The Library subscribes to thousands of electronic journals and hundreds of databases.
Owing to licence restrictions access to these resources is only available to registered Readers in the Library's Reading Rooms.
A pilot service, Remote Eresources, provides access to four historical Readex newspaper collections and Credo Reference.
Electronic journals
The Library subscribes to circa 45,000 electronic journals, and newspapers, (e.g. Acta Juridica, The Athenaeum, Industrial Robot, Law and Labor, Nature, The New York Times).
Whilst the majority of the journals and newspapers listed are subscribed and only available in our Reading Rooms, the list does include some freely available titles, e.g. Asian Culture and History, Armenian Journal of Physics, Biology Direct, Humanities, the People's Daily.
Databases
The Library subscribes to circa 800 indexing and abstracting, bibliographic, biographic and full text databases, e.g. 19th Century Masterfile, Art Index, Business Insights, JSTOR, NTIS, PolicyFile.
Whilst the majority of the database listed are subscribed and only available in our Reading Rooms, the list does include some freely available databases and useful websites, e.g. AGRICOLA, Care and Health Law, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Fedstats.
Remote Eresources
Remote Eresources is a pilot service, providing access to three historical Readex newspaper collections:
- Readex: Early American Newspapers, Series I
- Readex: Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Daily Reports 1974-1996
- Readex: US Congressional Serial Set
- Readex: World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers, 1800-1922
- Credo Reference
It allows St Pancras registered readers, with a valid photographic pass, to access remotely (where licensing and technology permit) electronic resources normally only available in the British Library's reading rooms.
