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The British Library

  • British Library Public Catalogue
  • British Library Net - Internet Resources
    Sections include: Subject Guides ; Search Engines ; News & Media ; Online Journals ; Online Newspapers ; General & Consumer Interest ; Library Catalogues ; Library Related Resources ; Museums & Art Galleries ; Official & Government.
  • British Library Newspaper Library - (dead link)
    • Newspaper Library Web Catalogue - (dead link) "...includes entries for over 50,000 newspaper and periodical titles from all over the world, dating from the 17th to the 21st century.  The collections of the British Library Newspaper Library include: all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century onwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries; and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals, mainly weekly and fortnightly publications as well as some published less frequently, covering all subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies, and trades."
    • Current Foreign (Non-British Isles) Newspapers - (dead link)
      "This listing provides details of the foreign newspapers - titles other than those published within the British Isles and received under legal deposit - which are currently being received by The British Library Newspaper Library, the archive collections in the UK of British Isles and overseas newspapers. The Library receives most of its foreign newspapers through purchase, although some are donated or offered to the Library on an exchange basis. The Newspaper Library is currently receiving approximately 250 foreign titles.
  • British Library Online Newspaper Archive
    The Online Facsimile Library
    Archives Newspapers, Magazines, Books, and Documents and can be searched for Ads, Articles, and Pictures.
    "...the world's first online archive of microfilmed historic newspapers.
    Newspaper issues from seven British dailies such as the Daily News, the
    Weekly Dispatch, and the Manchester Guardian have been selected due to
    their historic significance. They report an events like the Crimean War
    ending with the Treaty of Paris, the Boer War, and the armistice ending
    World War I...A digital archive of newspaper issues containing some 500,000 articles..." [description from press release]







  • British Library of Political & Economic Science (LSE)
  • Manuscripts Catalogue
    "This On-line Catalogue is designed to offer a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the present day."
  • National Sound Archive Catalogue
    "...includes entries for almost two-and-a-half million recordings held in the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) and is updated daily. It is one of the largest catalogues of its kind anywhere in the world, covering both published and unpublished recordings in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds."

AltaVista:UK

Ask a Librarian
"Bringing the resources of UK public libraries to your home desktop"
From EARL.

BBCi
"The UK's Number One Digital Destination"
"Our search service isn't here to make any money, so our results are the ones that best match your search words - not the ones want you to see."

Excite UK


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Google UK

Infoseek United Kingdom

  • UK Plus - (dead link)

HotBot UK

Lycos - UK

UK Data Archive
"...is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf."
Registration (free) is required.

UK Index: The Comprehensive Index of UK Sites

UK online - (dead link)
Government gateway to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

UK Yellow Pages

Yahoo! UK & Ireland

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