Databases: complete alphabetical table
This is a complete alphabetical table of all databases & datasets supported by the Library and includes networked and stand alone services. A complete subject list of these services is also available
The use of these services is governed by the relevant licence conditions. More information on how access via MUSE can be found by consulting the relevant links below.
| 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 |
| 18th century fiction via LION | 1700-1780 | Network | Full text fiction database |
| 18th century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1688-1834 | Network | Full text papers |
| 19th century British Library newspapers | 1800-1900 | Network | National & regional newspapers of 19th century British society |
| 19th century fiction via LION | 1782-1903 | Network | Full text fiction database |
| 19th century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1801-1900 | Network | Full text papers |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20th century African-American poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| 20th century American poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| 20th century English poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| 20th century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1901-2004 | Network | Full text papers |
| 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 |
| Addressing history | 1784-5, 1865 & 1905-6 | Network | Digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories & maps |
| African-American poetry via LION | 1750-1900 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| Agcensus via EDINA | 1969- | Network | Agricultural census data |
| 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 | 1964- | Network | Abstracts & citations on US & Canada from prehistory |
| American drama via LION | Various | Network | Full text drama database |
| American poetry via LION | 1600-1900 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| Annual bibliography of English language & literature via LION | 1920-1999 | Network | Books, journal articles, book reviews & dissertations |
| Anthropological index online | 1970- | Network | Database from Museum of Mankind |
| Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) via ProQuest | 1987- | Network | Health services, social work, sociology, psychology |
| Aqualine via ProQuest | 1960- | Network | Water resources |
| Archives hub | Various | Network | Search across archives held at UK institutions |
| Archives unbound | Various | Network | Topically-focused primary source historical documents |
| Aristotle: Complete Works | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) via ProQuest | 1974- | Network | Modern and contemporary art |
| Arts and humanities citation index via WoK | 1975- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
| ASFA: aquatic sciences and fisheries abstracts via ProQuest | 1971- | Network | Research on aquatic organisms |
| ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) via ProQuest | 1987- | Network | Health services, social work, sociology, psychology |
| ASTM standards and engineering digital library | 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 | 1908- | Network | Index of religious and theological literature |
| Australian education index via ProQuest Dialog | 1977- | Network | Australian education literature |
| Avery index to architectural periodicals via ProQuest | 1934- | Network | Architecture, urban planning and interior design |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Biological sciences via ProQuest | 1971- | Network | Biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology |
| BIOSIS previews via WoK | 1969- | Network | Biological sciences |
| 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 ProQuest Dialog | 1975- | Network | Education literature |
| British history online | Various | Network | Medieval and modern history of the British Isles |
| British Humanities Index (BHI) via ProQuest | 1962- | Network | Literature and language, social sciences and the arts |
| British Library images online | Various | Network | Collection of British Library images available to purchase |
| British Library sounds | Various | Network | Selection from the British Library's collections of sound recordings |
| British National Formulary (BNF) | Various | Network | Reference for clinical use of medicines |
| British National Formulary for Children (BNFC) | Various | Network | Reference for use of medicines in children |
| British Pathe | 1896-1976 | Network | Archive of videos covering newsreel, sports footage, social history & entertainment |
| British periodicals via ProQuest | 1680-1940 | Network | Full text papers |
| British Philosophy: 1600-1900 | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| British standards online | Various | Network | Full text standards |
| British universities newsreel database (BUND) | Various | Network | Stories from cinema newsreels & cinemagazines |
| 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 & classics | Various | Network | Essays on major authors, periods & genres |
| Cambridge histories online | Various | Network | Cambridge Histories ebook collection |
| Carlyle Letters Online | 1812- | Network | Victorian cultural reference database |
