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Some of our databases are available to associate members and day visitors to the Library who are not members of the University of Hull.

Databases available

19th Century British Pamphlets (via JSTOR)

19th Century British Pamphlets is a collection of over 26,000 digitised, paper copy pamphlets that focus on the political, economic, and social issues that fuelled Parliamentary debates and controversies in the 19th century.

ACM Digital Library

A comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering computing and information technology.

American Institute of Physics

AIP publishing's portfolio includes highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals, including the flagship journals Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics, in addition to Applied Physics Reviews and the AIP Conference Proceedings.

Archives Unbound

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level.

Atlantic History

Find accurate and reliable resources to understand the fast-developing field of Atlantic history.

Bioline International

Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.

British Library Newspapers

British Library Newspapers, parts I to VI, contains irreplaceable local and regional voices reflecting the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Cambridge Companions Online To Literature And Classics

Cambridge Companions Online (CCO) in literature and classics is the electronic version of the Cambridge Companions book series.

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, including theses.

Digital Theatre+

Digital Theatre+ provides access to films of UK theatre performances, plus documentaries, interviews, and more, for use in educational settings.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

DOAB is a discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is primarily a list of peer-reviewed open access journals covering all disciplines and 80 languages.

EBSCOhost Research Databases

Search across all the EBSCO databases to which Hull subscribes.

Early English Books Online

EEBO contains over 125,000 titles printed in the UK and Ireland from earliest times (1475) up to 1700 - all in full digital facsimile.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Derived from Thomson Gale's Eighteenth Century microfilm collection, this database contains full-text access to 150,000 printed works and contains over 33 million pages.

Gale Business Insights

Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals.

Gale OneFile News

Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Gale Research Complete

Search or browse large collections of primary and secondary sources covering all subjects, including newspapers, eBooks, reference works, archives, literacy criticism, peer-reviewed journals, and general interest publications.

Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006

Internet Archaeology has been publishing on the web since 1996 and provides new avenues to present and engage with archaeological research.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, eBooks, and primary sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and sciences from a range of University and specialist presses.

Oxford Academic Journals

Full-text access to over 500 journals published by the Oxford University Press covering subjects in the humanities, social sciences, science and medicine.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) is the national record of people who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online contains almost 2 million digitised entries from Oxford's dictionaries and reference books.

Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available online, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.

Proquest Databases

Search all subscribed Proquest databases from one search box.

PubMed (Freely available, but access to full-text may be limited)

Pubmed allows you to search Medline as well as additional biomedical content.

ScienceDirect

Search for articles and eBooks across science subjects.

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and indexing database and covers scientific, technical, medical, humanities, and social science literature.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media, covering 1604-1804.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets of the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Springer Nature Link

You have access to many Springer's journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines but with strengths in science, technology and medicine.

Taylor & Francis Online

Access articles and journals covering a wide range of subjects including humanities, social sciences, behavioural sciences, science, technology, and medicine.

UK Parliament

UK Parliament is the source for Parliamentary Papers - Bills, Debates, Select Committee Reports, Standing Committee Reports, Sessional Information Digests, and Written Answers.

UK Parliamentary Papers

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is a detailed primary source for the past three centuries, for Britain, its colonies, and the wider world.

Who's Who & Who Was Who

Who’s Who and Who Was Who is the leading source of up-to-date information on over 130,000 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide.