Web Resources

Open Access Resources

British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years.

The British Library's newspaper collections are among the finest in the world, containing most of the runs of newspapers published in the UK since 1800.

COPAC

The Copac library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.

EthOS

Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library. Self registration is required in order to order theses.

Internet Archive

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

MEDLINE

Contains references to over 3800 biomedical journals, from 1966 onwards. Covers all aspects of medicine with a worldwide focus.

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Old Maps Online

Oxford Text Archive

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.

Youth Work Wales

Youth Work Wales is a not-for profit site supported by the YMCA Community College and University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The aim of the site is to provide practitioners, students and managers of Youth Work in Wales with a range of information which will help develop thinking and practice. It is a site primarily focused on a particular style of work with young people delivered within the framework of the Youth Service which encourages the voluntary involvement of young people aged 11-25 in a wide range of positive activities.