| Casetrack | 1996- | Network | Law database of full text court judgments |
| CasWeb via MIMAS | 1991, 2001 | Network | 1991 and 2001 census return |
| Cataloger's Desktop | Various | Network | Cataloguing documentation online |
| Census 1981, 1991 & 2001 | 1981, 1991, 2001 | Network | Includes CasWeb and UK BORDERS |
| Census data 1911 | 1911 | Network | 1911 census return |
| Census Microdata Unit | 1991, 2001 | Network | 1991 SARs (Samples of Anonymised Records) |
| Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER) | 1981, 1991, 2001 | Network | Origin and destination statistics |
| Chemical database service | Various | Network | Chemistry |
| China: National bureau of statistics | Various | Network | Economic, development and census statistics |
| ChinaLawInfo - judicial cases | Various | Network | Chinese judicial decisions |
| ChinaLawInfo - laws & regulations | 1949- | Network | Chinese laws and regulations |
| Chinese academic journals online | 1915- | Network | Full-text database of Chinese journals |
| Chronicling America | Various | Network | Historic American newspapers |
| CINAHL via EBSCO | 1982- | 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 | 1915- | Network | Full-text database of Chinese journals |
| Cochrane library | 1991- | Network | Systematic reviews of research in health care |
| Codex Sinaiticus | 301- | Network | Online bible |
| CogNet | Various | Network | Online publications on cognitive science from MIT |
| Company & commercial law via LexisLibrary | Various | Network | Company and commercial sources |
| Conference proceedings citation index - science via WoK | 1990- | Network | Formerly WoSP - published conference proceedings |
| 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 |
| Continental Rationalists | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Copac | Various | Network | RLUK members union library catalogue |
| Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) | Various | Network | International research project dedicated to the publication of medieval stained glass |
| Current controlled trials | Various | Network | Clinical trial resources |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Express and Express on Sunday via NewsBank | 1998- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror via NewsBank | 1992- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Daily Mirror digital archive via Ukpressonline | 1903- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph via NewsBank | 2000- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| DART-Europe | Various | Network | Europe E-theses portal |
| Data.gov.uk | Various | Network | An interactive site managed by HM Government to encourage use of government data. |
| Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) via ProQuest | 1973- | Network | Practice, theory and history of design and craft |
| Dewey: Collected Works (1st Release) | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Dictionary of national biography | Various | Network | Biographical reference resource |
| Dictionary of natural products | Various | Network | Natural products database |
| Dictionary of Old English Corpus | Various | Network | Surviving Old English |
| Dictionary of Old English: A to G online | Various | Network | Vocabulary of English 600 - 1150 A.D. |
| 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 culture art course | Various | Network | Audio-visual lectures on Korean art, architecture and culture |
| Dissertation abstracts (ProQuest dissertations and theses) | 1861- | Network | Dissertations and theses |
| Domesday reloaded | 1986 | Network | Online version of the community disc from the BBC's 1986 Domesday Project |
| Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France | 1894-1908 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early American fiction via LION | Various | Network | Full text including images |
| Early American Imprints, Series I via NewsBank | 1639-1800 | Network | Digitised books, pamphlets & broadsides of 17th & 18th century America |
| Early English books online (EEBO) | 1475-1700 | Network | Full text ebooks |
| Early English prose fiction via LION | 1500-1700 | Network | Full text prose fiction database |
| Early music online | 16th Century | Network | Digitised volumes of anthologies of printed music |
| Ecological flora of the British Isles | Various | Network | British flora ecology data |
| EconLit via OvidSP | 1961- | Network | Index of economic literature |
| Economic and social data service (ESDS) | Various | Network | Key economic and social datasets |
| EDINA | Various | Network | National datacentre hosting selection of databases |
| Eighteenth century collections online (ECCO) | 1701-1800 | Network | Full text ebooks |
| Eighteenth century fiction via LION | 1700-1780 | Network | Full text fiction database |
| Eighteenth century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1688-1834 | Network | Full text papers |
| eKorean studies | Various | Network | Portal service for Korean studies |
| Emerald management reviews (formerly Emerald reviews) | 1989- | Network | Business, marketing information |
| Encyclopedia of forms & precedents via LexisLibrary | Monthly | Network | Encyclopedia of UK transactional precedents |
