ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

If you need to support your research or study, we can give you access to a range of professional resources.  When joining our centres you can request an Athens user account to access all of our online subscriptions by simply using a single password from any computer.

List of online subscriptions:

http://www.ashridge.org.uk Ashridge

Ashridge is one of the world's leading business schools, and delivers executive education and development to individuals and organisations. The Virtual Learning Resource Centre (VLRC) is a rich resource for management and organisational development materials These include:

Ashridge's highly regarded Learning Guides, which cover a broad range of mangement skills and competencies
Country and industry reports, e-commerce and e-business resources, a link to 200 top business and management journals and computer software guides
The reviews section presents up-to-date book, video and software reviews
Links to cover 600 reputable websites in business and management, country information, general interest and industry specific information

Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online is the authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day. It provides online access to the entire text of the acclaimed 34-volume Dictionary of Art plus newly-commissioned articles. It offers a wide range of search options, and extensive links to images from galleries and museums around the world. In includes thousands of articles, biographies, and searchable images, plus links to useful web sites covering people, places, art forms, styles and movements, institutions, museums, and other organisations, exhibitions, and more.

http://www.gale.com/index.htm Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopaedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.  It includes the complete Encyclopaedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, the Britannica Book of the Year, an Internet directory and 118,000 articles plus illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Xreferplus is a huge online reference library that is offering 169 books from 30 world class publishers.  It covers all major academic subject areas powerful search methods unique to xrefer.  Available titles also include a range of multimedia options including thousands of high-quality diagrams, photographs, maps and audio files.  You can use the reference materials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com Emerald

Stay updated with Emerald's online database covering 24,000+ articles and 104+ journal titles. It covers mainly management and business subjects: marketing, general management, human resources, quality, property, operations, production and economics. It also covers library and information services, training and education and engineering.

The Emerald package comprises:

Emerald Fulltext – over 35,000 articles from 100+ management journals
Emerald Management Reviews – formerly Anbar. Contains over 138,000 independent reviews of articles taken from 400 of the world’s leading management publications, covering the major management disciplines.
Abstracts: Computer Abstracts International Database

Grove Music Online
It includes the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the 4-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition). It includes 50,000 articles, sophisticated search and browse capabilities, Sibelius-enabled musical examples, and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet, including sound archives and illustrations.

http://www.oed.com/ Oxford English Dictionary
The English Oxford Dictionary (OED) is the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. For the first time since it was completed in 1928, the OED is being completely revised; every word and every sense is being fully reviewed, and new words added, to take account of the latest changes in language and scholarship.

Oxford Reference Online
The Core Collection brings together key authorative dictionary and reference titles across the full subject spectrum into a single cross-searchable resource.  It includes English dictionaries and general reference thesauri, bilingual dictionaries, English language reference works, subject dictionaries and general reference.

Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford Scholarship Online is a unique and invaluable tool for both research and teaching.The complete text of over 920 carefully-selected Oxford books available online for the first time.  Subject modules available in Philosophy, Religion, Political Science, and Economics and Finance.

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