18th Century Collections Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The eighteenth century brought the written word to the masses. Thomson Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online digitally captures this influential period and provides new research opportunities in ways previously unavailable. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 7 Sep 2012

Launched on March 23rd 2007 at the House of Commons, the BOPCRIS 18th Century parliamentary publications project (based at the University of Southampton) provides the UK academic community with access to core 18th century official Parliamentary publications that include Parliamentary Papers, Bills, registers and Journals. By making previously obscure materials accessible, it releases potential to reassess the role of the 18th century parliament.

19th Century British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history.

19th Century British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 30 Oct 2011

JISC has purchased the digitised images of the 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) on behalf of the UK HE and FE community (including the Research Councils). The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) is a very important source of information on the 19th Century covering everything officially published concerning the British Parliament and its work. The HCPP includes debates, proceedings and reports of their committees and outside bodies on public affairs, and more.

19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

This resource spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain, charting the rise of children's entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies. It also covers the political spectrum of women's writing, and reflects the changing attitudes and influences of the time.

20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 8 Jan 2013

Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers extends the coverage of the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) from 1901-2004 using the one seamless interface and allowing researchers to track papers and themes across more than 200 years of official records.

a-n The Artist Information Company
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

a-n The Artist Information Company is widely acknowledged to be a key UK agency for supporting artists and promoting and shaping visual arts practice. a-n offers an online package of essential visual arts publications, toolkits, the a-n magazine and many other resources. The breadth and depth of the content means that it can be used across a wide range of subject and curriculum areas at all levels.

Academic OneFile
expiry date 1 Aug 2010

Academic OneFile is a multidisciplinary journals collection, which is largely made up of peer reviewed titles, and is underpinned with reference, newspapers, magazines, and audio content. Updated daily, it contains a large number of journals covering a wide variety of subject areas within the arts, humanities, science, engineering, technology, health, life sciences, medicine, and the social sciences. Millions of articles are available in both PDF and HTML full text, with no restrictions. This agreement is for higher education institutions only.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History Ebook Project Collection)
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. Readers have the ability to find text and graphics, and to perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts in great depth and context.

ACS Legacy Archives
no expiry date

The ACS Legacy Archives contain the complete backfiles of 23 journals published by the American Chemical Society between 1879 and 1995. Relevant to all areas of chemistry, this is an invaluable resource for postgraduates and researchers.

Archival Sound Recordings
expiry date 25 Sep 2016

Archival Sound Recordings offers selections of music, spoken word and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive available online to UK Higher and Further Education. There are currently over 4000 hours of recordings, with more being added over the coming year.

Art Abstracts
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

Users can find bibliographic contents of more than 481 leading art periodicals consisting of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. It also offers references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and many other types of material. Art reproductions are fully detailed. Coverage is from 1984 (as an index) with abstracts from 1994 to the present. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

Art Full Text
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

This database contains an international selection of peer-selected publications. Art Full Text offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an array of publications - now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews and feminist criticism.

Art Museum Image Gallery
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

The Art Museum Image Gallery (AMIG) is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Users are able to manipulate the images to suit their educational needs outside of the AMIG interface. All images are cleared for educational use.

Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787693847 - Already available. This collection encompasses all areas within the study of art across a range of historical eras. Users can learn about architecture and design, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theatre and the visual arts as they were in the Renaissance, Baroque, Medieval and Ancient periods. An overview of major events of the time are also included.

ARTstor
no expiry date

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and the tools to actively use those images. A restricted usage environment seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs of content users.

BBC Motion Gallery
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

The BBC Motion Gallery gives access to more than 300,000 hours of video content from the BBC archive, with 50,000 clips ready for download. Footage has been derived from broadcast programming and, in many cases, from programme rushes. Much of the content has never been seen before. The Gallery exclusively includes a number of additional archives.

Begell Digital Library
expiry date 31 Sep 2012

A comprehensive, full-text database providing the latest research data and information across a broad spectrum of engineering and biomedical sciences.

BFI Inview
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

BFI InView is an online resource which offers a unique window on Britain’s changing political, economic and social landscape in the age of film and television, containing some 1,000 hours of non-fiction moving image titles to view or download, alongside 8,000 pages of related documents.

Biography Resource Center
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Biography Resource Center is an online biographical reference database is covering figures of note in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers.

BIOSIS Previews
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

The electronic version of Biological Abstracts (BA) and Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews, meetings) contains bibliographic information on subjects ranging from traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology and microbiology to related fields such as agriculture, pharmacology, bio-physics, ecology, bio-engineering and experimental clinical medicine.

Biz/ed Premier
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Biz/ed Premier offers online access to a collection of core text books covering business and economics. These texts have been extensively adopted throughout academic institutions in the UK..

Brill Journal Archive Online
expiry date 31 May 2013

The Brill Journal Archive Online provides access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000. Suitable for graduates and postgraduates, this resource has content relevant to biology, the humanities, human rights, international law, science, and the social sciences.

Britannica Online Academic Edition
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

Encyclopaedia Britannica is considered one of the finest reference sources available. With Britannica Online users have access to this invaluable reference and research tool. The online version includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Users can also search an online directory that includes more than 600,000 links to websites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

British Cartoon Archive
no expiry date

The British Cartoon Archive is a library, archive and gallery dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. Located at the University of Kent in Canterbury, it holds the national collection of cartoons of political and social comment published in British newspapers and magazines.

The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project funded by JISC through its Digitisation Programme, has digitised the Carl Giles Archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a key resource for British political and social history that has never before been open to the public. Thanks to this funding, staff, students and researchers at colleges, universities and research councils in the UK will be able to access and use the entire Giles Collection of 15,000 cartoon images, with some 5,000 pages of related paperwork, free of charge.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII): Open Law Project
no expiry date

The JISC provided funding to enable BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) to run the 36-month Open Law Project. The intention of which was to digitise thousands of core historical legal judgments and law reports, and for the first time to make these freely and openly available electronically. The project has digitised a total of over 40,000 pages. At present BAILII offers free access to British and Irish primary legal materials.

British Education Index, Australian Education Index and ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

The trio form a complete suite of bibliographic databases of education and training periodicals. All are delivered by Dialog, using the DataStar interface. The Australian Education Index consists of more than 130,000 documents relating to educational research, policy and practice. The British Education Index provides information on research, policy and practice in education and training in the UK. The ERIC, is the largest database in the world relating to education.

British History Online: premium content
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

In addition to a wealth of free content, British History Online offers subscription-based premium content. The premium content includes 122 titles of the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Scotland and Ireland. The online calendar texts are fully cross-searchable with a range of other material for the early modern period, and offer scholars the opportunity to comment on, and correct, the recognised shortcomings of some volumes. This resource will be of most interest to historians at the postgraduate stage and will also be relevant to undergraduate students.

British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history. Because it is funded by JISC, access to this resource is free for Higher and Further Education Communities in the UK.

British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

British Periodicals Collections I and II
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian "age of periodicals" and beyond. British Periodicals consists of two separate collections, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II. This unique digital archive consists of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture. As part of the JISC Collections UK National Academic Archive, British Periodicals Collections I and II are available free of charge until 31 December 2013 to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.

Business & Company Resource Center
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide range of global business information from multiple sources in a single interface.

Bureau van Dijk Databases
expiry date 30 Nov 2012

This agreement gives subscribers access to a range of business and financial databases from Bureau van Dijk. Databases, such as FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy), AMADEUS (Analyse Major Databases from European Sources), BANKSCOPE, OSIRIS, ZEPHYR, EIU Dataservices, CHELEM and Datamonitor Reports are available on DVD and online.

Burney Collection
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

The Burney Collection includes nearly 1 million pages from 1,270 parliamentary papers, pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia between 1600–1800. Until now, access to the Burney Collection has been very restricted – both in print and online. The corpus of printed materials – originally collated by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) – has been housed at the British Library but, due to its value and fragility, it has not been available for general use. As part of the JISC Collections UK National Academic Archive, the Burney Collection is available free of charge until 31 December 2013 to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.

Cairn
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

Cairn offers a comprehensive collection of French language journals online. The complete collection contains over 150 journals in the humanities and social sciences with over 35,000 articles, which come in full-text format, and the site is updated each time a journal is published.

Cambridge Companions Online
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

Cambridge Companions Online is the electronic version of the Cambridge Companions book series, and provides introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion, and cultural studies.

