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Britannica Junior is the ideal choice for helping children
between 5 and 11 years old with their homework. It has
thousands
of articles on a huge range of topics. As well as articles it
contains pictures, video clips, a world atlas, a history timeline
and a dictionary. Login from home with your library
card.
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a guided tour of Britannica Junior Edition 
Online encyclopaedia for 12-18 year olds - ideal for homework
topics. Access it from home using your library card
to
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guided tour of Britannica Student Edition
Encyclopaedia Britannica online for the 18 years and over
audience. Access it from home using your library
card to log in.
Take a
guided tour of Britannica Standard Edition
Explore the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the
British past over the last 2,400 years - from Julius Caesar and
Boudicca to Princess Diana and Sid Vicious. Access it from
home using your library card to log in.
Widely acknowledged as 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 classical
literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.
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in.
A vast online reference library available 24/7. It combines in
depth content offered by titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions
series with authoritative, quick reference coverage of the full
subject spectrum. Over one million entries across 25 subjects.
Access it from home using your library card to log
in.
Contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to
Western Art, Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Dictionary
of Art Terms. Access it from home using your library
card to log in.
Contains Grove Music Online The Oxford
Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and the
Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Access it from home
using your library card to log in.
A full-image online archive of every page
published by The Times from 1785-1985. The text within the images
is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search
news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds - virtually
everything that appeared in the newspaper.
The Times is the "world's newspaper of record"
and covers all major international historical events from the
French Revolution to the Falkland War. For the first time users are
able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including
articles, editorials and advertising.
Results are displayed at the article level and users may view
the article - or the full page upon which it appeared.
Access it from home using your library card to log
in.
This is a special version of the well known
Ancestry.com subscription site. It contains census records from
1841 - 1901 for England & Wales and also Scotland. Among the
millions of other records on Ancestry Library Edition are the
Birth, Marriage and Death Index from 1837 to the present.
Ancestry Library Edition is available FREE of charge in all
Northumberland libraries but our licence agreement does not allow
us to make it available from home.
Searchable archive of The Journal and Evening
Chronicle going back to 1995. Available in all branch
libraries but not accessible from home.
Granger's is the definitive source in English for locating a
poem in anthologies on library shelves. First published in 1904,
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry is now in its 12th edition.
In 1999, Granger's went online as The Columbia Granger's World of
Poetry. It allows you to search poems by author, first line,
last line, subject key words and then locate them in anthologies.
Only accessible at the County Reference Library, Morpeth.
COBRA is aimed at business start ups and SMEs (Small &
Medium Size Enterprises). It's a comprehensive and versatile
research resource for organisations advising or working with
entrepreneurs and small business owners. It contains approximately
4,000 fact sheets, reports and business
guides. Accessible at all Northumberland Libraries but
our licence agreement does not make it available
from home. 
There are three specialist databases available
using your library card to logo in:
GreenFILE: offers
well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to
the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and
general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green
building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy,
recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts
for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for
more than 4,700 records.
Library,
Information Science & Technology
Abstracts Library (LISTA):
indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority
journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports
and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship,
classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information
retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the
database extends back as far as the mid-1960s
Teacher
Reference Centre: Provides indexing and abstracts
for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator
journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
