• Research Organisations
• Databases
• Information Gateways
• Current Awareness

• UK Research Councils   
  Links to the major UK research councils

The Library has access to both CD-ROMs and on-line databases. Individual on-line databases provide different levels of information, from short summaries of articles to the original article in full.

• BIDS Services     (Username and password available from the library) Multidisciplinary.

   

• Index to Theses
  Index to theses accepted for higher degree by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland from 1970

• REGARD
  Searchable database containing information on research funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).

• ADAM - Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway.

• BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) is a good starting point for exploring network resources as it’s well-organised, and based in the UK.

• CCTA Government Information Service
  Links to all government departments, local authorities, quangos and political organisations.

• HUMBUL
  Humanities Bulletin Board.   

• OMNI
  Organising Medical Networked Information - The UK's gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources. 

• SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
  A searchable database of quality information sources. Each source has a short description.

• Mailbase
  By joining a mailbase list, you can take part in discussions with others sharing common professional interests,  A message sent to a central address will automatically be forwarded to everyone in the group.

• Table of Contents 
  From here you can access the table of contents of recent journals.   

• NISS conferences
  Lists current academic conferences and workshops in a range of subject areas

• Internet Resources Newsletter
  A free monthly newsletter, from Herriot-Watt University, which aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the internet.

• Scout Report
  A weekly newsletter from Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin which reviews new Internet resources.  There are also three subject-specific reports for ‘Science and Engineering’, ‘Social Sciences’ and ‘Business and Economics.’

• Education-Line
  A collection of Internet documents on education, including grey and pre-print literature.  You can see the latest reports and contribute to the debates.