Online Reference Books and Newspapers

Some of these services can be accessed from your own home computer.
Where home access is available please click on the appropriate link and type a capital R before typing in your borrower number unless otherwise instructed.

• Ancestry.com
• Oxford University Press
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
• British Standards Online
• EBSCO Resources
• Project Gutenberg
• Chamber of Commerce

Ancestry.com - Library Edition

Visit: Ancestry - Library Edition

Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Find census, birth, marriage, death records and more.

We now offer free access from within all our libraries to Ancestry.com, one of the leading resources for family history.

Oxford University Press

Online Reference books from Oxford University Press. Titles include:

• Dictionary of National Biography
• Oxford Art
• Oxford Music
• Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
• Oxford Dictionaries

(For the two sites below remember to type WOR and have your library card number).

• Who's Who 
• Oxford English Dictionary

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica is now available in a number of versions for different age groups.

• Britannica Online Academic Edition - Ages 18+.
• Britannica Student Edition - Ages 12 - 18.
• Britannica Junior Edition - Ages 5 - 11.

There is also a newsletter that can be downloaded with lots more information and direct links to popular topics, follow this link for the newsletter.

• Inside Britannica Newsletter.
• Previous editions of the newsletter.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Visit: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wornews

Browse through a number of different newspapers including:

• The Daily Telegraph
• The Times
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian
• and many more including international titles

You can also access The Times Digital Archive covering the years 1745 - 1985.

British Standards Online

British Standards Online

British Standards access allows you to read documents online Please contact a member of library staff if you wish to print either an extract or a whole document for which charges will apply.

• Access British Standards online if you are inside a library from here 

EBSCO Resources 

A comprehensive range of online resources from EBSCO Host.

• Green FILE (Environment & Conservation)
• LISTA (Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts™)
• Teacher Reference Center (Education).
• DynaMed (Health information)

Project Gutenberg

Visit: www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or other mobile phone.

We carry high quality books: Our free books were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Chamber of Commerce Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Business support and business information

This page was last reviewed 27 September 2012 at 17:10.
The page is next due for review 26 March 2014.