Walk-in access to library electronic resources

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This PC allows walk-in access to a range of electronic library resources for members of the public, and members of other institutions visiting the library. The selection of resources is dictated by publishers, and some content will not be available due to licensing agreements. These resources must not be used for commercial or business purposes.

At times of high demand time limits may apply. 

Copyright law applies to e-resources.

Please remember to register at the Information Desk before use.

List of available resources

1980s Culture and Society

ACM Digital Library Journals Agreement 2021

Adam Matthew Digital Migration to New Worlds: perpetual access period

African American Communities

Age of Exploration

AM Research Skills

AM Search

America in World War Two

American Chemical Society Journals 

American Committee on Africa

American History, 1493-1945

American West

Amnesty International Archives: Human Rights

Annual Reviews - life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences journals

Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994

Brill journals - Asian Studies, Ancient Near East & Egypt, Biblical Studies & Religious Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies

Bristol University press ebooks and ejournals - social sciences and law

British Education Index

British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film

Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications

Cambridge Companions Online

Cambridge Core journals

Carl Giles Digital Archive - British cartoon archive

Children's Literature and Culture

China, America and the Pacific

China: Culture and Society

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
Church Missionary Society Periodicals

Cochrane Library - collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties

Colonial America

Colonial Caribbean

China on Film

Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961

Conflict in Indochina : Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1959-1979

Defining Gender

Directory of Open Access Journals

Early English Books Online

Early Modern England

East India Company

Education Abstracts

Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC)

Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage

Eighteenth Century Journals

Elgar Advanced Introductions to Law Online

Elsevier Reaxys - substance data, chemical reactions, bioactivity data, patents

Empire Online

Ethnomusicology

Everyday Life & Women in America

First World War, The

Food and Drink in History

Foreign Office, Consulate and Legation Files, China : Section I, Wars and Treaties

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980

Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952

Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia

Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981

Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Gender: Identity & Social Change

Gilded Age and Progressive Era, The

Girlhood: Magazines and Print Culture

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange

Global History of Epidemics, 1800-1970

Grand Tour, The

Grove Art Online

Grove Music Online

Hindi Cinema

Independent Publishing in America

India, Raj and Empire

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America

Indigenous Newspapers in North America

Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals

Interwar Culture

J. Walter Thompson Company Archive: Advertising America

Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954

Journal and Highly Cited Data - analytical tool offering data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals

JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets

Latin American Histories in the United States

Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism

Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900

Literary Manuscripts: Berg

Literary Manuscripts: Leeds

Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive

London Low Life

Lyell Collection - geological journals and books

Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963

Manchester University Press ebooks multi disciplinary

Market Research & American Business, 1935-1965

Mass Observation Online (1937-1967)

Mass Observation Project (1981-2009)

Medical Services and Warfare

Medieval Family Life

Medieval Travel Writing

Mexico in History

MUP e-books: Manchester Political Studies Perpetual

Nineteenth Century Literary Society

Nineteenth Century Stage

Nixon Years, 1969-1974, The

OAPEN (open access books)

Olympic Movement, The

Oxford African American Studies Center - essays, images, maps, primary sources

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford Journals - all disciplines

Oxford Research Encyclopedias

Oxford World Classics

Perdita Manuscripts

Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975

Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900

Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain

ProQuest databases - multi disciplinary

ProQuest One Literature - Scholarly articles, reviews, books; primary texts, reference works

Public Information Online

Punctum Books - Open Access humanities books

Race Relations in America

Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals

Sage Journals - humanities, social sciences, science, technical and medical journals

ScienceDirect - ebooks and ejournals, multi disciplinary

Scopus - multi-disciplinary abstract & citation database

Service Newspapers of World War Two

Sex & Sexuality

Shakespeare in Performance

Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players and Performance

Socialism on Film

Springer - ebooks and ejournals, multi disciplinary

Taylor and Francis Journals - all disciplines

Times Digital Archive

Trade Catalogues and the American Home

Trade in early Modern London : Livery Records, 1450-1750

Transformation of Shopping : Department Stores, Social Change and Consumerism, 1830-1994

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

Victorian Popular Culture

Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation & Everyday Life

Virginia Company Archives

Visual History Archive

Who's who and who was who

Wiley Online Library - all disciplines

Women in The National Archives

Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968

World's Fairs