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 - 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:
(For the two sites below remember to type WOR and have your
library card number).
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica is now available in a
number of versions for different age groups.
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.
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.
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
Documents
Interactive Maps
- The Hive
The
first fully integrated Public and University Library and so much
more – all under one amazing roof.
- Worcester
Community Showcase
A central resource for information about clubs, societies, interest
groups, organisations and events in Worcestershire.
We are not responsible for the content of external sites.
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This page was last reviewed 27 September 2012 at 17:10.
The page is next due for review 26 March 2014.