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Digital Unite Skills Guide
Digital Unite Skills Guide
Improve your computer skills, emailing, use of the internet or generally boost your digital confidence with these free guides.

Access to Research
Access to Research
Access over 1.5 million of the world’s best academic papers.

Bookmark Your Library
Bookmark Your Library This site helps you discover books, explore local libraries, and even lets you get your questions answered by a librarian at any time. Why not have a look around today and see what you can find ?

Virtual Library
Arts and Music
John Johnson Collection: An archive of printed ephemera
John Johnson Collection: An archive of printed ephemera
This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. It offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Biography
Crockford
Crockford's Clerical Dictionary
Biographies of over 25,000 Anglican clergy in the UK. Details of English, Welsh and Irish benefices and churches.
Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography
Contains the 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

Who
Who's Who with Who was Who Online
Who's Who is the essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in the UK and worldwide. Who Was Who includes over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898.
Dictionaries and Other Reference
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Principally dealing with history, wildlife and science. Many of the titles are provided by the publisher Dorling Kindersley and as such are fully illustrated and specifically written for younger readers aged 6-14. Also includes Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia and International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers.

Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
The full 23 Volumes of the internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book.
Oxford Dictionaries Pro
Oxford Dictionaries Pro
Offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, etc.
Encyclopaedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Academic Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Academic Edition)
The Academic Edition of Britannica Online features 73,000 full length articles and over 400 EBSCO and ProQuest journals and lots more.
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Library Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Library Edition)

Britannica Junior Edition
Britannica Junior Edition
(ages 5 to 11 years)
Britannica Student Edition
Britannica Student Edition
(ages 12 to 18 years)
Family History
Ancestry
Ancestry
Only available in libraries. An extensive assortment of family history and genealogy resource.
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives Catalogue
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives Catalogue
A searchable database including all parish records held by Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives. The database includes over 3000 images.

Film
BFI Screenonline
BFI Screenonline
The definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history. Watch video clips from the best of British film and television over the past hundred years.

Law
Legislation.gov.uk
The official home of UK legislation
Newspapers and Magazines
Access to Research
Access to Research

Guardian and THe Observer
Guardian and THe Observer
A fully searchable database of The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003).
Info Trac UK Journals
Info Trac UK Journals
This fully searchable database of 50 UK journals contains 1 million articles with an archive extending to Jan 1991.
Times Digital Archive
Times Digital Archive
Online history from 200 years of The Times newspaper.
The British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive
Search millions of UK newspaper articles from as early as 1800. Only available in libraries.
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Learn My Way
Learn My Way
Learn My Way
Develop digital skills and learn about Universal Jobmatch with free online courses from Learn My Way

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