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Contains over 1,100 scripts by more than 1,000 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
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Individual eBook titles can be accessed online through Discover. The following eBook collections are also available:
ACLS Humanities is an eBook collection containing over 5,000 humanities titles. There are a large number of history, film & media, literature, music and philosophy titles.
Over 65,000 digitised texts from 1789-1914. A wide range of subject areas are covered, including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. Many diverse and fantastic illustrations are included in the page images - maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and more.
This database is hosted on the JISC Historical Texts platform, so look for the BL 19th Century link.
DOAB provides access to over 70,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books, on a variety of subjects.
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Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring all works printed in Europe before 1701, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources, regardless of language, as well as works published further afield. Developed and produced in close collaboration with scholars, rare book librarians, bibliographers, and other experts from the library world, this resource offers full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books in Europe.
The Ebook Central collection includes titles purchased by your librarian, such as key resources on from reading lists and other eBooks for wider reading.
A large collection of material on all aspects of literature. You can find:
- Criticism: scholarly articles and books (over 430 scholarly journals are included)
- Primary texts: original literary works of poetry, drama and prose
- Reference works: encyclopedias, companions, dictionaries, biographies, study guides and topic overviews
- Author pages: browse authors by literary period, literary movement or name
- Audio and video collections: Shakespeare Audio Plays, Poets on Screen and Poetry Archive Audio
A collection of freely available eBooks, mainly on the subject of social sciences and the humanities.
A comprehensive collection of Oxford's reference titles, organised into various subject categories.
Oxford Scholarship Online contains authoritative handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopaedias. More reliable than Google and Wikipedia, to help you get started with your research. Collections focusing on history, literature, political science, public health, psychology, social work, law, economics & finance.
Scholarly humanities and social science journals and eBooks. You can access Project Muse titles from the 2013 and 2014 collections of History, Literature, Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non Fiction and Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Focuses on adult comic books and graphic novels. Includes works from both recognised and less mainstream artists. You can also access interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this art form.
Discover a new topic or subject with these introductory eBooks written by authors who are experts in their field.
Titles from the VLeBook collection are purchased based on your usage - if you use a title, it will be added to the collection.
