JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City, United States. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals.
We have access to the following packages: Arts & Sciences I-IIV, Arts & Sciences IX, Biological Sciences, Ireland, 19th Century British Pamphlets, and South Asia Open Archives.
A collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text online access to a selection of humanities and social sciences journals.
A source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. The Library subscribes to the Standard Collection, not the full Premium Collection.
Literature Online is a a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 317 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
This is a resource for all aspects of literary research and teaching. LION Online offers a library of works online supported with full text journals and reference material to help contextualize primary works and authors. It is possible to cross-search relevant content including Early European Books, historical newspapers, dissertations, and archival magazine collections. There are a range of content types, including criticism resources, primary works, reference resources, video, and audio. Coverage: 1280 to present.
The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
The Bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources unless they have been edited and republished by historians. It aims to be comprehensive for publications since 1900. Material is included irrespective of place or language of publication, although coverage is best for works published in Britain (and in Ireland during 1936-2006).
BIAB provides information about articles and books on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland, producing two updates each year - adding over 1,000 references per annum (see here for coverage information). BIAB is the latest in a long line of bibliographic services for British and Irish archaeology provided by the Council for British Archaeology.
The ADS Library brings together bibliographic records and e-prints for published and unpublished archaeological documents. It includes data from sources, such as OASIS, Digitised Journals and Monographs, Internet Archaeology, Publisher Feeds, and Grey Literature from ADS Archives. British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB) was originally compiled by the Council for British Archaeology, but in 2016 it was deposited with ADS.
A database covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present, including world history, military history, history of education, and more.
It provides indexing of academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. In 2006, Historical Abstracts began adding retrospective coverage for the most important historical journals in JSTOR. Coverage: 1955 to present.
Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.
Coverage includes current and retrospective journal and proceedings data in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. We have access to Science Citation Index Expanded (from 1970), Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1970), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (from 1990), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (from 2015).
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources with tools to track, analyse, and visualize research.
Scopus is Elsevier's database, launched in 2004. It combines a comprehensive abstract and citation database with data and linked scholarly content. Content derives from peer-reviewed journals, and ebooks in subject fields, such as life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. Coverage: 1823 to present.
Cambridge Core is the main platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content, including eBooks, journals, Cambridge Histories
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of research monographs, academic reference, textbooks, books for professionals, and large numbers of books aimed at graduate students. Cambridge Core is central for academic research and it is the place to find academic information.
The largest single collection of English news media gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers.
Spanning from Parliamentary papers, London daily news to the latest English humour of the 1600s, this collection covers more than two hundred years of accounts and it relates economic, political, and educational situations. They were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish, and Scottish papers, and some from the American colonies. The collection aids researchers chart the newspaper’s development from Parliamentary debate transcriptions to the newspaper in its current form. Coverage: 1619-1800.
This database covers the events, lives, and values that shaped the 19th century world. It provides a searchable facsimile resource for the study of British life.
Part I covers the commercial lifestyle publishing in Britain, based on collections of British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Australia, and National Library of South Africa. Part II looks at Britain’s role as an imperial power throughout the century, and contains periodicals from Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. Coverage: 1800-1900
The site offers diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American culture and history and contains materials from leading books, newspapers, and periodicals.
The archived historical information derives from eyewitness accounts of historical events, editorial observations, descriptions of daily life, commerce seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. The database’s digital imaging and full-text search capability enable users to access specific information with accuracy.
Ancestry Library includes census records; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more.
Ancestry Library includes census records; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. It provides access to historical documents, historical photos, local narratives, oral histories, and indexes in databases that span from the 1500s to the 2000s.
This program provides a collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender with material dating back to the sixteenth century.
It is essential for researchers focused on sexuality, and gender studies; health and hygiene; cultural change; LGBTQ studies; women's studies; American studies; civil and human rights; journalism; literature; social movement history; and British twentieth-century history. The database consists of the following four archives: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I and Part II; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; and International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture.
