27 resources
| 1 - Antique Map Price Record | |
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| Alternative titles: | also known as 'AMPR' |
| Description: | A database containing over 200,000 records collected from dealer and auction catalogs since 1982, describing antique maps and their sale value at a given time. |
| Publisher: | EBSCO |
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| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 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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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/104 |
| 3 - Complete dictionary of scientific biography | |
| This resource is part of: | Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| Description: | An online dictionary providing information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. |
| Publisher: | Gale |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 4 - Credo Reference | |
| Description: | A full-text collection of over 600 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, with over 4 million entries and 1 million images. Titles range from art, language, business, and history, to geography, music, literature, science and religion, and biography. |
| Publisher: | CredoReference Inc |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 5 - Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online | |
| Description: | The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History is the English edition of the German-language Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. This 15-volume reference work, published in print between 2005 and 2012 and here available online, offers a multi-faceted view on the decisive era in European history stretching from ca. 1450 to ca. 1850 CE in over 4,000 entries. |
| Full text: | Yes |
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| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 6 - 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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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/142 |
| 7 - 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 |
| Publisher: | Gale |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 8 - GreenFILE | |
| Description: | An indexing and abstracting database of nearly 300,000 records covering environmental concerns, with full text for selected titles |
| Publisher: | EBSCO |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 9 - Grove Music Online | |
| This resource is part of: | Oxford Music Online |
| Description: | A full-text reference work on music containing over 50,000 articles and 28,000 biographies. Incorporates 'The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians', 'The new Grove dictionary of opera' and 'The new Grove dictionary of jazz'. .This resource has a concurrent user limit of 3 - please logout when you are finished. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 10 - 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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| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/109 |
| 11 - 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: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 12 - Making of the Modern World | |
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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: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 13 - Oxford Companion to Music | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'New Oxford companion to music' |
| This resource is part of: | Oxford Reference |
| Description: | A full-text reference work with more than 8,000 entries covering a wide range of musical topics includings: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. .This resource has a concurrent user limit of 3 - please logout when you are finished. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 14 - Oxford Dictionary of Music | |
| This resource is part of: | Oxford Reference |
| Description: | An online dictionary containing over 12,500 entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues and other topics. .This resource has a concurrent user limit of 3 - please logout when you are finished. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 15 - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | |
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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: | An online dictionary containing in-depth descriptons of the lives of over 50,000 men and women who have shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 16 - 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 |
| Coverage: | 1000 onwards |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 17 - 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 |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/234 |
| 18 - Oxford Music Online | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'Music online' |
| This resource includes: | Grove Music Online |
| Description: | A full-text music reference service that incorporates Grove Music Online, Oxford companion to music and Oxford dictionary of music.This resource has a concurrent user limit of 3 - please logout when you are finished. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 19 - Oxford Reference | |
| Alternative titles: | previously known as 'OROOxford Reference Online' |
| This resource includes: |
Oxford Companion to Music Oxford Dictionary of Music |
| Description: | A full text e-book collection of over 175 premium reference titles from Oxford University Press, with over 1.4 million entries. Note: the Visual English Dictionary is no longer available through this resource. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 20 - Screen Studies Collection | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'ProQuest Screen Studies Collection' |
| Description: | Provides access to a range of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International. |
| Publisher: | Proquest |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 21 - Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1791-1845 | |
| Description: | A full-text digital archive providing a rich and contemporary account of Scotland during the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from Parish and County records |
| Coverage: | 1791 to 1845 |
| Publisher: | Edina |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 22 - Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive | |
| Description: | A full-text digitial archive of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 to 2005 http://connect.nls.uk/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nlibscot?db=TTDA |
| Coverage: | 1902 to 2005 |
| Publisher: | Gale |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |
| 23 - UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory | |
| Description: | An online serials database containing more than 300,000 periodicals including academic and scholarly journals, open access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers and newsletters |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. |
| 24 - 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 |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/123 |
| 25 - 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 |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: |
This is an open access resource. It can be accessed via the following URL: https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/goto/125 |
| 26 - Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900 | |
| Alternative titles: | also known as 'Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900' |
| Description: | An online bibliographic database of 50,000 Victorian newspaper and periodical publications, with 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects |
| Publisher: | North Waterloo Academic Press |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. |
| 27 - Who’s Who & Who Was Who | |
| Description: | A full-text reference work containing the current Who's Who - with over 33,000 short, continually updated, biographies of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life worldwide - plus the entire Who Was Who archive from 1897. |
| Coverage: | 1897 onwards |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Full text: | Yes |
| Subjects: | |
| Access: | Please log in or register for access. |