Electronic databases - title list T: Available in the Library's Reading Rooms
The electronic databases available in the British Library's London Reading Rooms cover business and intellectual property, the humanities (including rare books and music), manuscripts, maps, science, social science and official publications, newspapers and our Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections.
Owing to licensing restrictions, these resources can only be accessed from British Library workstations within our Reading Rooms and Business & IP Centre.
Except where indicated, titles are available in all the Library's London Reading Rooms.
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| Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) | Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) provides access to the largest online collection of Taiwanese periodicals. There are over 900 journals covering various disciplines in the humanities and sciences. For help with this resource: see staff at the Asian & African Studies Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) | The TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) database
provides free public access to the daily EU tenders in the Supplement to the EU
Official Journal. For help with this resource: see staff at the Science Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| Theatre in Video | Theatre in Video contains more than 100
performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 60 film documentaries,
online in streaming video - more than 250 hours in all. This service contains 162 titles,
representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. NB: For sound to these videos use the SoundServer terminals in the Humanities 2 Reading Room. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Tibetan and Buddhist Resource Center (New York), Core Text Collections 800 CE- |
Collection of Tibetan texts covering all fields of Tibetan classical literature. Includes 4000+ volumes growing at a rate of ca 1000 vols per year. Readers can search/browse for available texts and download any number of pages from any volume as PDF files. Access to collection through menu Digital Libraries | Core Text Collections on the website. For help with this resource: see staff at the Asian & African Studies Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| Time Archive 1923 to date |
This resource allows you to view all of the front covers and contents listings of Time
magazine from 1923 to the present day but please note that you require a subscription to view the full text of articles. The British
Library does not have a subscription to the full text of Time. This resource is freely available on the Internet. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| The Times Available from NewsBank 1985 - |
Full text of the national daily newspaper. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Times Digital Archive | A digital edition of The Times, using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The period covered is 1785-1985. Print instructions. (See also above,
Palmer's
Index and Full Text.) For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| The Times Educational Supplement 1994 - 2001 |
Full text of the weekly periodical that provides news and editorial comment about education. Also includes Times Higher Educational Supplement (THES) covering higher education. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| The Times Higher Education Supplement 1994 - 2001 | See Times Educational Supplement. | |
| The Times of India 1838 - 2003 | Offers full facsimile page and article images with word searchable text back to the first issue of The Times of India (1838-2003) Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Times Index 1906-1980 | Over 12
million records for articles published in The Times, The Sunday
Times, as well as many supplements. 1906-80. Printed user manual available. (See also Palmer's Index and Full Text.) For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities or Rare Books & Music Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2008 | Provides access to every page of every copy of the Times Literary Supplement published from 1902 to 2006. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| TOL | A valuable tool for researchers interested in
the political, social, cultural and economic realities of the post-communist transition in 29 countries of Central
and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. TOL was established in April 1999 to supersede
Transitions magazine. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities, Rare Books & Music or Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Tolley's Company Law | Contains
commentary, statututes, statutory instruments and EU legislation. NB: Only available from the standalone terminal in the Social Sciences Reading Room. For help with this resource: see staff at the Social Sciences Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| TOPO! Interactive maps on CD-ROM | Digitised USGS topographic maps from
1:24,000 to 1:1,000,000 in three volumes covering the following
areas:
1. Greater Boston, Cape Cod and Rhode Island 2. Greater NYC, Long Island, Catskills and Poconos 3. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and surrounding recreational areas. NB: CD-ROM available from the standalone terminal in the Maps Reading Room. For help with this resource: see staff at the Maps Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| Topo
USA 2.0 |
Vector topographic atlas
of the USA with Digital Terrain Model (DTM) allowing for 3D
visualisations of the landscape. from Delorme. NB: CD-ROM available from the standalone terminal in the Maps Reading Room. For help with this resource: see staff at the Maps Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| TOXNET | Toxicology Data Network. For help with this resource: see staff at the Science Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa | Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa by Bernardino Amico printed in Florence, 1620. Bridwell Library copy. NB: CD-ROM available from the Rare Books Reference Enquiry Desk for use on a standalone terminal only. For help with this resource: see staff at the Rare Books Reference Enquiry Desk. |
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| TRIP | A Website designed to identify the best evidence for answering clinical questions.
The Website draws on many free information resources and makes this content searchable via a single mechanism. For help with this resource: see staff at the Science Reference Enquiry desk. |
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| Twentieth-Century African American Poetry | A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities or Rare Books & Music Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Twentieth-Century American Poetry | This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities or Rare Books & Music Reference Enquiry desks. |
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| Twentieth-Century English Poetry | A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. For help with this resource: see staff at the Humanities or Rare Books & Music Reference Enquiry desks. |
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