| English drama via LION | 1280-1915 | Network | Full text drama database |
| English poetry via LION | 600-1900 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| English reports via HeinOnline | 1220-1865 | Network | English reports (volumes 1-178) online |
| English short title catalogue | 1473-1800 | Network | Bibliography of books, serials, pamphlets |
| Environmental archaeology bibliography | Various | Network | Bibliography of published reports on environmental archaeology |
| Environmental impact statements via ProQuest | 1985- | Network | U.S. environmental impact statements |
| Environmental science and pollution management via ProQuest | 1967- | Network | Environmental biotechnology, engineering, pollution |
| ERIC via ProQuest | 1966- | Network | International education literature |
| ERIC via ProQuest Dialog | 1966- | Network | International education literature |
| ERIC via U.S. Department of Education | 1966- | Network | International education literature |
| Estates gazette interactive & Planning database | Various | Network | Online news research and information service including Planning database |
| EThOS | Various | Network | Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library |
| EUR-Lex | 1951- | Network | European Union law |
| European bibliography of Slavic and East European studies | 1991- | Network | Slavic and East European studies |
| European views of the Americas via EBSCO | 1493-1750 | Network | Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 |
| Evening Standard via NewsBank | 2010- | Network | Full text newspaper |
| Explore the British Library | Various | Network | British Library's main catalogue |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faber poetry library (via Chadwyck-Healey) | 1999 | Network | Major poets from the Faber poetry list |
| FAME | Various | Network | Company and financial information |
| Financial times via NewsBank | 1982- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gakujutsu kenkyu detabasu ripositori | Various | Network | Research database repository (Japan) |
| Garland encyclopedia of world music | Various | Network | Research into world music |
| General Medical Council. List of registered medical practitioners | Various | Network | List of all doctors registered to practice in the UK |
| GeoConvert | Various | Network | Online geography matching and conversion tool |
| Geology Digimap via EDINA | Various | Network | Geological maps and data |
| Global barometer surveys | Various | Network | Social, political & economic studies data |
| Global library of women's medicine | Various | Network | Web library of clinical information about women's medicine |
| Go-Geo! | Various | Network | Trial resource discovery tool for geospatial data |
| Google Earth | Various | Network | Earth imagery and other geographic information |
| 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 |
| GrassPortal | Various | Network | Data on the world's grass species |
| Grove music online | 2000- | Network | Musicology, composers and performers |
| Guardian historical archive via ProQuest | 1821-2003 | Network | Newspaper archive |
| Guardian via NewsBank | 1998- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| 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 |
| Hansard | 1803-2005 | Network | Full text papers |
| Hegel: The Oxford University Press Translations | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| HeinOnline English reports | 1220-1865 | Network | English reports (volumes 1-178) online |
| HeinOnline law journal library | Various | Network | Full text law and law-related periodicals |
| Hermes (formerly Avance) database | Various | Network | Audio-visual material for higher education |
| Historic Digimap via EDINA | 1843-1996 | Network | Historic map data |
| Historical abstracts via EBSCO | 1450- | Network | Database covering literature on history from 1450 |
| History culture series | Various | Network | Multi-media content on Korean history and culture |
| Histpop: Online historical population reports | 1801-1937 | Network | British population reports for Britain and Ireland |
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1688-1900 | Network | Full text papers |
| Huguet: dictionnaire de la langue francaise du XVIe siecle | Various | Network | Renaissance language dictionary |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) via ProQuest | 1951- | Network | Anthropology, economics, political science and sociology |
| IEEE/IET Electonic Library (IEL) | 1988- | Network | Electrical engineering, communications & computer science literature |
| In the First Person | Various | Network | Index of collections of personal narratives |
| Independent and Independent on Sunday via NewsBank | 1992- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Index to theses | 1716- | Network | References to U. K. theses |
| INIS | Various | Network | Nuclear science and technology |
| Intelligence reports from the Vietnam Information Group | 1967-1975 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
| Intermid | 1996- | Network | Online archive of midwifery articles |
| 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 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.com | 1995- | Network | Archive of over 8,000 peer-reviewed articles on nursing |
