The largest single collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and news pamphlets.

A major multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the British Empire and the 19th century world.

ABI Inform Global provides access to thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal.

The full-text collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books. The resource also includes full-text publications from select publishers and a comprehensive database of references focused on the field of computing.

Race relations, discrimination and integration primary source archive. North American documents 1863-1986.

AJOL, the indexing platform of quality African-published scholarly journals, is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research.

Collection of papers presented at AIAA conferences on every aspect of aerospace.

Journals published by the American Institute of Physics.

A searchable database of aircraft with recognition and performance data.

Architect’s journal resource covering thousands of exemplar projects, most from the last 20 years but including major projects back to 1900.

Access the full-text of the ACS journals covering chemistry and related sciences.

Covers industry news as well as building studies with technical details and drawings

The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is a repository and archive [free to everyone] containing materials relevant to the topic of post-World War II integration in Europe.

Descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 330 institutions across the country.

Information on archival material within national and local archives institutions throughout many European countries.

Archnet is an open access, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.

The Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) brings together all those interested in construction management research. It aims to further the advancement of knowledge in all aspects of management in construction by supporting education, dissemination and research.

Full-text magazine archives spanning the fields of art and architecture.

Fine art, decorative and commercial art, architecture and architectural design. Full-text journals, full-text books, and over 63,0000 images.

Fine art, decorative art, textiles, fashion design, TV, film and photography, art history, graphic and commercial art, from 1929 to 1984..

Current and comprehensive indexing for fine art, art history, architecture, fashion, textiles and dress, craft, ceramics, glass and jewellery, design and applied arts.

Modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography.

Art UK is a free resource containing over “600,000 artworks from 3,500 institutions – museums, libraries, town halls, hospitals – as well as public art in our streets such as sculptures and murals”.

The Artstor Digital Library is an extensive and representative visual resource of images for teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences

Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

Access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers journal, conference proceedings and e-book collection.

Key database for social policy, criminology, sociology and some social psychology topics.

Standards produced by the American Society for Testing and Materials. Covers metals, paints, plastics, textiles, petroleum, construction, energy, the environment, consumer products, medical services, devices and electronics, advanced materials and more.  

Architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and historic preservation.

British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.

Provides access to BBC television and radio broadcasts of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, including documentaries about Shakespeare and interviews with key Shakespearian actors.

BCIS is a toolkit and construction cost dataset for the costing of capital expenditure during the appraisal, design, and construction phases of building projects. It can also be used at the end-of-life phase.

The British Film Institute site provides synopses, cast and credit lists of films and television, and you can search by genre, theme or location or trace the development of British television by decade.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth. The BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 60 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries.

BioMed Central (BMC) is a collection of over 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. BMC offers a wide portfolio of subject fields on a single open access platform.

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

It is the national heritage centre in the UK ‘dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain’ providing in-person and digital exhibitions and archived collections. It includes some useful subject guides on the key themes of the collection.

Bloomsbury fashion business cases has a global focus “and presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership”.

Bloomsbury fashion photography archive contains “more than 775,000 newly-digitized and high-quality images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history along with a timeline, lesson plans, and videos to create a rich educational resource”.

TV and radio programmes, media archive, off-air recording.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It contains administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers, gray literature—all presented as fully searchable digital images that can be analysed, downloaded, manipulated, and compared with content from other societies and universities in the Wiley Digital Archives program.

Hosted by the University of Kent. Contains over 140,000 images. You may use material from the BCA catalogue for research and teaching purposes, if you give suitable credit

British History Online is a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800.

Full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.

British Library's archival sound recordings service provides access to wide range of sound recordings including a dialects and accents section.

This collection of English literary periodicals and British periodicals in the creative arts include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences, literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

A standard is an agreed way of doing something e.g.making a product, managing a process or delivering a service. Our subscription covers BS standards and BS EN ISO standards.

Full text international contemporary architecture and buildings, case studies, drawings and photographs.

Full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals including articles, case studies, trade magazines, industry and market research reports. This database covers all disciplines of business including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

The University has licensed access to Cambridge University Press which is a platform that allows staff and students digital access to some of our key texts. For any texts made available on the CUP platform links have been added to the relevant module reading lists and the etextbooks can be accessed directly from our online reading lists system or via the Library catalogue.

Search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law. The database mainly covers law reports and law periodicals but some other legal publications are also included. A wide selection of major foreign language law publications is also included.

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. It gives researchers across a broad range of chemistry fields the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments and recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

A free chemical structure database which can be searched using text or chemical structures.

Information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

A database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The databases are particularly useful in health and life sciences. Databases available are: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – full text access to systematic reviews conducted by Cochrane groups. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials – collected abstracts of randomised clinical trials. Cochrane Clinical Answers – quick access information entailing a clinical question, a brief answer and links to information from relevant Cochrane reviews.

This database contains the English Reports (1220-1873) and is based on data provided by Justis.

Covers 190 engineering disciplines and applied science.

Connected Papers is a visual and dynamic way to find research papers, building interactive graphs linking papers to prior research and later research. Lists of search results can be downloaded, arranged by year of publication, the number of citations, the number of references and the similarity to origin. Links to articles are available via Sematic Scholar, the publisher journal page, and Google Scholar.

Publications from industry and government organisations including BRE, BSRIA, CIOB, CIBSE, CIRIA, Highways Agency and Transport Research Laboratory.

CORE aggregates all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and makes them available to the public.

Covers criminology, criminal justice, and security.

"Knowledge exchange, and collaboration in art and design pedagogy, research, and practice”. Videos, articles, reports, conference proceedings and monthly newsletters.

Case-law database on the official web site of the European Court of Justice (as well as the General Court and the European Union Civil Service Tribunal).

Full-text coverage from 1896 to 2004. Includes the Mail on Sunday.

Full-text coverage of the Daily Mirror.

A free electronic engineering tool that enables you to locate product datasheets from hundreds of electronic component manufacturers worldwide.

Open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.

Official statistics published by the Department of Health.

Department for Transport publishes official statistics relating to the transport system in Great Britain.

A leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century.

Archive of reports, case studies and guides for download.

Over 5000 current research papers in design presented at major international design conferences. Includes all newly published papers by the Design Society and partner publishers.

Largest free international design database of registered designs. Free registration

Architecture and constructional details of buildings from around the world.

Technical and business information on diesel engines, fuels and emissions.

An online map and data delivery service which offers a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, LiDAR and marine maps and spatial data.

Access to some of the highest quality aerial photography available for Great Britain.

Environment Digimap brings easy access to Land Cover data from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Separate datasets are available for 1990, 2000, 2007 and 2015, all national coverages. Also included are Dudley Stamp’s maps of the 1930’s Land Utilisation Survey of Britain.

Geology Digimap offers a wide range of geological map data from the British Geological Survey

Historic Digimap delivers historical Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain.

Nautical chart datasets derived from UK Hydrographic Office paper charts and chart panels. Also, Marine Themes vector data which covers all UK waters and is a feature rich dataset derived from authoritative material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Offices.

The Digital National Security Archive is an invaluable online collection of more than 100,000 declassified records documenting historic U.S. policy decisions.

Among the most controversial documents ever compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the "Family Jewels" represents the CIA's own view, in 1973, of those domestic activities it had engaged in up to that time that were outside its charter, hence illegal.

Documents which provide a contemporary record of the political, military and paramilitary operations - overt, covert and extra-official - which served as the foundation for the most significant American scandal since Watergate

The principal focus of this collection is on international terrorism, beginning with the July 1968 hijacking of an El Al jet to Algiers, other incidents, and the 9/11 attack and aftermath.

This collection marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with previously unpublished records from U.S. and Soviet archives.

Digital Theatre + is a content resource that provides users with access to recordings of theatre productions and radio plays from the likes of Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, LA Theatre Works etc. The resource also provides access to a wide range of textual material that can be used for teaching and learning including interviews with practitioners in the field of theatre, such as actors, directors lighting technicians, fight coordinators, stage managers etc.

Dimensions contains a range of different types of information, including details of journal articles, datasets, grants, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. It includes citation data within Dimensions and provides links between connected different information types.

Diverse Voices in Textiles is a multifaceted discipline with a profound historical connection to international trade, social identities and culture. Diverse Voices in Textiles aims to expand the narrative of textiles history, practice, and perception within the British education system. The platform highlights practitioners from diverse backgrounds working with textile mediums, inspiring students, educators, and all those interested in textiles and creative arts.

