If you have an Edinburgh City Libraries and Information Services membership card, you can access these resources from home or from any internet enabled computer. Follow the link and enter your library card number:
Online version of the famous Encyclopedia Britannica plus many other Britannica publications, videos, magazines, atlas and dictionary. Younger readers can try out the Britannica Junior (for ages 5 - 11) or Britannica Student (for ages 12 - 18) versions.
KnowUK is the most comprehensive resource of its kind, offering a complete library of reference books from Who's Who to the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook and including an events calendar for the year ahead. Most are unique to KnowUK and are not available elsewhere online. Many of these are updated more frequently than their print versions.
Kompass is a business to business database of around 200 000 UK manufacturers, distributors and service providers. Tailored searching across 25 criteria including location, activity, size, executives and financial performance provides highly targeted leads: allowing you to save on marketing budgets, evaluate prospective customers, or research potential employers. Log on here if you are in the library. More business information resources
Ideal for book groups, students or anyone with an interest in books and reading, this fantastic site contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, scientists and other writers from every age and literary discipline. Well worth a look. (if you have any problems logging on to this database please contact a member of library staff)
NewsUK includes articles from Scottish, London-based and regional newspapers including some tabloids. Save time and effort - one or more newspapers can be searched at once, and it's updated daily with full text of each article. It also includes the Economist, the New Statesman, the Spectator and the Irish Times.
Get a life! 56,000 readable biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. (No living person is included).
Oxford English Dictionary
Online version of the accepted authority on the English language. Updated quarterly. (If you are in the library you can log on here)
Oxford Reference Online (Premium)
Contains the full contents of around 175 reference books from Oxford University Press: including maps, illustrations, quotations, bilingual dictionaries and external web links.
You can access the subscriber-only contents of other web sites, such as Which?, 192.com and Funderfinder from the computers in the Reference Library. The Scotsman Digital Archive is available in the Edinburgh Room.
Screenonline from the British Film Institute
Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI’s National Archive. Anyone can log on to Screenonline, but access to the clips is not possible through your home PC. So visit your local library and make the most of this amazing resource!
