Nexis Butterworths, the Index to Legal Periodicals provides an index to articles from more than 500 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organizations, university publications, law reviews, and government publications. This database provides bibliographic references only, to find the full text check The Library catalogue using Periodical Title Search.

Index to all British & Irish theses accepted for higher degrees since 1716. Abstracts available for some theses between 1970 & 1985, and for all theses from 1986 onwards.

Palmer's Full Text Online contains the Index to The Times from October 1790 to December 1905. The Full Text component s the years from 1800 to 1870.

Gateway for works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual Informaworld titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library Informaworld subscriptions

A bibliographic database which offers access to article summaries from over 20,000 publications. Full text access is available to subscribers of particular publications, although for a definitive view please follow the library catalogue. Non-subscribers can, for the majority of articles, pay-per-view.

The University of Essex has free access to the 2004 Historic Archive package, which consists of 56 journals between 1874 and 1998. Full details of the package are available from IOP.

Continually growing reference database of abstracts from articles relevant to the philosophy, methodology, or practice of operations research.

The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is a database of genealogical records, compiled from a variety of different sources, and maintained by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Free Website.

ILEJ is a joint project to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th Century journals. The following titles are available: Annual register Vol.1-21, 1758-1778, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine Vol.53-72, 1843-1852, Builder Vol.1-10, 1843-1852, Gentleman's magazine Vol. 1-20, 1731-1750, Notes and queries 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th series, 1849-1869, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society Vol.50-67, 1757-1777. Free website

Covers more than 100,000 movies and contains over a million and half filmography listings for actors, producers, directors and others associated with film making. It contains plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, years of release, movie trivia, quotes, soundtracks, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, languages, reviews, Academy Award information etc. Free Website.

Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 120278 records. Intute has sections in the following subject areas Science and Technology Arts and Humanities Social Sciences Health and Life Sciences. Free Website.

ISI Proceedings indexes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines in science and technology.1990 onwards.

This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

Journals@Ovid is an "an aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies." It is a searchable index of over 1200+ scientific, technical, nursing and medical journals. Coverage is from 1996 (1993 for some journals) to the present. Access to the full text is restricted to the titles The Albert Sloman Library subscribes to i.e. those included in PsycARTICLES.

The JCR (Sciences edition) is a resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over thousands of journals, it provides provides a systematic means of determining the relative importance of science journals within their subject categories. The JCR can show you the: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, most popular journals and largest journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science & technology. Coverage from 2005 onwards.

JCR (Social Sciences edition) is a resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over thousands of journals, it provides provides a systematic means of determining the relative importance of social sciences journals within their subject categories. The JCR can show you the: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, most popular journals and largest journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of the social sciences. Coverage from 2008 onwards.

Collection of archives of selected journals, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Library subscribes to the following collections: the Arts & Sciences I Collection focusing on the humanities and social sciences, containing 117 journals in 15 academic disciplines, including Economics, History, Literature, Sociology, Asian Studies and Anthropology. The Arts & Sciences II Collection includes at least 100 journals in History, Economics, and Asian Studies, Classics, Archaeology, and African, Latin American, Slavic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Arts & Sciences III focuses on the arts and humanities, this collection includes journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. Also included are some business and education titles. The Business Collection I collections which brings together core titles in economics and finance and includes a range of critical research journals in accounting, labour relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment. Business Collection II which broadens the number of core international business titles and also includes a number of journals that explore the intersections between economics and law, policy, and psychology. The 19th Century British Pamphlets comprise seven individual collections held in universities within the United Kingdom, many of which are whole collections that belonged to individual politicians or political families. The pamphlets focus on the political, economic, and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Although they have a political emphasis, these collections represent the wide interests of their collectors. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual JSTOR titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search.A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

An archive of news and current affairs. Full-text access to current year and previous 12 months only.

As National Security Adviser (1969-1975) and Secretary of State (1973-1977), Henry A. Kissinger played a central, and sometimes dominating, role in shaping U.S. foreign and military policy during the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Some three quarters of the 2,163 declassified documents in this collection were produced by Kissinger and his assistants on the National Security Council Staff.

Daily updated index of unreported cases, with summaries back 20 years; index of articles from major UK legal publications; legislation and case citator; statute summaries and legislation tracking service (commencement and repeals, Bills and Command Papers) and jobs.

The LJI database indexes articles from legal journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe and journals covering topics pertaining to the laws of the European Community and of its Member States. More than 430 United Kingdom and English language journals are covered. A document is an index entry or abstract of a case report or comment, legislative text or comment, a commission decision, company data, a question and answer, a letter, an editorial, or a publication review. Coverage begins with 1986.

