Libraries and archives

• Accessing European Union information -- the EU's guide
• Archives Hub -- access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges
• Archives in the UK -- the University of Idaho's primary list of links, plus a supplementary list
• ARCHON Archives On-Line -- searchable database for UK archivists and users of manuscript sources
• BOPCAS -- the British Official Publications Current Awareness Service based in the Ford Collection of British Official Publications in the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton
• BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) -- bibliographic database of British Official Publications, focusing on approximately 16,000 key documents from 1833 to 1983
• British Library catalogue search form
• The British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies -- "more than 940,000 references"
• Copac -- access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland
• Direct Search -- Gary Price's list of links to searchable bibliographies & major library catalogues -- mainly US, but much more besides
• ExLibris -- a directory of special collections libraries that make content available on the Web
• History and Politics Out Loud -- a US-based archive of "politically significant" audio materials, searchable by title, speaker, date, transcript, or subject, but with little of direct relevance to the UK (June 2002)
• HYTELNET's list of UK libraries offering Telnet access to their catalogues
• A directory of library catalogues and services in Britain and Ireland
• The Public Record Office
  • PROCAT -- the UK Public Record Office's online catalogue of archives of central government, courts of law and other national bodies
• The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• National Libraries of Scotland
• The National Register of Archives
• PhotoGraphicLibraries.com -- archives, libraries, collections and other sources of photographs, films and artwork
• Scottish Libraries Across the Internet (SLAINTE)
• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information -- linked to Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography
• UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) -- access to a variety of datasets, primarily UK Government data and associated documents. First-time users should consult Help, Getting Started, and especially the Accessing Data in the Archive section before they begin their search
• The UK Public Libraries Page -- public libraries on the Web
• Most UK universities have library catalogues that can be searched on-line
• LibDex -- lists of libraries, many offering Web access to their catalogues in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Databases

Published stories

• 1stHeadlines' daily list of links to stories from or about the UK; other pages on the site link to US national and international headlines, and some are grouped by topic (e.g. Slobodan Milosevic)
• 18th Century Belfast Newsletter Index -- pre-1800 archive of surviving issues of the newspaper that began publishing in 1737
• The Belfast Telegraph archive registration page (£10 + VAT, April 2000)
• BBC Advanced Search -- search the BBC archive by headline or keyword for the last day or week (or back to November 1997)
• Britain in the USA -- this British Embassy site is a gateway to UK news stories and government sites, and includes The British Press Review, a list of headlines linked to news stories and dating back to August 1995
• Electronic Telegraph -- click on Search, and register or log on
• FT.com -- search the FT and more than six million articles from 3,000 publications such as Business Times (Singapore), Economic Daily (China) and the Independent on Sunday (United Kingdom)
• Guardian Unlimited Archive -- register (free) or log on for a searchable archive of all Guardian and Observer articles from September 1 1998
• InfoTIMES -- archived articles on education, politics, business, finance, sport
• Irish Times special reports archive (back to September 1999)
• it.mail -- the Daily Mail's computer and IT news section, including a non-searchable archive
• ISearch -- Televisual's archive of stories from 17 papers and groups, including the Daily Mail and the Mirror; three free search sessions for new users (July 1999), then £2.50 per 5-minute session
• Moreover -- searchable links to published stories, updated every few minutes with breaking news
• NameBase -- a database of published information about people, searchable by name, country etc
• New Media Age Online -- searchable archive (available to subscribers only)
• NEWSIndex -- searchable database of news stories (from US publications only)
• Newsletter Access -- a list of more than 5,000 newsletters, including many published in the UK, which can be searched by keyword or title or browsed by category
• NewsNow -- UK-centric aggregation of news from many sources, frequently updated, plus 30-day archive
• News Review -- business news summary, clipping service, archive search, and a facility to search 16 business and finance publications (the "all publications" option did not work -- July 1999) and pay £1 for each story you want
• Non-US Newspaper Archives on the Web -- a guide to UK newspapers and other European newspapers offering archives, compiled by the SLA News Division
• Royal Archive -- a round-up of on-line stories and pix about the news industry's favourite family
• Storyfinder -- search for the latest stories from UK news and information web sites including newspapers, news agencies, the BBC, ITN, Sky TV, the Government, charities and more
• SurfLondon's searchable database of news stories about London (see link to Older Articles under Past Articles on news page)

Reference

• Academic Research Desk -- Dr Daniel Chandler's links to research reference sources
• The Getty Research Institute Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
• Audit Bureau of Circulation -- free registration required for information about UK newspaper and magazine circulations
• Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates -- database published by the US Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)
• Biographical Dictionary -- entries for more than 28,000 notable men and women
• Bloomsbury Research Centre -- on-line searchable database of information from reference books about literature, art, philosophy and myth
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign (i.e. non-US) Governments
• crashDATABASE -- searchable database of "every" commercial airline accident killing more than 10 since 1970 and including date, location, airline, aircraft, registration, fatalities, and a brief description of the accident
• Creative Music Online Dictionary of Musical Terms
• Dr Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers -- find information about the maestros by date or by name, plus timelines, birthdays and more
• Encarta Free Encyclopedia -- gateway to 16,000 reference articles and a world atlas
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online -- 30-day free trial, then a variety of payment plans including $5/month (July 1999)
• Encyclopedia.com -- more than 14,000 articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
• The Free Medical Journals Site -- dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals on the Web, with 940 listed (June 2002)
• InfoPlease -- On-line dictionary, internet encyclopaedia and almanac
• International Comparisons in Education -- international comparative education data compiled by the US National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• The Natural Disaster Reference Database
• The On-line Medical Dictionary
• Oxford Reference -- search 100 Oxford dictionaries and other reference works, at a price (from £250 in September 2002)
• The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography -- over 1,450 scholarly articles, books and more published on the Internet
• The Penal Lexicon -- information on matters concerned with prisons and penal affairs, by subscription (£10 per month, July 1999)
• Uncover -- a database of current article information (over 8,800,000 articles -- May 1999) taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals; searching is free, then you can order fax copies of the articles

