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New Resources:

Library Services now offers all our users access to Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) and Henry Stewart Talks (https://hstalks.com/ ) Here is a short clip from one of the videos on nanomedicines Check out the Institute of Physics which works to advance physics education, research and application.

Your Academic Engagement Librarian for Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate students*

Name: Marcia Ostrowski
Email: libenqs@soton.ac.uk
Tel: 023 8059 4247 or Internal 24247

If you are a Research Postgraduate student, please contact the Research Engagement Librarian

New Resources on the A-Z

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many publishers and suppliers are making content temporarily freely available. This page lists these offers, in addition to new content available either through our subscriptions, or permanently open access. All of our subscription and open access resources can be found in the A-Z list, on subject pages and via our catalogues.

Availability now will not guarantee availability in the future. The access expiry date can be found beside each resource and we do not recommend academics embed these resources into learning objects. If you feel that one of these resources would be valuable to add to a reading list or for research, please email libenqs@soton.ac.uk and we will make best efforts to licence the item for long-term access.

Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
African Diaspora 1860 to Present
The African Diaspora Online, 1860-Present includes 100,000 pages of international primary and secondary source documents, and 50 hours of video, curated for the Black Studies, African American History, and World History scholar. The collection includes 70,000 pages of never-before digitized primary documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera from the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
America in World War Two
Uncover the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records. This digital resource offers an insight into the personal experiences of those involved in the conflict, both on the United States home front and on deployment overseas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, China, Burma and India. This trial runs until 5/5/2020.
British Online Archives
Complimentary access to all 85 collections. This trial runs until 23/4/2020.
Cambridge Companions
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. This trial ends 31/5/2020.
Cambridge Elements
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Cambridge Elements consists of original, concise, authoritative, and peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research, organised into focused series edited by leading scholars, and provide comprehensive coverage of the key topics in disciplines spanning the arts and sciences. This trial ends 31/05/2020.
Cambridge Histories
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Cambridge Histories is the essential reference collection spanning 350 volumes in 10 subject areas. This trial ends 31/5/2020.
Cambridge Textbooks
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Cambridge textbooks are developed with authors working on the latest research and technological developments, to enable their titles to deliver stimulating and forward-thinking material for new curriculum topics. Many of our textbooks feature online ancillaries and resources, to further support the needs of the instructors and students globally.This trial ends 31/5/2020.
Coronavirus Protocols
Coronavirus Protocols has been created to aid research into the Coronavirus. Articles are sourced from Nature Research (Nature Methods, Nature Protocols) and Springer (Methods In Molecular Biology, Methods In Molecular Medicine, Springer Protocols Handbooks, Neuromethods, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology). This trial runs until 31/5/2020.
COVID-evidence
COVID-evidence is a continuously updated database of the worldwide available evidence on interventions for COVID-19. Includes information about worldwide planned, ongoing, and completed trials on any intervention to treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2-infections
Elsevier Novel Coronavirus Information Center
Here you will find expert, curated information for the research and health community on SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus) and COVID-19 (the disease).
All resources are free to access and include guidelines for clinicians and patients.
Emerald Coronavirus
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Emerald are making these resources freely available to access. The content explores the wider impact on society and includes research on healthcare, education, homeworking, SCM and tourism.
Global Issues Library
Global Issues Library addresses contemporary issues--human rights violations, border and migration, environmental issues, security issues, revolution and protest--through comparative, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
Harvard Business Publishing Collection
This ground-breaking collection contains the complete catalog of Harvard Business Review e-books. With over 600 e-books that include 400+ monographs, newly published e-books, seminal works, and 150+ article compilations of the HBR Classics. This trial runs until 30/5/2020.
IEEE eLearning Library
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The IEEE eLearning Library offers high-quality, peer-reviewed online courses in relevant topics. The Library delivers hundreds of course hours in core and emerging technologies, providing professionals, faculty, and students across academic institutions, corporations, and government agencies a better way to learn. This trial runs until 30/6/2020. SVE is required for off-campus access
Jisc COVID-19 Resource Access List
Jisc have compiled a list of publishers and content providers who are widening access to their resources in various ways, with details of content and measures to access them. The list is updated as they receive survey responses or further information.
JSTOR Public Health Journals
To help support the JSTOR community during this challenging time, we have made 26 newly released Public Health journals available for free access through June 30, 2020. Topics addressed include Epidemiology, Health Policy and Administration, Occupational and Environmental Health, Health Equity and the Culture of Health, Aging, Bioethics, and Health Promotion.
London Low Life
London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
LWW Health Library Online
Provides access to:- Advanced Practice Nursing; Anesthesiology Collection; Board Review Series Collection; Clerkship Collection; Emergency Medicine Collection; Health Library: Exercise Science; Health Library: Exercise Science and ACSM Suite; Internal Medicine Perpetual Access 2019; Made Incredibly Easy Collection; ObGyn Collection; Occupational Therapy Collection; Oncology Collection; Orthopedic Surgery Collection; PA Rotations/Specialties Collection; PA-Core Education Collection; Pathology
