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 Databases by subject.
Search these resources to find references to published materials (especially journal articles) in your subject. Some offer full-text articles or books. Others offer images and sound.
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- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection - see Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection [full-text]
- 18th Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834 - see U.K. Parliamentary Papers
- 19th Century British Newspapers - see British Library Newspapers [full-text]
- 19th Century British Pamphlets collection available on JSTOR
- 19th Century UK Periodicals - see Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals [full-text]
- 60 Minutes: 1997-2014 - see Academic Video Online [video]
A
- AACC International Approved Methods of Analysis [full-text]
- ABI/INFORM Collection [full-text]
- Academic Complete [full-text] - see Ebook Central
- Academic Video Online [video]
- ACLS Humanities E-book [full-text]
- ACM Digital Library [full-text]
- ACS Journals & Magazines [full-text]
- AFI Catalog - see Screen Studies Collection
- agCensus
- AgEcon Search [full-text]
- AIS Electronic Library [full-text]
- Amadeus
- American History in Video - see Academic Video Online [video]
- American National Biography [full-text]
- L'Année Philologique
- Archives Unbound [full-text]
- ArticleFirst
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- ASHRAE [full-text]
B
- BankFocus
- BAR Digital Collection [full-text]
- BCIS Online
- BCIS Running Costs Online
- BEI - see British Education Index
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) / Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
- Bioline International [full-text]
- Biomed Central [full-text]
- BIOSIS Citation Index
- BIOSIS Previews
- Black Studies in Video - see Academic Video Online [video]
- Book Citation Index
- Book History Online
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB) [video & sound]
- Brill's New Jacoby - see Jacoby Online [full-text]
- Brill's New Pauly [full-text]
- Britannica Academic [full-text]
- Britannica ImageQuest [images]
- British Academy Scholarship Online [full-text]
- British Cartoon Archive [images]
- British Education Index
- British History Online [full-text]
- British Library Newspapers [full-text]
- British Library Sounds [sound]
- British Literary Manuscripts Online [full-text]
- British Newspapers 1600-1950 - see Gale Primary Sources [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 Core [full-text] - previously Cambridge Books Online and Cambridge Journals Online
- Cambridge Histories Online [full-text]
- Carl Giles Digital Archive [images] - see British Cartoon Archive
- Census Datasets
- CentAUR: Central Archive at the University of Reading
- Chicago Manual of Style Online [full-text]
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies
- Churchill Archive [full-text]
- CIS (Construction Information Service)
- The Cochrane Library
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index
- COPAC - see Library Hub Discover (Jisc)
- CRCnetBASE - content moved to Taylor & Francis E-books
- Credo Reference [full-text]
- Current Chemical Reactions
- Current Contents Connect
D
- D&B Hoovers [full-text]
- Daily Mail [full-text]
- Data Citation Index
- Derwent Innovations Index
- DETAIL Inspiration
- Digimap
- Digital National Security Archive [full-text]
- Drama Online [full-text]
E
- Early European Books [full-text]
- Ebook Central [full-text]
- EBSCOhost [some full-text]
- EBSCOhost eBook Collection [full-text]
- ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) [full-text]
- EconLit
- The Economist [full-text]
- Education Abstracts
- Education Research Complete [full-text]
- Educational Administration Abstracts
- EEBO (Early English Books Online) [full-text]
- Electronic Enlightenment [full-text]
- Emerald [full-text]
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - see Britannica Academic
- Engineer-it - now included in Specify-it
- Enterprise
- ERIC
- ESDS - see UK Data Service
- Estates Gazette Interactive - see Radius Data Exchange
- ESTC (English Short Title Catalogue)
- EThOS
- European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
F
- Fame
- FAOSTAT
- FIAF (International Film Archive) - see Screen Studies Collection
- Film Index International - see Screen Studies Collection
- Film Indexes Online - see Screen Studies Collection
- Financial Times [full-text]
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996 [full-text]
- FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts)
G
- Gale Academic OneFile [full-text]
- Gale eBooks [full-text]
- Gale General OneFile [full-text]
- Gale Literature [full-text]
- Gale NewsVault [full-text]
- Gale OneFile: News [full-text] - previously Infotrac Newsstand
- Gale Primary Sources [full-text]
- Geology Digimap - see Digimap
- Google Scholar
- GreenFILE
- Grove Art Online - see Oxford Art Online
- Grove Music Online - see Oxford Music Online
- The Guardian and The Observer [full-text]
H
- Hansard 1803-2005 [full-text]
- HeinOnline
- Historic Digimap - see Digimap
- Historical Association
- Historical Texts [full-text]
- History in Video - see Academic Video Online [video]
- Hoover's Company Profiles [full-text]
- House of Commons Papers - see U.K. Parliamentary Papers [full-text]
I
- IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- IBISWorld [full-text]
- ICE Virtual Library [full-text]
