Online Resources

Ancestry

Uncover your family history with Ancestry. Contains all UK census data from 1841 to 1901, plus birth, marriage and death records. Available in all Islington libraries only"

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. To access the OED free from a home or office computer using your Islington library card, just click on the link above and fill in your library membership number where indicated. 

To use The OED in one of our libraries, Please click on the following lin k: www.oed.com

www.oxfordreference.com
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single, cross-searchable resource.

The core collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.

www.oxforddnb.com
Explore the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years - from Julius Caesar and Boudicca to Princess Diana and Sid Vicious.The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography details the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002. Includes 10,000 portrait illustrations.

www.groveart.com 
The award winning Grove Art Online is the most comprehensive online reference resource on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. Thousands of high quality art images are included.

www.grovemusic.com 
Grove Music Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide - from classical to hip-hop and from baroque to blues. This excellent resource incorporates over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives, illustrations and musical examples.

infotrac.london.galegroup.com
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, is Gale's newest online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your library.

The Times is the 'world's newspaper of record' and covers all major international historical events, from the French Revolution to the Falklands War. For the first time, users are able to search the full text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, and advertising. Click on the link above to learn how this powerful electronic tool can bring the newly-available resource, holding the complete run of the world's oldest continuously published newspaper, to your library.

infoweb.newsbank.com
Newsbank contains full text of national daily and Sunday newspapers, plus the Evening Standard and the Economist magazine. Most papers have a backfile to 1998, but the Times and Sunday Times are available back to 1985. The Times Law Reports are also included.

www.multikulti.org.uk
Multikulti offers information in 11 languages on what public libraries offer: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Gujerati, Somali, Spanish and Turkish.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, the best-known comprehensive reference resource, is now available online. These are excellent resources, either for homework or general reference use. Discover articles, video clips and loads of other material, to help with projects or just for fun. Choose from 3 different versions:

Britannica Junior (for ages 5-11)

Britannica Student (for ages 12-18)

Britannica Library Edition (for all ages)

www.londonlibraries.org.uk
'What's in London's Libraries' (WiLL) is designed to allow you to search a range of London library, museum and archive information. There are two types of searches available:

• Search the collections
  Library catalogues, community information databases and a range of museum and archive collections can be searched simultaneously. You can choose to search as many or as few as you wish. The results from each information source will be brought together for you and will be displayed on a single screen.

• Search the facilities
  Use this search option to find out practical information about the libraries, museums and archives involved in WiLL - where they are are, when they are open and what services they offer

www.open.ac.uk/openlearn The Open University has launched a website to give the public free access to it's course materials. All of these resources are available to use, take away, amend and reuse for free under a Creative Commons License. There is a simple registration process.
www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk
Enquire is a live question and answer service available 24 hours a day, every day. It works like instant messaging or chat room technology, allowing you to put questions to trained staff who can help you, just as they would if you were talking to them face-to-face or on the telephone. The service is free and anyone can use it.