A-Z List of Virtual Reference Resources
A member of staff will need to log you in.Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy.
Access: this subscription is only available in the library, click the link above to access.
BRAD (British Rate and Data) is an online media database of newspapers, consumer and business periodicals and e-zines which carry advertising. Information provided includes circulation figures, frequency of publication and advertising rates. BRAD also covers independent cable and satellite television companies.
Access: this subscription service is only available in Jubilee Library, so a member of staff will need to log you in.
Britannica Student makes the authoritative content of our encyclopaedia lively and easy to read. Ideal for students between the ages of 12 and 18 years.
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Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia has been created especially for readers at the primary school level. Thousands of shorter articles cover subjects for school and fun, from nations of the world to animals and sports. Ideal for students between the ages of 5 and 11.
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With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject. Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopaedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites
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Credo Reference is a giant online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books, including encyclopaedia, dictionaries, thesauri and books on quotations, biographical information, art, literature and law. Search by keyword across all books, search by category or search a single volume. You will need to enter your library membership number to access these resources.
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Datamonitor 360 - This product is no longer available. It will be replaced with MintUK.
Online access to careers information. There are 530 leaflets covering over 1200 jobs, careers and lifestyle topics to provide the most current information available. All leaflets are thoroughly researched and revised annually by subject experts. Available in Brighton Library and Hove Library. This service is only available in the library, so a member of staff will need to log you in.
Access: this subscription service is only available in the library, so a member of staff will need to log you in.
EXODUS is a comprehensive and easy to use database of international careers information. It provides an all in one gateway to opportunities around the world, including information about Gap Years, studying, working, volunteering and living in countries worldwide.
Access:this subscription service is only available in Brighton Library and Hove Library.
Findmypast.co.uk is a family history and genealogy website, with an ever-growing collection of over 650 million family history records. This website now includes free access to the 1911 census.
Access: this subscription is only available in the library - up to ten users at any one time.
GoCitizen.co.uk is an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK Test or British citizenship test. The service includes an online version of the latest official study materials licensed from the Home Office, the people who write the handbook, plus hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test.
How to sign up for GoCitizen.co.uk
When you first use GoCitizen.co.uk, you will need to register with your name, email address and password. There is no charge for this. This information allows GoCitizen.co.uk to save your test scores so you can follow your progress as you practise for the test.
You will need a valid email address to sign up for GoCitizen.co.uk.
Access: this subscription service is available in the library and at home (enter your library membership number).
An online database of 100 Journals with the facility to search articles covering a wide range of topics. A Great resource for research. Please note while some journals are full text, some are index or 'citation' only.
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource, but please use capitals for the letters, eg BHA not bha.
An archive of printed ephemera. This collection provides access to thousands of items, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.
Access: Please click on this home access link, rather than the above link to access from home. Please enter your library membership number.
MintUK offers powerful business information, providing high quality information covering companies, news, directors and industry research. You can also create mailing lists.
Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource.
The ODNB provides access to over 57,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2004. No living person is included. It covers people who were born and lived in the British Isles, people from the British Isles who achieved recognition in other countries, people who lived in territories formerly connected to the British Isles at a time when they were in contact with British rule, and people born elsewhere who settled in the British Isles for significant periods or whose visits enabled them to leave a mark on British life.
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource.
The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It also traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources – from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.
Access: enter your library membership number (with the first 3 letters in CAPITALS) to access this resource.
The new home of Grove Music Online currently includes: The Encyclopaedia of Popular Music,The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource.
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, plus detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource.
Theory Test Pro is a highly realistic online simulation of the UK's driving theory test. It contains the entire official test question bank, hazard perception video clips and an online version of the Highway Code. All this material is licensed from the Driving Standards Agency (DSA), the people who set the tests.
How to sign up for Theory Test Pro
When you first use Theory Test Pro, you will need to register with your name, email address and password. There is no charge for this. This information allows Theory Test Pro to save your test scores so you can follow your progress as you practise for the test.
You will need a valid email address to sign up for Theory Test Pro.
Access: this subscription service is available in the library and at home (enter your library membership number).
Search the Times newspaper online in its orignal published context. This is a digital version of the microfilm of every issue of the Times (London) from 1785 to 2006 (until recently, the archive only went up to 1985).
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource, but please use capitals for the letters, eg BHA not bha.
Complete coverage of more than 150 British newspapers, many with back files to the 1990s and earlier. UK Newsstand includes The Financial Times, The Times and The Guardian and many other leading national and regional titles. Easy to browse, search, save and share articles
Access: Please click on this home access link, rather than the above link to access from home. Please enter your library membership number.
Which? Local is a free website for subscribers to Which?. The site is for Which? members to recommend local service providers that they have used and rate them.
Access: this subscription service is only available in the library, so a member of staff will need to log you in.
Which? magazine's website provides access to reports, buying guides and Which? magazine's recent research.
Access: this subscription service is only available in Hove Library and Jubilee Library.
The essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually since 1849, also includes Who was Who.
Access: enter your library membership number to access this resource.
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