29 resources
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Brill Journals Collection
Description: Hundreds of journals covering the arts and humanities, health and life sciences, engineering and technology, science and the social sciences.
Coverage: 2000-
Publisher: Brill
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, History, Art & Design, Literature
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Description: A digital library of letters and diaries written by British and Irish women. Covering more than 400 years of writing, it also includes biographies.
Coverage: 1500 to 1950
Publisher: Alexander Street Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: History, Literature, Biography
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British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
Description: Over 600,000 pages of manuscripts from major British writers, including poems, plays, novels, diaries and correspondence. This full-text digital library provides an intimate look into the lives and works of authors from the 1600s to 1900.
Coverage: 1660 to 1900
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: History, Literature, Biography
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Early English Books Online
Alternative titles: also known as 'EEBO'
Description: This resource is now accessed from the cross-searchable ProQuest search platform
A full-text digital archive of some 130,000 books printed between 1473 and 1700. This consists of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere.Coverage: 1473 to 1700
Publisher: Proquest
Full text: Yes
Subjects: E-books, History, Literature
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Early European Books
Alternative titles: also known as 'Early European Books: printed sources to 1700'
Description: All books published in Europe before 1701. This resource traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the 17th-century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access items.
Library users now have access to Voyages & Imagination: Travel Writings and Literature from the Early Modern Period (Collection 19)Publisher: Proquest
Full text: Yes
Subjects: History, Literature
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Ebook Central
Alternative titles: previously known as 'EBL Ebook Library'
also known as 'ProQuest Ebook Central'Description: A full-text e-book database providing access to a small selection of e-book titles
Please login for onsite and remote accessFull text: Yes
Subjects: Science, E-books, History, Art & Design, Literature, Biography, Family History
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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
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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
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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
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Gale Literature Criticism
Description: An extensive compilation of literary commentary, both scholarly and popular, from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. It contains centuries of literary analysis - spanning a wide range of time periods, genres and regions of the world.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Literature
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature Resource Center
Description: An online literature database offering a broad and representative range of authors and their works, including a large collection of full-text critical and literary analysis, as well as news, primary sources, literary works, images, links to audio, interviews and reviews.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors
Description: Find biographical information on more than 149,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments, and informative essays about their lives and work.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Description: Provides information on authors and their works in an easy to understand format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: LitFinder
Description: Provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies and images.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
Description: Original scholarly essays on authors from around the world, placing authors and their works in personal and historical context.
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: Something About the Author
Description: Provides access to all volumes of the Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults. Includes both the main series and the autobiography series, totaling more than 290 volumes, 20,000 entries, and nearly 30,000 images
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series
Description: In-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.
Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024Publisher: Gale
Subjects: Literature, Biography
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 platformCoverage: 1996 onwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Music, History, Art & Design, Literature
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Perdita Manuscripts : Women Writers, 1500-1700
Description: A digital archive containing manuscripts from early modern women authors from Britain, 'lost' in time since the 16th and 17th centuries.
Coverage: 1500 to 1700
Publisher: Adam Matthew Digital
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Literature
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926
Alternative titles: previously known as 'Bibliotheca Americana'
previously known as 'Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana'
also known as 'Gale Primary Sources: Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926'Description: A digital archive containing over 6 million pages from 29,000 works about the Americas published throughout the world. It covers the period from 1500 to the early 1900s. Based on Joseph Sabin’s seminal bibliography 'Bibliotheca Americana : a dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time'.
Coverage: 1500 to 1926
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Americana, E-books, History, Literature
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Description: Over 60 volumes of lyric poetry by 51 Scottish women poets, written between 1789 and 1832.
Coverage: 1789 to 1832
Publisher: Proquest
Full text: Yes
Subjects: History, Literature, Biography
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SUR Digital Archive, 1931-1992
Alternative titles: also known as 'SUR, 1931-1992'
previously known as 'SUR online'Description: A digital archive of the Latin American literary magazine from Argentina. This collection includes more than 40,000 pages; an index; and manuscript versions of content from the first issue as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.
Coverage: 1931 to 1992
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Journals, Literature
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Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Description: Founded as a supplement to The Times (London), for more than 100 years the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. This is a digitial archive of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 to 2014.
Coverage: 1902 to 2005
Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Science, Journals, History, Literature, Biography
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Web of Science Core Collection
Alternative titles: previously known as 'Web of Science'
previously known as 'ISI Web of Science'This resource is part of: Web of Science
Description: NLS customers have access to full backfile to 1900. An abstracting and indexing citation database covering over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, plus over 120,000 international conference proceedings. Part of the Web of Science Portal.
Coverage: 1900 onwards
Publisher: Thomson Reuters
Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, Journals, Literature
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