Databases

Senate House Library members are able to enjoy an impressive range of databases specialising in the humanities and social sciences. All of these resources are available to anyone inside the Library (except for exhibition visitors). Many membership types also provide external access to these resources outside of the Library. Please click here for further information about membership.

Databases can be found by searching via the online Library Catalogue.

A list of full text databases can be found here

If you do not know which database contains the resource you are looking for, please visit the Collections & Gateways page. From the collection list, please click on a relevant subject. On the next page please select the 'Databases' tab. This will show the list of databases specific to that subject. Alternatively, a full list of all the databases (in alphabetical order) is available below.

Service announcements covering databases are available from here. Please click on this link to view a list of new databases under consideration, to suggest your own or to provide feedback.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Information | Available Offsite
19th Century British Library Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
19th Century British Pamphlets
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
ABI/INFORM Archive Complete
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
ABI/INFORM Global
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Academic Search Complete
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
America: History and Life
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
Anthropology Index Online
Information | Available Offsite
Anthropology Plus
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Archival Sound Recordings (British Library)
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
ARTstor
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
ATLA religion database
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Base (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Information
BIAB: British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography
Information | Authorised Domains
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Bibliographie luxembourgeoise
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation
Information
Bibliography of the history of art : BHA
Information | Available Offsite
BL Map Cat: British Library Map Catalogue
Information
BLCPM: British Library Catalogue of Printed Music
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
BLPC: British Library Public Catalogue
Information | Available Offsite
BNB: British National Bibliography
Information
BNE: Bibliografia Nacional Espanola
Information | Standalone CD
BNF: Bibliographie Nationale de France
Information | Standalone CD
Bodleian Library Catalogue via OLIS
Information | Available Offsite
Book History Online
Information | Authorised Domains
British Cartoon Archive
Information | Available Offsite
British History Online
Information
British Library Direct
Information
British Periodicals
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Business Source Premier
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Calendars of State Papers
Information
available through British History Online
Casetrack
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
Cataleg de la Biblioteca Valencia
Information | Standalone CD
Caxton's Chaucer (Treasures in Full at the BL)
Information
C-FAR
Information
Chicano Database
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Citation Indexes on Web of Knowledge
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Collectiu del Patrimoni Bibliografia Valencia
Information | Standalone CD
Connected Histories
Information
COPAC (CURL online catalogues)
Information | Available Offsite
Daily Telegraph 2000-, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
DBEM : Diccionario Bio-bibliografico de Escritores de Mexico 1920-1970
Information | Standalone CD
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie
Information | Available Offsite
Dictionary of National Biography
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
now Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of Old English A-G
Information | Authorised Domains
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Digimap Historic Map Collection
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
Dissertation Abstracts online by personal subscription (Dissertation Express)
Information
Dissertations and Theses
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
EBSCO databases
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Economic and Social Data Service
Information | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
Obtain your username and password from your college, or follow instructions as if you were NOT from a UK HE Institution
Economist 1987-97
Information | Standalone CD
Economist online
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
EEBO: Early English Books Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Electronic Enlightenment
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
English Poetry Full-Text Database
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
ERIC
Information | Authorised Domains
ESTC: the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC, WING, Pollard & Redgrave etc.)
Information
Film & TV Database
Information | Available Offsite
Financial Times 1996 -, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
FRANCIS
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Gallica Digital Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Information
GEOBIB
Information
Geography, Planning, Urban & Environment Online Archive. (Individual journal titles on the Library catalogue)
Information | Authorised Domains
Grove Art Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Now Oxford Art Online
Grove Music Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Now Oxford Music Online
Guardian 1992 -, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Guardian Online
Information
Gutenberg (Project)
Information
Gutenberg Bible (Treasures in Full at the BL)
Information
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Information | Available Offsite
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vols 1-53, 1936-1994
Information | Standalone CD
Hansard 1803-2005
Information | Available Offsite
(prototype database)
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
HeinOnline
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB)
Information | Authorised Domains
Historical Abstracts 1955-
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Historical Directories
Information
History of Parliament Online
Information
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth century
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
see also Eighteenth Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688 - 1834
In Principio
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
Information
Independent 1993 -, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Independent Daily edition online
Information
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1991-2000
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers for 1801-1995
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network. See also House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Nineteenth century
Index to Theses of the British Isles
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Index Translationum
Information
InforM25
Information | Available Offsite
IngentaConnect
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
International Index of Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
International Index to Music periodicals
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
International Medieval Bibliography Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
ISI Highly Cited
Information
JISC MediaHub (formerly Film & Sound Online)
Information | Authorised Domains
Available Offsite (registered SAS students and staff only)
John Johnson Collection
Information | Authorised Domains
JSTOR: Scholarly Journals online (full text)
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
JustCite
Information | Authorised Domains
Justis
Information | Authorised Domains
Justis Parliament 1979-92
Information | Standalone CD
Latter-day Saint library, including the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Information | Standalone CD
Legal Journals Index
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Information | Authorised Domains
Lexis®Library
Information | Authorised Domains
Library of Latin Texts
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Information
LION: Literature Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
London's Past Online
Information | Authorised Domains
Now part of the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
MEDLINE
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
MLA International Bibliography and Periodicals Directory
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
MyiLibrary
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
New Grove Dictionary of Music
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
New York Times 1990-1997
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
New York Times: Daily online edition
Information
NewsFilmOnline
Information | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
Choose 'Log in via direct access'
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse)
Information
Novum Regestrum
Information | Standalone CD
Observer 1994-2005
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
Observer 1995-, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
OFFSTATS Official Statistics on the Web
Information
Oxford Art Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Formerly Grove Art Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide | Available Offsite
Oxford Music Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Formerly Grove Music Online
Oxford Text Archive
Information
Periodicals Archive Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide
(database of articles, searchable across full text)
Periodicals Index Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Quick Start Guide
(database of citations with links to some full text where available)
PERSEE (Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales)
Information | Authorised Domains
Philosophers Index 1940-
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
PhilPapers
Information
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Proceedings of the Old Bailey
Information
Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
PsycARTICLES
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
PsycEXTRA
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Psychology: IUPsyS Global Resource (International Union of Psychological Science)
Information | Authorised Domains
PsycINFO: Psychological Abstracts 1887- Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Public information online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
Information
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads
Information
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800 to the present.
Information | Available Offsite
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Science Citation Index (Web of Knowledge)
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Screenonline
Information | Authorised Domains
Shakespeare Collection
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Shakespeare in Quarto (Treasures in Full at the BL)
Information
Slavery, abolition and social justice 1490 - 2007
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Knowledge)
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Information
Sunday Telegraph 2000-, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
The trans-Atlantic slave trade database
Information
Thesaurus of Old English
Information | Available Offsite
Times 1992-, and Sunday Times 1996-, as a part of Proquest Newspapers
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
UK Web Archive
Information
UKOP: United Kingdom Official Publications
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Victorian Database Online
Information | Authorised Domains
Victorian Popular Culture
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
Visual and Sound Materials (VSM) demonstrator portal
Information | Authorised Domains
Web of Knowledge
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
Westlaw UK
Information | Password required. Please enquire in the Information Centre
Who's Who 1897-1996
Information | CD Network | Authorised Domains
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
Wing Short Title Catalogue Books 1641-1700

see ESTC
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Information | Authorised Domains | Available Offsite
WorldCat
Information | Available Offsite
Wycliffite Manuscript: The New Testament
Information | Authorised Domains
Please ask staff to enable access to CD Network
Zetoc: British Library Electronic Table of Contents
Information | Authorised Domains | Direct Link | Available Offsite