Atlases Multi Media Mapping An interactive atlas of Great Britain. You can search by city, town or village name or by postcode; includes London A-Z Thesaurus of Geographic Names A gazetteer of the World produced by the Getty Information Institute.
Biography Biography Includes biographies of over 20,000 people past and present.
Dictionaries Online medical dictionary Medical terms Webster’s Dictionary Online dictionary with thesaurus. [U.S. publication] One Look Dictionary Online dictionary: 2469688 words in 538 dictionaries indexed
Directories The 24 Hour Museum is now the UK gateway to over 2000 museums, galleries and heritage attractions, and features a Museum Finder that searches by town, region or type of collection. GET directory Graduate Employment and Training Directory. Information about current job vacancies. INbusiness Business directory produced by Thomson Directories Limited. Searchable by company, business type or town/ county. Online UK telephone directories (Business pages) This includes business telephone numbers and the Thompson directory. BT PhoneNetUK An electronic version of Directory Enquiries. SCOOT Directory of UK businesses and services. Searchable by service type and location. UK Public Libraries Page Directory of public libraries on the web, including information on National Libraries, Information Services and some library catalogues. YELL, Yellow Pages UK An electronic version of Yellow pages. This includes Company A-Z, an alphabetical listing of commercial and business sites in the UK.
Encyclopaedias Country Studies The Library of Congress country studies provide information on the geography, society, economy, transportation, telecommunications, government, politics and national security of world countries. World Fact Book An online version of the CIA's World Fact book including information on the geography, people, government, economy, defense and communications of each country.
European Information Europa European information web server. EUROPARL Web site of the European Parliament. Provides access to COM documents, treaties and the table of contents of the Official Journal Government Information BOPCAS British Official Publications Current Awareness Service. Includes acts of parliament. CCTA Government Information Service Includes links to government departments and agencies, research councils, local government and city councils. HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Includes full-text acts of parliament. The Stationery Office Includes links to official publications such as green papers, command papers and acts of parliament, as well as the Stationery Office's Daily List which is a list of recently published official publications. UK Parliament WWW service Provides access to the UK parliament publications database which includes Hansard, written answers, bills, select committee reports and the weekly information bulletin. Local Information Kent Access Includes travel and tourism information, such as places to visit, festivals and events and the addresses of bus operators and tourist information centres; links to local business and education sites and information relating to the borough and county councils. Miscellaneous British Arts Festivals A directory of leading professional arts festivals in the UK with 50 major festivals and 26 smaller festivals, all members of British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA). The Higher Education Library Image eXchange Contains 52,000 free images including art, social history, political history. NISS Reference sites Recommended reference sites. The Online Enquiry Desk A useful collection of reference material including dictionaries, weights and measures conversion tables, the perpetual calendar and weather reports. Ask a Librarian An electronic enquiry service run by a consortium of public libraries, primarily for residents of the UK. Newspapers NISS News Links to UK and worldwide news, weather, current affairs and business news sources. Includes the Electronic Telegraph, the Times, Sunday Times and Met Office weather forecasts. Keyword searchable news index. MagNet: Magazine, journal and newspaper finder A list of magazine, journal and newspaper holdings in public libraries in the UK. This site can be searched by serial title or subject. It currently includes the library holdings of several of the London boroughs, as well as the holdings of some of the county library services and the North Thames Health Libraries. Statistics Office for National Statistics The OND Databank service including statistics on travel and tourism, health, education, economic and financial trends, and other topics. Travel London Transport Travel Information National Express National Express coach timetable; includes times and fares. Official London Underground Tube Map Tube map plus subway navigator. Railtrack UK train timetable. UK Public Transport Information covers all travel by rail, air, coach, bus, ferry, metro and tram. The UK Street Map Page Street maps for Greater London and road atlas maps for the whole of mainland Britain
European Information Europa European information web server. EUROPARL Web site of the European Parliament. Provides access to COM documents, treaties and the table of contents of the Official Journal
Government Information BOPCAS British Official Publications Current Awareness Service. Includes acts of parliament. CCTA Government Information Service Includes links to government departments and agencies, research councils, local government and city councils. HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Includes full-text acts of parliament. The Stationery Office Includes links to official publications such as green papers, command papers and acts of parliament, as well as the Stationery Office's Daily List which is a list of recently published official publications. UK Parliament WWW service Provides access to the UK parliament publications database which includes Hansard, written answers, bills, select committee reports and the weekly information bulletin.
Local Information Kent Access Includes travel and tourism information, such as places to visit, festivals and events and the addresses of bus operators and tourist information centres; links to local business and education sites and information relating to the borough and county councils.
Miscellaneous British Arts Festivals A directory of leading professional arts festivals in the UK with 50 major festivals and 26 smaller festivals, all members of British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA). The Higher Education Library Image eXchange Contains 52,000 free images including art, social history, political history. NISS Reference sites Recommended reference sites. The Online Enquiry Desk A useful collection of reference material including dictionaries, weights and measures conversion tables, the perpetual calendar and weather reports. Ask a Librarian An electronic enquiry service run by a consortium of public libraries, primarily for residents of the UK.
Newspapers NISS News Links to UK and worldwide news, weather, current affairs and business news sources. Includes the Electronic Telegraph, the Times, Sunday Times and Met Office weather forecasts. Keyword searchable news index. MagNet: Magazine, journal and newspaper finder A list of magazine, journal and newspaper holdings in public libraries in the UK. This site can be searched by serial title or subject. It currently includes the library holdings of several of the London boroughs, as well as the holdings of some of the county library services and the North Thames Health Libraries.
Statistics Office for National Statistics The OND Databank service including statistics on travel and tourism, health, education, economic and financial trends, and other topics.
Travel London Transport Travel Information National Express National Express coach timetable; includes times and fares. Official London Underground Tube Map Tube map plus subway navigator. Railtrack UK train timetable. UK Public Transport Information covers all travel by rail, air, coach, bus, ferry, metro and tram. The UK Street Map Page Street maps for Greater London and road atlas maps for the whole of mainland Britain
Updated: 28 January 2000
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