23 resources
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Antique Map Price Record
Alternative titles: also known as 'AMPR'
Description: Describes antique maps, atlases and chart and gives their sale value, with information taken from more dealer and auction catalogues. Contains more than 230,000 records gathered over 30 years.
Coverage: 1980-
Publisher: EBSCO
Subjects: Reference Works, Catalogues & Bibliographies
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Description: A digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content includes reference works, articles, e-books, case studies, biographies, video content, photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central contains 5 collections:
- Berg Fashion Library
- Fairchild Books Library
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
- Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive
- Bloomsbury Fashion Video ArchivePublisher: Bloomsbury
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Art & Design
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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British Standards Online
Alternative titles: also known as 'BSOL'
Description: Over 90,000 British, adopted European and international standards. Includes past, present and draft standards (BS, BS/EN, BS/ISO, BS/EN/ISO).
This resource has a concurrent user limit of 2Full text: Yes
Subjects: Government & Official, Reference Works
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Complete dictionary of scientific biography
This resource is part of: Gale eBooks
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: Reference Works, Science, Biography
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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: Business, Social Sciences, Reference Works, Science, History
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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
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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 2024Publisher: Gale
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Science, History, Biography, Family History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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: Social Sciences, Reference Works, Science
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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: Reference Works, Music
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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
Subjects: Reference Works, Journals
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
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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.
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Oxford Companion to Music
Alternative titles: also known as 'New Oxford companion to music'
This resource is part of: Oxford Reference
Description: A reference work with thousands of 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: Reference Works, Music
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Oxford Dictionary of Music
This resource is part of: Oxford Reference
Description: An online dictionary containing thousands of 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: Reference Works, Music
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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.
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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 Music Online
Alternative titles: also known as 'Music online'
This resource includes: Grove Music Online
Description: Over 50,000 articles from Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, Music, E-books
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Oxford Reference
Alternative titles: previously known as 'OROOxford Reference Online'
This resource includes: Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford Dictionary of MusicDescription: Over 175 premium reference e-books from Oxford University Press, with over 1.4 million entries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Reference Works, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Rare Book Hub
Description: The Rare Book Hub is a resource for information pertaining to rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints.
Subjects: Reference Works, History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Screen Studies Collection
Alternative titles: also known as 'ProQuest Screen Studies Collection'
Description: Current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. 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: Social Sciences, Reference Works, Journals, Music, Catalogues & Bibliographies, E-books, History, Art & Design
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900
Alternative titles: also known as 'Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900'
Description: Series 2: an online bibliographic database of 50,000 Victorian newspaper and periodical publications, with 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
Library users have extended access until 31 July 2024
This includes access to a further 23,000 publications, 20,000 personal names, 1,728 issuing bodies and 244 subjects through Series 3 (opens in new window), and Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers & Periodicals, 1800-1900 (opens in new window)Publisher: North Waterloo Academic Press
Subjects: Newspapers, Reference Works, Journals, Catalogues & Bibliographies, History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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Who’s Who & Who Was Who
Description: A reference work containing the current Who's Who - with over 34,000 autobiographical entries of noteworthy and influential people who impact British life - plus the entire Who Was Who archive from 1897 onwards.
Coverage: 1897 onwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Reference Works, History, Biography, Family History
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