- ICONDA - subscription ceased 31 December 2018
- IEEE Xplore
- IMB (International Medieval Bibliography)
- The Independent [full-text]
- Independent Voices [full-text]
- Index Chemicus
- Infotrac Newsstand - see Gale OneFile: News
- Ingenta Connect [full-text]
- Ingridnet.com
- International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013 [full-text]
- International Historical Statistics Online
- IOPscience [full-text]
- isurv [full-text]
- Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
J
- Jacoby Online [full-text]
- JCR (Journal Citation Reports)
- JISC Journal Archives [full-text]
- John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera [images]
- JSTOR [full-text]
- JSTOR Global Plants [full-text & images]
- JSTOR Open Access E-books [full-text]
- JustisOne - see vLexJustis
K
- Kanopy [video]
L
- LexisLibrary [full-text]
- LGBT Studies in Video - see Academic Video Online [video]
- Library Hub Discover (Jisc) - previously COPAC
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
- Loeb Classical Library [full-text]
- London Broadcasting Company/Independant Radio audio archive [sound]
M
- Manchesterhive [full-text]
- The March of Time - see Academic Video Online [video]
- Mass Observation Online [full-text]
- MathSciNet
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [full-text]
- MedicinesComplete
- Medline
- [video]
- Migration to New Worlds [full-text, images]
- Mintel Reports [full-text]
- MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography)
N
- Newsstand - see ProQuest News & Newspapers
- Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library Collection [full-text]
- Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals [full-text]
O
- The Observer - see The Guardian and The Observer
- OECD Statistics
- OED (Oxford English Dictionary) [full-text]
- Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International [full-text]
- OGEL - Global Energy Law & Regulation Portal [full-text]
- OneSource - see D&B Business Browser [full-text]
- Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles [full-text]
- Osiris
- Oxford Art Online [full-text]
- Oxford Bibliographies
- Oxford Dictionaries - French, German, Italian & Spanish [full-text]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [full-text]
- Oxford Handbooks Online [full-text]
- Oxford Journals [full-text]
- Oxford Music Online [full-text]
- Oxford Reference [full-text]
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias [partial full-text]
- Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [full-text]
- Oxford Scholarly Editions Online [full-text]
- Oxford Scholarship Online [full-text]
P
- Parliament Rolls of Medieval England [full-text]
- Passport [full-text]
- Perdita Manuscripts [full-text]
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [full-text]
- PhilPapers [partial full-text]
- Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) [full-text]
- Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 [full-text]
- Political Extremism and Radicalism [full-text]
- Project MUSE [full-text]
- ProQuest
- ProQuest Central [full-text]
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global [partial full-text]
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers - see The Guardian and The Observer or The Washington Post
- ProQuest News & Newspapers [full-text]
- PsycARTICLES [full-text]
- PsycINFO
- PTSDpubs - previously PILOTS
- Publications of The Hague Academy of International Law [full-text]
- PubMed - see Medline
- Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992 [full-text]
R
- Radius Data Exchange [full-text]
- reaxys
- Routledge Handbooks Online [full-text]
- Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism [full-text]
- Royal Historical Society Bibliography - see Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- RSC [full-text]
S
- Sage Business Cases [full-text]
- Sage Journals [full-text]
- Science Citation Index
- ScienceDirect [full-text]
- SciFinder
- SciVal [research metrics]
- Scopus
- Screen Studies Collection [partial full-text]
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection [full-text]
- Shakespeare Survey [full-text]
- Sketch Engine
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Specify-it
- SpringerLink [full-text]
- Springer Protocols [full-text]
- Statista [statistics]
T
- Taylor & Francis E-books [full-text]
- Taylor & Francis Online [full-text]
- TDM - Transnational Dispute Management [full-text]
- The Telegraph Historical Archive [full-text]
- Testaments to the Holocaust - see Archives Unbound
- The Times & The Sunday Times [full-text]
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive [full-text]
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) [full-text]
- Translated Texts for Historians E-Library [full-text]
- TRILT
- Trismegistos
- TVTiP: TVTimes Project 1955-1985
U
- UKBORDERS - see Census Datasets
- UK Data Service
- UK Newsstand - see ProQuest News & Newspapers
- U.K. Parliamentary Papers [full-text]
V
- Visible Body [images]
- vLexJustis
W
- The Washington Post
- Web of Science
- Web of Science Core Collection
- Westlaw UK
- Who's Who & Who Was Who [full-text]
- Wiley Digital Archives BAAS Collection [full-text]
- Wiley Online Library [full-text]
- Wittgenstein: complete correspondence [full-text]
- WorldCat
- World History in Video - see Academic Video Online [video]
- World Newsreels Online 1929-1966 - see Academic Video Online [video]
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts