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 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.

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.

ACS Legacy Archives
no expiry date

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

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.

BBC Motion Gallery
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

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

Begell Digital Library
expiry date 31 Sep 2012

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

Biography Resource Center
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

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

Brill Journal Archive Online
expiry date 31 May 2013

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

Britannica Online Academic Edition
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

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

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

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

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

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

British 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 Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
no expiry date

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

Burney Collection
expiry date 31 Dec 2013

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

Cairn
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

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

Census of Population Programme
no expiry date

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

Collexis Expert Profiling
expiry date 14 Jul 2011

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

Computer Database
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

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

Copac
no expiry date

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

Credo Reference (formerly XreferPlus)
expiry date 31 May 2011

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

CrossFire Service
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

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

Digimap - Ordnance Survey Collection
expiry date 31 Jul 2009

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

Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision
no expiry date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education Image Gallery
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

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

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

Electronic Enlightenment
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

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

Encyclopedia of 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 Science
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Ethics
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Farm Business Survey
no expiry date

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: Biochemical Society
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

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

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

Film & Sound Online: 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).

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

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library for FE
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Geology Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Global Issues in Context
expiry date 30 Sep 2012

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

HERMES
no expiry date

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

Historic Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

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

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

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

Info4education
expiry date 31 May 2011

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

Informit Engineering Collection
expiry date 30 Aug 2012

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Energy Agency Databases available at ESDS International
no expiry date

Established in 1974 in response to the oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is the energy forum for 26 industrialised countries. It is an autonomous intergovernmental entity within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). ESDS International is hosted at MIMAS at the University of Manchester, which provides access to the following IEA databases via Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server: CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, Coal Information Natural Gas Information, Electricity information Oil Information, Energy Prices and Taxes, World Energy Statistics and Balances, Renewables Information, Energy Technology Research and Development Database.

Internet Archaeology
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

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

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

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

Intute
no expiry date

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

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
no expiry date

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology brings together three of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): EEVL (Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), GEsource (Geography and Environment), and PSIgate (Physical Sciences). This online resource offers a free, easy to use and powerful tool for discovering the best internet resources for teaching, learning and research, covering the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.

Intute: Virtual Training Suite
no expiry date

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

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

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

Jorum
expiry date 31 Jul 2011

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

JSTOR
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

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

Keesing's World News Archive
31 December 2010

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

Knovel
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

KnowUK
expiry date 31 May 2010

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

Land, Life and Leisure
no expiry date

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

Landmap Service
no expiry date

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

Marine Digimap
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Morgan & Claypool
expiry date 31 Dec 2011

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

National Maritime Museum Archives - Science and Technology
no expiry date

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

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 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.

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 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.

Parliamentary Papers

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

Pidgeon Digital
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

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

Planex
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Portico 
5 year licence term for each participant 

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

Pollution A to Z
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Public Information Online
expiry date 31 Oct 2010

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

Reaxys (CrossFire)
expiry date 31 Oct 2011

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

Researcher's Guide Online (RGO)
no expiry date

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

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive
expiry date 31 Dec 2010

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

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.

Science of Everyday Things
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

Science Full Text Select
expiry date 31 Jul 2012

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

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.

SciFinder Scholar
expiry date 30 Sep 2009

SciFinder Scholar is a point-and-click desktop research tool that provides easy access to the information in the CAS databases (>30 million organic and inorganic substances and >58 million sequences from 1957 to date, >25m references from 1907 to date, >10m reactions from 1840 to date, >850 chemical supplier catalogues and regulatory information), as well as Medline (>15m references from 1950 to date).

Scopus
expiry date 31 Mar 2011

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

Scholarly Communications Report
expiry date 14 Oct 2010

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

SCRAN Resource
expiry date 31 Oct 2011

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

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.

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 2010

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

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

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

UKBORDERS
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The most comprehensive database of UK digitised boundary data available. It provides access to 1991 census geography and other contemporary data including Enumeration Districts, electoral wards and Output Areas. A variety of historical boundary data back to the 19th century is also available.

UK Data Archive
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Catalogue of social science data held by the Data Archive at the University of Essex.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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: Biochemical Society
expiry date 31 Jul 2010

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

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

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

Film & Sound Online: 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).

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.

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

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

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

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

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

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

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

International Energy Agency Databases available at ESDS International
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Established in 1974 in response to the oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is the energy forum for 26 industrialised countries. It is an autonomous intergovernmental entity within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). ESDS International is hosted at MIMAS at the University of Manchester, which provides access to the following IEA databases via Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server: CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, Coal Information Natural Gas Information, Electricity information Oil Information, Energy Prices and Taxes, World Energy Statistics and Balances, Renewables Information, Energy Technology Research and Development Database.

Internet Archaeology
expiry date 31 Dec 2012

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

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

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

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

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
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Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology brings together three of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): EEVL (Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), GEsource (Geography and Environment), and PSIgate (Physical Sciences). This online resource offers a free, easy to use and powerful tool for discovering the best internet resources for teaching, learning and research, covering the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.

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.

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.

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

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 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
expiry date 30 Oct 2011

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

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

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.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland
no expiry date

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