An educational collection of original documents sourced from libraries and archives around the world and ideally suited to the teaching and study of empire studies.
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices, and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and include manuscripts, rare printed materials, letter books, periodicals, diaries, and photographs.
Formerly known as Artemis Primary Sources, this platform provides a research experience that combines Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface.
It enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents using multiple search options and research tools. The cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.
Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Daily Debates from Hansard are published on this website the next working day by 6am. You can also access Historic
This resource covers the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928) and brings together primary and secondary source materials, journal articles, thematic essays, and an image gallery.
It forms part of the Routledge Historical Resources online programme that provides both academics and students with a research tool for studying the long Nineteenth Century through subject themes, such as Politics and Law, Religion and Belief, Education, Literature and Writings, Women at Home, Society and Culture, Empire, and Movements and Ideologies.
This database provides detailed primary sources for the past three centuries, for Britain, its colonies, and the wider world, and constitutes a part of the world’s historical record.
Parliamentary Papers influenced public opinion and social and political philosophy and provided a forum for the ideas of thinkers of the day. With the core content of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, the digitization of the Parliamentary Papers of the UK Parliament has made this resource a research destination for everything associated with parliamentary research.
This OHPR collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes beyond the basic population reports with the textual and statistical material which provide a view of the economy, society (through births, deaths, and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These pages of census are supported by documents from The National Archives, critical essays, and transcriptions of legislation. OHPR has enabled browsing through the collection by date or geography, or searching the content directly.
This resource offers access to important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era.
Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs, and interactive features. Topics covered include crime, shopping, dance, popular music, sport, reading, ethnic minorities, family planning, health, and cinema. It is recommended for historians, literary scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. Coverage: 1937-1965.
A digital library of historical sources for the study of Britain and its place in the world c. 1000-1850.
It brings together the sources from English, Irish, Scottish, and Colonial history with original manuscripts and web technologies. The collection is principally from the collections of governmental records of England, Scotland and Ireland published during the nineteenth century, such as the Calendar of Close Rolls, Calendar of Patent Rolls, and Calendars of State Papers, Domestic and Foreign. Phrase and keyword searches are displayed with accompanying text, and bibliographical information.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, this database charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of history.
The collection allows students and researchers to conduct study into all aspects of migration, it tells the stories of individuals and families who risked everything to build new lives in North America and Australasia between 1800 and 1980. It enables you to explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers.
ANB features over 19,000 biographies of significant, influential, or notorious figures from American history written by prominent scholars.
From missionaries to musicians, social workers to statisticians, cowboys to chemists, and Vikings to astronauts, the portraits reflect the diversity of American life from pre-colonial times to present day. ANB was originally published in 24 volumes in 1999 and then online in 2000. The online edition is updated semi-annually, and it contains illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, and links to web sites.
A bibliographic database containing historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to present.
The Bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources unless they have been edited and republished by historians. It aims to be comprehensive for publications since 1900. Material is included irrespective of place or language of publication, although coverage is best for works published in Britain (and in Ireland during 1936-2006).
This resource provides a national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. Oxford DNB was first published in 2004. Since 2005 updates have extended the Dictionary’s coverage, now including biographies of men and women who died in or before 2016. Oxford DNB online is updated regularly, extending coverage into the 21st century, whilst also adding new biographies across all historical periods.
IMB was founded in 1967, and it is a leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the Middle Ages. It covers periodical literature and miscellany volumes published in Europe, North America, Australasia, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa.
It comprises numerous articles, which are classified by date, subject and location, and provide bibliographical records. IMB is a tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work published throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region. Relevant research areas include classics, English language and literature, history and archaeology, theology and philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic studies, history of education, art history, music, theatre and performance arts, rhetoric, and communication studies.
A database that provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies and short encyclopaedia entries maintained by Oxford University Press.
It helps researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them to specific chapters, books, websites, archives, or data. Our subscription includes access to the African Studies, Art History, Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, Classics, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Military History, Political Science, Renaissance & Reformation modules. Perpetual access to the Victorian Literature module is also available. In each module, scholars have produced a guide to sources in an area of study. The guides feature bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult.
