Information Services

Reference Collection

For answers to a wide range of reference queries try:

Blackwell Reference Online 

Oxford Reference Online

For more specific queries see the following categories:

• Dissertations and Theses
  • Ethos
  • Index to Theses
    
    
• Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
  
  
• Maps
  • Digimap  
  • Geology Digimap
  • Historic Digimap
  • Landmap
  • Marine Digimap
  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
    Links to sites covering general and specialised maps including historical, weather and country maps from all parts of the world, also gazetteers and bibliographies.
    
    
• Newspapers
  
  
• Patents and Standards
  • British Library Patents
    Guide to finding patents, and patents information.
  • British Standards Online
    Full text of all British Standards.
  • esp@cenet
    A free service provided by the European Patent Organisation. Allows searching of all the patent applications published in the past two years (or more in some cases) by any national office in the European Patent Organisation.
  • UK Intellectual Property Office
    Includes a searchable archive of patents in the UK Patent Office, the European Patent Office and other European national patent offices.
  • US Patent and Trademark Office
    Includes a searchable archive of patents back to 1790.
  • World Intellectual Property Organization
    With access to the Intellectual Property Digital Library .
    
    
• Statistics

• United Kingdom

  • Census.ac.uk
  • National Statistics online (includes Statbase)
    Main UK Government statistics site, including Excel spreadsheets and pdf documents of statistical publications.
  • Neighbourhood statistics
    Gives summary and detailed data for local areas by theme or area down to ward level. Includes access to data from the 2001 census as it is released as well as from other non-census sources. Datasets can be viewed in report (tabular) format and can be saved and printed.
  • Official Yearbook (2000-2005)
    The Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Contains statistics and a wide range of information.
  • StatsWales
    Data on Wales provided by National Statistics.

• International

  • Eurostat
    Statistical information on the EU and the euro-zone.
  • Laboursta
    International Labour Office database on international labour statistics operated by the ILO Bureau of Statistics.
  • OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
    Official statistics for countries around the world.

  • United Nations Statistics Division