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Research, homework help, newspaper articles, business advice, family history...



If you're a library member, you can access our premium subscription sites from a home or work PC as well as your local library.  If you’re not a member, you can join at any Glasgow library


Some resources can also be accessed from home or work - look for the 'home or work' link on the list. 


To use them, click this link and then enter the first 10 characters of your library card number into the login box.


All of the following resources are available through library PCs.   Free Wi-Fi access ia also available from The MitchellPartick, Hillhead, Pollok, Gorbals and Library at GoMA.




Select the logo to link to the resource.

      

 Logo for Funderfinder NEW!  Funderfinder specialises in info about UK grant applications. Search for funding for either groups or individuals. Library members can login from home using these links.
   
   
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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) - online indexing and abstracting which provides superb coverage of  technology and arts subjects and includes UK quality newspapers.

 

 

 

 

COBRA – the Complete Business Reference Adviser. How to start up, run or support your small business

Link to COBRA from home or work

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CREDO has over 3 million entries from a selection of well-known reference works: encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, conversion tables, books of quotations, subject guides. Plus video clips, animations, interactive maps and timelines.

Link to CREDO reference from home or work

 

 

 

 

Know UK is an ideal place to find information about the UK. Browse the Local Information pages to find out what’s happening throughout the country.

Link to KnowUK from home or work

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Kompass is THE place to find information about company products and services.  World-wide database covering 2.3 million companies in 70 countries.

Link to Kompass from home or work

 

 

 

 

NewsUK is a searchable online database of the most popular national and regional British newspaper and magazine titles. Supplements are included, but not pictures, graphics, cartoons or adverts. Date coverage varies from title to title.

Link to NewsUK from home or work

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Oxford DNB has over 50,000 historical biographies of the people who have help shape the history of the British Isles and beyond. Access the complete text of the first 33-volume DNB.  Includes over 10,000 portrait illustrations.

Link to Oxford DNB from home or work

 

 

 

 

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Containing the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.                            Link to OED from home or work

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Oxford Reference Online offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.                    Link to Oxford Reference from home or work

 

 

 

 

SALSER is the union catalogue of the periodical holdings of Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow (The Mitchell), numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland.

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SCRAN has a wealth of digital materials representing Scotland's culture and history. Search over 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. Only available from The Mitchell.