Explore the online resources available from the library to support research
Your library membership enables you to access, for free, a varied range of online resources. These are listed alphabetically below.
These free online resources/services are provided to library members for educational, research and other non-commercial uses only, in line with each resource's Terms and Conditions. Please see individual services for specific terms of use statements.
Access To Research allows users to browse thousands of academic articles on a wide variety of subjects.
Access only from Aberdeen City Libraries.
Britannica Online (junior edition) Articles, news items, images and videos on a wide variety of topics for primary age children.
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Britannica Online (student edition) A wide variety of articles, news items, images and videos to support young people and students.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online offers authoritative information on a diverse range of topics.
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Fact checking websites: a selection of fact checking websites and resources which can help you identify whether you can trust information that has been reported.
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Governance, politics and law: see information about governments and parliaments in the UK and across the world, laws, and elections voting and political parties.
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Health and wellbeing: find details of health websites, local health services, health news and research. See more information about the library's health and wellbeing services.
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Access from anywhere.
Issues Online provides a safe, reliable place to explore today's most important social issues. It contains hundreds of articles, infographics, videos, assignment ideas and eBooks on topics ranging from human rights and domestic violence to drugs and alcohol.
Access only from Aberdeen City Libraries.
Access only from Aberdeen City Libraries.
National Library of Scotland provides access to a wide range of additional resources and databases including journals for further study and research. Registration Required.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.
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Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. Find the meaning, history and pronunciation of over 600,000 English words, past and present.
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Access from anywhere.
Oxford Reference Online is a collection of reference works which includes encyclopedias, subject dictionaries and language dictionaries from the publishing stable of Oxford University Press.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias offers access to a large collection of regularly updated peer-reviewed essays on a wide range of topics relating to the arts, science and social sciences.
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Statistical information online provides official local, Scottish, UK, EU and UN statistics, as well as census information and NHS statistics.
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University and college prospectuses: find links to online prospectuses for all Scottish colleges and universities, arranged by region.
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Access from anywhere.
Which? provides access to product reviews and consumer advice to help you make the right choice first time.
Access only available at Central Library.