An online reference product, spanning twenty-five different subject areas, bringing together digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
This database consists of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. We subscribe to the Premium Collection which offers indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works, including information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series. We also subscribe to the Literature and Western Civilization collections.
This section lists the archival newspaper content to which the Library provides access. For more detailed information about current newspaper subscriptions and titles received in print, please access the main Newspapers Library Guide.
The largest single collection of English news media gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and includes pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers.
Spanning from Parliamentary papers, London daily news to the latest English humour of the 1600s, this collection covers more than two hundred years of accounts and it relates economic, political, and educational situations. They were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish, and Scottish papers, and some from the American colonies. The collection aids researchers chart the newspaper’s development from Parliamentary debate transcriptions to the newspaper in its current form. Coverage: 1619-1800.
This resource provides digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century US newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.
It provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. The collection features publications from the political party newspapers to the dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Major newspapers stand alongside those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy. Coverage: 1800-1899.
One of the most widely circulated African American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. It provides genealogists and scholars with first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Curriculum focus includes African American studies, arts and literature, civil rights, culture, genealogy, education, history, journalism, multidisciplinary, political science, religion, social sciences, sports history, and urban planning. Users can study the progression of issues over time by browsing the newspaper, including news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, and cartoons. Coverage: 1893 – 1988.
This platform offers fully searchable issues from over seven hundred historical American newspapers.
Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. It includes newspapers from over twenty states and the District of Columbia. Coverage: 1690-1876.
This archive provides a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2020.
Full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlight a key topic of each week. These all combine to offer a source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2020.
This archive provides the complete searchable run of the Financial Times daily business newspaper.
Initially focused on the global financial and economic issues, the Financial Times expanded coverage in the post-war years, reporting on topics such as industry, energy, and international politics. In recent decades, coverage of management, personal finance, and the arts has been added. The online facsimile contains the complete run of the London edition from its first issue through 2010 (part 1) and through 2016 (part 2).
Formerly known as Artemis Primary Sources, this platform provides a research experience that combines Gale's digital archives in a single cross-search interface.
It enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents using multiple search options and research tools. The cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.
This historical newspaper platform provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
Originally known as the Manchester Guardian, the Guardian was a Saturday-only paper until the newspaper stamp duty was repealed in 1855. The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday paper, was first published in 1791. Writers such as George Orwell, Vita Sackville-West, Clive James, Philip Toynbee, and others were contributors, continuing a tradition of freedom of the press and providing coverage of politics and literature. Coverage: 1791 - 2003.
This newspaper archive includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. It is full-text searchable with digital imaging from flat unbound print sets.
It became the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, the publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events (including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science). It covers a wide range of subject areas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, making it a resource for multi-disciplinary research. Subject areas include the arts, discovery and exploration, fashion, industry and trade, military history, politics, science, medicine and progress, social history, sports, transport, and travel.
A commercial online database of digitised Irish Newspaper publications. It claims to be the world's oldest and largest archive of Irish newspapers.
The archives enable research into Irish history both contemporary and modern, with legacy newspapers presented as they were printed in black and white full-page format and a current newspaper archive in colour PDF. Many of the newspapers are available from their first publication to current day.
This historical and multidisciplinary newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with searchable first-hand accounts of regional and national news, politics, society and events of the time.
Since its inception, The Irish Times has evolved from reflecting the views of its founder to becoming a politically and commercially independent newspaper. It has earned an international reputation as Ireland's daily newspaper. Each issue contains background analysis and assessment of the events of the day, and diversity of debate in the daily opinion columns. Coverage: 1859 - 2018.
Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcasts, The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The archive is a witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century, and to radio and television.
The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its director-general, Lord Reith. It was developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks, initially on radio, but in later years television as well, and was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine Radio Times. The Listener is one of the few records and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. In addition to commenting on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, the Listener also previewed major literary and musical shows and regularly reviewed new books.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
It provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the historical New York Times. Coverage: 1851 – 2016.
This database comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957, all issues were digitized from originals in full colour.
Picture Post’s innovative use of photojournalism captured the imagination of the British people. In the era before television, it became the window on the world, bringing the social and political issues of the day into consciousness. This resource provides a snapshot of British life from the 1930s to the 1950s, with thousands of photos of ordinary people doing ordinary things.
A digital newspaper archive, which enables you to search across full text pages of the newspaper’s backfile from its first issue to the end of 2016, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
Launched in 1855, by 1876 The Telegraph was the largest-selling newspaper in the world. It was directed at a wealthy, educated readership. During the twentieth century, the Telegraph cemented its reputation as a pioneering yet reliable source of news reporting. The archive includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961. It offers a fundamental insight into domestic and international affairs and culture.
An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the highly regarded resources for the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
This historical archive allows you to search this newspaper online in its original published context. The Times has offered readers coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. The archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, and coverage of major international historical events.
An Indian daily newspaper owned by The Times Group, which launched in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
A gateway to millions of pages of the 19th-21st Centuries’ newspapers, from 1835 to present, all searchable by name, word, phrase and date.
A resource for academics, researchers and anyone who wants to explore history as seen by the reporters and commentators. The newspaper pages can be viewed in thumbnail, small preview, full-size view, ready-to-print PDF, and page-by-page browse of the editions. It provides access to the full archive of the Daily Mirror (1903-current) and the Daily Express (1900-current).
This is a Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education, which allows staff and students to record programmes; and search the archive of broadcasts.
BoB (formerly Box of Broadcasts or BoB National) is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. The first time you use BoB you will be prompted to enter an email address to use the MyBoB Playlist facility. BoB is only available to users on the UK mainland.
Includes RTÉ News reports recorded on videotape between 1985 and 1999 which have been digitised for long term preservation.The News Collection is being made available to view online beginning with stories from 1985 and new content being added on a regular basis.
From the website: " Northern Ireland Screen is the government-backed lead agency in Northern Ireland for the film, television and digital content industry."
A portal for open access research theses provided by DART-Europe, which is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia.
DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). It offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications.
UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.
EThOS aims to provide free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers and it helps institutions to meet the expectation of the UK Research Councils that PhDs supported by a Research Council Training Grant should be made freely available in an open access repository.
NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
It assists students and universities in using electronic publishing and digital libraries to more effectively share knowledge to unlock the potential benefits worldwide. It also supports electronic publishing and open access to scholarship to enhance the sharing of knowledge.
This database enables you to search several databases containing scholarly journals, books, videos & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
It powers research in academic, corporate, government, public and school libraries around the world with content, including academic databases, and technologies that connect people with information. This database contains subject areas, such as dissertations & theses, health & life sciences, humanities & social sciences, and contemporary & historical newspapers.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is a unit of the National Monuments Service. The ASI was established to compile an inventory of the known archaeological monuments in the State. The information is stored on a database and in a series of paper files that collectively form the ASI Sites and Monuments Record (SMR)
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, is Ireland's longest running Humanities Computing project. It brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to you on the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 19 million words, in 1636 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature, medicine, and the other arts.
DIPPAM is an online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland, and its migration experience from the 18th to the late 20th centuries.
The Irish Architectural Archive was established in 1976 to collect and preserve material of every kind relating to the architecture of the entire island of Ireland, and make it available to the public.
The Irish State Administration Database constitutes a major research infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences in Ireland, and is of benefit to political scientists, historians, lawyers, sociologists and specialists in public policy. It should also be of interest to public servants and public representatives. The data presented here have been collected principally from official and primary sources.
The Military Archives and the Defence Forces Printing Press regularly produce publications relating to a variety of subjects, including archival collections, calendars and general military or historical themes and events.
Sources: A National Library of Ireland database for Irish research, contains over 180,000 catalogue records for Irish manuscripts, and for articles in Irish periodicals.