Travel

• A2bTravel.com -- flights, coaches, trains, car hire and taxis
• Britain Express -- Anglocentric travel and heritage guide, featuring accommodation, attractions, English history and culture
• Deutsche Bahn TravelService -- easy-to-use search of international timetables, including UK railways
• Railtrack Travel Timetable -- a re-badged version of the Deutsche Bahn service above
• Streetmap -- address searching and street map facilities for the UK, searchable by street, postcode, place, OS grid reference, Landranger, latitude/longitude, phone code or London street
• TravelCheck UK -- search for hotels, guesthouses, planes, trains and buses and ferries
• The UK Travel Guide (very limited -- May 1999)

Language

• Bible Gateway -- searchable multi-lingual Bible so you can get that quotation right
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare -- searchable, so again you can get that quotation right
• Dictionary of Quotations
• Dictionary of Slang -- English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
• Oxford Reference -- search 100 Oxford dictionaries and other reference works, at a price (from £250 in September 2002)

Miscellaneous

• AirDisaster.com -- current investigations, links to full-text accident reports, a news archive and more
• Art Guide -- museums and art galleries in Britain and Ireland
• A to Z Encyclopedia Of Ice Hockey -- offers several thousand entries including links to UK information, not searchable but browsable by letter
• Aviation Data Unit -- Civil Aviation Authority statistics that can be downloaded free of charge
• Beer Mad!! -- searchable database containing details of 11,091 Real Ales from 1,128 breweries and brands, plus brewery location maps and more
• British Atmospheric Data Centre -- data sets from projects funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and others
• British Board of Film Classification database search -- includes records dating back to 1900
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute -- legal materials and over 75,000 searchable documents with hypertext links
• Celebrities Worldwide -- subscription-only access to database of contact details for celebrities worldwide
• The Charity Commission Register of Charities
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies -- "more than 940,000 references"
• Commercial Database Services -- The Poynter Institute's guide
• Direct Search -- Gary Price's subject guide to online databases and other hard-to-find information
• EuroDocs -- primary historical documents from Western Europe
• European Union/Monetary Union Banking Databases -- list of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) in the European Union and institutions subject to the Eurosystem's minimum reserve system
• EveryHit.com -- UK Top 40 hit database covering from January 1952 to date
• Excavations.ie -- a database of Irish excavation reports (Northern Ireland and Eire) between 1985 and 1999
• Film Box Office Database -- US box office statistics since 1987
• FishBase -- "global information system on fishes"
• General Register Office for Scotland
• The Guardian Internet Movie Database -- details of more than 180,000 titles on tap
• InfoNation -- a database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations
• infoplease.com Sports Almanac -- searchable database of sporting info (results, winners etc.) with some world/UK info
• Knowledge Based Interfaces to National Data Sets -- access (after registration) to National Spatial Data Sets including census data and boundaries, Bartholomew’s digital map data, Spot and Landsat satellite images and Ordnance Survey academic sample data
• Lost Art Internet Database -- German site (in English) concerned with "cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism"
• Dave Mackey's filmography and title card gallery
• MatWeb -- a database of information about more than 20,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites
• Memorable TV -- information about TV shows from different countries including the UK
• National statistical agencies' web servers -- Statistics Norway's list of links, itself linked to a list of other statistical resources
• Port -- The National Maritime Museum's on-line catalogue of maritime-related Internet resources
• Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
• Office for National Statistics
• Postcode Plants Database -- generates lists of native plants and wildlife for any specified postal district in the UK
• StampSites.com -- a searchable database of 19,380 stamp-related web pages from all around the world (June 2002)
• themesonline -- hundreds of TV show theme tunes in RealAudio format
• Travel Advice Notices (Foreign & Commonwealth Office)
• Search for UK-registered aircraft by G-Registration, owner or aircraft type
• United Nations Days, Decades and Years -- the world's agenda as recommended by the UN
• Up My Street -- UK demographic info, searchable by postcode, including information about house prices, school performance, crime rates and ambulance call-out times
• Web-Agri -- searchable international index of 300,000+ pages focused on agriculture
• WERS98 Data Dissemination Service -- access to and analysis of data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98)
• Who owns Whom -- Dun & Bradstreet's guide to the corporate structure of more than 23,000 parent companies and their 400,000 subsidiaries and associates worldwide (about £30 per report in March 2000)
• World Flags Database -- Scot Graham Bartram's comprehensive collection

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