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Greenwich e-resources

Greenwich e-resources

Your library card is a gateway to a whole world of e-books and online resources that come free with your library membership.

Most of these can be accessed from home, simply by logging in with the barcode on your card.

Below are the e-resources available across Greenwich libraries. Visit your local library page to find out what is available there. 

Cobra

The Complete Business Reference Adviser - Information on how to start and run a business, write a business plan and find grants etc. Available at home via your library card or within Greenwich Libraries.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

A comprehensive collection of national biographical information.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

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Oxford Dictionaries

Language reference from the experts.

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Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource.

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Oxford Bibliographies   

A route to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics.

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Practice the Driving Theory Test

Test yourself on all aspects of the driving theory test. An essential resource for those learning to drive.

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Practice the Life in the UK Test

Practice tests for completing the UK Citizenship test.

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Freegal

Free music to stream or download. Freegal offers access to 9 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalogue of legendary artists, and over 15,000 music videos. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 100 countries.

FREE MUSIC TO STREAM AND DOWNLOAD

 

PressReader

Download and read newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries for free.

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Access to research

Access to more than 30 million academic articles. Available in the library when using one of our public computers

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Ancestry

Online resources including census returns for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man; civil registration indexes for England and Wales, historic BT telephone directories and more.

PLEASE NOTE: Ancestry can not be accessed from home, only from computers in Greenwich libraries.

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Career Active

A free resource for library members, with brilliant tips and videos on CVs application forms and interviews. You can also use it to search for jobs

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FutureLearn

FutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world. These are delivered one step at a time, and are accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop, so you can fit learning around your life.

Learning should be an enjoyable, social experience, so these courses offer the opportunity to discuss what you’re learning with others as you go, helping you make fresh discoveries and form new ideas.

2,549,831 people have joined FutureLearn since launching in September 2013.

PLEASE NOTE: Future Learn cannot be accessed from home, only from computers in Greenwich libraries.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica - Libraries edition

Users of Greenwich libraries can access the comprehensive online version of the world-famous Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Who's Who and Who Was Who

The essential directory of noteworthy and influential people, past and present.

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Times Digital Archive 

An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2014.

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British Newspaper Archive 

Explore over 200 years of history! Important: all users must register on the site. Click on the 'register button' at the top of the main page and enter your details to unlock access to the full site. You will also be able to save your searches and bookmark pages.

PLEASE NOTE: British Newspaper Archive cannot be accessed from home, only from computers in Greenwich libraries.

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BFI Replay 

BFI Replay is a free-to-access digital archive. Thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive and partner UK regions and nations film archives are available to browse and enjoy, research or study - some rare and unseen for decades.

PLEASE NOTE: BFI Replay cannot be accessed from home, only from computers in Greenwich libraries.

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Find My Past

Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more with Findmypast. Only available by visiting any Greenwich library.

PLEASE NOTE: Find My Past cannot be accessed from home, only from computers in Greenwich libraries.

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