Lexis Library (formerly Lexis Nexis Butterworths) provides access to full-text case law and legislation for the UK, US (federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, local and national newspapers and business information. Useful journal article files on LNB see: Index to legal periodicals (bibliographic) & U.S. and Canadian Law Reviews Combined (full text).
Lexis training and information is available from the University of Essex Student Associate. Please contact: Kiran Virdee by e-mail: kkvird@essex.ac.uk

Libcat offers quick and easy access to library websites in the United States. Select a state from the map of list of states to see academic, government, public, and special libraries in that state.

Online catalogue for the United States Library of Congress. Free Website.

Library Servers via WWW, Libweb currently lists over 7700 pages from libraries in 146 countries.

Containing over 33,000 abstracts from over 400 leading linguistics journals and allows searching using any combination of journal or abstract title, sub-discipline, volume, issue, author or key word plus "title in translation", date of publication as well as perform "special character" searches.

The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - this world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

The Literary Encyclopedia is an original literary reference work, written by specialists from universities around the world. It provides over 6400 authoritative profiles, usually around 2200 words in length, of authors, works and topics written by experts.

Literature Online is a searchable database of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. It comprises of the following services: African American Poetry American Drama 1714-1915 American Poetry Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Abell) Canadian Poetry Early American Fiction 1789-1875 Early English Prose Fiction Eighteenth-Century Fiction English Drama English Poetry English Poetry, Second Edition The Faber Poetry Library The King James Bible Nineteenth-Century Fiction Twentieth-Century African American Poetry Twentieth-Century American Poetry Twentieth-Century Drama Twentieth-Century English Poetry.

Presents a digital library of books and journals related to the development of United States social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877). Offers online access to scanned images of the pages in the books and journals. Making of America is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MOA consists of primary materials from the Michigan and Cornell libraries. Contains a site search engine and a FAQ section. Free Website.

MEDLINE with full text provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It also provides full text for more than 1,370 journals. Coverage: 1966 - present.

MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Available via the LION interface.

NDAD provides access to archived digital data and documents from UK government departments. Datasets include: Children in care; Public health common dataset; British crime survey; Judicial statistics; Historic mortality data files; Coast protection survey of England, etc. Registration required to use NDAD.
Free Website.

The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history. Free Website.

An online database of United Kingdom government statistics, provided as part of the National Statistics Web site. Includes descriptions of all the data sources, derived analyses, and statistical products and services offered by the United Kingdom Government Statistical Service. Free Website.

The National electronic Library for Health is a cooperative venture with NHS-associated libraries to make available an online health resources library for the professional, the patient, and the public. It provides a single point of access to a wide variety of information such as National Service Frameworks, care pathways, guidelines, evidence-based databases, key documents, critiques of news stories and specialist libraries.

This service provides full text access to over 10,000 books plus over 340 publicly accessible e-books in a range of subject areas. It is possible to search the entire collection or to search within a specific title. The publishers represented include Blackwells, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Institute of Physics, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, McGraw-Hill and Wiley. Titles owned by The Albert Sloman Library can be found and searched via title search in The Library Catalogue. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library titles

Contains company information for 11,000 companies world-wide, daily financial and business news, the full text of the Financial Times. Also includes news from over 2000 global sources with a 20 year archive.

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.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators (from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Making of America collection). Free Website.

The online version of CCL: Current contents Linguistik (now ceased) contains the tables of contents of more than 270 linguistics journals. Coverage is from 1998 onwards. Free Website.

Claims to be the "world's biggest open access English language journals portal". It is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in the open access domain. It was launched in Bangalore, India in 2006 by Informatics (India) Ltd to promote the Open Access Initiative. 

The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary provides access to the material contained in the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions.

Gateway for e-journals published by Oxford University Press. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual OUP titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library OUP subscriptions

The Albert Sloman Library has access to the Philosophy, Political Science, Law, History, Business and Management, and Economics and Finance part of this resource. The authors range from classic thinkers to modern masters, including twentieth-century Nobel Prize winners, and come from across the globe. A to Z  list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

The Library subscribes to 3 e-book collections with Palgrave: Business & Management, History and Politics & International Studies. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available.

Palmer's Full Text Online contains the Index to The Times from October 1790 to December 1905. The Full Text component s the years from 1800 to 1870.

Parliamentary data (previously known as POLIS) provides an index to proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament and includes the full text of Early Day Motions since May 1997. Site includes search engine, live informational links and links to recent papers. Free Website.

The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a online business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. More information.

From the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, PEDro provides access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help discriminate between trials that are likely to be valid and interpretable and those that are not."--Database information screen. Free Website.

