General Interest

An online service allowing schools access to newspaper clippings in PDF format from over 100 UK national and regional titles, all in a single place.
User name:   password: l1brary


Statistics
FactFile 2011
The facts and figures you need to understand the world we live in. Much of the information deals specifically with matters affecting young people; Britain and its citizens, family, relationships, financial issues and health. Username and password: ff568


Encyclopaedia Databases
World Book Encyclopaedia
Access from in school only
User name: schoollibrary1
Password: sherlockholmes

BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
Selected internet resources covering all academic areas. Maintained by Strathclyde University.

Citizendium
"The people's compendium". An open wiki project started by a founder of Wikipedia and aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia. The project is moderated and requires contributors to use their real names. Already over 9,300 articles and hundreds of contributors.

Encyclopaedia.com
A free online encyclopaedia and dictionary site.

Intute
A consortium of seven UK universities working with parters to provide access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database. You will be asked to create your own user name and password. You can search, print, bookmark, and save your searches.  

Refdesk.com
"The fact checker for the internet"
Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.

Reference.com
Reference.com is a multi-source encyclopedia search service.

Wikipedia 
A comprehensive encyclopaedia with over 2 million articles written by volunteers. The 7th most visited site on the net (Source: Alexa.com, May 2009). Its top articles are some of the best presentations of concentrated knowledge to be found and it is free of advertising. Greater stress is being placed on articles having proper citations, and are gradually being graded for quality.  See also Wikimedia Commons which is a database of over 4 million freely usable media files.

Sound Archive
This site is part of the British Library, and holds over 44,000 recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments, e.g. human accents and dialects, birdsong, oral history of holocaust victims. Free and open for everyone to browse, but not downloadable.