Walk-in access to library electronic resources
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
Journals, Ebooks, and Citation Indexes
American Chemical Society Journals
Annual Reviews - life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences journals
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
Cambridge Companions Online - guides to the arts
Cambridge Core journals - multi-disciplinary
Cochrane Library - collection of databases in medicine and other healthcare specialties
Directory of Open Access Journals - multi-disciplinary
Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC)
Elgar Advanced Introductions to Law Online
Elsevier Reaxys - substance data, chemical reactions, bioactivity data, patents
Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
Journal and Highly Cited Data - analytical tool offering data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals
Lyell Collection - geological journals and books
Manchester University Press ebooks - humanities and social sciences
OAPEN (open access books) - multi-disciplinary
Oxford Journals - multi-disciplinary
ProQuest databases - multi-disciplinary
ProQuest One Literature - Scholarly articles, reviews, books; primary texts, reference works
Punctum Books - Open Access humanities books - multi-disciplinary
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
Sage Journals - humanities, social sciences, science, technical and medical journals
ScienceDirect - multi-disciplinary
Scopus - multi-disciplinary abstract & citation database
Springer - multi-disciplinary
Taylor and Francis Journals - multi-disciplinary
Wiley Online Library - multi-disciplinary
Primary Sources, Digitised Rare Books, and Archive Material
Adam Matthew Digital Migration to New Worlds
Amnesty International Archives: Human Rights
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994
British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications
Carl Giles Digital Archive - British cartoon archive
Children's Literature and Culture
China, America and the Pacific
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
Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
Everyday Life & Women in America
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
Independent Publishing in America
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
J. Walter Thompson Company Archive: Advertising America
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
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 Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
Market Research & American Business, 1935-1965
Mass Observation Online (1937-1967)
Mass Observation Project (1981-2009)
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
Oxford African American Studies Center - essays, images, maps, primary sources
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Service Newspapers of World War Two
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players and Performance
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
Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation & Everyday Life
Women in The National Archives
Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography