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17th-18th century Burney Collection Newspapers

The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers collections contains one million newspaper pages with titles from London, British Isles, and colonies. Included in the collection are newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets and proclamations.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains 48 newspapers (two million newspaper pages) selected by the British Library from national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns, the Midlands region, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

American National Biography

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the American nation. It is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.

AustLit

Provides access to the Australian Literary Database which covers Australian creative writing and Australian writers. Subjects covered by the database include books, poems, short stories, articles and reviews and can be searched by author title, genre or award. The database contains records from 1880s to the current day, with comprehensive coverage from 1988.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, The

The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations, numbers that will continually expand with each update. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

An ongoing project of the full text of publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473-1700.

Film Indexes Online

Brings together Film Index International and the AFI (American Film Institute) Catalog, providing full international coverage of films and film personalities from over 170 countries.

Health and Wellness Resource Centre

Fulltext medical encyclopaedia, alternative health encyclopaedia, medical dictionary and drug and herb information. Also includes fulltext magazines, journals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Search the index to the British House of Commons parliamentary papers between 1801–2004. Full text to these papers is available for the period 1801–1945. It will be progressively updated until the 20th century is completed. Includes discussions and correspondence about former British colonies.

INFORMIT Online

Provides online access to a wide range of Australian, Asia and Pacific research and information resources covering social sciences, education, law, criminology, film studies, health, medicine, accounting and economics, business, management, drug information, and sport.

Literature Resource Center

An online collection of traditional literary reference works, contemporary literary criticism on authors and their works, current journal articles plus other resources.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms with 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.

Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online contains Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.

Oxford Reference Online

Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.

ProQuest 5000

A multidisciplinary collection of 19 separate databases indexing the contents of 7,900 journals and the full text of articles from 3,900 journals. The subject coverage is from the humanities to the pure and applied sciences, and the geographic coverage is international.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Includes searchable full text, page and article images of:

• Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986)
• Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1996)
• Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986)
• New York Times (1851 - 2006)
• Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1992)
• Washington Post (1877 - 1993)

Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

The London Times newspaper including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos and divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Centenary Archive

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Centenary Archive contains the complete edition of the TLS from 1902–1990 and the TLS Index. Identities of contributors to the TLS — reviewers, and writers of essays, letters and poems are disclosed in this database, their biographical information is included.

Who's Who in Australia

A browsable and searchable database of biographies of prominent Australians. It includes various categories like Nobel Prize Winners, Diplomats in Australia and more.