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  1. E-book Collection via EBSCOHost

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Netlibrary'

    Description: A full-text e-book collection providing access to around 3,500 titles

    Publisher: EBSCO

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, E-books, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  2. Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014

    Description: Every issue of The Economist magazine from 1843 to 2014.

    Coverage: 1843 to 2014

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  3. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Parts 1 & 2

    Alternative titles: also known as '18th Century Collections Online'
    also known as 'ECCO'

    Description: Contains nearly 200,000 books published between 1701 and 1800. Covering all subject, his vast, searchable library includes books, pamphlets and broadsides from the UK, the Commonwealth and the Americas.

    Coverage: 1701 to 1800

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  4. Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online

    Description: More than 4,000 entries covering European history from 1450 to 1850. This is the English edition of the 15-volume German-language Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit.

    Publisher: Brill

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Reference Works, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  5. EUP journals online

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Edinburgh University Press journals collection'
    also known as 'EUP Complete Collection'

    Description: A full-text journal database providing access to over 40 journal titles published by Edinburgh University Press. The collection covers arts, humanities and social sciences, and includes scientific data, online journals and research materials at undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels. Please login for onsite and remote access

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Journals, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  6. Factiva

    Description: A news and business search service covering over 14,000 leading newspaper titles, news sources and company information from around the world. Click on publisher link below to view a list of the sources covered (you may need to save the document first).
    Maximum of 3 concurrent users. Please try again later if you cannot access the resource.
    Note: If using Chrome you may experience intermittent problems when accessing the resource outside our George IV Bridge building and Kelvin Hall.

    Coverage: 1997 onwards

    Publisher: Proquest-Dow Jones

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Newspapers

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  7. Findmypast

    Description: Findmypast is a searchable online archive of over 2 billion records - birth, marriage and death records, parish records, censuses, migration records and military collections.
    It includes records from Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and the United States.

    This resource has a concurrent user limit of 10 - please try again later if you cannot get access.

    Publisher: Findmypast

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Government & Official, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  8. Forces War Records

    Description: A military genealogy specialist website containing over 670 million records, including indexes and images.

    Library users have access until 30/11/2025

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Family History

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  9. Gale eBooks

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Gale Virtual Reference Library'

    This resource includes: Complete dictionary of scientific biography

    Description: A full-text e-book collection currently providing access to the 26 volume Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

    Library users can access all titles in this resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Reference Works, Science, History, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  10. Global Plants

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Global Plants on JSTOR'
    previously known as 'JSTOR Plant Science'

    Description: An online research tool for aggregating and exploring the world’s botanical resources, aimed at those researching, teaching or studying botany, biology, ecology, environmental and conservation studies

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  11. Grove Art Online

    Description: Available through the Oxford Art Online platform, a scholarly art encyclopedia, encompassing all aspects of visual culture. It features over 45,000 articles (including over 15,000 subject entries and over 22,000 biographies), bibliographies, and nearly 7000 searchable images.

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  12. Humanities International Complete

    Description: A full text and A&I database covering the humanities, with full-text from over 1,800 journal and book titles, plus data from the Humanities International Index containing over 2.9 million records from more than 2,300 journals

    Publisher: EBSCO

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  13. IBISWorld

    Description: Up-to-date research and data on hundreds of UK businesses and industries in the UK, including statistics, analysis and forecasts.

    Library users have access to UK Specialized Industry Reports

    Publisher: IBISWorld Limited

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  14. Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842–2003

    Description: Includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Covers a wide range of subject areas, combining information and the power of pictures to provide a unique perspective on many aspects of modern life.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  15. India, Raj and Empire

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Raj, India and Empire'

    Description: A digital archive covering the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The archive is taken from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.

    Coverage: 1615 to 1947

    Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Government & Official, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  16. India, uprising and reform, 1879-1910: in the records of the Governor-General

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Indian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto'

    This resource is part of: British Online Archives

    Description: The papers of Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, the 4th Earl of Minto, (1845-1914), Viceroy of India between 1905 and 1910. This archive covers a period momentous change in the history India. This collection forms part of a larger archive held by the National Library of Scotland.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Government & Official

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  17. Infotrac Custom Newspapers

    Description: Over 70 newspapers from the UK and Ireland. It contains more than 30 newspapers from Scotland and many international titles.

    Library users can access all of the over 2,300 titles in the Gale OneFile: News resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  18. JSTOR

    Description: A digital library of more than 6,500 eBooks and 2,600 scholarly journals covering many topics including humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

    Coverage: 1800 onwards

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  19. Karger journals collection

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Karger medical and scientific journals collection'

    Description: A full-text database of 130 medical and scientific journals published by Karger.

    Coverage: 1991-

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Science, Journals

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  20. Making of Modern Law

    Description: A full-text digital archive of over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. The collection consists of 10 million pages of critical legal history, from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.

    Coverage: 1800 to 1926

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Government & Official, Reference Works, E-books, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  21. Making of the Modern World

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature'
    previously known as 'Making of the world economy'

    Description: A full-text digital archive of over 61,000 works on economics and business published from 1450 through 1850. Drawing from the Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature, this collection consists of over 12 million pages.

    Coverage: 1450 to 1850

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Reference Works, E-books, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  22. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

    Description: A range of primary sources - including manuscripts, diaries, letters, working documents - covering social, cultural, political, scientific and religious perspectives, from the 12th to early 18th centuries.

    Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, History

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  23. Mintel

    Description: New homepage: all available content is displayed together

    To access resource: please click on the check box and the I Accept button at the bottom of the Mintel Academic Access page

    A full-text market research database containing detailed consumer research, sales data and market information.

    Library users have access to both Mintel Reports and Mintel Trends.

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  24. Music Online: Classical Scores Library (volumes 1 and 2)

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Classical Scores Library'

    Description: Library users have access to volumes I&II
    Contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies, and John Tavener.

    Publisher: Alexander Street Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Music

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  25. Nineteenth Century Literary Society

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Nineteenth Century Literary Society: the John Murray Archive'
    also known as '19th Century Literary Society'

    Description: This digitised collection from the historic John Murray Archive covers book history, travel writing, politics and poetry, providing an invaluable insight into nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.

    Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  26. Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals'
    previously known as '19th Century UK Periodicals'

    Description: A digital archive which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. This resource consists of a multi-part collection and subjects range from art to business, and from children to politics. The periodicals are presented in their original published context.

    Coverage: 1801 to 1900

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  27. Official Publications Online

    Alternative titles: also known as 'OPO'

    Description: Online access to UK Parliamentary publications, primary and secondary legislation, House and Command papers and gazettes.

    Publisher: TSO

    Subjects: Government & Official, E-books

    Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

  28. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'Dictionary of national biography'
    also known as 'Oxford DNB'
    also known as 'Online DNB'
    also known as 'ODNB'
    also known as 'DNB'

    Description: Over 60,000 biographies of significant individuals who helped shape British history, including 11,000 portraits.

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, E-books, Biography

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  29. Oxford English Dictionary

    Alternative titles: also known as 'OED'

    Description: A full-text online dictionary, accepted as the authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.

    We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with remote access to this service.

    Videos and guides about how to use the new OED website (opens in own window)

    Coverage: 1000 CE onwards

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Reference Works, E-books, History, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.

  30. Oxford Journals Online

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'OJO'

    Description: A database containing hundreds of journal titles covering life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and law, from Oxford University Press.

    This resource's content is now accessed on the Oxford Academic platform

    Coverage: 1996 onwards

    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Music, History, Art & Design, Literature

    Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.