Cambridge Histories Online
expiry date 30 Sep 2013

Cambridge Histories online Online is an extensive collection of leading scholarly content across a diverse range of topics, giving access to authoritative thinking and research.

Child Development, The Macmillan Psychology Reference Series
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan Reference USA - ISBN 0028658930 - Already available. Covers issues related to human development from conception through adolescence, including the latest topics on physical, social and emotional development and behaviour. It includes photos, charts, figures and tables. Related websites and current statistical data are also included.

Childlink.co.uk
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

Childlink.co.uk is a one-stop source of information on children, young people and families. This innovative online database focuses on legislation, policies and practices regarding the above groups of people who live in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Seventy-two percent of all information provided on this service relates to England and Wales with the remainder focusing on Ireland.

Cinema Image Gallery
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

Cinema Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of cinema and television images, and accompanying historical and biographical data. All material is cleared for educational use.

Collexis Expert Profiling
expiry date 14 Jul 2011

Ideal for institutions conducting biomedical research, Collexis Expert Profiling consists of two web based applications: Collexis Expert Profiles, which allows users to search for experts by keyword and name, and Collexis Institutional Dashboard, which allows users to analyse both individual and departmental profiles.

Computer Database
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Computer Database comprises more than 800 indexed journal titles, almost 450 of which are provided in full text, covering today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries in a single place.

Contemporary Fashion
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by St James Press - ISBN 1558625305 - Already available. This collection provides rich information on more than 450 fashion leaders from the 1940s to today, including current fashion industry names such as Stella McCartney and Vera Wang. Footwear designers, fashion companies and milliners are also included. Every entry is illustrated and comes with a biographical summary.

Countries and Their Cultures
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan Reference USA - ISBN 0028658965 - Already available. A valuable resource for comparing how cultures define and separate the different countries of the world. It provides a comparison of more than 200 countries using each country's shared values, behaviours and cultural variations from food and rituals to pastimes and artistic tradition. Fully illustrated, it includes more than 1,000 photos and 200 maps. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Creative Club and ADSNAPS
expiry date 30 Nov 2012

Creative Club is the UK's largest advertising archive. Including over 4.5 million advertisements across all media, users are able to search by company, brand or sector. Users can search for tv, press, direct mail, outdoor, internet, door drop, cinema and radio ads. ADSNAPS is a quick and easy way to generate product and company reports. Reports are available in PowerPoint and PDF formats.

Credo Reference (formerly XreferPlus)
expiry date 31 May 2011

Credo Reference is an online reference resource that provides access to the full text of subject-specific reference titles, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases from a wide variety of publishers. Credo guides students through topics and concepts using visualisation tools and extensive cross referencing. Constantly expanding, it contains over 3 million entries from over 400 titles, including over 200,000 multimedia items and allows seamless searching of your other library resources.

CrossFire Service
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

The CrossFire Service consists of databases of organic, inorganic and organo-metallic chemical compounds. CrossFire Beilstein contains over 10 million organic compounds, with over 10 million reactions and two million citations. CrossFire Gmelin contains over 2.4 million inorganic and organo-metallic compounds, 1.8 million reactions and 1.2 million citations. Searches can be for starting materials, products or complete reactions and factual data or free text. Hyperlinks take users to information about related substances, their citations and chemical reactions.

Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision
no expiry date

In 2005, the JISC Images Working Group set about formalising its vision for the provision of digital images in UK higher and further education. This free book provides a comprehensive view of the digital image landscape.

Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

An EDINA service which delivers collections of maps and spatial data to UK Tertiary Education. The Ordnance Survey Collection provides Ordnance Survey maps and data, either to download or to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated online by Digimap.

Digital Library of Core E-Resources On Ireland
expiry date 31 March 2034

This core collection of 620,000 pages and around 80 key journals, 210 monographs and more than 2,500 manuscript pages is available free of charge to further and higher education institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, research councils in the UK, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK and the Republic of Ireland as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. The project is providing online access to a comprehensive, multi–disciplinary digital library of research materials relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present. Ceased rare periodicals essential to the study of Ireland's cultural and political life can be found alongside journals publishing vital contemporary scholarship in their fields. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised materials on Irish Studies via JSTOR from its Ireland Collection.

DocumentsOnline
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

DocumentsOnline is an online resource that provides access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. This vast collection can be applied to a wide range of subject areas including: social history, sociology, law, international relations, politics, history and military history, art history and architecture. There are also many historical maps, diagrams, photographs and films available in the collection.

The e-books for FE project
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

This collection of 2990 e–books is part of the e-books for FE project. The 2990 e–books have been selected through extensive community consultations to provide taught course e-books for FE students and teachers. Subscription is free to all UK FE institutions thanks to funding from the Learning and Skills Council and JISC. Access to these e–books is via the ebrary platform, under unlimited oncurrent access, for five years four months. There is no charge to access the platform.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP (Text Creation Partnership)
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640), the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661, and the Early English Books Tract Supplements.

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
no expiry date

Co-funded with the ESRC, ESDS provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS Government includes large-scale government surveys; ESDS International includes a range of international macro data and ESDS Longitudinal supports key UK longitudinal data collections. ESDS Qualidata provides enhanced access and support for a range of multimedia social science qualitative datasets.

Education Image Gallery
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Specifically designed for educational purposes, the Education Image Gallery provides instant access to a unique collection of 50,000 images, which will be increased to 60,000 during the course of the new agreement. This online resource captures key events from the 19th century to the present, drawing on the vast resources of Hulton Archive, PhotoDisc and the Getty Images News Service (current events and sport). This agreement is for institutions in both further and higher education.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The eighteenth century brought the written word to the masses. Thomson Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online digitally captures this influential period and provides new research opportunities in ways previously unavailable. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Eighteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 7 Sep 2012

Launched on March 23rd 2007 at the House of Commons, the BOPCRIS 18th Century parliamentary publications project (based at the University of Southampton) provides the UK academic community with access to core 18th century official Parliamentary publications that include Parliamentary Papers, Bills, registers and Journals. By making previously obscure materials accessible, it releases potential to reassess the role of the 18th century parliament.

e-lawstudent.com 2007-2010 agreement
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

e-lawstudent.com comprises a set of up-to-date materials designed to help students across the AQA/OCR AS/A2 Law syllabus. The database attempts to broaden students' knowledge of a particular topic, make it more comprehensible, introduce them to legal research and above all to make law both interesting and relevant. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

e-lawstudent.com
expiry date 31 Jul 2013

e-lawstudent.com comprises a set of up-to-date materials designed to help students across the AQA/OCR AS/A2 Law syllabus. The database attempts to broaden students' knowledge of a particular topic, make it more comprehensible, introduce them to legal research and above all to make law both interesting and relevant. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Electronic Enlightenment
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

Electronic Enlightenment brings the the past to life through its web of correspondence, based on critical editions of primary sources. Electronic Enlightenment lets the user eavesdrop on politicians and poets, physicians and philosophers, engineers and explorers, bankers and booksellers, clockmakers and colonists, scientists and musicians.

Embase.com
expiry date 31 Dec 2009

EMBASE.com provides users with timely access to pharmacological and biomedical literature to keep them up-to-date with the latest scientific developments. It contains records from over 7,000 journals from over 70 countries, all of which are fully indexed. Over 18 million bibliographic records are included with over 2,000 new records added each working day.

Embase (via the OVID Platform)
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, is a biomedical and pharmacological database which gives users access to the most up-to-date information about medical and drug-related subjects.

