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Links to online business and consumer databases
Links to quality information from external web sites
Enquire - 24 hour enquiry service
Enquire instantly connects you to library staff trained to help you find answers to your questions. Enquire is the only national service of its kind that is delivered around the clock.
It offers a live question and answer service available 24 hours a day, every day. Helping people to find information is what libraries do. You can ask absolutely anything, and library staff will help you to find the answer.
Please note: You probably won't speak to someone from our library service as many libraries take part in delivering Enquire. Click here to visit Enquire.
Enquire librarians also take part in Yahoo Answers, a popular site where anyone can share what they know to help out other people. And it’s all free!
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BSI British Standards is the National Standards Body of the UK, with a globally recognised reputation for independence, integrity and innovation in the production of standards that promote best practice.
To view British Standards Online, please enter your Newcastle Library card number below.
then click here to view British Standards Online.
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CANs is a practical summary of the laws of England, Wales and Scotland, updated every day from Statutes, Statutory Instruments, Codes of Practice and European Directives by a team of lawyers. This resource is available in any library in Newcastle or online by inputting your Newcastle Libraries ticket number.
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Biographies of deceased people who helped shape British History with cross-referenced information between in-depth articles. There are also links to related articles on external resources such as the National Portrait Gallery. To log in to the site type the letters NCLE followed by your library ticket number. Click here to visit the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
You can also view the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's monthly magazine.
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The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. To log in to the site type the letters NCLE followed by your library ticket number. Click here to access the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. To log in to the site type the letters NCLE followed by your library ticket number. Click here to visit Oxford Reference Online.
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Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art and the Oxford Companion to Western Art. Updates and additions to articles and over 3000 thumbnail art images. To log in to the site type the letters NCLE followed by your library ticket number. Click here to visit Oxford Art Online.
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Grove Music provides biographical information on classical and modern musicians from Amadeus Mozart to Aphex Twin. If you have Sibelius software enabled at home you can listen to various forms of music. To log in to the site type the letters NCLE followed by your library ticket number. Click here to visit Oxford Music Online.
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KnowUK is an online service developed to provide UK reference information. It is the most comprehensive resource of its kind, offering a complete library of UK information. Click here to visit KnowUK.
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NewsUK is an online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database. Click here to visit NewsUK.
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Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of the The Times from 1785 to 1985, using keyword searching to retrieve full facsimile pages of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations and photos divided into categories for easier searching.
We now have an annual subscription to the Gale/Cengage database of 19th Century Newspapers. There is access to it via every People’s Network computer in the service. There is also a facility for remote access at home if you have a Newcastle library ticket. The database includes three northern titles; The Newcastle Courant (Daily and Weekly), The Northern Liberator and the Northern Echo. It also includes a wide range of regional and some national titles, for example, The Illustrated Police News. If you are interested in family history or general historical research we think you will find this database useful and easy to use. Click here to visit the Times Digital Archive and Nineteenth Century Newspapers Online. You will be asked for a password. Please enter your Newcastle Libraries ticket number.
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The world's most comprehensive reference product including:
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, < /li>
- Britannica Book of the Year.
You can also use Encyclopaedia Britannica Online to search a directory of more than 300,000 links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online will ask you for your "Card Number". Please enter your Newcastle library ticket number.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior Edition (Age11) Opens in new window.
Enc yclopaedia Britannica Student Edition (Ages 11 to 18) Opens in new window.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Library Edition (Ages 18 plus)
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Life in Great Britain is the new online self learn course including mock tests which will help you prepare for the official Life in the UK Test.
The course content has been reproduced from Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the "Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey into Citizenship - Second Edition (2007)" handbook published by the Home Office.
The course is free to use and can be accessed in the library or at home. Just follow the on screen instructions to set up your personal account – you will need a valid library card.
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This resource contains information for refugees, asylum seekers and EU Migrants, as well as for people working with incomers to the UK. The information is divided in to 3 main sections:
- Background: Aimed at those working in an advisory capacity with migrants
- Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Aimed those seeking or who have been granted asylum in the UK.
- EU Migrants: Information targeted at incomers to the UK from the EU. The information for the migrant groups is displayed i n English and can be printed out in 23 different languages - 11 EU languages and 12 for refugees and asylum seekers.
This resource is available anywhere by logging on with your library card number. To log in you will need to enter the letters NCLE followed by your ticket number. Click here to access Eisodos.
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