Searchable archive of the following journals: Annual of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-31, 1973-2003), Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Vols. 1-50, 1938-1994), Bulletin of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (Vols. 1-80, 1920-2000), Canadian journal of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-11, 1993-2003), Contemporary psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-39, 1964-2003), Gender and psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-12, 1996-2003), International forum of psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-12, 1992-2003), The International journal of psycho-analysis (Vols. 1-84, 1920-2003), The International review of psycho-analysis (Vols. 1-19, 1974-1992), Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-31, 1973-2003), The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (Vols. 1-51, 1953-2003), Journal of neuro-psychoanalysis (Vols. 1-5, 1999-2003), Progress in self-psychology (Vols. 1-19, 1983-2003), The Psychoanalytic quarterly (Vols. 1-72, 1932-2003), Psychoanalytic dialogues (Vols. 1-13, 1991-2003), Psychoanalytic inquiry (Vols. 1-23, 1981-2003), Psychoanalytic psychology (Vols. 1-20, 1984-2003), The Psychoanalytic study of the child (Vols. 1-58, 1945-2003), Scandinavian psychoanalytic review (Vols. 1-26, 1978-2003), Studies in gender and psychology (Vols. 1-4, 2000-2003) plus the full text of Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Freud's correspondence with Abraham, Ferenczi, Fliess, Jones and Jung, and 23 other classic psychoanalytic books. PEPWeb also provides access to PEPLiteratureSearch which searches both the Archive and current content from many of the journals included in the Archive. Abstracts and summaries of current articles are available through this database. N.B. The Library does not subscribe to current content on this database. All individual PEPWeb titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library Subscriptions

Periodicals Archive Online is the new name for PCI Full Text - an archive of over 400 hundred digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It is also possible to search for article citations in the companion database Periodicals Index Online (PIO). A to Z List of The Albert Sloman Library Subscriptions.

Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. It also contains links to full text articles in the companion database Periodicals Archive Online (PAO).

Index and abstracts from books and over 300 journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Covers aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics. 1940 to date.

The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database s 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography). From the Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington. Free website.

Features Project Gutenberg, which has the goal of making information, books, and other materials available to the public in forms that are easy to read, use, quote, and search. Offers access to electronic text listings, recent releases, newsletters, articles, and other archives. Books included are out of copyright and thus generally pre-1923. Free website.

Provided by John Hopkins University Press, Project Muse is an interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Muse is fully searchable and allows keyword searching. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual Project Muse titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title sA to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

Contains records of over 1.6 million dissertations, from the first U.S. dissertation accepted in 1861, to the most recent. From 1980 most records contain abstracts. UK doctoral theses included from 1988. From 1997, records contain 24-page previews.

PsycARTICLES is a journal database holding the full text of 56 journals (most from Vol. 1, Issue 1 to the present) published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

This database gives access to full-text Parliamentary Papers (Command Papers, House of Commons and House of Lords Papers, Bills, Explanatory Notes, Public Bill and Standing Committee Debates) for the 2006/07 Parliamentary Session onwards.

An archive of freely (sometimes current content is excluded) available life sciences journals. Coverage dates back to the 1950's. Free Website.

RePEc is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in about 25 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. At the heart is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. Free Website.

Research Pro enables you to perform searches across multiple, selected information resources available in The Albert Sloman Library. It functions as a meta-search engine by simultaneously searching various resources from a single interface. These resources include licensed full-text and citation databases, websites and library or union catalogues.

Gateway for e-journals published by Sage. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual Sage titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search.

A database for research that contains information from over 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet. The journals are arranged under subject areas for topical navigation. Please note: this site allows free searching but access to the full text is by subscription only and The Library does not subscribe to all titles available. All individual ScienceDirect titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Albert Sloman Library subscriptions

Screenonline is a website devoted to the history of British film and television, and to Britain's social history as revealed by film and television. The site features hundreds of hours of video clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Film and Television Archive, alongside thousands of stills, posters and press books and several hours of recorded interviews with film and television personalities. This material is supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, specially commissioned for Screenonline.

Gateway to open-access institutional repositories in UK universities. Free Website.

Site offers a searchable database of published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to the social sciences which are available for viewing or downloading. Free Website.

Indexes web sites, journals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, audio-visual material in the following subject areas: sports medicine and science, exercise physiology, fitness and wellness. 1975 onwards. Books and dissertations: 1949 to the present. See also SIRCExpress (document delivery service for Sport Discus).

Gateway for e-journals published by Springer. Please note: this site allAll individual SpringerLink titles are indexed in the Library catalogue and can be found using the Periodical title search or title search. A to Z list of The Library SpringerLink subscriptions