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Subject coverage: maps of Great Britain
Size/scope: access high-resolution zoomable images of over 86,000 maps of Scotland and England and Wales covering 1560 to 1961. These include zoomable colour images of the Ordnance Survey's six-inch to the mile (1:10,560)and one inch to the mile (1:63360) mapping. The easiest way of finding sheets is through a clickable graphic index using the 'Find by Place' viewer: This allows searching through a gazetteer of placenames, street names, postcodes and Grid References, as well as by zooming in on an area of interest with smaller-scale locational mapping as a backdrop.
Type of content: maps
Level of access: screen prints may be made of these maps for non-commercial, educational and private purposes. Written permission must be obtained in advance to reproduce any digital material from the National Library of Scotland's collections, whether in hard copy or electronic forms.

Subject coverage: newsreels and cinemagazines
Size/scope: 160,000 records
Type of content: newsreels, cinemagazines, production documents, and archive footage
Date range: 1910-1979
Level of access: moving image and full text.

Access is restricted to ac.uk domains. To access complete the simple registration form supplying name and e-mail address.

Note: The off-campus connection link above is the only off-campus access route for this resource.

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)

Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. It also includes journals, broadcasts, newswires, blogs, legal sources, and business/company information
Type of content: local, regional, national, and international newspapers, with some journals and other media
Level of access: full text.

Note: View the training videos in Nexis Uni Help to find out how to use the database effectively.

Subject coverage: medical and healthcare
Type of content: wide range of materials including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents
Level of access: most content is freely available without the need for username or password, but some requires an NHS Athens account. Students studying on NHS-related programmes are able to obtain an NHS Athens account. Invitations were emailed at the beginning of the academic year.

Note for off-campus use: at the web site select the link Shibboleth users click here

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (OALA)

Subject coverage: 19th Century political, economic and social issues
Size/scope: 26,000 British pamphlets from the UK research Libraries (Cowen Tracts; Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection; Foreign & Commonwealth Office Collection; Hume Tracts; Knowsley Pamphlet Collection; LSE selections; University of Bristol selections
Type of content:Pamphlets
Date range: 1800-1899
Level of access: facsimile full text.

BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)

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