| Ireland Collection via JSTOR | Various | Network | The collection includes materials from and about Ireland from the 1780s to the present |
| Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Various | Network | Online bibliography |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT) | Various | Network | Research on labour issues and policies |
| Japan Knowledge Plus | Various | Network | Multi-source reference database of Japanese history, society, language and culture |
| Japan Society book reviews | 2006- | Network | Online book reviews |
| Japan: Statistics bureau | 2006 | Network | Economic and financial statistics |
| Japanese journal resources navigator | Various | Network | Directory of open access journals in Japan |
| 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 |
| Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism | 1997 | Network | Wide geographical, cultural and chronological coverage |
| Jorum (for University staff) | Various | Network | Online repository service for UK Further & Higher Education institutions |
| Journal citation reports via WoK: science (JCR) | Latest | Network | Science edition - citation data from journals worldwide including impact factor data |
| Journal citation reports via WoK: social science (JCR) | Latest | Network | Social sciences edition - citation data from journals worldwide including journal impact factor data |
| JSTOR Arts & Sciences and Music collections | Various | Network | Electronic journal back runs in arts & sciences and music |
| JSTOR Ireland Collection | Various | Network | The collection includes materials from and about Ireland from the 1780s to the present |
| JSTOR Life Sciences collection | Various | Network | Electronic journal back runs in life sciences |
| JSTOR Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets | Various | Network | Collection of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kant: Hauptwerke | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Kdatabase | Varioius | Network | Modern and contemporary Korean history |
| Keizai Koho Center | 1998- | Network | Japan institute for social & economic affairs |
| Kierkegaard: journals and papers | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Kindai Digital Library | 1868-1912 | Network | Japanese texts from Meiji period |
| King James Bible via LION | 1611 | Network | Full text of the King James Bible |
| Kokugogaku kenkyu bunken | 1954-2004 | Network | Index to material related to the study of the Japanese language |
| Kompass | Various | Network | Business information |
| Korea A2Z | Various | Network | Korean primary sources and classics |
| Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) | Various | Network | Korean government-funded economic research institute |
| Korean history & culture research | Various | Network | Excavation reports of historical sites in Korea |
| Korean studies information service system (KISS) | Various | Network | Korean academic journals |
| Kpjournal | Various | Network | Full-text academic journals for sciences in North Korea |
| KSI ebook | Various | Network | Korean academic monographs, dissertations and theses |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landmap | Various | Network | Spatial data |
| Law journal library via HeinOnline | Various | Network | Full text law and law-related periodicals |
| LawnB's legal information service | Various | Network | Korean law-related issues and legal materials |
| Lecture notes in computer science | 1973- | Network | Full text series covering all areas of computer science |
| Legislation.gov.uk | 1267- | Network | UK legislation online |
| Leisure tourism | 1973- | Network | Information from the leisure, recreation, sport, hospitality, tourism and culture sectors |
| Lexikon des Mittelalters Online | Various | Network | Encyclopaedia of Medieval Studies |
| LexisLibrary | Various | Network | Legal sources including case reports, legislation & legal journals |
| LexisPSL (Professional Support Lawyer) | Various | Network | Legal reference service providing guidance on practice |
| Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) via ProQuest | 1969- | Network | Library science, information theory, online retrieval |
| Library literature and information science full text via EBSCO | 1980- | Network | Indexing and abstracting of key library and information science journals |
| Linguistics abstracts online | 1985- | Network | Linguistics |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) via ProQuest | 1973- | Network | Theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics |
| LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) via ProQuest | 1969- | Network | Library science, information theory, online retrieval |
| Literary journals index full text (LIFT) via LION | Various | Network | Covers broad spectrum of literary studies |
| Literature online (LION) | Various | Network | English and American literature resources |
| London lives | 1690-1800 | Network | Manuscript sources from criminal justice and local government |
| LondonMet study packs | Various | Network | Interactive language exercises |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester medieval sources online | Various | Network | Full text of original Medieval history documents |