Physical Therapy Collection; Premium Pharmacy Collection; Psychiatry Collection; Speech Language Hearing Collection; Surgery Collection. This trial runs until 15/5/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Film Studies
Manchester Film Studies is a collection of 163 books written by leading names in the field as well as one journal: Film Studies. It covers all aspects of film studies from volumes on a wide range of British, French, Spanish and Latin American filmmakers to debates and issues that are informing current practice in film and screen studies. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Gothic
Manchester Gothic is an unrivalled collection of gothic literature including 53 books and the Gothic Studies (1999-2018) journal, written by leading names in the field and covering literature, film, television, theatre and visual arts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present day. This trial runs until 30/6/2020
Manchester University Press ebook collections - History of Medicine
Manchester History of Medicine is a collection of 57 books written by leading names in the field. It covers all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world. This trial runs until 30/6/2020
Manchester University Press ebook collections - International Relations
Manchester International Relations is an unrivalled collection of 65 books written by leading names in the field covering key issues and debates on global issues such as foreign policy, gender, global ethics, environmental politics and terrorism. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Literature Studies
Manchester Literature Studies is a collection of 157 books and 1 journal written by leading names in the field, offering readers critical introductions to some of the most exciting and challenging writing of recent years. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Medieval Sources
Providing easy access to digital history sources, Manchester Medieval Sources Online brings essential texts from the Manchester Medieval Sources series to students and academics all over the world. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Medieval Studies
Manchester Medieval Studies is a collection of 70 books written by leading names in the field. It showcases ground breaking scholarship in medieval history, literature and culture. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Political Studies
Manchester Political Studies is a collection of 165 books written by leading names in the field covering political events, ideas, movements, roles of government, voters, parties and leaders and the way these elements shape society as a whole. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Religious Studies
Manchester Religious Studies is a collection of 86 books written by leading names in the field as well as the journal, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. It covers a range of disciplines including theology, philosophy, history of religion and sociology, with a focus on Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections -Security
Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace aims to explore and analyse the structural mechanisms of conflicts, national security and domestic and international terrorism as well as key theories and concepts related to the study of peacebuilding. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Shakespeare
Manchester Shakespeare includes 73 books covering a wealth of historical, social and cultural critiques of Shakespeare's works, plus the works of his contemporaries such as Spenser, Kyd, Marlowe and Lyly. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Manchester University Press ebook collections - Studies in Imperialism
With 162 titles, published over two decades, Manchester Studies in Imperialism is firmly positioned at the forefront of the study of imperial history. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
MGG Online
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MGG is encyclopedic in the true sense of that term: it offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts. MGG Online contains the second print edition of MGG, published from 1994 to 2008, as well as current, continuous online updates and additions. This trial runs until 31/5/2020.
Microbiology Society
The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses. It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe. This trial is freely available until further notice.
Music and Dance Online (Academic)
Music and Dance Online currently includes over 11 million audio tracks, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library
Music Online: Classical Scores Library is the largest and most authoritative resource of in-copyright scores to support teaching and research in classical music. This multivolume series contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies, and John Tavener. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
National Emergency Library
The National Emergency Library is a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. Users can now borrow up to ten items for 14 days. This trial runs until 30/6/2020
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
Nineteenth Century Literary Society offers unprecedented digital access to the peerless archive of the historic John Murray publishing company. This digital resource enables researchers to discover the golden age of the company that published genre-defining titles including Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma, and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels. This trial runs until 30/6/2020.
Nursing Standard Covid-19
To support the nursing community RCNi have developed a dedicated COVID-19 resource centre that is completely free to access for all nurses and frontline NHS staff working with coronavirus patients. Keep up to date with the latest news and developments on COVID-19 and what it means for nursing practice. It includes peer-reviewed evidence-based articles and e-learning modules which address some of the areas of care that COVID-19 patients may require, as well as resources designed to help staff stay well during this demanding and stressful period.
Oxford Law Trove
Oxford Law Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of law. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Law Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook law list. Further information
Periodicals Archive Online
Archive of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. This trial runs until 19/5/2020
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the government policy, social reform movements and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty. This trial runs until 2/6/2020.
PressReader
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PressReader provides digital access to over 7000 Top newspapers and magazines from more than 120 countries. (Access off-campus is currently only available via SVE but we are working with the supplier to enable access via Shibboleth.)
