At the library: Discover the resources and services we offer

Join your local library to access a wealth of amazing resources.

The digital resources outlined below can be accessed when you are at the library or from home.

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The following resources are just a selection of the services that may be available with your library membership. Please do check with your local library service to see what’s on offer.

 

Ancestry

 

UK’s largest family history site. Some libraries have managed to arrange free online access to library members via a special link, available when members log into their online account.

 

Bloomsbury

 

Bloomsbury Digital Resources, which provides academic content in Humanities and Social Sciences, are now available to the library and education community for free through the end of May 2020.

 

Britannica Library

 

The world famous Britannica Library is a recommended source of general information and comes in three different levels. Junior, Student and Adult. It contains lots of images and videos as well to help bring topics alive

 

Cobra

 

The Complete Online Business Reference Advisor (COBRA) is an encyclopaedia of practical information for anyone involved in setting up, running or managing a business enterprise.

 

Find My Past

 

Some libraries have managed to arrange free online access to library members via a special link, available when members log into their online account. However there have been some issues around privacy of searches that you may want to consider.

 

Go Citizen

 

An online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK test or the British Citizenship test.

 

Naxos Music Library

 

A comprehensive classical music streaming platform.

 

Newsbank

 

Newspaper archive of UK local and regional newspapers.

 

Oxford Bibliographies

 

Exclusive, authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects

 

Oxford Dictionaries

 

Free online english dictionary from Oxford Dictionaries. Translate from English to Spanish, French, Italian, and German with bilingual dictionaries.

 

Oxford Reference Online

 

A collection of language and subject reference works: quick search through all at once, or choose from the huge range of works available.

 

Oxford Research Encyclopedias

 

Long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars.

 

PressReader

 

An online subscription that provides instant online access to today’s newspapers and magazines from various countries in full-colour, full-page format and in over 60 languages.

 

Times Digital Archives

 

A fully searchable database of the Times newspaper from 1785 to 1985.

 

Theory Test Pro

 

Practise your driving theory test, including hazard perception test and the highway code.

 

Universal Skills

 

An online subscription service to help users learn basic IT skills, support through the Universal Job Match and Universal Credit process, and learn job skills including CV creation.