All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and free to read.  Please check the license if you want to re-use the contents of a book.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewedjournals

International relations and diplomacy primary source archive. UK government documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1898-present.

Full text plays from new and established writers together with scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis, and audio and video content.

The University has licensed access to Duke University Press Books which is a platform that allows staff and students digital access to some of our key texts. For any texts made available on the Duke e-books platform links have been added to the relevant module reading lists and the etextbooks can be accessed directly from our online reading lists system or via the Library catalogue.

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.

Digital facsimile page images of works printed in Europe before 1701 and works in a European language printed anywhere in the world before 1701.

An e-book platform.

Provides access to freely available open access dissertations and theses from the United States and UK.

An e-book platform

All disciplines of economics including accounting, banking and finance.

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology and culture.

Offers an invaluable perspective on the great events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is an essential accompaniment to The Times Digital Archive and the Financial Times Historical Archive for its overview of national and international affairs.

Index and full-text databases covering education.

Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Embase is a biomedical database containing more than 30 million records. It contains bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from more than 8,500 biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. Indexing using Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus and Emtree makes retrieval of information straightforward. Embase is a perfect complement to MedLine.

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspectives with global appeal.

This resource includes journals and books relevant to a range of subject areas, including accounting and finance, management, marketing, education, information studies, built environment and engineering. You can also search for case studies.

Open access reference work covering articles in the field of mathematics.

A bibliography that aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced during the hand-press era in the English-speaking world. ESTC is the most comprehensive resource available for the output of the printing press in the English-speaking world before 1801.

References to journals articles, conference proceedings and government papers on education and teaching, with a United States focus.

Provides validated design methods, data and software tools covering a wide range of engineering disciplines. Can be used to help solve complex aerospace, automotive, mechanical, structural and process engineering problems and enable better decision making during engineering design.

World-wide full-text patents database. Patents cover the technical details of an invention together with any associated legal information.

A database run by the British Library providing access to over 400,000 primarily British Ph.D. e-theses.

EU legislation , treaties, regulations, directives and decisions

The portal site of the European Union It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration

Case-law, hearings, press releases, statistics, country profiles and more.

An archive of the ERPA database which contained 1925 papers in the field of European integration research.

Over 50 million digitised items: books, music, artworks.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and the website provides comparable statistical information at European level.

Financial information for companies in the UK and Ireland. You can research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and do detailed analyses.

Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

Launched by The National Archives in spring 2022, this site contains decisions from the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and Upper Tribunals.

A complete online, fully searchable archive of the London edition of this internationally known daily newspaper.

Quality business and financial commentary and analysis.

Wide-ranging database for primary source historical archives. Includes manuscripts, newspapers, maps and photographs.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

A collection of primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Geobase is a multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, and development studies

Geospatial Analysis online is a free web-based resource providing geospatial data. It provides a comprehensive guide to concepts, methods and tools, with many examples being provided using a variety of software tools such as ArcGIS, Idrisi, Grass, Surfer and many others to clarify the concepts discussed.

The best place to find UK government services and information.

 Database covering global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling.

Full-text archive covering The Guardian (London) 1959-2003, The Observer 1791-2003, and The Manchester Guardian 1821-1959.

The official report of all parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.

The Harper’s Bazaar Archive includes the complete run of U.S. Harper’s Bazaar, from 1867 to the present, fully indexed and searchable.

HeinOnline provides access to the full text of more than 3,300 law and law-related journals. access to U.S. federal and state case law, thousands of classic legal treatises, and an array of government publications. Content is organised in easily searchable collections, including the Law Journal Collection which contains 888 full text journals from first issues; though with US bias the collection has increasing UK coverage.

A content hub dedicated to the research, teaching, and understanding of kinesiology, sport, and exercise science. The collection has over 165 ebooks and 200 videos.

Covers a wide-range of arts, politics and humanities subjects with a strong focus on UK publications.

Key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants and more.

Useful for most social science topics, especially sociology. Abstract and indexing service.

IEEE DataPort provides some Open Access datasets, available to all users, using the open access filter.

Covers Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Power & Energy, Industrial Engineering, Robotics, Transportation and more.

Provides access to Shakespeare resources including specially commissioned videos, articles and interactive content.

