General Reference

 

 

General E-resources

Census [electronic resource].
Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination [electronic resource].
CRD produces and promotes the use of research based knowledge in health and social care. It enables you to search the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) and the Health Technology Assessments database (HTA). It does not contain Cochrane Reviews - for this use the Cochrane Library.

Hermes [electronic resource].
Database describing over 20,000 audio-visual programmes. Aimed at higher educational community, provided by the BUFVC. Covers films, video programmes, slides, sound recordings, computer courseware and interactive multimedia.

European View of the Americas [electronic resource].
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers from 1970 onwards. Information on theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. Information given includes title, date, type of award, University and usually, an abstract.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) [electronic resource].
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database. Strong in the Humanities, Languages, Science and Medicine.

TRILT: The Television Index [electronic resource].
The BUFVC Television Index is a selective index to more than 12 years of television programmes broadcast on the five UK terrestrial channels.

Journals Collections & Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), ISI Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, ISI HighlyCited, Journal Citation Reports, My Endnote Web [electronic resource].
Subject: science and technology, social science, arts and humanities. Coverage: ISI WoK includes two main products: Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present); ISI Proceedings and My Endnote Web. Abstracts, and citation index only, full text access to titles LSBU subscribes to. Includes: SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX: Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

TicTocs [electronic resource].
The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents is an alerting service, making it easy for academics, researchers, and students to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material.

ZETOC [electronic resource].
The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year.

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General Web Sites

For specific (especially taught) subjects please look at the relevant Web Sites within each of the Subject Portals on Library Services Website.

Bookshops
Careers Information, Education and Guidance
Country Information (including maps and flags)
Currency Converter
Dictionaries and Thesauri 
Entertainment
General Subject Guides
London
News
Politics and Government
Quotations
Study Guides
Telephone Directories
Times and Dates
Translators
Travel
Weather

Bookshops

Amazon (UK)
UK version of popular online bookseller. Links to other versions (US, German, etc.)

Careers Information , Education & Guidance

Careers advice at London South Bank University

CV Library
UK jobs, careers and recruitment.

Floodlight
The official guide to part-time and full-time courses in London

Jobs.ac.uk
The official recruitment website for Higher Education

Country Information (including flags and maps)

CIA World Factbook
Facts, maps, statistics etc. on countries and cities worldwide. Identifies capitals and alternative names.

Flags of all Countries
Latest national and regional flags with a few city emblems.

Map Collection (Perry Castaneda Library)
Online maps worldwide. Features areas of latest political interest in detail.

Multimedia Mapping
Very detailed interactive map of the UK with zoom facility.

Currency Converter

Onanda

xe.com
Includes a facility for checking the daily exchange rate

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Acronym Finder
Find out what any acronym or abbreviation stands for.

Online Dictionaries
Links to over 1,000 dictionaries in over 200 languages.

Thesaurus.Com
Based on Roget`s Thesaurus, this can be browsed by subject category or index.

Entertainment

Football
Official site of the FA, which gives all the latest news and includes women's football.

Internet Movie Database
A wealth of information about films, actors, television (mostly American programmes).

LondonNet
Comprehensive guide to going out in London, with listings of top attractions, clubs, cinema, music and much more.

This is London
Evening Standard online site for what's on in the capital.

General  Subject Guides

Archives Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

PINAKES - Subject Launchpad
Main academic gateways sites.

The WWW Virtual Library (UK mirror site)

London

Elephant & Castle
Guide to local news, events and shopping.

London.gov.uk
The official site for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.

Southwark. Most of the London Boroughs have a web site with
information on local regeneration, history, business expansion etc.

London Innovation
Business and planning from the London Development Agency.

South Bank London
A guide to what's happening on the South Bank.

News

BBC
Latest and archived news, weather, links to programme support (radio and TV).

CNN
Best for breaking news, political commentaries etc. and worldwide coverage from this US source.

Press Association
News centre with accurate and authoritative sources.

Government and politics

Directgov
Information from UK Government departments.

The National Archives
UK government records, with access to digitised public records, including family history and academic sources.

Parliament Live
Broadcasting live from Westminster

UK Parliament
Information about both Houses, including the progress of Bills and the work of Committees and the Law Lords.

Quotations

Bartleby.com
John Bartlett's famous collection of quotations searchable by author or keyword

Statistics

Statistics Search
The library's collection of on-line statistics sites, searchable by keywords.

Zanran
Searches for numerical data which people have presented as graphs, tables and charts. Search tips under "Hints & Help".

Study Guides

Advice on Academic Writing
University of Toronto site.

Census Learning and Teaching Materials

Mondofacto
Study topics include dissertation writing, exam revision, presentation and research skills.

Exam Stress
Advice from the Imperial College Health site about study and exam strategies.

Help Sheets
Produced by CLSD and include advice on referencing using the Harvard and Numeric systems, and OSCOLA for Law resources. There is also a helpsheet dealing with plagiarism and how to avoid it.

Learn Higher
Resources for staff and students, including advice about academic writing, referencing, and doing research.

Paradigm Academic Writing Assistant
Practical interactive site for both inexperienced and advanced writers of essays and assignments.

 

Telephone Directories

BT PhoneNet UK
UK on-line telephone directory, business and residential

Royal Mail
Royal Mail postcode finder

Business
Thomson UK business directory

Yell.com
UK Yellow Pages

Times and Dates

timeanddate.com
Calendar and world clock

Translators

Babel Fish Translation

Dictionary.com Translator

Travel 

Britain Express
The UK travel and heritage guide

Foreign Office
Country by country advice for travellers and services available to Britons overseas if it all goes wrong!

London Congestion Charge
Transport for London guide to the charge, with maps.

Lonely Planet
Information on a range of destinations worldwide

Megabus
Budget intercity bus travel in the UK

Public Transport Information
Covers all types of public transport within the UK, including timetables and fares.

Rail Enquiries
National Rail timetable enquiries and access to live departure boards

Transport for London
Useful Journey Planner and an Interactive Map. Covers all modes of transport including river and trams.

Weather

Meteorological Office
UK weather forecast from the Met Office

BBC Weather
UK and world weather

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