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.

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.

Archives Hub
no expiry date

The Archives Hub is a national gateway providing free access to descriptions of archives and manuscript collections held in UK universities and colleges. The service covers archives in over 80 academic institutions and holds over 18,000 collection descriptions across a broad range of subjects. Many are available online for the first time. New collection descriptions are being added every week.

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.

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.

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 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 Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
no expiry date

The British Universities Newsreel Database is a unique online resource published by the British Universities Film and Video Council. It features news coverage from 1910 to 1979 and embraces such topics as fashion, sport, crime, leisure, transport and the two World Wars.

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.

Census of Population Programme
no expiry date

This programme facilitates the dissemination of data from the decennial UK Censuses to the academic community. Registered academic users have access to a full range of census data products including area statistics, geographical boundaries, interaction data and samples of 'anonymised' records from the 1971-2001 censuses. The ONS Longitudinal Study is also part of the programme but covered by different access arrangements.

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.

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.

Copac
no expiry date

Copac is a library union catalogue. It provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. It also includes the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Copac has over 32 million records of materials ranging from early manuscripts to the latest research reports. Documents cover all subject areas and come in a wide range of formats including books, journal titles, maps, music, videos and electronic materials.

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.

Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2009

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 16 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

HERMES
no expiry date

This database provides details of over 25,000 audio-visual programmes, and their distributors, for a wide range of subject areas. It also includes a comprehensive listing of the paper materials held in the British Universities Film & Video Council library.

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.

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.

InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
expiry date 31 Jul 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.

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.

Intute
no expiry date

Intute is a free online service providing users with access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in Intute database and write descriptions of the resources.

Intute: Arts and Humanities
no expiry date

Artifact and Humbul, two of the hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), have been integrated to create Intute: Arts and Humanities, a subject group of Intute. Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. Subject areas covered by this online resource include: classics, cultural studies, history, philosophy, languages, literature and linguistics.

Intute: Virtual Training Suite
no expiry date

A set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their internet information literacy and IT skills. Users can work in their own time and at their own pace. Quizzes and interactive exercises engage the user.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Researcher's Guide Online (RGO)
no expiry date

The RGO is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC). It is a guide to research collections in the UK for film, television, radio and related documentation. It lists over 550 collections, with detailed contents descriptions and access details. The RGO complements the BUFVC's standard reference work, The Researcher's Guide, published in a four-yearly cycle.

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.

SALSER
no expiry date

Online information service about serial publications held in Scottish academic and research libraries, including all the university libraries, the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh City Library, the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and some Union Lists.

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.

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.

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 2006-2009 offer
expiry date 30 Sep 2009

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.

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.

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT)
no expiry date

The most comprehensive online database describing UK television and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations. Data is made available at least ten days before transmission, and is retained, building a unique archive of programme information and schedules. Over 1.3 million records are being added yearly, going back to June 2001. Selective programme data is also available going back to 1995.

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.

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.

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 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 Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
no expiry date

The British Universities Newsreel Database is a unique online resource published by the British Universities Film and Video Council. It features news coverage from 1910 to 1979 and embraces such topics as fashion, sport, crime, leisure, transport and the two World Wars.

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.

Census of Population Programme
no expiry date

This programme facilitates the dissemination of data from the decennial UK Censuses to the academic community. Registered academic users have access to a full range of census data products including area statistics, geographical boundaries, interaction data and samples of 'anonymised' records from the 1971-2001 censuses. The ONS Longitudinal Study is also part of the programme but covered by different access arrangements.

Copac
no expiry date

Copac is a library union catalogue. It provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. It also includes the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Copac has over 32 million records of materials ranging from early manuscripts to the latest research reports. Documents cover all subject areas and come in a wide range of formats including books, journal titles, maps, music, videos and electronic materials.

Film & Sound Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

Freely available until 2010, this service provides access to 16 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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.

HERMES
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This database provides details of over 25,000 audio-visual programmes, and their distributors, for a wide range of subject areas. It also includes a comprehensive listing of the paper materials held in the British Universities Film & Video Council library.

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

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.

Intute
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Intute is a free online service providing users with access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in Intute database and write descriptions of the resources.

Intute: Arts and Humanities
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Artifact and Humbul, two of the hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), have been integrated to create Intute: Arts and Humanities, a subject group of Intute. Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. Subject areas covered by this online resource include: classics, cultural studies, history, philosophy, languages, literature and linguistics.

Intute: Virtual Training Suite
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A set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their internet information literacy and IT skills. Users can work in their own time and at their own pace. Quizzes and interactive exercises engage the user.

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
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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.

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National Maritime Museum Archives - Arts and Humanities
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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.

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.

SALSER
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Online information service about serial publications held in Scottish academic and research libraries, including all the university libraries, the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh City Library, the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and some Union Lists.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
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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
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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.