The IDRC is a research and development centre at OCAD University, Toronto, where an international community of open source developers, designers, researchers, advocates, and volunteers work together to ensure that emerging information technology and practices are designed inclusively.

A bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals (1,025 law journals) and indexes over 23,000 law books published or edited in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Basic indexing information is available from 1981, and abstracting information from 1990. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also included from 1995 onwards. Where full text is not available links to full text in other Loughborough University subscribed content is provided.

A searchable archive of the Independent newspaper.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in more than 800 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions.

Journals published by the Institute of Physics

Publications from the Institution of Civil Engineers on buildings and structures, coastal and offshore engineering, development, planning and urban engineering, energy, geotechnical engineering, health and safety, law and contracts, leadership and management, transportation, water engineering and wastewater management.

Publications from the archive of the Institution of Civil Engineers on buildings and structures, coastal and offshore engineering, development, planning and urban engineering, energy, geotechnical engineering, health and safety, law and contracts, leadership and management, transportation, water engineering and wastewater management.

History of art, decorative arts, museum studies, conservation - journal articles, monographs, exhibition catalogues and more

Cases, press releases, publications and much more.

A collection of economic articles, reports and data compiled by the International Monetary Fund and organised by country.

References to international standards developed and published by the ISO. Many full-text ISOs are included in, and can be accessed via, British Standards Online.

Library Hub Discover provides access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries. It contains over 39 million records contributed by 110 institutions. It replaces Copac and Suncat

Journal citation reports list impact factors of journals.

JSTOR archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and science.

Kanopy is a streaming platform allowing access to films and documentaries.

A wide range of articles on chemical substances, including their properties, manufacturing and uses.

The University has licensed access to Kortext which is a platform that allows staff and students digital access to some of our key texts. For any texts made available on the Kortext platform links have been added to the relevant module reading lists and the etextbooks can be accessed directly from our online reading lists system.

Resource contains aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in learning and technology

Original and revised versions of UK legislation such as Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments.

The Lens allows you to search and explore the world’s patent literature alongside scholarly, technical, regulatory and business information.

Online graphic design collection, searchable by country, designer, decade, or format.

Provides access to UK legislation, case law documents, commentary, forms and precedents.

LexisLibrary Construction includes leading sources of primary law, consolidated legislation, key commentary and journals.

Widely used by public libraries, Libby provides users with access to leisure reading, wellbeing, and audiobook titles. Content includes ebooks, emagazines, and much more.

The Liberator was a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts from 1831 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

An international abstracting and indexing service designed for library professionals and other information specialists.

Index and full-text databases covering library and information science.

Covers linguistics subject areas.

BBC weekly magazine, 1929-91, a literary alternative to the Radio Times.

Loughborough University Research Repository contains journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, data, theses and audiovisual material authored by members of Loughborough University.

Social and cultural record of 20th century everyday life, 1937 to mid-1950s, from the pioneering social research organisation.

MathSciNet contains all of the contents of the journal Mathematical Reviews since 1940.

Digitised historic books and magazines about film, broadcasting, and recorded sound available for public access. Lantern is the search platform for the film and sound collections of the Media History Digital Library 1923-1963

MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) bibliographic database containing references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE contains comprehensive coverage of information on medicine, nursing, clinical psychology, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the NLM there is a US bias in the resources offered.

medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. medRxiv includes research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, clinical research design protocols and data articles.

Images of items covering over 5,000 years of art from around the world. 

Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions of people across 200 years of turbulent history.

Market research reports on a range of sectors including health & wellbeing, food, travel and leisure industries in the UK.

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

A portal covering publications in astronomy, astrophysics and physics

Aerospace-related scientific and technical information created or funded by NASA.

Official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1840-1870.

Search 3,500 images of artworks, photographs, films, articles, oral history films, emerging disabled artists, biographies of those who contributed to the Disability Arts Movement and exhibitions that tell the story of disability arts and the battle for disability rights in the UK.

National collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

Allows for searching the full-text of the newspaper from 1851 to 2015.

NewsBank provides access to information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. The resource has content from leading news providers worldwide so has global coverage with newspapers available from a variety of countries in numerous different languages. The resource also provides access to image copies of UK national newspapers so you can view the content as it would have appeared in the print version.

Allows you to cross-search Gale historical newspapers.