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan Reference USA - ISBN 0028658973 - Already available. Very accessible and designed for the non-specialist, this title covers five major areas of business: finance and banking, accounting, marketing, management and information systems. Careers and ethics are also a major focus, with separate entries for each major business area. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons - ISBN 0648314517 - Already available. This title covers clothing, body adornment such as tatoos and body piercing and costume design for stage and screen. It examines the origins of clothing, including the development of fabrics, production techniques and manufacturing processes. Key figures such as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior are included. The Encyclopedia also provides a broader cultural and social context for fashion trends. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of e-Commerce
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677035 - Already available. The Encyclopedia features 470 comprehensive and detailed essays on topics covering the world of e-commerce. Users can find essays on online advertising, auction websites, online banking, business-to-business and business-to-consumer. It profiles industry leaders and organisations and innovators in the industry. Case studies and significant events are covered to help users understand the current e-commerce environment. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons - ISBN 0684314169 - Already available. The Encyclopedia covers the role of food in different cultures throughout time and in all parts of the world. Users can find more than 600 articles on food and its place in human culture and society. Articles cover everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to food served during holidays and festivals. Articles are supplemented with photographs, menus and recipes. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677450 - Already available. The Encyclopedia covers the whole range of subjects related to the study of psychology. Users can find articles on notable figures such as Sigmund Freud and significant case studies and experiments. It also looks at applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sport. In addition to the more than 650 articles and 175 photographs students can find charts, graphs and a glossary of over 350 terms. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of Science
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677760 - Already available. The Encyclopedia covers all major areas of science, including engineering, technology, mathematics, and the medical and health sciences. The user-friendly format helps students to understand scientific concepts. A bibliography and overview of the scientific areas discussed are also included. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Ethics
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan Reference USA - ISBN 0028659910 - Pub Date: July 2005. The Encyclopedia embodies a historically and culturally inclusive approach, with entries on specific religions, linguistic and cultural perspectives, and philosophical positions. Students can also find articles on the relatively new fields of ethical reflection - computer ethics, environmental ethics, communication ethics and genethics. The broad coverage makes it a useful reference work for science and technology courses. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

European Sources Online
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

European Sources Online (ESO) is a unique single source of full text information on Europe with a primary focus on the European Union. The online database also includes information on fifty European countries, the work of other international organisations operating within Europe as well as on issues of concern to students, researchers, citizens and stakeholders living, working and studying in Europe.

Film & Sound Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Freely available until 2010, this service provides access to 17 collections of digitised film and sound for use in education and research. These collections can be downloaded locally either in their entirety or in segments.

Film & Sound Online: Amber Films
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection consists of both documentaries and feature films and will be of interest not only to media studies departments, but also to all those interested in the political and social history of Britain in the last 30 years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Subjects covered in their films range through shipbuilding (Launch), mining and the miners' strike (News from Durham, Where are We Going and The Scar), local and national politics (T Dan Smith and the Privatisation Series), the process of change in local communities and industries (Maybe, Byker, Quayside, Glass Works, Last Shift and Sea Coal), issues relating to nuclear energy (Can't Beat It Alone), and fishing (In Fading Light).

Film & Sound Online: Anglia Television Library
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Two series, 'Who Were the British' (1965) and 'The Lost Centuries' (1968), 'Who Were the British?' covers in particular the history and the impact of the Romans in Britain. 'The Lost Centuries' covers post-Roman Europe from the rise of Christianity and the influence of the later Islamic empires through to the beginning of the Renaissance. The series also explores Anglo-Saxon Britain and the expansion of the Vikings from Scandinavia into Britain.

Film & Sound Online: Biochemical Society
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The Biochemical Society Archive films chart the development of biochemistry in the later 20th century through the experiences of some of the subject's most celebrated practitioners. The collection is a unique resource, of great value to the Society itself and to scholars of all the biochemical sciences and the history of science in general.

Film & Sound Online: Culverhouse Classical Music Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The Culverhouse Classical Music Collection is a new collection of music and scores to support media studies, media production, music, the performing arts and creative industries. JISC has worked closely with Brian Culverhouse Productions to bring a collection of music and supporting materials, which will for the first time, be available online. In collaboration with renowned record producer Brian Culverhouse, this Collection will deliver over fifty hours of copyright-cleared classical music from 17th to the 20th centuries. This audio collection allows for manipulation and editing of audio files and supporting scores, which are available in a variety of formats.

Film & Sound Online: Digital Himalaya
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This collection, extraordinary in both breadth and depth, is one of the finest ethnographic film collections documenting Himalayan cultures in India and Nepal. It also includes footage from other parts of the world, including Ceylon, Egypt, Mexico, New Guinea and the Philippines, focusing on indigenous populations.

Film & Sound Online: Educational and Television Films Ltd, the ETV Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The ETV collection is the largest collection of productions from the former Soviet Union, Communist China, the European Eastern block, Chile and Cuba, which survives in Western Europe. It is the legacy of the work of Stanley Forman, one of the leading figures in the Communist Party of Great Britain. The collection is useful in the disciplines of military, political and social history, the history of science, war studies, media studies, music and the performing arts, and the study of propaganda.

Film & Sound Online: Films of Scotland
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection charts the changing face of Scotland from the 1930s to 1982. The material is relevant to media studies, social, economic and industrial history, architectural history, cultural studies, sociology, environmental studies, and ethnographic, literary, and music studies.

Film & Sound Online: Healthcare Productions
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The material from Healthcare Productions will be of interest to those studying in the fields of healthcare, biology, childcare, care in the community and nutrition. Programmes from the 'Pathways to Care' series will be of interest to NVQ students. The material should also be beneficial to students of biomedical science, pharmacology and medicine in the HE sector.

Film & Sound Online: Imperial War Museum
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This selection is from the IWM film and video collection recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century. The films are suitable for use in a wide variety of disciplines, including military, political, social history, defence and war studies, American studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, international relations, town and country development, art, literacy and the uses of propaganda.

Film & Sound Online: IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This collection of digital films is from the IWF, one of the leading science film institutes in the world. The material will be useful to students of bio-medical science and life sciences, zoology, botany, anthropology, chemistry, environmental science, genetics, oceanography, chemistry, physics, physical sciences, mathematics, ethnography and geology.

Film & Sound Online: Logic Lane
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

A series of six films made by Professor Michael Chanan while at Oxford, the first of which (Logic Lane) traces the development of philosophy at Oxford University from the 1930s to the early 1970s.The material will be useful to students of philosophy, psychology, aesthetics and cultural theory, and language and literature.

Film & Sound Online: Performance Shakespeare
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

A new collection of films to support media studies, English literature, theatre studies, the performing arts and creative industries. The JISC has worked with the Channel 4 Learning to bring together this collection of films not previously available online. The films will complement the range of text and still images that are already accessible. This collection of award winning programmes includes recent productions of Macbeth directed by Michael Bogdanov and Twelfth Night directed by Tim Supple that give fresh insights into the plays and seek to challenge assumptions about Shakespeare's work.

Film & Sound Online: Royal Mail Film Classics
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The GPO Film Unit produced one of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film ever to come from a single UK source.The collection covers subjects ranging across transport and communications in Britain and abroad; the home front during the Second World War, British industries, from fishing to mining, the nation's health - and developments in the Post Office service itself.

Film & Sound Online: Sheffield University Learning Media Unit Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Sheffield University Learning Media Unit is one of the largest university production units in the UK. Their collection covers a wide range of subjects and programmes, and is useful right across the academic range, including subjects like mathematics, medicine, bio-medical science, psychiatry, chemistry, life sciences, biology, sociology, environmental and earth sciences, history, archaeology, music, law, geology, civil engineering, foreign languages, English language and the performing arts (drama, theatre and dance).

Film & Sound Online: St George's Hospital Medical School Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection of 19 films from St George's Hospital Medical School Academic Services reflects the teaching needs of one of the leading medical schools in the UK.

Film & Sound Online: The Trials of Alger Hiss
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This has been referred to as the 'trial of the century' and offers an insight into the McCarthy era and American politics. The film 'The Trials of Alger Hiss' is an account of the espionage and perjury case that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Alger Hiss, leading exponent of the New Deal and prior to his trial the man entrusted with the delivery of the new U.N. charter back to Washington in a special plane for President Truman's signature.

Film & Sound Online: Wellcome Film Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Wellcome Film provides access to films and videos which were previously only available to view onsite at the Wellcome Library's premises. Researchers, educators, students and browsers are able to witness the evolution of medicine, health and social care provision and practice over the past 100 years and engage with the use of film as a communication tool in the medical sciences.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, JISC Collections Selection
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

Covering the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English.

The Gale Cengage Collection
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

A collection of 16 resources from Gale Cengage.

Gale Virtual Reference Library for FE
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

JISC has funded a perpetual licence for 21 electronic reference titles - including several multi-volume sets - for the further education community. These titles are provided at no charge for the content, though an access fee of £65 per year is payable to the Publisher. In hard copy, this collection of 21 reference titles would cost £4,900. Unlike the hard copy equivalents, any number of students and practitioners can access these titles at the same time, whether they are working in the college or from home.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library comprises seven subject packages of authoritative reference content, covering: Arts and literature; Business; World history; Medicine; Religion and Social sciences.

