Learning Resources Centre
Web Resources
Search Engines / Web Directories
Search Engines
- A9
- AltaVista
- Ask
- Bing
- BlogPulse - searches blogs
- Cuil
- Excite
- IceRocket - searches blogs
- Search Wales
- Yahoo
Metasearch Engines
Web Directories
- Digital Librarian
- Directory.co.uk
- DMOZ Open Directory Project
- Google Directory
- Intute - Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research
- LII (Librarians' Index to the Internet)
- Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges
- PORTAL - more than 750 links to research resources in all areas of the humanities and social sciences
- Wales On The Web
- WikiIndex
- WWW Virtual Library
Academic Search Resources
Citing References
- LRC Catalogue Search - Citing References
- Citing References in MLA style - Kingston University
- Learn Higher - LearnHigher is a project linking 16 UK institutions of higher education. Together they offer you easy and quick access to high quality learning support material in 20 learning areas.
- Student's Guide to Citing References - University of Birmingham's guide to citing references
Copyright
- CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency)
- ERA (Educational Recording Agency)
- Newspaper Licensing Agency
- WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders)
Online Bookshops
- Abebooks - out of print books
- Amazon
- Bibliofind- out of print books
- Blackwells
- Book Butler - search UK online bookshops for best prices
- British Library Online Shop
- Gwales - Gwales.com - books from Wales on-line
- Just Books - second-hand and antiquarian books
- Play.com
- Red Dot Books
- Tesco Books
- TSO Bookshop - The Stationery Office (government publications)
- Waterstones
- WHSmith
Online Encyclopedias
- About.com
- Answers - online dictionary and encyclopedia with definitions and explanations for over 1 million topics
- AskOxford
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- The Free Dictionary
- LibrarySpot
- Probert Encyclopedia
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Who2
- Wicipedia (Welsh)
- Wikipedia
Online Maps
Study Skills
Telephone and Address Directories
Using the Internet
- Google Help : Cheatsheet
- Internet Detective (Intute)
- Tonic - TONIC is an easy-to-understand, practical guide to using the Internet produced by Netskills
Other Resources
- Academic Blog Portal
- Academic Publishing Wiki
- Abbreviations
- BRAINHE - BRAINHE.com is a non-commercial non-profit making resource website for students and staff in higher education, to help students with specific learning differences and staff working with them.
- Data.gov.uk
- Digitised Texts Online
- Educational Evidence Portal
- English Short Title Catalogue
- ESRC Society Today
- EThOS - British Library Electronic Theses Online Service
- Google Book Search
- In The First Person
- Internet Archive
- Internet Resources Newsletter
- Library Research Skills Tutorial - University of London
- National Archives Learning Curve
- National Statistics
- Online Historical Population Reports - The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
- Open Library
- Y Porth - Welsh medium e-learning platform for the Higher Education sectior
- Shakespeare - Complete Works
- Suncat - The Serials UNion CATalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK.
- TASI - Technical Advisory Service for Images
- Timeweb - Web access to OECD Main Economics Indicators time series.
- UK Web Archive Consortium
- Universities and Colleges of Higher and Further Education
- VADS - The online resource for the Visual Arts
- Wikibooks
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