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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.
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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 and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII): Open Law Project
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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 Cohort Study (1970 BCS)
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The British Cohort Study is a continuing, multi-disciplinary survey involving panel members who were all born in the same week in 1970 (5 - 11 April). Beginning with a survey known as the British Births Survey, which collected data on the births and families of babies born in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles) and Northern Ireland, the study has subsequently included four follow-up studies.
British Crime Survey
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The British Crime Survey was carried out in England and Wales in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996; each survey measured crime over the previous year. The first four surveys a representative sample of approximately 10,000 people aged 16 years and over. For the 1994 and 1996 surveys, the sample was increased to approximately 15,000 respondents. The 1982 survey (SN:1869) was also conducted in Scotland, and the Scottish data are included within this dataset.
British Education Index, Australian Education Index and ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
expiry date 31 Jul 2009
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 General Election Studies
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The British General Election Studies are the longest running academic series of nationally representative probability sample surveys in the country. Its broad aim is to explore the changing determinants of electoral behaviour in contemporary Britain. The surveys have been taken immediately after every general election since 1964. Users can also find Scottish and Welsh booster studies of some elections, an ethnic minority booster sample taken in 1997 and a number of panel surveys.
British Household Panel Survey
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The British Household Panel Survey began in 1991 and is run by the ESRC Research Centre for Micro-Social Change, based at the University of Essex. The survey includes data on household organisation, labour market participation, education and training, income and wealth, housing and residential mobility, health and use of health services as well as open-ended questions exploring the socio-economic values of respondents.
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)
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Census of Population Programme
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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.
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.
Copac
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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 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 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.
Eurobarometer datasets available via ESDS International
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The Eurobarometer (EB) survey series is a programme of cross-national and cross-temporal comparative social research conducted on behalf of the European Commission and is designed to monitor social and political attitudes. Since the early seventies nationally representative samples in the European Union (European Community) member countries are interviewed each spring and autumn. The Eurobarometer program has later been enlarged by a small scale Flash Eurobarometer and a Central and Eastern Eurobarometer; this was later replaced by the Candidate Countries Eurobarometer.
European Election Study datasets via ESDS International
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The European Election Study is a survey of the voting age population in the member states of the European Union. The surveys are taken immediately following each European election. The studies are organised by the European Elections Study Workgroup, an international group of researchers.
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.
European Values Study datasets via ESDS International
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey of moral, religious, political and social values. The survey was designed to investigate the nature and inter-relationship of value systems, their degree of homogeneity, and the extent to which they are subject to change across time. There have been a number of waves conducted, the first carried out in 1981.
Eurostat New Cronos available at ESDS International
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Established in 1953, Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Eurostat's key role is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service that enables comparisons between countries and reg ions. Eurostat's principal database is the New Cronos, a high quality macroeconomic and social statistics database organised into nine statistical themes; General Statistics, Economy and Finance, Population and Social Conditions, Industry, Trade and Services, Agriculture and Fisheries, External Trade, Transport, Environment and Energy, Science and Technology.
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Family Expenditure Survey
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Continuous household survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), providing detailed information about expenditure on goods and services; income and sources of income; possession of consumer durables and cars; plus basic information on housing and many demographic and socio-economic variables which are mainly used for classificatory purposes.
Family Resources Survey
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Continuous survey launched in October 1992 by the Department of Social Security (DSS). Topics covered include: basic household and individual characteristics (tenure, ethnic origin, employment status, etc.); housing costs (rents, mortgages, council tax, water and sewerage charges, insurance); household income (including benefit receipt, unearned income, pensions, etc.); other costs (travel to work, child-care, maintenance payments, etc.); ownership of vehicles and consumer durables; plus information on carers and disabilities.
Farm Business Survey
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Survey of farms in England and Wales, carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in England and by the Welsh Office in Wales. Topics covered include: physical details of the farm area and stocking (previous crops, current crops and livestock); expenditure on labour, rent, feed, seed, fertilisers and miscellaneous items; financial data, including farmers' incomes, assets, capital investments, costs and liabilities; sales of the main agricultural and horticultural products; other activities such as farm shops, bed and breakfast, caravan sites, etc.
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: 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: 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.
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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.
General Household Survey
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Conducted since 1971 by the Social Survey Division of the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). Data is available from 1973 onwards. Topics covered include: income, housing, economic activity, family composition, fertility, education, leisure activities, drinking, smoking and health.
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.
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Health Survey for England
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Begun in 1991 as a series of annual surveys commissioned by the Department of Health, designed to provide baseline data from which to monitor health trends. In particular, the survey aimed to assess progress towards some of the specific health targets (especially those relating to cardiovascular disease, blood pressure and obesity) set by the then Conservative government under its 'Health of the Nation' initiative.