News and business information, UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and newswires, foreign language news sources, professional and trade magazines, company profiles and industry reports.

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resource. OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors

Official UK statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels

OWL offers access to 10,500 documents in digital format. It includes all official publications from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Organising Committees of the Olympic Games, dating back to the foundation of the IOC in 1894. It contains Official Reports, Candidature Files of bid cities, Charters and Reviews, as well as academic articles.

OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly papers, researchers, journals, and institutions.

Orbis is the world’s most powerful comparable data resource on private and listed companies. It’s strengths include: comparable information extensive corporate ownership structures a holistic view of companies

Detailed information on banks around the world, including financials, ratings, stock data and country reports.

Orbis Intellectual Property links global patent data to companies and corporate groups for intellectual property management and strategy. Orbis Intellectual Property content includes: More than 115 million patents linked to information about millions of companies, which will allow you to see patent portfolios for a company and its corporate group. Ownership timelines for all patents. In this way you can ascertain the number of transactions for a given patent. Patent and portfolio valuations for all granted and live patents.

Information on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital deals and rumours.

A useful resource listing interesting chemical reactions for common synthetic problems.

Freely available datasets, visualisations and presentations covering a wide range of topics across a variety of academic disciplines including trends in health, income distribution, violence, energy use, food, and education.

Over 60,000 biographies and 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Oxford Reference covers 25 different subject areas across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand digital resources of interest to researchers, teachers, and learners working across the range of literary and linguistic disciplines

Crowdsource digital archive preserving graphic design history

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically.

Covers physical education and related fields.

Access to six high-quality databases: Chemical property predictions; Organic crystal structures; Thermophysical database; Inorganic crystal structures; Compound availability and suppliers; Crystallographic structural database.

The Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957 - all digitized from originals in full colour.

Covers political science and public policy.

Primary source collection featuring music, politics, fashion, youth culture, etc. 1950-75.  Magazines, memorabilia,  original video footage, photographs, ephemera.

This resource from Proquest provides access to the full text of open access United States dissertations and theses.

Practical Law is a legal know-how service containing practice notes, current awareness, global guides and standard documents with links to primary sources and other content within Westlaw UK. Content is arranged into a number of practice areas, including international and cross-border topics.

Guidance from the UK Government on what you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.

Books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from university presses and scholarly societies.

Proquest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities and history, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text. It is worth noting that there are 30,006 ebooks included in this package that are on the Ebook Central platform, which can be viewed within the database.

PsycARTICLES is a collection of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, and allied partners such as the Canadian Psychological Association. The database covers general psychology and applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycINFO is an indexing and abstracting database summarising journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books and technical reports from 1887 to the present. The content centres on psychology and the behavioural and social sciences, drawing content from peer-reviewed journals. The database has global coverage and virtually all the content from 1995 onwards contain abstracts.

Access to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health consequences of traumatic events.

A free resource containing references to literature in areas such as biosciences, medicine, health and life sciences, chemical sciences and bioengineering. Some overlap with the MEDLINE database.

Full-text of this humour and satire magazine from 1841-1992.

Covers an extensive collection of organic, organo-metallic, and inorganic chemistry data. Reaxys enables you to search by structure, substructure, reaction, text, and property data. Reaxys is valuable for obtaining preparation/reaction methods and physico-chemical data for pure compounds. You can also access the Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry, Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis, and Reaxys Commercial Substances modules.

An e-resource containing a variety of archival materials, ebooks, videos and images.javascript:;

Rock's Backpages is an online archive of music journalism, sourced from freelance contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day.

Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

Access to the full-text archive of the Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

Technical papers of SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers. Covers the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle industries.

Science Direct provides full-text access to Elsevier journals and books, including reference works and encyclopaedias. Some of the digital archives go as far back as 1823. Subject coverage is mainly in the fields of life sciences and medicine but there is also coverage of social sciences, psychology, business and finance.

Covers all areas of chemistry as well as biology, medicine, engineering, material science and more.

Scival contains information from the Scopus database and is usually used as a tool for visualising research performance based on citations, collaboration and other measures.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: academic journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus is a comprehensive resource covering chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering; life and health sciences; social sciences, psychology, business and economics; arts and humanities and biological and environmental sciences. It also includes the Geobase database.

