User:Foxhill/internet reference sites accessible with a valid UK Library card

The following is a list of Internet Reference sites that are accessible to the following –


 * Holders of a valid UK Library Card
 * International holders of Library Cards

where the library holds a subscription to the site

Joining a Library in the UK is free. To logon, you will need to know in some cases both your library card number and your library's letter identifier (e.g SWI for Swindon or D for Northamptonshire).

Services Available
Information on how to connect to the services is on the issuing library's website contained in the table below.

The following services are generally available –


 * CANS – Citizens Advice Notes – for legislation and law
 * EBSCO – EBSCO Host – for general reference and scientific papers
 * EBA – Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Academic Edition)
 * EBL – Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Library Edition)
 * Grove Art – Dictionary of Art and Artists
 * Grove Music – Dictionary of Music and Musicians
 * Infotrac – Newspaper search
 * Times – The Times Digital Archive 1785–1985 – Newspaper search
 * News bank – Newspaper search
 * Know UK – UK specific research topics
 * Kompass – Business and Company information
 * News UK – Newspaper search
 * McGraw – McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology – Scientific Research
 * ODNBio – The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 * OED – The Oxford English Dictionary
 * OROP – Oxford Research, search through all publications from the Oxford University Press
 * xrefer plus – online reference library, includes Who's Who and Debrett's
 * WBO – World Book Online encyclopaedia

Note – not all libraries subscribe to every individual service

Accessing the Services
Some libraries have individual gateways for these services, generally for the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Use the library homepage link to access these.

Other services such as those provided by Oxford University Press can be used by entering a valid Library Card barcode or membership number.

In the UK, institutions subscribing to the Eduserv Athens package can also access some of these resources.

CANS Advice Notes
CANS Advice Notes is a detailed summary of the laws of England, Wales and Scotland. It is compiled from the original Parliament sources – statutes and statutory instruments. Statutes give the "bare bones" of legislation and statutory instruments give the "more meaty stuff"; such as how an Act of Parliament will be implemented.

CANS Advice Notes:


 * Tells you what the law is.
 * Explains the law.
 * Puts the law in context with previous legislation.
 * Explains how the laws relate to each other.
 * Gives you detailed relevant legal references.
 * Keeps you up-to-date with all the latest amendments.

http://www.cans.org.uk/

EBSCO
The EBSCO UK Reference Centre contains full text and bibliographic information for general reference publications, including journals, biographies and images, some dating back to 1975.

http://www.ebscohost.com/

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
The Encyclopædia Britannica. The world's most famous and respected multi-volume encyclopaedia and the oldest continuously published reference work in the English language. The current edition runs to 32 volumes. The library version of Britannica Online also includes access to:


 * Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, designed for middle and secondary school students.
 * Britannica Junior, designed for primary school students.
 * A wide selection of full-text magazines and journals;
 * Links to over 200,000 web-sites carefully selected by the EB editorial team.

The Academic Version of the Encyclopaedia is also available from some libraries.

http://eb.com/

Grove Art Online
This resource provides web access to the entire text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, (published in 1996 in 34 volumes) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, (2001).

Over 6,600 scholars contributed to "The Dictionary of Art", which contains 41,000 articles.


 * Simple keyword searching provides full text access to all articles.
 * Over 1,500 art images and line drawings.
 * Fully cross-referenced.
 * Updated monthly with new and revised material.

http://www.groveart.com/

Grove Music Online
The world's leading musical reference source consists of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001, 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2001).


 * Regular updates with both additions and revisions.
 * Search by article title or full text.
 * Separate search options for biographies.
 * Over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.

http://www.grovemusic.com

Infotrac
Custom Newspaper Database. Infotrac is a full text archive of UK daily and Sunday newspapers. The archives are updated daily so you should be able to search yesterday's paper by midday, any day.

You can search all of these titles simultaneously, by:


 * title
 * headline
 * date
 * author
 * section
 * keyword

or any other method you choose.

You can search the whole backfile of all titles at once; one title on a specific day; a selection of titles over a specific period of time; or any combination of these.

It is very easy to use; full text articles are displayed; they can be printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to yourself or anyone you think may be interested.

Current titles


 * The Times
 * The Sunday Times
 * The Daily Telegraph
 * The Sunday Telegraph
 * The Guardian
 * The Observer
 * The Independent
 * The Independent on Sunday
 * Financial Times
 * Daily Mail
 * Mail on Sunday

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/

The Times Digital Archive
With The Times Digital Archive 1785–1985, researchers now have an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Every complete page of every issue of The Times from 1785 to 1985.

Every:


 * headline
 * article
 * image
 * front page
 * editorial
 * birth and death notice
 * advertisement
 * classified ad

that appeared within the pages of The Times is easily accessible in what is a complete virtual chronicle of history for this period.

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/

KnowUK
KnowUK is an online service developed to provide libraries with a complete collection of current, useful and UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK.

http://www.knowuk.co.uk/

Kompass
Kompass Online provides details of nearly 1 million companies in the UK and Europe, with bias towards the industrial /manufacturing sector.

Details available include:


 * Comphrehensive list of products and services provided.
 * Contact Information
 * Names and positions of senior executives
 * Financial Information

Not all details are available.

Kompass provides several quick and easy searches, including type of product or service, or company name. The advanced search facility allows you to combine several criteria to narrow your search.

http://www.kompass.com/

NewsUK
NewsUK, from where you can access newspapers such as the Times, Guardian, Mail and Liverpool Echo and some magazine titles such as the Economist and New Statesman.

http://www.newsuk.co.uk/

Newsbank
Infoweb NewsBank Newspapers – U.K., and Ireland Full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Includes; Bristol Evening Post, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Economist, The Evening Standard, The Express, The Express on Sunday, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The News of the World, The Observer, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Western Daily Press.

http://www.newsbank.com/

McGraw
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology with full-text online encyclopaedic entries on subject areas including: recent scientific research topics and developments, biographies of scientists, dictionary of scientific terminology, late-breaking science and technology news headlines, and much more.

http://www.accessscience.com

Oxford Reference Online Premium
This resource includes over 100 Oxford University Press reference books from the standard Oxford Reference Online (comprising dictionary, language reference and subject reference works), plus a range of key titles from the "Oxford Companions" series, as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The whole package is fully indexed and cross-searchable, providing straightforward access to an array of information sources.

Some key subject areas:


 * Art & Architecture
 * Bilingual Dictionaries
 * Computing
 * Economics & Business
 * Medicine
 * History
 * Science

http://www.oxfordreference.com/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Originally issued in 1900, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a biographical reference resource that has now been expanded and updated.

The new version includes:


 * Over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who have shaped British history.
 * 60,000,000 words.
 * The equivalent of 60 huge volumes of print.
 * Cross-referencing of the whole text.
 * Numerous search options, from the basic to the most complex.
 * Over 10,000 images, searchable separately, also cross-referenced and including copyright information.
 * Links to external web resources next to each article.

http://www.oxforddnb.com/

For a list of subscribed libraries see http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/libraries/

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the most famous dictionary in the world, and the accepted authority on the evolution of the English Language. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. This resource provides access to the full 20 volume print edition, and is updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries.

http://dictionary.oed.com/

xreferplus
Virtual reference library. This resource allows you to search the full text of 100 reputable reference books simultaneously.

There are detailed help pages to instruct you in the most effective search techniques.

Detailed citations recording exactly where the information was taken from (title of the book, publisher, edition).

Pictures (including the Bridgeman Art Library Archive of some 17,000 images).

Sound files to aid with pronunciation.

Some of the titles available are:


 * The latest edition of Who's Who, plus Who Was Who 1897–2005
 * Debrett's People of Today
 * Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
 * Black's Medical Dictionary
 * The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

http://www.xreferplus.com/

World Book Online
The World Book Encyclopedia, an online reference encyclopaedia and resource. You can access all the articles from the 22 volume World Book Encyclopaedia plus thousands more. Includes a wide range of illustrations, animations and audio clips.

http://www.worldbookonline.com/