| 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 | Mathematics database with full text |
| Max Planck encyclopedia of public international law | 1991- | Network | Updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law |
| MEDLINE via OvidSP | 1946- | Network | Medical literature |
| MEDLINE via PubMed | 1966- | Network | Medical literature |
| MEDLINE via WoK | 1950- | Network | Medical literature |
| MIMAS | Various | Network | Datacentre hosting various services |
| Mintel | 1997- | Network | U.K. and European market research, news reports |
| Miracles database via University of Sheffield Medieval portal | Various | Network | A collection of miracles from a variety of Medieval texts |
| MLA international bibliography via ProQuest | 1926- | Network | Modern languages |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA astrophysics data system | Various | Network | Physics, astrophysics, and instrumentation |
| National bureau of statistics of China | Various | Network | Economic, development and census statistics |
| National criminal justice reference service abstracts via ProQuest | 1975- | Network | Criminal and juvenile justice, drug control, law enforcement |
| National Diet Library (NDL) | Various | Network | National library (Japan) |
| National research register (NRR) archive | 2000-2007 | Network | Archive of NHS research and development |
| 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 |
| NewsBank | Various | Network | Full text newspaper service |
| NICE (National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence) | 2005- | Network | Published NICE guidance and NICE guidance in development |
| Nietzsches Werke | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| 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 British Library newspapers | 1800-1900 | Network | National & regional newspapers of 19th century British society |
| Nineteenth century British pamphlets via JSTOR | 1800-1899 | Network | Collection of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries |
| Nineteenth century fiction via LION | 1782-1903 | Network | Full text fiction database |
| Nineteenth century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1801-1900 | Network | Full text papers |
| Nineteenth century serials edition (NCSE) | 1800- | Network | Nineteenth century periodicals and newspapers |
| Nineteenth Century UK periodicals | Various | Network | Historical periodicals archive |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observer historical archive via ProQuest | 1791-2003 | Network | Newspaper archive |
| Observer via NewsBank | 1998- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Observing the 1980s | Various | Network | Resources on Britain in the 1980s |
| 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 |
| Open content alliance | Various | Network | An archive devoted to multilingual digitized text and multimedia material from around the world. |
| 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 dictionary of national biography | Various | Network | Biographical reference resource |
| Oxford English dictionary (OED) | 2000 | Network | Second edition plus additions |
| Oxford language dictionaries online | Various | Network | Fully searchable bilingual dictionaries in various languages |
| Oxford music online | 2000- | Network | Music gateway including Grove music online |
| 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 |
| Past Masters | Various | Network | A collection of philosophy databases including Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Kant and Hegel |
| PathCAL | Various | Network | Pathology and pathophysiology online tutorials |
| Patrologia latina | Various | Network | Source on patristic and medieval thought |
| Peirce: Collected Papers | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Philosopher's index via EBSCO | 1940- | Network | Literature on aspects of philosophy |
| Physical education index via ProQuest | 1970- | Network | Physical fitness, health, sports medicine |
| PILOTS via ProQuest | 1871- | Network | Literature related to traumatic stress |
| Poetry archive | Various | Network | Database of recorded poetry |
| Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| 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 |
| ProQuest | Various | Network | Bibliographic and full text databases covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities |
| ProQuest dissertations and theses (Dissertation abstracts) | 1861- | Network | Dissertations and theses |
| ProQuest education journals | 1988- | Network | Education index with full text journal links |
| PsycARTICLES via OvidSP | 1985- | Network | Full text literature covering psychology and related disciplines |
| PsycINFO via OvidSP | 1806- | Network | Covers psychology and related disciplines |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regional business news | Various | Network | United States business publications |
| Ren min ri bao [People's daily] online | 1946- | Network | Chinese language daily newspaper |
| 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 | Library of rock music writing & journalism |
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science citation index via WoK | 1900- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
