23 resources
| 1 - American Memory | |
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| Description: | Access to sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/162 |
| 2 - CERL Heritage of the Printed Book Database | |
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also known as 'Heritage of the Printed Book Database' also known as 'HPB Database' previously known as 'Hand Press Book Database' |
| Description: | A bibliographic database for items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455–c.1830) held at major European and North American research libraries; produces by the Consortium of European Research Libraries. |
| Coverage: | 1455 to 1830 |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/104 |
| 3 - ChemSpider | |
| Description: | A chemical structure database providing access to over 34 million structures, properties and associated information, integrating and linking compounds from around 500 data sources. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/238 |
| 4 - DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'Directory of Open Access Journals' |
| Description: | A full-text database providing access to over 7,000 open access journal titles. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/153 |
| 5 - English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'ESTC' |
| Description: | A bibliographic database containing records for over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 |
| Coverage: | 1473 to 1800 |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/142 |
| 6 - Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) | |
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also known as 'PubMed Central' previously known as 'UK PubMed Central' |
| Description: | Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) offers free access to biomedical literature resources including: |
| Coverage: | 1850 onwards |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/155 |
| 7 - Europeana | |
| Description: | A digital portal to over 4.6 million digitised books, manuscripts, newspapers, film clips, maps, photos and sound from cultural institutions across Europe |
| Full text: | Yes |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/101 |
| 8 - FamilySearch | |
| Description: | Family history, family tree, and genealogy records and resources from around the world. |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/164 |
| 9 - Gallica: National Library of France digital collection | |
| Description: | Gallica: digital collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/166 |
| 10 - German Digital Library | |
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also known as 'Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek' also known as 'DDB' |
| Description: | The DDB aims to be a central, national portal providing unrestricted access to millions of digitised books, archives, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/223 |
| 11 - Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection | |
| Description: | Pilot collection of 28 new open access e-books. Covering topics in the humanities (literature, history) and social sciences (politics, media and communications), from 13 respected scholarly publishers. |
| Publisher: | Jisc |
| Full text: | Yes |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/220 |
| 12 - Library Hub Discover | |
| Description: | Library Hub Discover brings together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries in a single search service. It contains more than 41,000 records over 120 institutions. This service replaces Copac and SUNCAT. |
| Publisher: | Jisc |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/291 |
| 13 - LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts | |
| Alternative titles: | previously known as 'LISA' |
| Description: | A bibliographic database covering librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via EBSCOhost |
| Publisher: | EBSCO |
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This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/109 |
| 14 - Oxford Index | |
| Description: | A tool for searching across Oxford University Press digital academic content. Searching Oxford Index is free, accessing associated content requires login. NLS customers can access full text content from: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Journals Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Online, Who's Who (and Who Was Who), and University Press Scholarship Online |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/234 |
| 15 - PubMed | |
| Description: | An online database with over 20 milion citations to biomedical literature, with links to some full-text content. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/156 |
| 16 - Queen Victoria's Journals | |
| Description: | A digital archive of the personal diaries of Queen Victoria, covering the period from her childhood to her accession to the throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and her Golden and Diamond Jubilees. |
| Coverage: | 1832 to 1901 |
| Publisher: | Proquest |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/176 |
| 17 - Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 Manuscript version | |
| Description: | A full-text digital archive providing access to the original text and modern translations of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707; developed by the University of St Andrews |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/172 |
| 18 - Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 Translation version | |
| Description: | A full-text digital archive providing access to the original text and modern translations of the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707; developed by the University of St Andrews |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/173 |
| 19 - UK Web Archive | |
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also known as 'UK Webarchive' also known as 'UKWA' |
| Description: | The UK Web Archive (UKWA) collects millions of websites each year, preserving them for future generations. The UKWA is a partnership of the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries. Use this site to discover old or obsolete versions of UK websites, search the text of the websites and browse websites curated on different topics and themes. For information - the archive contains open access and restricted content. To view restricted content you will need to register and visit the National Library of Scotland, or one of the other legal deposit libraries. |
| Coverage: | 2004- |
| Publisher: | The British Library |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/233 |
| 20 - United Nations Bibliographic Information Service | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'UNBIS' |
| Description: | An online database of United Nations documents and publications from 1979 onwards. Also provides access to Voting Records and Index to Speeches |
| Coverage: | 1979 onwards |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/123 |
| 21 - University of St. Andrews Photographic Database | |
| Description: | A digital archive of the photographic collection of St Andrews University including examples of early photography |
| Publisher: | University of St Andrews |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/124 |
| 22 - Walter Scott Digital Archive | |
| Description: | A full-text digital archive of Walter Scott materials gathered by James C. Corson, librarian, scholar, and Scottophile, held by Edinburgh University Library |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/125 |
| 23 - WorldCat | |
| Description: | Catalogue of over 1.4 billion items from over 10,000 libraries worldwide. |
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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/174 |