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Online Reference Books and Newspapers
Some of these services can be accessed from your own home computer.
Where
home access is available please click on the appropriate link and type a capital R before
typing in your borrower number unless otherwise instructed.
ONLINE RESOURCES |
How to access resource |
| We now offer free access from within our libraries to Ancestry.com, one of the leading resources for family history | |
Oxford University Press Titles |
You can access,Who's Who, Oxford Art, Oxford Music, Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection here |
Encyclopaedia BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica is now available in a number of versions:Academic, Student For ages 12 - 18 and Junior For ages 5 - 11 |
Follow this link to see the versions available |
NewspapersTitles include; The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian and many other international titles. You can also access The Times Digital Archive covering the years 1745 - 1985. |
Access full text newspapers by following this link to the online database |
| If you are in a library you can access the Online version of CANS from here. Follow this link to access this site from outside the library. Choose Worcestershire Library and Information Service from the drop down window and then type in WOR and your library card number on the login screen. |
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Kompass |
www.kompass.com International business database detailing companies, products and services. |
BIAB Archaelogical Bibliography |
BIAB: The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography Interactive gateway to archaeological research. |
Access British Standards online if you are inside a library from here and click on the BSOL subscribers button on the right hand side of the page Access British Standards from home via your library card from here.Log into your user account on our library catalogue and click the link to the BSI login page. |
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EBSCO resourcesDynaMed (Health information) Green FILE (Environment & conservation) LISTA (Library & Information management) Teacher Reference Center (Education) |
Follow this link to access to Dynamed, and EBSCO resources |
Other Useful links |
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Newspapers |
www.onlinenewspapers.com Good coverage worldwide. www.metagrid.com Less coverage than the others. www.thepaperboy.com Good coverage www.newspaperlinks.com USA and Canada only but does give good coverage of local newspapers www.kidon.com Again, good coverage |
Telephone Directories |
BT Phonenet UK 2.Type in a surname and initial, postcode, town or street name as a search. This brings up a list of possible people. Clicking on the ‘go’ by the side of the name and address will bring up the telephone number. 3.The same applies to businesses or you can search by type of business eg florist and place eg Evesham. This brings up a list of florists not only in Evesham but in the area. |
Yellow Pages |
The Yell www.yell.com For finding businesses within the UK but note it does not cover the Channel islands or the Isle of Man Again, easy to use although rather a ‘busy’ home page. A useful feature is that a map can be downloaded for the location of each business. |
Travel |
British Rail Travel Enquiries www.nationalrail.co.uk |
Last modification: 10:12:16, 30th April, 2008 by Carol Woolley
Review date: 21st February, 2009