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.
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.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
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IMF Datasets available at ESDS International
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has over 180 member countries and was established to promote international monetary cooperation and assist countries in balance of payment difficulties. The four major databanks produced by the IMF contain data on national accounts, trade, the balance of payments and government spending for the member countries. Collectively they provide a global picture of economic development and international trade over the last 50 years.
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: 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 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 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 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.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences includes over 2 million references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS focuses mainly on the four core social science disciplines - anthropology, economics, politics and sociology. IBSS is especially strong on international material with 25% of references in languages other than English. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing. IBSS is updated weekly.
International Passenger Survey
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The Survey provides detailed information on overseas visitors to the United Kingdom. The IPS datasets held at The Data Archive are reduced versions of the full datasets and contain only main-flow data (those people leaving the country and returning).
International Social Survey Programme datasets available via ESDS International
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The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. Since 1983 it has brought together pre-existing social science projects and co-ordinated research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. Every survey includes questions about general attitudes toward various social issues such as the legal system, gender and the economy.
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: Social Sciences
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Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together two of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research in the social sciences including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.
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.
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Joint Unemployment and Vacancies Operating System Unemployment Statistics
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Counts of claimants for unemployment-related benefits at local benefit offices, plus the JUVOS Cohort, a longitudinal database of a sample of claims for unemployment-related benefits. The purpose of the study is to provide a means of examining long-term dynamics of the labour market.
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.
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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.
Key Indicators of the Labour Market
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The ILO launched the Key Indicators of the Labour Market in 1999 to complement existing data collection programmes and to improve dissemination of data on the key elements of the world's labour markets. It provides annual time series data for 20 key indicators of the labour market, running from 1980 onwards for over 250 countries, areas and territories. Key topics include: labour force participation, employment, unemployment, educational attainment, hours of work, wages and earnings, productivity, labour costs, poverty and income distribution.
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.
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Labour Force Survey
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Surveys conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of the Employment Department. Users can find internationally comparable statistics on the levels and changes in employment, unemployment and economic activity. Principal topics include: economic activity and inactivity, employment, unemployment and under-employment, educational qualifications and training, labour mobility, and health and disabilities which affect work.
Land, Life and Leisure
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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National Maritime Museum Archives - Social Sciences
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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
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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.
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.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Databases
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international alliance of national governments that acts as a forum for member countries to develop economic and social policies. It currently has 30 member countries which collectively account for two thirds of the world's goods and services. As part of its work, the OECD collects and disseminates economic data on a wide range of industrial and economic indicators. The OECD data are considered to be accurate and reliable and provide an authoritative means to compare economic indicators across national boundaries.
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 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.
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Parliamentary Papers
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.
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.
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.
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Researcher's Guide Online (RGO)
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Social Attitudes Survey
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Social Attitudes Survey - British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) and Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey. The BSA survey series began in 1983 and has been conducted every year since except in 1988 and 1992. It is designed to complement large-scale government surveys, as well as the data on party political attitudes produced by the polls. One of its main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time.
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)
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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.
SUPC - eBrary
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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
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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.
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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)
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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 2009
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.
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UK Data Archive
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Catalogue of social science data held by the Data Archive at the University of Essex.
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.
UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databank
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Set up in 1966, UNIDO became a United Nations agency in 1985. It aims to help developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their fight against marginalisation by promoting industrialisation throughout the developing world. The UNIDO databanks cover employment and trade world-wide, broken down by country and manufacturing sector. They provide data that can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change, industrial performance and employment by gender and sector worldwide.
United Nations Common Database available at ESDS International
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The UN produces the UN Common Database (UNCDB), the largest compilation of United Nations and agency statistics ever compiled which covers economic, social, financial and development topics. It contains more than 300 statistical series for over 280 countries. Time series are available from 1970 or 1980 for most countries.
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Vital Statistics for Wards (1981-1991)
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Annual tables from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), showing the number of births and deaths for each ward in England and Wales.
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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.
World Bank Databases available at ESDS International
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Founded in 1944, The World Bank Group's aim is poverty reduction and to improve the living standards of people in the developing world. ESDS International hosted by MIMAS at the University of Manchester provides access to two World Bank databases via the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server: The World Development Indicators database and the World Bank's Global Development Finance database.
World Values Survey via ESDS International
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This series began as a set of surveys conducted in ten West European societies by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG). The World Values Survey (WVS) grew out of those surveys and was initiated in 1981 to study the values and attitudes of mass publics across nations of different economic, educational, and cultural backgrounds. To date four waves have been conducted: 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2004. Data is collected from over 60 countries.
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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.