| SciFinder web | 1907- | Network | Chemical abstracts |
| Scirus | Various | Network | Science-based search engine |
| SciVerse Hub | Various | Network | Integrated ScienceDirect and Scopus gateway |
| Scopus | 1966- | Network | Multi-disciplinary database |
| Screenonline | Various | Network | British film and television history |
| Seventeenth and eighteenth century Burney collection newspapers | 1700-1800 | Network | Full text papers |
| Share (formerly Netskills) | Various | Network | Training materials for technology in education |
| Social care online | 1986- | Network | Social work and community care literature |
| Social sciences citation index via WoK | 1956- | Network | Bibliographic database with citations |
| Social services abstracts via ProQuest | 1979- | Network | Social work, human services, and related areas |
| Social theory | Various | Network | Influential writings representing trends of sociological thought |
| Sociological abstracts via ProQuest | 1952- | Network | Social and behavioral sciences |
| Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy | 1997- | Network | Dynamic reference work |
| Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) | Various | Network | Social and economic statistics |
| Structural genomics knowledgebase | Various | Network | Research data and resources in the fields of structural genomics and structural biology |
| SUNCAT via EDINA | Various | Network | UK union catalogue of serials |
| Sunday Express and Daily Express via NewsBank | 1998- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror via NewsBank | 1992- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Sunday People via NewsBank | 1992- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph via NewsBank | 2000- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technology research database via ProQuest | 1962- | Network | Materials science, aerospace, engineering sciences and advanced technologies |
| Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) | 1995- | Network | Online UK television and radio data source |
| 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 |
| Times and Sunday Times via NewsBank | 1998- | Network | Full text national newspaper |
| Tobar an dualchais | 1930- | Network | Oral recordings from Scotland |
| Translation studies abstracts & Bibliography of translation studies | 1998- | Network | Translation studies and crosscultural communication abstracts and evaluative summaries |
| Tresor de la Langue Francaise informatise via ATILF | Various | Network | Dictionary of 19th century French from ATILF |
| TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching) | 1995- | Network | Online UK television and radio data source |
| Twentieth century African-American poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| Twentieth century American poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| Twentieth century English poetry via LION | 1900-2000 | Network | Full text poetry database |
| Twentieth century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers | 1901-2004 | Network | Full text papers |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. civilian advisory effort in Vietnam | 1950-1954 | Network | Primary source historical documents |
| UK BORDERS via EDINA | 1971-2001 | Network | Digitised boundary data |
| UK clinical research network (UKCRN) study portfolio | 2007- | Network | Database of clinical research studies in the UK |
| UK data archive | Various | Network | Guidance and training on how to manage, store and share data |
| UKIRA (UK Information Resources on Asia) | Various | Network | Collection guides and holdings information |
| United Nations treaty collection | 1920- | Network | United Nations treaties |
| 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 |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. B. Yeats collection (via LION) | 1998 | Network | Major work in all genres |
| Waechter-Higgs collection | 1848-1977 | Network | Catalogue of the archives of archaeologists John Waechter & Eric Higgs |
| Waterloo directory of English newspapers | 1800-1900 | Network | Keyword index to 19th. Century English serials & newspapers |
| Web of Knowledge (WoK) | 1900- | Network | Multi-disciplinary databases |
| Web of Science via WoK | 1900- | Network | Multi-disciplinary citation indexes |
| Webster's third new international dictionary via LION | 1993 | Network | Unabridged full text dictionary |
| 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 |
| Wing short title catalogue | 1641-1700 | Network | Donald Wing's short title catalogue of printed books |
| Wittgenstein: Collected Works | Various | Network | Part of the Past Masters collection |
| Women writers online | 1526-1850 | Network | Full text collection of early women's writing |
| World Shakespeare bibliography online | 1963- | Network | Shakespeare bibliography online |
| WorldImages | Various | Network | Visual imagery |
| Worldwide political science abstracts via ProQuest | 1975- | Network | Politics, international relations, government, public policy |
| Title | Dates | Access | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZETOC | 1993- | Network | Access to British Library Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) |