22 resources
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Cambridge Books Online
Description: Over 2,000 e-books from Cambridge University Press, including more than 100 open access books.
Coverage: 2005, 2006, 2012, 2013 and open access
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, E-books, History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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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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.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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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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Routledge Handbooks Online
Description: An educational resource which provides an overview of classic and current research.
Note:Library users have access to 2020 and some 2021 titles from the Environment & Sustainability collection.Full text: Yes
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
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Sage Knowledge
Description: A full text monograph database. Library users have access to selected titles within the subject areas of Business, Education, Sociology, Psychology and Health
Publisher: Sage
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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ScienceDirect Books
Alternative titles: also known as 'Science Direct'
Description: A peer-reviewed scientific and technical database. Library users have access to monographs in the life, health and physical sciences, from 2010 onwards.
Coverage: 2010-
Publisher: Elsevier
Full text: Yes
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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SpringerLink journal and e-book collection
Description: A database providing access to e-books, journals, articles, protocols and reference works published by Springer. National Library of Scotland users have access to thousands of journal titles and e-books covering humanities, science, business, medicine, law, social science and engineering.
Publisher: Springer
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Journals, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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United Nations iLibrary
Alternative titles: also known as 'UN iLibrary'
Description: The United Nations iLibrary is a single research repository for accessing digital content published by the United Nations Secretariat and its funds and programs.
Coverage: 1996-
Publisher: United Nations
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Government & Official, Science, E-books, History
Access: Access to this resource is restricted to our Edinburgh reading rooms and to Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
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University Press Scholarship Online
Alternative titles: also known as 'UPSO'
also known as 'Scholarship Online'Description: Thousands of e-books, from Oxford University Press and many other university presses offering publications in the humanities, social science and business.
This resource's content is now accessed on the Oxford Academic platformPublisher: Oxford University Press
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Business, Social Sciences, Science, Music, E-books, History
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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VLeBooks.com
Alternative titles: also known as 'Askews eBooks Collection'
Description: An e-book database providing access to a small selection of e-book titles.
Full text: Yes
Subjects: E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.
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Wiley Online Library e-books
Description: Library users have access to a selection of e-book titles on the Wiley Online Library platform, covering the humanities and the life, health, physical and social sciences, and published between 2013 and 2015.
Search tip: E-book titles you can access are identified by an unlocked padlock icon.Coverage: 2013-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Full text: Yes
Subjects: Social Sciences, Science, E-books
Access: Please log in or join the Library for access.