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>> Go to National Digital Archive of Datasets

• Subject coverage: UK government data and statistics
• Type of content: online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments
• Level of access: the datasets are delivered as zip files, there are different file types: a .pdf file, multiple .csv files and multiple .html files.

>> Go to National Library of Scotland: Maps

• 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.

>> Go to News on Screen

• 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.

>> Go to Newspapers

Links to databases with newspaper content. Includes Nexis Uni (the main non-facsimile database), PressReader (platform hosting facsimile versions of recent newspaper and magazine editions), historical newspaper databases (e.g. The Times Digital Archive) and individual publication subscriptions (e.g. FT.com).

>> Go to Nexis Uni

• 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.

​The contents of this database are included in mySearch

Can be selected using advanced search in mySearch

>> Go to NHS Knowledge and Library Hub

• 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.

>> Go to Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

Parts 1 and 2 of the British Library Newspapers collection, spanning 1800-1900, contains regional and local newspapers. The content totals over three million pages and reflects the social and political developments of the time. Coverage includes everything from well-known historic events and cultural icons of the time, to sporting events, arts, and culture. This resource also includes contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes, and a chronological overview. Full facsimile and fully searchable.

>> Go to Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals

Part 1: Women’s, Children’s, Humour, and Leisure. This resource includes full-text of 100 titles and 1.2 million pages from periodicals published in the UK between 1800 and 1900. Its focus is on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK. Content included:

• Women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the suffragist, The Vote via Women and Josephine Butler's The Dawn
• The rise of children's entertainment and education, with titles including Boys' Own and Little Folks
• Popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket and cycling
• Satirical and comic titles such as Punch, Fun, Judy and Figaro
• Newly captured images, including approximately 8,000 in colour.

Full facsimile and fully searchable.