Geology Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Geology Digimap is an EDINA service which delivers geological maps and data to UK Tertiary Education. Geology maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS) are available at scales of 1:50,000, 1:250,000 and 1:625,000. Geology Digimap will be part of the Digimap suite of on-line mapping services. As such, its look and feel will be familiar to existing Digimap users but intuitive to all, regardless of their level of experience with geology maps. Users will be able to view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems.

Grove Art Online
expiry date 31 May 2011, plus free access Oct-Dec 2009 for all new and returning subscribers

Global Issues in Context
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Global Issues in Context is a new electronic resource that offers critical perspectives on a broad range of topics and events of international relevance. Structured and easily as navigable as an open web website, this resource ties together a variety of trusted sources to present a rich analysis of issues in social, political, economical, technological and environmental perspectives.

Grove Art Online covers all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day, from art and architecture to ceramics and photography. It gives online access to the  text of over 50,000 articles from the 34 volume Dictionary of Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Grove Music Online
expiry date 31 May 2011, plus free access Oct-Dec 2009 for all new and returning subscribers

Grove Music Online includes the full text articles from The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and many other leading music reference works. Updated regularly, this resource is relevant to all levels of study and contains Sibelius enabled audio examples, learning resources and timelines, bibliographic information, and more.

Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online joint offer
expiry date 31 May 2011, plus free access Oct-Dec 2009 for all new and returning subscribers

This combined subscription to Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online offers a discount of 20% on the overall cost.

Hairdressing Training
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Hairdressing Training is an interactive online training resource, designed specifically for the UK education community, covering every area of the NVQ Level 2 syllabus. Created and delivered by experts in hairdressing and education, Hairdressing Training will be updated regularly to reflect changes in styles and to include new haircuts.

Historic Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

Historic Digimap is part of the Digimap suite of on-line mapping facilities. As such, its look and feel will be familiar to existing Digimap users but intuitive to all, regardless of their level of experience with maps. Users will be able to view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download the historic map data for use in geographical information systems.

History Behind the Headlines
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787691593 - Already available. Today's newspapers are filled with reports of conflicts between nations. Most of them have deep-rooted, historical causes that are not always explained in the media. This title looks at important background information on long-term ethnic, religious, political, territorial and economic conflicts; terrorism is also well-analysed and documented. Entries are complete with essays, photographs, maps, charts, biographies and current status of the conflicts.

History Resource Center: World
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive online collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity up to the present..

History Study Centre
expiry date 30 May 2010

History Study Centre is an online resource of digitised primary and secondary sources with over 40,000 documents and articles. It is a general history resource covering British, American, European, and world history, and includes over 50 reference works, 60 journals, 3,000 images, and a multimedia section.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

• 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Humanities E-Book (formerly History Ebook Project Collection)
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. Readers have the ability to find text and graphics, and to perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts in great depth and context.

The HW Wilson Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

The HW Wilson Collection consists of five online databases that are available individually or collectively: Art Abstracts; Art Full Text; Art Museum Image Gallery; Cinema Image Gallery and Science Full Text Select.

Info4education
expiry date 31 May 2011

Info4Education is an IHS Technical Indexes education platform which provides access to standards, regulatory and product and supplier information on construction, health and safety and engineering from organisations across the world. Info4education consists of: British Standards Online, Construction Information Service, Occupational Health & Safety Information Service, Specify-It and Engineer-It.

Informit
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

A collection of seven databases, over a variety of subject areas, containing content from the Asia Pacific region.

Informit: AGIS Plus Text (Law)
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

The Informit AGIS database is a collection of secondary legal resources, providing access to abstracts and full text articles from over 130 legal journals from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.

Informit A+ Education
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

A+ Education is a full text database based on the index provided by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). It will benefit teachers, students, librarians, policy makers and practitioners looking to learn more about the impact and influences shaping education policies internationally.

Informit: Australian Public Affairs - Full Text
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

APA-FT provides research from journals indexed in the Australian Public Affairs Information Service Index (APAIS) produced by the National Library of Australia. Provides access to over 90,000 articles from over 500 journals.

Informit Business Collection
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

Informit e-Library - Business Collection is an authoritative source for business research, allowing users to delve deeply into issues, events and trends which influence, and are influenced by, the Australasian region.

Informit Engineering Collection
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

Based on the Engineers Australia library collection, the Informit e-Library – Engineering Collection is the only database which encompasses all aspects of engineering in Australia.

Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

Informit e-Library - Humanities & Social Sciences Collection is a multidisciplinary collection covering a wide subject range including health and the social sciences, policy and legal issues.

Informit Meditext
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

Meditext provides access to allied health and nursing content from the Asia Pacific region. Content includes research articles, reports and case studies of practical support to students and professionals working in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles.

InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
expiry date 31 July 2010

A unique collection of journals and English language newspapers, providing one of the largest aggregations of full-text periodical content in the market place. The InfoTrac Custom Newspapers database carries approximately 40 English language newspapers including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Independent and The Daily Mail. InfoTrac OneFile provides back file coverage of over 9,000 titles from 1980 to the present, with instant one-stop access to an integrated database containing approximately 38 million records. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Proceedings Archive 1847-1996
expiry date 31 Aug 2012

The IMechE Proceedings archive contains over 200,000 pages of unique material, including technical papers, obituaries, meeting reports, technical drawings, and editorial comment published in the proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

Institute of Physics Journal Archive 1999-2006
expiry date 30 Jun 2012

The Institute of Physics Journal Archive 1999-2006 is the digitised journal collection of the Institute of Physics from 1999-2006. It bridges the gap in content between the Institute of Physics Journal Archive 1874-1998, and the Institute of Physics' NESLi2 package.

Institute of Physics Journal Archive 1874-1998
expiry date 31 Dec 2014

The Institute of Physics Journals Archive is the digitised journal collection of the Institute of Physics from 1874-1998. The Archive contains over 110,000 articles and over 1.5 million pages of research.

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library archive 1836-2001
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

The ICE Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) between 1836 and 2001. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived. Subjects range from civil engineering and history to architecture and transportation. The JISC has licensed the ICE Virtual Library archive in perpetuity on behalf of the UK education community, making it freely available to all UK higher and further education institutions.

Internet Archaeology
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

Internet Archaeology is an independent, fully refereed academic online journal, which is published by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The journal was founded in 1995 and publishes international research that utilise the potential of electronic publication.

Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 (issues 1-21 inclusive)
expiry date 28 Feb 2012

JISC Collections has purchased the Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means they now have permanent access to ten years of rich multimedia scholarly content completely free of charge (to issues 1-21 of the journal). Content ranges from excavation reports (incorporating text, photographs, data, drawings, reconstruction diagrams, interpretations) and analysis of large data sets along with the data itself, to visualisations and applications of information technology in archaeology.

Ireland Collection – Digital Library of Core E-Resources On Ireland
expiry date 31 March 2034

This core collection of 620,000 pages and around 80 key journals, 210 monographs and more than 2,500 manuscript pages is available free of charge to further and higher education institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, research councils in the UK, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK and the Republic of Ireland as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. The project is providing online access to a comprehensive, multi–disciplinary digital library of research materials relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present. Ceased rare periodicals essential to the study of Ireland's cultural and political life can be found alongside journals publishing vital contemporary scholarship in their fields. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised materials on Irish Studies via JSTOR from its Ireland Collection.

Jorum
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.

JSTOR
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

JSTOR includes archives dating from as early as the 17th century of over 1000 leading academic journals and other scholarly resources across the arts, humanities, health and life sciences, social sciences and sciences. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. For more information about the JSTOR collections, please visit JSTOR's Available Collections.

Keesing's World News Archive
31 December 2010

Keesing's World News Archive provides comprehensive, accurate and concise stories on world events since 1931. 100,000 carefully written articles are indexed, intricately linked and easily located using this powerful new online database.

Knovel
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Knovel converts important Science and Engineering books, databases and conference proceedings from over forty publishers into a single research platform. Knovel is available as a complete collection or institutions may build their own collection by combining subject areas of interest.

KnowUK
expiry date 31 May 2010

Know UK is a collection of current UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Land, Life and Leisure
no expiry date

This citation index, covers the popular press as well as scholarly journals on; agriculture, countryside management, environmental change, equine studies and leisure and tourism.

Landmap Service
no expiry date

The Landmap Service provides web-based access to and support for a range of satellite imagery for the British Isles for research and teaching purposes. It provides access to a set of orthorectified satellite images from four satellites, Landsat5, Landsat7, SPOT and ERS. The data cover the UK from 1988-2001, and can be used as stand alone, in image processing software, or graphics software, or in association with user's data or other mapping data such as Ordnance Survey data. In addition, a Digital Elevation Model of the whole of the British Isles at 25 metre resolution is available.

Learning and Memory
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan Reference USA - Already available. Two hundred and twelve articles covering the whole range of topics related to learning and memory, such as conditioning, dementia, hypnosis and brain-anatomy. New fields include autobiographical memory, collective memory, deja vu and schizophrenia. Entries are well-written, with indexes, cross references and up-to-date bibliographies.

LegalTrac
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, LegalTrac is an online database of legal journal abstracts and full text articles. It serves students, law school faculty and legal researchers alike.

Literary Encyclopedia, The
expiry date 31 Aug 2012

The Literary Encyclopedia is a state-of-the-art reference work focused on literature originally written in English or translated into English. All entries since 1999 have been written by a network of over 1,200 scholars and experts and edited by a scholarly board.

Literature Online for HE (LION)
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

Fully searchable library of more than 349,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose from the 8th to the 21st century, with thousands critical articles, essays, biographies and encyclopaedia entries.

Literature Online Reference Edition (For Colleges)
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

A unique database that provides users with today's most-studied works and authors, including JRR Tolkien, Sherman Alexie, Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, and many more. Users will also find information about classic works and the critical and reference materials needed to put literature into context.

Literature Resources
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, Literature Resources from Gale brings together content from a range of sources that comprise Literature Resource Center and LitFinder. These two complementary databases are accessible in a single interface, specifically designed to meet the needs of the literature researcher.

LOCKSS UK Alliance
expiry date 31 July 2010

Following a successful two-year JISC-funded pilot by 24 libraries in UK higher education, the UK LOCKSS Alliance is moving forward in 2008/9 as a membership organization, with endorsement from an independent evaluation report and from JISC.

This announcement comes with invitation to join the UK LOCKSS Alliance, with a membership fee set to ensure sustainability of technical support and procedures geared to address UK technical and collection development needs.

Marine Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Providing marine and coastal zone mapping from SeaZone Ltd., this resource includes raster marine maps of various scales and vector thematic marine data suitable for advanced spatial analysis and customised mapping. Users can view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing, and download the marine map data for use in geographical information systems.

Morgan & Claypool
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

Morgan & Claypool's Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering & Computer Science is a revolutionary new collection of e-books. Each e-book is a dynamic presentation of key research and development topics written and peer reviewed by leading engineers and scientists.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Arts and Humanities
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum holds a rich collection of materials to support research into the arts and humanities. The collection document the political and intellectual history of society, including the maritime influence on arts, crafts and literature. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Health and Medicine
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum's archives provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life and health of the sailor, documenting health care provision, living conditions and diet. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Science and Technology
no expiry date

As home to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), the National Maritime Museum archives contain important collections that support research in engineering, maths and computing. Collections cover the astronomical and navigational developments achieved by the world-famous ROG and demonstrate the central role that technological development played in the emergence and maintenance of Britain's maritime supremacy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Social Sciences
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum's archives hold extensive materials representing the social, legal and commercial life that developed around the sea as well as those reflecting the importance of the environment to these worlds. Maps, charts, records of seaborne trade and ephemera provide a remarkable insight into leisure activities. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons - ISBN 0684314525 - Already available. This title is an essential tool to make the often complex history of 'what we think' accessible to students. It explores already well-covered subjects such as communism, linguistics and physics, as well as more recent ones such as post-modernism, deconstruction or post-colonialism.

NewsFilm Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

NewsFilm Online is a collection of over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories which lets users see and hear the events that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. Funded by JISC, content is free to subscribers until July 2012 and is suitable for all academic levels.

NewsUK
expiry date 31 May 2010

NewsUK provides international, national and regional news, combining regional and national British newspaper and magazine titles in a single database. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history. Because it is funded by JISC, access to this resource is free for Higher and Further Education Communities in the UK.

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 30 Oct 2011

JISC has purchased the digitised images of the 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) on behalf of the UK HE and FE community (including the Research Councils). The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) is a very important source of information on the 19th Century covering everything officially published concerning the British Parliament and its work. The HCPP includes debates, proceedings and reports of their committees and outside bodies on public affairs, and more.

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

This resource spotlights the birth of modern magazine publishing in Britain, charting the rise of children's entertainment and education, and increasing interest in popular sports and hobbies. It also covers the political spectrum of women's writing, and reflects the changing attitudes and influences of the time.

Nonfiction Classics for Students
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787692794 - Already available. This title provides essential and easy-to-use tools on the most studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies and memoirs. It is an ideal starting point for students for class assignments and special projects. Entries include author biographies, principal characters, introduction, principal themes developed in the work, and historical and cultural context. It also provides critical essays written by academics, illustrations, maps, chronology of literary and world events, glossary and other indexes. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Nursing Resource Center
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, The Nursing Resource Center provides authoritative information written in accessible language for Nursing students completing research papers, class assignments, and those preparing for their clinical experiences as they learn how to care for and treat patients.

Nutrition and Well-Being A-Z
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmilan Reference USA - 00228659902 - Already available. Nutritional issues and health are increasingly important topics. This title analyses how nutrition has, is and will affect the quality of life, health and fitness in various countries. It defines the role nutrition plays in weight and height increases, and nutritional factors in diabetes and obesity, for example information about different eating patterns in different countries and cultures are also included. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Ovid Arts Package
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This offer comprises of four Arts and Humanities 'Abstract and Indexing' databases; Bibliography of the History of Art, Abstracts of Music Literature, the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals and the International Federation of Film Archives, currently provided on the SilverPlatter platform. Each resource is available individually or can be combined and subject to a multi-product discount.

Oxford Biblical Studies Online
expiry date 31 May 2011

Oxford Biblical Studies Online includes over 5,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly works, access to full text Bibles along with commentary and annotations plus maps, illustrations, and timelines.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
expiry date 31 May 2011

The online edition offers fast desktop access to the complete text of the new 60-volume Oxford Dictionary of National Biography containing 50,000 specially-written biographies and 10,000 portrait illustrations as well as the complete text of the first 33-volume Dictionary of National Biography.

Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED)
expiry date 31 May 2011

The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It also traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.

Oxford Handbooks Online
expiry date 31 May 2011

The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. The Oxford Handbooks provide an in-depth introduction to topics in each discipline, and are an essential reference resource for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
expiry date 31 May 2011

Oxford Islamic Studies Online is an authoritative resource which brings together the best current scholarship in the field, and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Including over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources, this resource will be of interest to a wide audience.

Oxford Journals Archive
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

The Oxford Journals Archive represents over 165 years of historical research. The online archive contains articles from over 140 titles, compiled into subject-based archives, which includes The Humanities Archive (1829 - 1995), The Medicine Archive (1878 - 1995), The Science Archive (1848 - 1995), The Law Archive (1952 - 1995) and The Social Science Archive (1902 - 1995).

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
expiry date 31 May 2011

An invaluable resource for teaching, learning and research, Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers up-to-date, accurate, and authoritative translations for millions of words and phrases in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, from and into English.

Oxford Reference Online (ORO)
expiry date 31 May 2011

Oxford Reference Online (ORO) is a comprehensive and authoritative online library which brings together a vast range of language and subject reference works from one of the world's leading publishers into a fully cross-searchable resource.

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)
expiry date 31 May 2011

An invaluable resource for online research and teaching, Oxford Scholarship Online now offers unlimited cross-searchable access to over 2,700 Oxford books in 17 subject areas covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities. At least 400 new books will be added each year.

Parliamentary Papers

• 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

PathCAL
expiry date 31 Aug 2011

PathCAL is a set of web-based tutorials designed to help students understand the basic pathological principles of disease by exploiting techniques in learning psychology. They can be used by beginners for learning the subject for the first time or by more advanced students for review and self-assessment. The tutorials were written and developed by experienced university teachers over the last ten years and have been subsequently edited and enhanced by both staff and students.

ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online
expiry date 31 May 2013

This agreement is a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from the Periodicals Archive Online collection. Dating from 1891 to 2000, content included in this agreement is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates.

Pidgeon Digital
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

The Pidgeon Digital Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations.

Planex
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Planex provides online access to the most comprehensive collection of bibliographic abstracts on all aspects of best practice and governance in the UK public sector. Subjects range from urban and rural regeneration and planning and environment to recreation and leisure and anti-crime initiatives.

Portico 
5 year licence term for each participant 

Portico offers a not-for-profit service that provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals, thereby providing protection against the potential loss of access to e-literature integral to a library's collection. This is not a JISC Collections agreement.

Pollution A to Z
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Macmillan reference USA - ISBN 0028659058 - Already available. Pollution and environmental issues continue to cause social concern. This title provides information and comment on the latest pollution issues, such as acid rain, noise pollution, global warning or nuclear energy, and discusses the ethical and social issues. It contains numerous charts, graphics and pictures, which illustrate the different subjects. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

Public Information Online
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

Public Information Online is a complete collection of parliamentary papers available to download as pdf files. Beginning with the 2006-2007 parliamentary session, the collection includes: House of Commons Papers, House of Lords Papers, Command Papers, Public Bill Committee Papers, and Explanatory Notes from the House of Commons and House of Lords.

Reaxys (CrossFire)
expiry date 31 Oct 2011

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. It is built to support chemists in their daily work with focussed and relevant information in chemistry. Reaxys is the successor to CrossFire, which is also available under this agreement until the end of 2010.

The RefWorks-COS Collection
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

The RefWorks-COS Collection is a suite of online abstract and index databases and research management tools comprising RefAware, RefWorks and the COS Research Support Suite.

RDS Business Suite
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

Part of the Gale Cengage Collection, RDS Business Suite brings together Business and Industry, Business and Management Practices, and TableB, RDS Business suite delivers a comprehensive business research package.

Rock's Backpages
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

Rock's Backpages is an online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text. The database also includes Mp3 audio files of original artist interviews, which are available for the first time. There are now twelve thousand articles on the site, featuring over two thousand artists with up to fifty new articles added each week.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has created a fully searchable digital archive of all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. The RSC Journals Archive will contain about 210,000 articles and 1,200,000 pages.

Science Full Text Select
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

Science Full Text Select features all of the full text content from Applied Science & Technology Full Text,Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text .

Science of Everyday Things
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677469 - Already available. This title takes the basic principles of mathematics and science and illustrates their importance and application in everyday things, giving students a new approach to the application of scientific theories. The focus is on Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Physics, illustrating their use in everyday life. There are 40-50 entries in each section, including photos, diagrams, short glossaries and interesting facts. This agreement is for further education institutions only.

TheScientificWorldJournal
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ) is an innovative way to gather, publish and organise scientific and medical information. An online scientific journal, TSWJ recognises the multidisciplinary nature of science, which resists clear-cut definitions and covers subjects ranging from biomedicine to environmental sciences.

Scopus
expiry date 31 Mar 2011

Scopus is an abstracting and index database from Elsevier. Scopus is designed to provide expert results for the non-expert researcher. Updated daily, Scopus includes the abstracts and cited references of over 14,000 titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in the sciences and social sciences.

Scholarly Communications Report
expiry date 14 Oct 2010

Scholarly Communications Report is an electronic newsletter covering news and updates on key issues in scholarly communications. Published eleven times a year it provides a broad overview of industry trends, combined with evaluative and critical analysis of the key issues and developments.

SCRAN Resource
expiry date 31 Oct 2011

SCRAN combines an extensive educational image archive and an easy environment for creating and sharing learning resources onsite and online. Users have access to over 360,000 high-quality copyright-cleared images, all with extensive accompanying text, and also organised with subject support. Extras include 5,000 video-clips, sound files, 3,000 aggregated Pathfinder Packs and Online Training.

Shakespeare Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

The Shakespeare Collection is a research environment for Shakespeare, Renaissance, Early Modern, Literary, and Performance Studies and Theatre History.

Social Theory
expiry date 29 Sep 2011

Social Theory offers an extensive collection of influential writings that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behaviour and organisation. Each book, section, chapter and article within Social Theory is indexed using a specially created thesaurus of terms, allowing users to search more efficiently than ever before. Containing seminal works by authors including Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, Social Theory provides comprehensive coverage of the major social thinkers.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
no expiry date

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an Open Access resource, allowing the education community to share and read for free the writings of the finest experts in the field of philosophy.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland
no expiry date

The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland provide important source material for historians of Scotland. They comprise county and parish descriptions compiled by Church of Scotland clergy across a critical 40-50 year period during the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and cover topics such topography, climate, population, agriculture, schools, fishing, and morals. The 21 volumes of the first Statistical Account, published between 1791 and 1799, were described by a contemporary as 'a Doomsday book for Scotland'. Published in 15 volumes in 1845, the second (New) Statistical Account also contained many drawings and county maps.

SUPC - eBrary
no expiry date

Part of SUPC National e-books agreements - tendered and managed by SUPC on behalf of the HE and FE sectors. Materials are available in full text format through the ebrary platform and the efficient ebrary reader browser plug-in. Subjects range from antiques and collectibles to political science and travel. This is not a JISC Collections agreement.

SUPC - ProQuest Safari
no expiry date

Part of SUPC National e-books agreements - tendered and managed by SUPC on behalf of the HE and FE sectors. Safari covers everything for the IT expert to the graphic designer as well as the novice user. Safari has been designed to deliver high-quality publications covering every area pertinent to the IT industry and gives you the flexibility to choose between deeper coverage of specific areas or broad coverage of many. Over twenty technical categories are covered. This is not a JISC Collections agreement.

Taylor & Francis Geography, Planning, Urban and Environment Online Archive
expiry date 30 Jun 2013

This resource gives access to the backfiles of 28 journals relevant to environment studies, geography, planning studies, and urban studies. Free until 2013, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers.

Taylor & Francis Online eBook Library
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

The Taylor & Francis Group has over 15,000 titles available in the Online eBook Library, providing a wealth of material for librarians, academics and students at all levels. With an eBook, students can interact with their research materials - highlighting, annotating, creating their own notes and bookmarks, according to their own needs. This comprehensive collection includes the leading titles published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, RoutledgeFalmer, RoutledgeCurzon, Martin Dunitz and Spon Press.

Times Digital Archive, The (1785-1985)
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) provides convenient access to an extraordinary library of back issues of this renowned newspaper online. By taking the microfilm collection of The Times (London) and producing a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, The Times Digital Archive represents unprecedented access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th and 20th century history.

Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 8 Jan 2013

Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers extends the coverage of the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) from 1901-2004 using the one seamless interface and allowing researchers to track papers and themes across more than 200 years of official records.

UKPressOnline
31 July 2012

UKPressOnline features end-to-end archives of the Daily Mirror, from 1903 to today, and the Daily Express, from 1900 to yesterday.

Web of Science Agreement
expiry date 30 Sep 2010

ISI Web of Knowledge is a dynamic, fully integrated research environment. It is a platform built on a foundation of quality that includes stringent and objective content selection standards, unmatched depth of backfiles and true cited reference searching. And it serves as a path that leads to a future of innovation that researchers will continue to rely on to access the most accurate, relevant, and thorough research data and analysis.

Who's Who
expiry date 31 May 2011

Containing information on over 32,000 people, Who's Who is now published online by Oxford University Press and is updated throughout the year. You can extend your subscription to include Who Was Who, which collects together the entries of more than 100,000 people who were included in the register but have died since 1897.

Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks
expiry date 11 Apr 2010

Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks offers subscriptions to the electronic versions of science, technology and medical monographs delivered online via the Wiley InterScience interface. Wiley Interscience OnlineBooks are available across five main disciplines: Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Life and Medical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics and Statistics.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787693847 - Pub Date: May 2005. In 1,800 pages across three volumes, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677736 - Already available. Presents easy-to-understand information on 193 countries and dependencies from around the world. Its four country volumes are arranged by global region (Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania, and Europe), while a United Nations volume focuses on that organisation's purposes, principles and agencies, including the Security Council and Human Rights Commission. It contains maps, flags and numerous pictures.

World Press Encyclopedia
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Part of the Gale Virtual Reference for FE. Published by Gale - ISBN 0787677280 - Already available. This comprehensive survey of press and electronic media now covers nearly 200 countries. Arranged alphabetically by country, entries begin with an overview of the background, economic framework and general characteristics of each country's press.

Xtreme Information
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

Xtreme Information is an online database of advertising materials from 65 territories around the world covering all medias including TV, press, Internet, radio, cinema and updated daily. This resource can be used across a range of subjects including advertising, art, business studies, design, leisure and tourism, management studies, marketing, media studies and sociology.

