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New electronic resources

Newly acquired electronic resources available to readers using the London Reading Rooms.

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.

Lexis Library

Extensive online law library focussing on law in the UK. In addition to legislation, law reports, associated updating functions, selected journals and legal news sources, Lexis provides many long standing and leading sources of practical legal commentary, forms and precedents and regulatory materials. The service enables easy access to many systematically updated general encyclopaedias, and specialised works whose multi volume and loose leaf printed equivalents are often hard to access at the British Library. Training resources are available online at LexisNexis Academy.

 

State Papers Online 18th Century, 1714-1782, Part 1: State papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council

Covering the reigns of the Hanover rulers George I (1714-1727), George II (1727-1760) and part of the reign of George III (up to 1782), the series provides unparalleled access to thousands of manuscripts that reveal the behind the scenes, day to day running of government during the eighteenth century. This is a subscription based service and can only be accessed from the reading room.