Key databases a-z list
This page lists databases to which the Library subscribes, plus key, interdisciplinary, free ones. For a list of databases in your subject, including good quality free ones, go to the subject database pages.
Search these resources to find references to published materials (especially journal articles) in your subject. Some offer full-text. Others offer images and sound.
A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W XYZ
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- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection [full-text]
- 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834 - see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers [full-text]
- 19th Century British Pamphlets collection available on JSTOR
- 19th Century UK Periodicals [full-text]
A
- ACLS Humanities E-book [full-text]
- ACS Journals & Magazines [full-text]
- AEI (Australian Education Index)
- AFI Catalog - see Film Indexes Online
- Agcensus
- Alternative Press Index
- Amadeus
- L'Année Philologique
- ArticleFirst
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
B
- BEI (British Education Index)
- BFI InView [images]
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Bioline International [full-text]
- Biomed Central [full-text]
- BIOSIS Previews
- Biz/ed Premier [full-text]
- Bridgeman Education [images]
- Brill's New Jacoby [full-text]
- Brill's New Pauly [full-text]
- Britannica Online [full-text]
- British Library Sounds [sound]
- British Newspapers 1600-1900 [full-text]
- British Periodicals [full-text]
- British Pharmacopoeia [full-text]
- British Philosophy: 1600-1900 [full-text]
- British Standards Online [full-text]
- BUFVC Search
- Business Source Complete [full-text]
C
- CAB Abstracts
- Cambridge Companions [full-text]
- Cambridge Journals Online [full-text]
- Casetrack
- Census Datasets
- CentAUR
- ChildData
- CIS (Construction Information Service)
- The Cochrane Library
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
- Copac Academic and National Library Catalogue
- Credo Reference [full-text]
D
- Development Control Practice [full-text]
- Digimap
E
- EBSCOhost eBook Collection [full-text]
- EBSCOhost EJS [full-text]
- ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) [full-text]
- EconLit
- EEBO (Early English Books Online) [full-text]
- Emerald [full-text]
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - see Britannica Online
- Engineer-it
- ERIC
- ESDS
- ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue)
- EThOS
- European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
F
- Fame
- Family Law Online [full-text]
- FAOSTAT
- FIAF (International Film Archive) - see Film Indexes Online
- Film Index International - see Film Indexes Online
- Film Indexes Online [full-text]
- Financial Times [full-text]
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 [full-text]
- FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts)
G
- Gale NewsVault [full-text]
- Gale Virtual Reference Library [full-text]
- GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- GreenFILE
- Grove Art Online - see Oxford Art Online
- Grove Music Online - see Oxford Music Online
H
- Hansard 1803-2005 [full-text]
- HeinOnline
- Hemscott Company Guru - replaced by Morningstar Company Intelligence
- HighWire Press [full-text]
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [full-text]
I
- IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- ICONDA
- IEEE Xplore [full-text]
- IMB (International Medieval Bibliography)
- Index to Theses
- Informaworld - replaced by Taylor & Francis Online [full-text]
- IngentaConnect [full-text]
- Institution of Civil Engineers' Virtual Library [full-text]
- IOPscience [full-text]
- ISI Web of Knowledge - see Web of Knowledge
- ISI Web of Science - see Web of Science
- isurv [full-text]
- Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
J
- JCR (Journal Citation Reports)
- JISC Historic Books [full-text]
- JISC Journal Archives [full-text]
- John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera [images]
- Jorum (teaching and learning materials)
- JSTOR [full-text]
L
- LABC
- Landmap
- LexisLibrary [full-text]
- London Broadcasting Company/Independant Radio audio archive [sound]
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- LLBA
M
- MathSciNet
- MediaHub [images and sound]
- Medieval Sourcesonline [full-text]
- Medline
- Metapress [full-text]
- Mintel Global Market Navigator [full-text]
- Mintel Oxygen [full-text]
- MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography)
- Morningstar Company Intelligence
- MyiLibrary [full-text]
N
- NetLibrary - replaced by EBSCOhost eBook Collection
- Newsfilm Online [images]
- Newsstand - see UK Newsstand
- Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection [full-text]
- Nordic Archaeological Abstracts
O
- OASIS
- OED [full-text]
- Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International [full-text]
- OneSource Global Business Browser [full-text]
- Osiris
- Oxford Art Online [full-text]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [full-text]
- Oxford Journals [full-text]
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online [full-text]
- Oxford Music Online [full-text]
- Oxford Reference Online [full-text]
- Oxford Scholarship Online [full-text]
P
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [full-text]
- Philosophers Index
- Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) [full-text]
- PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)
- PLANEX
- Project MUSE Humanities Collection [full-text]
- ProQuest
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
- PsycARTICLES [full-text]
- PsycINFO
- Public Information Online
- PubMed - see Medline
R
- reaxys
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography - see Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- RSC Books [full-text]
- RSC Journals [full-text]
S
- Sage Journals Online [full-text]
- Science Citation Index
- ScienceDirect [full-text]
- SciFinder
- Screenonline [images]
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Specify-it
- SUNCAT (Serials Union Catalogue for the UK)
T
- Taylor & Francis E-books - now part of MyiLibrary
- Taylor & Francis Online [full-text]
- The Times [full-text]
- TRILT
- TVTiP: TVTimes Project 1955-1985
U
- UKBORDERS - see Census Datasets
- UK Newsstand [full-text]
- UKOP
- Unicorn catalogue
- Urbadoc
W
- Web of Knowledge
- Web of Science
- Westlaw UK
- Who's Who & Who Was Who
- Wiley Online Library [full-text]
- WorldCat