18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 7 Sep 2012

Launched on March 23rd 2007 at the House of Commons, the BOPCRIS 18th Century parliamentary publications project (based at the University of Southampton) provides the UK academic community with access to core 18th century official Parliamentary publications that include Parliamentary Papers, Bills, registers and Journals. By making previously obscure materials accessible, it releases potential to reassess the role of the 18th century parliament.

19th Century British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history.

19th Century British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 30 Oct 2011

JISC has purchased the digitised images of the 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) on behalf of the UK HE and FE community (including the Research Councils). The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) is a very important source of information on the 19th Century covering everything officially published concerning the British Parliament and its work. The HCPP includes debates, proceedings and reports of their committees and outside bodies on public affairs, and more.

20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 8 Jan 2013

Twentieth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers extends the coverage of the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) from 1901-2004 using the one seamless interface and allowing researchers to track papers and themes across more than 200 years of official records.

BFI Inview
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

BFI InView is an online resource which offers a unique window on Britain’s changing political, economic and social landscape in the age of film and television, containing some 1,000 hours of non-fiction moving image titles to view or download, alongside 8,000 pages of related documents.

Brill Journal Archive Online
expiry date 31 May 2013

The Brill Journal Archive Online provides access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000. Suitable for graduates and postgraduates, this resource has content relevant to biology, the humanities, human rights, international law, science, and the social sciences.

British Cartoon Archive
no expiry date

The British Cartoon Archive is a library, archive and gallery dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. Located at the University of Kent in Canterbury, it holds the national collection of cartoons of political and social comment published in British newspapers and magazines.

The British Cartoon Archive Digitisation Project funded by JISC through its Digitisation Programme, has digitised the Carl Giles Archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a key resource for British political and social history that has never before been open to the public. Thanks to this funding, staff, students and researchers at colleges, universities and research councils in the UK will be able to access and use the entire Giles Collection of 15,000 cartoon images, with some 5,000 pages of related paperwork, free of charge.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII): Open Law Project
no expiry date

The JISC provided funding to enable BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) to run the 36-month Open Law Project. The intention of which was to digitise thousands of core historical legal judgments and law reports, and for the first time to make these freely and openly available electronically. The project has digitised a total of over 40,000 pages. At present BAILII offers free access to British and Irish primary legal materials.

British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history. Because it is funded by JISC, access to this resource is free for Higher and Further Education Communities in the UK.

British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

British Periodicals Collections I and II
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian "age of periodicals" and beyond. British Periodicals consists of two separate collections, British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II. This unique digital archive consists of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture. As part of the JISC Collections UK National Academic Archive, British Periodicals Collections I and II are available free of charge until 31 December 2013 to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.

Burney Collection
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

The Burney Collection includes nearly 1 million pages from 1,270 parliamentary papers, pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks, and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia between 1600–1800. Until now, access to the Burney Collection has been very restricted – both in print and online. The corpus of printed materials – originally collated by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) – has been housed at the British Library but, due to its value and fragility, it has not been available for general use. As part of the JISC Collections UK National Academic Archive, the Burney Collection is available free of charge until 31 December 2013 to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.

The e-books for FE project
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

This collection of 2990 e–books is part of the e-books for FE project. The 2990 e–books have been selected through extensive community consultations to provide taught course e-books for FE students and teachers. Subscription is free to all UK FE institutions thanks to funding from the Learning and Skills Council and JISC. Access to these e–books is via the ebrary platform, under unlimited oncurrent access, for five years four months. There is no charge to access the platform.

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
no expiry date

Co-funded with the ESRC, ESDS provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS Government includes large-scale government surveys; ESDS International includes a range of international macro data and ESDS Longitudinal supports key UK longitudinal data collections. ESDS Qualidata provides enhanced access and support for a range of multimedia social science qualitative datasets.

Eighteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 7 Sep 2012

Launched on March 23rd 2007 at the House of Commons, the BOPCRIS 18th Century parliamentary publications project (based at the University of Southampton) provides the UK academic community with access to core 18th century official Parliamentary publications that include Parliamentary Papers, Bills, registers and Journals. By making previously obscure materials accessible, it releases potential to reassess the role of the 18th century parliament.

Film & Sound Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Freely available until 2009, this service provides access to 17 collections of digitised film and sound for use in education and research. These collections can be downloaded locally either in their entirety or in segments.

Film & Sound Online: Amber Films
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection consists of both documentaries and feature films and will be of interest not only to media studies departments, but also to all those interested in the political and social history of Britain in the last 30 years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Subjects covered in their films range through shipbuilding (Launch), mining and the miners' strike (News from Durham, Where are We Going and The Scar), local and national politics (T Dan Smith and the Privatisation Series), the process of change in local communities and industries (Maybe, Byker, Quayside, Glass Works, Last Shift and Sea Coal), issues relating to nuclear energy (Can't Beat It Alone), and fishing (In Fading Light).

Film & Sound Online: Anglia Television Library
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Two series, 'Who Were the British' (1965) and 'The Lost Centuries' (1968), 'Who Were the British?' covers in particular the history and the impact of the Romans in Britain. 'The Lost Centuries' covers post-Roman Europe from the rise of Christianity and the influence of the later Islamic empires through to the beginning of the Renaissance. The series also explores Anglo-Saxon Britain and the expansion of the Vikings from Scandinavia into Britain.

Film & Sound Online: Biochemical Society
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The Biochemical Society Archive films chart the development of biochemistry in the later 20th century through the experiences of some of the subject's most celebrated practitioners. The collection is a unique resource, of great value to the Society itself and to scholars of all the biochemical sciences and the history of science in general.

Film & Sound Online: Culverhouse Classical Music Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The Culverhouse Classical Music Collection is a new collection of music and scores to support media studies, media production, music, the performing arts and creative industries. JISC has worked closely with Brian Culverhouse Productions to bring a collection of music and supporting materials, which will for the first time, be available online. In collaboration with renowned record producer Brian Culverhouse, this Collection will deliver over fifty hours of copyright-cleared classical music from 17th to the 20th centuries. This audio collection allows for manipulation and editing of audio files and supporting scores, which are available in a variety of formats.

Film & Sound Online: Digital Himalaya
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This collection, extraordinary in both breadth and depth, is one of the finest ethnographic film collections documenting Himalayan cultures in India and Nepal. It also includes footage from other parts of the world, including Ceylon, Egypt, Mexico, New Guinea and the Philippines, focusing on indigenous populations.

Film & Sound Online: Educational and Television Films Ltd, the ETV Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The ETV collection is the largest collection of productions from the former Soviet Union, Communist China, the European Eastern block, Chile and Cuba, which survives in Western Europe. It is the legacy of the work of Stanley Forman, one of the leading figures in the Communist Party of Great Britain. The collection is useful in the disciplines of military, political and social history, the history of science, war studies, media studies, music and the performing arts, and the study of propaganda.

Film & Sound Online: Films of Scotland
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection charts the changing face of Scotland from the 1930s to 1982. The material is relevant to media studies, social, economic and industrial history, architectural history, cultural studies, sociology, environmental studies, and ethnographic, literary, and music studies.

Film & Sound Online: Healthcare Productions
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The material from Healthcare Productions will be of interest to those studying in the fields of healthcare, biology, childcare, care in the community and nutrition. Programmes from the 'Pathways to Care' series will be of interest to NVQ students. The material should also be beneficial to students of biomedical science, pharmacology and medicine in the HE sector.

Film & Sound Online: Imperial War Museum
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This selection is from the IWM film and video collection recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century. The films are suitable for use in a wide variety of disciplines, including military, political, social history, defence and war studies, American studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, international relations, town and country development, art, literacy and the uses of propaganda.

Film & Sound Online: IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This collection of digital films is from the IWF, one of the leading science film institutes in the world. The material will be useful to students of bio-medical science and life sciences, zoology, botany, anthropology, chemistry, environmental science, genetics, oceanography, chemistry, physics, physical sciences, mathematics, ethnography and geology.

Film & Sound Online: Logic Lane
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

A series of six films made by Professor Michael Chanan while at Oxford, the first of which (Logic Lane) traces the development of philosophy at Oxford University from the 1930s to the early 1970s.The material will be useful to students of philosophy, psychology, aesthetics and cultural theory, and language and literature.

Film & Sound Online: Performance Shakespeare
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

A new collection of films to support media studies, English literature, theatre studies, the performing arts and creative industries. The JISC has worked with the Channel 4 Learning to bring together this collection of films not previously available online. The films will complement the range of text and still images that are already accessible. This collection of award winning programmes includes recent productions of Macbeth directed by Michael Bogdanov and Twelfth Night directed by Tim Supple that give fresh insights into the plays and seek to challenge assumptions about Shakespeare's work.

Film & Sound Online: Royal Mail Film Classics
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The GPO Film Unit produced one of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film ever to come from a single UK source.The collection covers subjects ranging across transport and communications in Britain and abroad; the home front during the Second World War, British industries, from fishing to mining, the nation's health - and developments in the Post Office service itself.

Film & Sound Online: Sheffield University Learning Media Unit Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Sheffield University Learning Media Unit is one of the largest university production units in the UK. Their collection covers a wide range of subjects and programmes, and is useful right across the academic range, including subjects like mathematics, medicine, bio-medical science, psychiatry, chemistry, life sciences, biology, sociology, environmental and earth sciences, history, archaeology, music, law, geology, civil engineering, foreign languages, English language and the performing arts (drama, theatre and dance).

Film & Sound Online: St George's Hospital Medical School Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

The collection of 19 films from St George's Hospital Medical School Academic Services reflects the teaching needs of one of the leading medical schools in the UK.

Film & Sound Online: The Trials of Alger Hiss
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

This has been referred to as the 'trial of the century' and offers an insight into the McCarthy era and American politics. The film 'The Trials of Alger Hiss' is an account of the espionage and perjury case that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Alger Hiss, leading exponent of the New Deal and prior to his trial the man entrusted with the delivery of the new U.N. charter back to Washington in a special plane for President Truman's signature.

Film & Sound Online: Wellcome Film Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Wellcome Film provides access to films and videos which were previously only available to view onsite at the Wellcome Library's premises. Researchers, educators, students and browsers are able to witness the evolution of medicine, health and social care provision and practice over the past 100 years and engage with the use of film as a communication tool in the medical sciences.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, JISC Collections Selection
expiry date 31 Aug 2014

Covering the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English.

Hairdressing Training
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Hairdressing Training is an interactive online training resource, designed specifically for the UK education community, covering every area of the NVQ Level 2 syllabus. Created and delivered by experts in hairdressing and education, Hairdressing Training will be updated regularly to reflect changes in styles and to include new haircuts.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

• 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Institute of Physics Journal Archive 1874-1998
expiry date 31 Dec 2014

The Institute of Physics Journals Archive is the digitised journal collection of the Institute of Physics from 1874-1998. The Archive contains over 110,000 articles and over 1.5 million pages of research.

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library archive 1836-2001
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

The ICE Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) between 1836 and 2001. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived. Subjects range from civil engineering and history to architecture and transportation. The JISC has licensed the ICE Virtual Library archive in perpetuity on behalf of the UK education community, making it freely available to all UK higher and further education institutions.

Internet Archaeology
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

Internet Archaeology is an independent, fully refereed academic online journal, which is published by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The journal was founded in 1995 and publishes international research that utilise the potential of electronic publication.

Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 (issues 1-21 inclusive)
expiry date 28 Feb 2012

JISC Collections has purchased the Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means they now have permanent access to ten years of rich multimedia scholarly content completely free of charge (to issues 1-21 of the journal). Content ranges from excavation reports (incorporating text, photographs, data, drawings, reconstruction diagrams, interpretations) and analysis of large data sets along with the data itself, to visualisations and applications of information technology in archaeology.

Ireland Collection – Digital Library of Core E-Resources On Ireland
expiry date 31 March 2034

This core collection of 620,000 pages and around 80 key journals, 210 monographs and more than 2,500 manuscript pages is available free of charge to further and higher education institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, research councils in the UK, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK and the Republic of Ireland as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. The project is providing online access to a comprehensive, multi–disciplinary digital library of research materials relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present. Ceased rare periodicals essential to the study of Ireland's cultural and political life can be found alongside journals publishing vital contemporary scholarship in their fields. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised materials on Irish Studies via JSTOR from its Ireland Collection.

Jorum
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

Jorum is a free online repository of learning and teaching materials. It is freely available to all staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Users are able to search, browse, preview, download, review, reuse and repurpose the resources in Jorum. This service forms a key part of the JISC Information Environment.

Landmap Service
no expiry date

The Landmap Service provides web-based access to and support for a range of satellite imagery for the British Isles for research and teaching purposes. It provides access to a set of orthorectified satellite images from four satellites, Landsat5, Landsat7, SPOT and ERS. The data cover the UK from 1988-2001, and can be used as stand alone, in image processing software, or graphics software, or in association with user's data or other mapping data such as Ordnance Survey data. In addition, a Digital Elevation Model of the whole of the British Isles at 25 metre resolution is available.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Arts and Humanities
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum holds a rich collection of materials to support research into the arts and humanities. The collection document the political and intellectual history of society, including the maritime influence on arts, crafts and literature. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Health and Medicine
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum's archives provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life and health of the sailor, documenting health care provision, living conditions and diet. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Science and Technology
no expiry date

As home to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), the National Maritime Museum archives contain important collections that support research in engineering, maths and computing. Collections cover the astronomical and navigational developments achieved by the world-famous ROG and demonstrate the central role that technological development played in the emergence and maintenance of Britain's maritime supremacy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Maritime Museum Archives - Social Sciences
no expiry date

The National Maritime Museum's archives hold extensive materials representing the social, legal and commercial life that developed around the sea as well as those reflecting the importance of the environment to these worlds. Maps, charts, records of seaborne trade and ephemera provide a remarkable insight into leisure activities. Obtain free access to resources through the museum's website and web-based catalogue.

National Statistics Time Series Data available at ESDS International
no expiry date

ESDS International at MIMAS hosts the 40 major National Statistics (NS) Time Series data publications relating to economics, trade, employment and industry in the United Kingdom. There are 21 monthly, 14 quarterly and 5 annual datasets in the databank. Monthly datasets include Labour Market Statistics, Monthly Digest, Financial Statistics, Economic Trends plus Retail, Consumer and Producer Price Indices. ESDS International hosted by MIMAS at the University of Manchester provides access to the UK's National Statistics Time Series Data via SearchNS.

NewsFilm Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

NewsFilm Online is a collection of over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories which lets users see and hear the events that shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. Funded by JISC, content is free to subscribers until July 2012 and is suitable for all academic levels.

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

This digital resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. As a multi-disciplinary research database, this resource is relevant to anyone studying 19th century history. Because it is funded by JISC, access to this resource is free for Higher and Further Education Communities in the UK.

Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets
expiry date 31 Jul 2019

This collection of 26,000 19th century British pamphlets is available free of charge to UK further and higher education institutions, research councils, publicly funded schools, publicly funded libraries, publicly funded archives and record offices within the UK, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme. This programme is providing online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of some 26,000 paper copy pamphlets, has created over 1 million page images that focuses on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century. Researchers, students, academics and teaching staff will be able to access the digitised pamphlets via JSTOR.

Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 30 Oct 2011

JISC has purchased the digitised images of the 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) on behalf of the UK HE and FE community (including the Research Councils). The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) is a very important source of information on the 19th Century covering everything officially published concerning the British Parliament and its work. The HCPP includes debates, proceedings and reports of their committees and outside bodies on public affairs, and more.

Oxford Journals Archive
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

The Oxford Journals Archive represents over 165 years of historical research. The online archive contains articles from over 140 titles, compiled into subject-based archives, which includes The Humanities Archive (1829 - 1995), The Medicine Archive (1878 - 1995), The Science Archive (1848 - 1995), The Law Archive (1952 - 1995) and The Social Science Archive (1902 - 1995).

TheScientificWorldJournal
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ) is an innovative way to gather, publish and organise scientific and medical information. An online scientific journal, TSWJ recognises the multidisciplinary nature of science, which resists clear-cut definitions and covers subjects ranging from biomedicine to environmental sciences.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
no expiry date

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an Open Access resource, allowing the education community to share and read for free the writings of the finest experts in the field of philosophy.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland
no expiry date

The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland provide important source material for historians of Scotland. They comprise county and parish descriptions compiled by Church of Scotland clergy across a critical 40-50 year period during the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and cover topics such topography, climate, population, agriculture, schools, fishing, and morals. The 21 volumes of the first Statistical Account, published between 1791 and 1799, were described by a contemporary as 'a Doomsday book for Scotland'. Published in 15 volumes in 1845, the second (New) Statistical Account also contained many drawings and county maps.