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zetoc
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Provides (Z39.50-compliant) access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Alerting service available.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 Cohort Study (1970 BCS)
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The British Cohort Study is a continuing, multi-disciplinary survey involving panel members who were all born in the same week in 1970 (5 - 11 April). Beginning with a survey known as the British Births Survey, which collected data on the births and families of babies born in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles) and Northern Ireland, the study has subsequently included four follow-up studies.
British Crime Survey
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The British Crime Survey was carried out in England and Wales in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1996; each survey measured crime over the previous year. The first four surveys a representative sample of approximately 10,000 people aged 16 years and over. For the 1994 and 1996 surveys, the sample was increased to approximately 15,000 respondents. The 1982 survey (SN:1869) was also conducted in Scotland, and the Scottish data are included within this dataset.
British General Election Studies
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The British General Election Studies are the longest running academic series of nationally representative probability sample surveys in the country. Its broad aim is to explore the changing determinants of electoral behaviour in contemporary Britain. The surveys have been taken immediately after every general election since 1964. Users can also find Scottish and Welsh booster studies of some elections, an ethnic minority booster sample taken in 1997 and a number of panel surveys.
British Household Panel Survey
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The British Household Panel Survey began in 1991 and is run by the ESRC Research Centre for Micro-Social Change, based at the University of Essex. The survey includes data on household organisation, labour market participation, education and training, income and wealth, housing and residential mobility, health and use of health services as well as open-ended questions exploring the socio-economic values of respondents.
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)
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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.
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Census of Population Programme
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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
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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.
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Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision
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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.
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Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
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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.
Eurobarometer datasets available via ESDS International
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The Eurobarometer (EB) survey series is a programme of cross-national and cross-temporal comparative social research conducted on behalf of the European Commission and is designed to monitor social and political attitudes. Since the early seventies nationally representative samples in the European Union (European Community) member countries are interviewed each spring and autumn. The Eurobarometer program has later been enlarged by a small scale Flash Eurobarometer and a Central and Eastern Eurobarometer; this was later replaced by the Candidate Countries Eurobarometer.
European Election Study datasets via ESDS International
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The European Election Study is a survey of the voting age population in the member states of the European Union. The surveys are taken immediately following each European election. The studies are organised by the European Elections Study Workgroup, an international group of researchers.
European Values Study datasets via ESDS International
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey of moral, religious, political and social values. The survey was designed to investigate the nature and inter-relationship of value systems, their degree of homogeneity, and the extent to which they are subject to change across time. There have been a number of waves conducted, the first carried out in 1981.
Eurostat New Cronos available at ESDS International
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Established in 1953, Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities situated in Luxembourg. Eurostat's key role is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service that enables comparisons between countries and reg ions. Eurostat's principal database is the New Cronos, a high quality macroeconomic and social statistics database organised into nine statistical themes; General Statistics, Economy and Finance, Population and Social Conditions, Industry, Trade and Services, Agriculture and Fisheries, External Trade, Transport, Environment and Energy, Science and Technology.
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Family Expenditure Survey
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Continuous household survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), providing detailed information about expenditure on goods and services; income and sources of income; possession of consumer durables and cars; plus basic information on housing and many demographic and socio-economic variables which are mainly used for classificatory purposes.
Family Resources Survey
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Continuous survey launched in October 1992 by the Department of Social Security (DSS). Topics covered include: basic household and individual characteristics (tenure, ethnic origin, employment status, etc.); housing costs (rents, mortgages, council tax, water and sewerage charges, insurance); household income (including benefit receipt, unearned income, pensions, etc.); other costs (travel to work, child-care, maintenance payments, etc.); ownership of vehicles and consumer durables; plus information on carers and disabilities.
Farm Business Survey
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Survey of farms in England and Wales, carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in England and by the Welsh Office in Wales. Topics covered include: physical details of the farm area and stocking (previous crops, current crops and livestock); expenditure on labour, rent, feed, seed, fertilisers and miscellaneous items; financial data, including farmers' incomes, assets, capital investments, costs and liabilities; sales of the main agricultural and horticultural products; other activities such as farm shops, bed and breakfast, caravan sites, etc.
Film & Sound Online
expiry date 31 Jul 2010
Freely available until 2009, 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: 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: 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.
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General Household Survey
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Conducted since 1971 by the Social Survey Division of the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). Data is available from 1973 onwards. Topics covered include: income, housing, economic activity, family composition, fertility, education, leisure activities, drinking, smoking and health.
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Health Survey for England
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Begun in 1991 as a series of annual surveys commissioned by the Department of Health, designed to provide baseline data from which to monitor health trends. In particular, the survey aimed to assess progress towards some of the specific health targets (especially those relating to cardiovascular disease, blood pressure and obesity) set by the then Conservative government under its 'Health of the Nation' initiative.
