Proquest Databases

Proquest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Sunday 31 October 2010 from 2am for a period of 12 hours. During this time the following services will be unavailable

ProQuest platform products,
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
CSA Illumina products such as ANTE, ASSIA, LISA

L&SS apologise for any inconvenience this may cause

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library will be unavailable on Saturday 30 October 2010 between 9am and 12 noon in order for essential work to be completed.

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes the visible" - Paul Klee

Don’t suffer for your art...

Grove Art Online is the ultimate source of information on all aspects of art! From mosaics to multimedia, from performance art to printmaking, and from Tracey Emin to J.M.W. Turner,
Grove Art Online can tell you everything you need to know about visual art worldwide. Illustrated with over 5,000 images, Grove Art Online lets you see the works of art, as well as read about the people and processes involved in creating them.

Free online access through this library, any time, any where: Select Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from the Databases A-Z

Go Mobile - 3 more resources get mobile-friendly

Wilson resources Art Index Retrospective, Art Full Text and Library, Literature & Information Science now all have mobile-friendly versions.

To access them either search the Database A-Z or click on the links below. You will need a username and password to access these resources, which is available from here

Art Index Retrospective Mobile

Art Full Text Mobile

Library Literature and Information Science

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it" - Samuel Johnson

Oxford Reference Online is a vast collection of dictionaries and
reference books offering over 1.4 million facts and definitions,
many of them illustrated.

The meaning of everything! from astronomy to zoology.
Topical timelines from the ancient world to British prime ministers.
Explore the globe with the range of illustrated maps and flags.
Who said that? (and when and why!) find the answer in
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.


Free online access through this library, any time, any where: Select Oxford Reference Online from the Databases A-Z

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies" - Thomas Carlyle

Who do you want to meet today?

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes the life stories of over 57,000 men and women who shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. That’s Julius Caesar to George Best, Anne Boleyn to Virginia Woolf - all available through this library.

Written by specialist authors, Oxford DNB entries are ideal starting points for the people behind British history’s great events - as well as its literature, science, art, music and ideas.

Free online access through this library, any time, any where: Select Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from the Databases A-Z