Electronic information from Nottingham libraries
A wide variety of electronic resources are available both in your local library and, via our web site, at home.
We can provide you with access to over 400 electronic titles - these are grouped together in the services listed on this page. If you would like to see a list of the individual "books" or newpapers/magazines included, please follow the links provided.
You can access all of these resources from your home, school, university or workplace computers; all you need to know is your library membership number (the letter D followed by the first 8 digits) and your PIN.
19th Century British newspapers - view digital copies of all of the main 19th Century British newspapers (selected from across the whole of the UK). In the 19th Century, local newspapers contained a lot of regional and national news, so for example, the "Derby Mercury" will cover much news relating to Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands. Fully searchable by keyword or full-text.
Click here to access 19th Century British newspapers
Credo Reference - a collection of 100 electronic resources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries, with links to animation and colour pictures.
Click here to access Credo Reference
Custom UK - an on-line collection of British newspapers and magazines, including the Times & Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Scientist and many others. A full list of titles covered is available.
Click here to access Custom UK.
Grove Art Online - The full text of the 32 volume Grove Dictionary of Art and the Oxford Companion to Western Art
Click here to access Grove Art Online
Grove Music Online - The full text of the 29 volume New Grove Dictionary of Music, the 4 volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the 4 volumes of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Click here to access Grove Music Online
Humanities Fulltext - hundreds of magazines in the fields of art, history, literature and the performing arts can be searxched and fulltext articles retrieved.
Click here to access Humanities Fulltext
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - The full text of the 20 volumes of the new edition of the Dictionary plus over 10,000 illustrations. Supplements are issued every year in the on-line edition.
Click here to access the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Oxford English Dictionary Online - The full text of the 20 volume 2nd edition plus all the supplements.
Click here to access the Oxford English Dictionary Online.
Oxford Reference Online - Full text access to all the Oxford Companions and a range of language dictionaries. There are links and full colour illustrations. A full list of the reference "books" included is available.
Click here to access the Oxford Reference Online collection.
Virtual Reference Library - a collection of important reference titles
Click here to access the Virtual Reference Library.
Who's who and Who was Who - published annually since 1849, Who's who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. When a person with an entry dies, their information is uatomatically transferred to Who was who. The combined publications include biographical information on over 130,000 people.
Click here to access Who's who and Who was who
Wilson Play Index - Search for plays by title, author, subject (eg. culture conflict, marriage, etc.); style (eg. symbolism, experimental theatre, etc.); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical, etc.); cast type; and more; limit your results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, or size of total cast.
When you have found the play you are looking for, check our on-line library catalogue to see if we have copies available - see our page about playsets for further information.
Click here to access the Wilson Play Index.
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