SNOW is a branch of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University that focuses on Inclusive Education and Learning

Extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines

SSRN is a multidisciplinary resource - part of Elsevier - and contains a large selection of open access articles, data sets and conference papers from “a number of specialized research networks”, covering many subject areas.

A rare opportunity to look back at the communist world, this is an important and historic film resource. Much of the twentieth century is covered from the Russian Revolution to the 1980s and countries featured range from the USSR and China to Eastern Europe and Britain. This is a fantastic opportunity to explore socialism in context. Produced almost entirely in the communist world, this collection includes documentaries, newsreels and feature films revealing the world from the perspective of the filmmaker. Socialism is laid bare in this important primary source.

Key database for sociology; useful for communication and media, criminology, social policy and some social psychology topics too. Abstract and indexing service.

Access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology and social services.

Covering 1852 to 1912, the South Eastern Gazette as it was on the day it was published, and all searchable by name, word, phrase and date.

The world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research.

This bibliographic database covers key areas of sports medicine and related fields. Content areas range from sports physiology and sports psychology to physical education and recreation.

Covers physical education and related fields

Access to the Springer e-journal and e-book collection.

Worldwide market research, industry statistics and consumer data.

A searchable archive of the Sunday Times newspaper.

Chapters, articles and teaching and learning resources for each of the 17 interlinked global goals listed by the United Nations and designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all".

British art from 16th century to the present day.

Archives of the Wiener Library, London. Documentary evidence relating to the Holocaust and the German Nazi Party. Includes eyewitness accounts, photographs and Nazi propaganda sources.

Searchable archive of The Times newspaper.

Online edition of the Times Higher Education covering news, features and commentaries about universities and colleges in Britain and abroad.

This full text archive of the complete Times Literary Supplement contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 - (present - 5 years rolling horizon).

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

TRID is a free integrated database covering transport research that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to 1.4 million records of transportation research worldwide both free and fee based full text.

Television and radio broadcast data including listings for more than 550 UK TV and radio channels with data from 1923 onwards.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip contains evidence-based research, systematic reviews, images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news

A collection of online resources from the National Library of Australia including books, theses and dissertatons, images, historic newspapers and more.

Featuring plays from noted playwrights as well as lesser known dramatists, the collection includes works by over 300 writers.

House of Commons Papers and House of Lords Papers, including Acts, Bills, Command Papers and Hansard debates, from 1679 to the present.

The UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources including UK Census data, UK Government surveys and longitudinal studies.

Reference book in chemistry, chemical, process and life sciences engineering, including inorganic and organic chemicals, advanced materials, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

The best place to find USA government services and information.

High quality imagery reflecting the V&A Collections.

Primary source archive spanning 1779 to 1930 showcasing popular entertainment in Britain, America and Europe. Includes essays, printed books, early film, posters, playbills, photographs, objects and ephemera.

A series of learning and teaching resources based around the VADS image collections, written by subject specialist authors and lecturers.

An e-book platform.

Preserving the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers, the Vogue archive contains every page of every issue of American Vogue from its first issue in 1892 to the current month. With more than 400,000 high-resolution pages. You can browse individual issues or search the whole archive.

Covers a wide variety of disciplines including engineering, sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching allowing you to discover who has referenced a particular work since it was published.

Searchable collection of artworks, images and photographs from the library at Wellcome Collection with a focus on health and medicine.

Westlaw UK is an ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal matters.

Access to the online library of journals published by Wiley, particularly in chemistry, physics and psychology.

An archive of Women's Wear Daily, from its launch in 1910, reproduced in high-resolution images. Pages, articles, advertisements, and covers have been included, Key moments in the history of the fashion industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered.

The primary World Bank collection of development indicators compiled from officially recognised international sources. Contains global development data and includes national, regional and global estimates.

Allows you to search the catalogues of Libraries from across the world and to filter results to find open access content. Includes details of United States theses prior to 2000.

Key resource for politics, political analysis, political science, international relations and law.

A fashion-industry trade journal, sometimes called "the bible of fashion". For Information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the men and women's fashion and beauty industry. Covers business issues, fashion trends, retailing developments, international ready-to-wear, couture, and market overviews. Includes manufacturers of women's clothing, accessories, fibres and textiles.

Official website of the UK Parliament

Information on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital deals and rumours.