Proquest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world. This trial runs until 19/5/2020
Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers
This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
Proquest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
Proquest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. This trial runs until 19/5/2020.
RILM Music Encyclopedias
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RILM Music Encyclopedias is a continually expanding curated full-text collection that currently comprises 57 titles published from 1775 to the present. Its content spans various fields and subject areas of historical musicology, ethnomusicology and theory, with focus on topics ranging from popular music, opera, instruments, blues and gospel, to recorded music and women composers. This trial runs until 31/5/2020.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals
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RIPM Jazz Periodicals currently contains 105 jazz periodicals. This project has been untaken with the collaboration of the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University which houses the largest collection of jazz periodicals in the world. This trils runs until31/5/2020.
RIPM North American & European Music Periodicals Preservation Series
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RIPM North American & European Music Periodicals Preservation Series includes 100 rare, full-text journals comprising some 540,000 pages. The periodicals in the collection deal extensively with musical life in the United States as well as in Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain and the U.K. This trial runs until 31/5/2020.
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text
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RIPM Retrospective Index was released online in 2000 and today its content is approaching 1,000,000 annotated records. It is updated every six months and contains indexes to complete runs of approximately 300 music periodicals. This trial runs until 31/5/2020.
Sage Knowledge
The premier social sciences platform for SAGE and CQ Press book, reference, and video content. This trial runs until 29/6/20.
Sage Research Methods Video
SAGE Research Methods Video includes hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process. Find videos made with expert researchers from leading research institutions, your favorite SAGE authors, great teachers, and more. This trial runs until 29/6/20.
Sage Video
SAGE Video showcases highly relevant educational video across key social science disciplines. Each collection includes a breadth of video types to support diverse research and learning needs. All videos are fully citable with searchable transcripts, custom clip creation and embedding. This trial runs until 29/6/2020.
Service Newspapers of World War Two
This digital resource reveals the story of war as told by the newspapers that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas. Explore over 300 titles from key nations across the globe that took part in the world-changing conflict. This trial runs until 5/5/2020.
Socialism on Film
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba. This trial runs until 5/5/2020.
Springer Nature Coronavirus
Springer Nature is committed to supporting the global response to emerging outbreaks by enabling fast and direct access to the latest available research, evidence, and data. All content listed here is free to access.
Theatre and Drama Premium
Theatre and Drama Premium bridges the gap between Literature and Theatre departments, serving researchers in theatre, literature, performance studies, theatrical design, dramatic writing, and more. The collection contains 13,500 full-text plays from canonical and emerging playwrights, 150,000 pages of original and contextualizing materials (designs, reference material, and ephemera), 300 audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works, and 750 hours of filmed stage performances, documentaries, and video trainings. This trial runs until 19/5/2020
UKPressOnline
UKPressOnline is your gateway to over TWO million pages of the 19th-21st Centuries’ newspapers, from 1835 to today, all as published on the day they were published and all searchable by name, word, phrase and date. This trial runs until May 7th 2020.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels Vol. 1
Comics have become an increasingly popular area of academic study, and yet the typical library has only a small selection of graphic novels in the catalog. Underground and Independent Comics solves this problem, collecting thousands of comics—many extremely rare and hard to find—in one, easy-to-use online collection. Volume I covers major works from north America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. This trial runs until 19/5/2020
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels Vol. 2
The second volume expands on the debut database by offering an additional 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find works, scholarly writings, and more. It adds extensive coverage of the pre-Comics Code era of horror, crime, romance, and war comics that fueled the backlash leading to the advent of the Comics Code. Volume II also contains tens of thousands of pages of non-mainstream, post-code comics and secondary materials from around the world. This trial runs until 19/5/2020
World War Two Studies - Research Source
Important primary sources, offering insight into many aspects of the conflict, including government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. Sources include the records of the Special Operations Executive; and private papers of American General Robert L Eichelberger, from the Pacific war. This trial runs until 5/5/2020.

Key Databases

Key Subject Resources

These are the key databases we recommend that you use, a more complete list is available from our Geography and Environment Database page. All electronic resources can be accessed off-campus through the Southampton Virtual Environment (SVE).

ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics. It contains searchable bibliographic records across the disciplines, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature. Further information.
Compendex
Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. Further information.
HEP-INSPIRE
A high energy physics information system combining SPIRES database content, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with digital library technology developed at CERN.
SPIE Digital Library
This resource gives access to all the publications of the SPIE including: Spie Proceedings - original research papers presented at SPIE conferences (available two to four weeks after each event); SPIE Journals - peer-reviewed articles on applied research in optics and photonics; Spie eBooks - a collection of more than 160 optics and photonics titles incorporating monographs, tutorial texts and field guides.

To see more databases go to the Databases and Tutorials tab