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
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IMF Datasets available at ESDS International
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has over 180 member countries and was established to promote international monetary cooperation and assist countries in balance of payment difficulties. The four major databanks produced by the IMF contain data on national accounts, trade, the balance of payments and government spending for the member countries. Collectively they provide a global picture of economic development and international trade over the last 50 years.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences includes over 2 million references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS focuses mainly on the four core social science disciplines - anthropology, economics, politics and sociology. IBSS is especially strong on international material with 25% of references in languages other than English. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing. IBSS is updated weekly.
International Passenger Survey
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The Survey provides detailed information on overseas visitors to the United Kingdom. The IPS datasets held at The Data Archive are reduced versions of the full datasets and contain only main-flow data (those people leaving the country and returning).
International Social Survey Programme datasets available via ESDS International
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The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. Since 1983 it has brought together pre-existing social science projects and co-ordinated research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. Every survey includes questions about general attitudes toward various social issues such as the legal system, gender and the economy.
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: Social Sciences
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Intute: Social Sciences has been created by bringing together two of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research in the social sciences including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.
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.
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Joint Unemployment and Vacancies Operating System Unemployment Statistics
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Counts of claimants for unemployment-related benefits at local benefit offices, plus the JUVOS Cohort, a longitudinal database of a sample of claims for unemployment-related benefits. The purpose of the study is to provide a means of examining long-term dynamics of the labour market.
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.
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Key Indicators of the Labour Market
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The ILO launched the Key Indicators of the Labour Market in 1999 to complement existing data collection programmes and to improve dissemination of data on the key elements of the world's labour markets. It provides annual time series data for 20 key indicators of the labour market, running from 1980 onwards for over 250 countries, areas and territories. Key topics include: labour force participation, employment, unemployment, educational attainment, hours of work, wages and earnings, productivity, labour costs, poverty and income distribution.
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Labour Force Survey
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Surveys conducted by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) on behalf of the Employment Department. Users can find internationally comparable statistics on the levels and changes in employment, unemployment and economic activity. Principal topics include: economic activity and inactivity, employment, unemployment and under-employment, educational qualifications and training, labour mobility, and health and disabilities which affect work.
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 - Social Sciences
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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
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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.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Databases
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international alliance of national governments that acts as a forum for member countries to develop economic and social policies. It currently has 30 member countries which collectively account for two thirds of the world's goods and services. As part of its work, the OECD collects and disseminates economic data on a wide range of industrial and economic indicators. The OECD data are considered to be accurate and reliable and provide an authoritative means to compare economic indicators across national boundaries.
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).
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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.
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Researcher's Guide Online (RGO)
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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.
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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.
Social Attitudes Survey
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Social Attitudes Survey - British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) and Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey. The BSA survey series began in 1983 and has been conducted every year since except in 1988 and 1992. It is designed to complement large-scale government surveys, as well as the data on party political attitudes produced by the polls. One of its main purposes is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, in respect of a range of social issues, change over time.
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)
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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.
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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.
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.
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UK Data Archive
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Catalogue of social science data held by the Data Archive at the University of Essex.
UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databank
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Set up in 1966, UNIDO became a United Nations agency in 1985. It aims to help developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their fight against marginalisation by promoting industrialisation throughout the developing world. The UNIDO databanks cover employment and trade world-wide, broken down by country and manufacturing sector. They provide data that can be used to analyse patterns of growth, structural change, industrial performance and employment by gender and sector worldwide.
United Nations Common Database available at ESDS International
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The UN produces the UN Common Database (UNCDB), the largest compilation of United Nations and agency statistics ever compiled which covers economic, social, financial and development topics. It contains more than 300 statistical series for over 280 countries. Time series are available from 1970 or 1980 for most countries.
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Vital Statistics for Wards (1981-1991)
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Annual tables from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), showing the number of births and deaths for each ward in England and Wales.
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World Bank Databases available at ESDS International
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Founded in 1944, The World Bank Group's aim is poverty reduction and to improve the living standards of people in the developing world. ESDS International hosted by MIMAS at the University of Manchester provides access to two World Bank databases via the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server: The World Development Indicators database and the World Bank's Global Development Finance database.
World Values Survey via ESDS International
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This series began as a set of surveys conducted in ten West European societies by the European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG). The World Values Survey (WVS) grew out of those surveys and was initiated in 1981 to study the values and attitudes of mass publics across nations of different economic, educational, and cultural backgrounds. To date four waves have been conducted: 1981-1984, 1990-1993, 1995-1997, and 1999-2004. Data is collected from over 60 countries.
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zetoc
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Provides (Z39.50-compliant) access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. Alerting service available.