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As a Leeds Libraries user, you can now access the following popular online information subscription services FREE from any library and also from your own home, place of work or study.
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- Ancestry
- Bring your family tree to life - search the largest collection of UK family records on the web FREE, including access to the complete set of England, Scotland & Wales Censuses 1841-1901 and birth, marriage and death records. Available from any library.
- British Standards Online
- Free access to thousands of current, draft and historical British standards. Updated daily with full text and technical diagrams for each standard.
- Business & Company Profile ASAP
- Providing access to a wide range of business and management journals, providing in-depth research on companies, products, markets, industries, and the economy.
- Complete Business Reference Advisor (COBRA)
- COBRA is a comprehensive, practical and continually updated information resource for anyone looking to start a business, write a business or marketing plan or conduct research into a new market.
- Custom UK Online Journals
- Gives access to a range of 50 journals and magazines, from Good Housekeeping to New Scientist, most are full text.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (Library Edition)
- Search the Encyclopaedia Britannica online
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (Student)
- Search the Encyclopaedia Britannica online with pages tailored to meet the needs of students
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (Junior)
- Search the Encyclopaedia Britannica online with pages for younger users
- European Sources online
- European Sources Online provides information on the EU and the wider Europe, focusing on its institutions, structures, countries, regions, people, policies and processes.
- Grove Art Online
- Visual arts from prehistory to the present day with 45,000 articles on fine and decorative arts, architecture plus 130,000 art images, with links to hundreds of museums and galleries around the world.
- Grove Music Online
- A comprehensive guide to classical music with 45,000 articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles. Over 500 audio musical examples and 5000 links
- Know UK
- Over 100 reference publications provide a comprehensive reference resource.
- Naxos Music Library
- A collection of music available for online listening. It contains the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus selections from other labels. 170,000 plus tracks - mainly classical music but also includes jazz, world, folk and Chinese music
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- 5,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002
- Oxford English Dictionary
- the authority on the English language over the last millennium with the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words
- Oxford Reference Online premium edition
- The very best in quick-reference information with over 900,000 entries across 25 subjects with more than 600 illustrations
- Who's Who and Who was Who
- Who’s Who: the essential directory of noteworthy and influential people from all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, and Who Was Who: over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who’s Who dating back to 1898: the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history.