Skip navigation

Browse by resource title - all

  1. 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.

  2. Country Life Archive

    Description: Every issue of Country Life magazine from 1897 to 2005. This archive of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine, chronicles British heritage, including its art, architecture, and landscapes, with an emphasis on leisure pursuits such as antique collecting, hunting, shooting, equestrian news, and gardening.

    Coverage: 1897 to 2005

    Publisher: Proquest

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Social Sciences

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

  3. 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

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

  4. D&B Hoovers

    Alternative titles: previously known as 'OneSource Global Business Browser'

    Description: A business information database which provides in depth profiles of companies worldwide, industry profiles, news and market research.

    Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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

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

  7. 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 access

    Full text: Yes

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

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Essential Science Indicators

    This resource is part of: Web of Science

    Description: A compilation of science performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in over 12,000 scholarly journals and the citations to those articles.

    Coverage: 2005-

    Publisher: Thomson Reuters

    Subjects: Science

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

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. FAME

    Alternative titles: also known as 'Financial Analysis Made Easy'

    Description: A business database with information on over 11 million UK and Irish companies, which enables research on individual companies, searches for companies with specific profiles, and detailed analysis

    Subjects: Business

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

  16. Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library

    Alternative titles: also known as 'The Videofashion Library'

    Description: 1,200 hours of video about fashion including fashion shows, designer profiles, garment design and documentaries. This collection features content from the archives of Videofashion, a provider of fashion footage.

    Publisher: Alexander Street Press

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Art & Design

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Frost & Sullivan

    Description: A business resource providing detailed industry analysis on chemical, energy, environmental and building technologies, healthcare, IT and manufacturing markets worldwide.

    **New platform**
    Publications now open in a new tab or window.
    Please note it is only possible to download up to 10% of a report's content.

    Publisher: Frost & Sullivan

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Business

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

  20. Gale Academic OneFile

    Description: Provides articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including videos from BBC Worldwide Learning and podcasts and transcripts from CNN. It also includes:
    - Full text of The Times and Financial Times, and The Economist from 1988 to the present, with no embargo
    - Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present, updated daily
    - Elsevier abstracts from 1996 to present

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals

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

  21. Gale Business: Insights

    Description: Explore the world's companies through expert analysis such as SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies and articles from academic journals, trade magazines, news outlets and more.

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Subjects: Business

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

  22. 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.

  23. Gale General OneFile

    Description: Includes more than 9,000 full-text titles, over 3,700 refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers - a total of more than 14,500 titles (nearly half of which are unique to the database).
    Access is also provided to:
    - Full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present (updated daily)
    - Full-text of The Economist from 1988 to the present, with no embargo
    - Links to thousands of video files from providers including NYTimes.com Video Collection and Associated Press Video News

    Library users can access this resource until 20th July 2024

    Coverage: 1980 to the present

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Newspapers, Journals

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

  24. 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 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Full text: Yes

    Subjects: Literature

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

  25. 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 2024

    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.

  26. 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 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Subjects: Literature, Biography

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

  27. 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 2024

    Publisher: Gale

    Subjects: Literature, Biography

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

  28. 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 2024

    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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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 2024

    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.