Category: new eresources

Connected Histories


Anyone studying history should take a look at Connected Histories which provides access to a wide range of distributed digital resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British history.
Search across the Connected Histories resources at http://www.connectedhistories.org
The Connected Histories website is fully searchable and provides access to millions of pages of text, hundreds of thousands of words and tens of thousands maps and images. It incorporates the following digital sources: 
  • British History Online
  • British Newspapers 1600-1900
  • Charles Booth Online Archive
  • Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 • London Lives, 1690–1800 • Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674–1913 • Origins Network • Parliamentary Papers • Printed Ephemera from the Bodleian Library • Strype’s Survey of London 

The resource will grow substantially over time as new sources are added. The first update, due in September, will include 65,000 British Library books from the Historic Books Platform, 19th century pamphlets from JSTOR, and abstracts of wills from The National Archives.

JISC news release
4 April 2011

Cambridge Books Online

Learning Services has purchased 981 ebook titles for you to search, browse and download. Full text ebook content in PDF format is available from these collections:


  • Economics
  • Film, Media, Mass Communicationcollection and
  • selected titles published between 2006 – 2010 from the Sociology collection.
How to access on and off campus:
Login to the University portal with your computer ID and password
Click on the My learning / Learning support page
In the Search the Library portlet select the Online databases and academic journals link
Scroll down to Cambridge Books Online in the list

From within Cambridge Books Online, choose Humanities and then Film, media, mass communication from the Browse by Subject column on the home page. To view theEconomics and Sociology titles, select Social Sciences from the Browse by Subject column.

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive

We now have access to the JISC Cambridge Journals Digital Archive – a fixed collection of journal archives in three sections. The first two parts of the archive Part 1 STM title list and Part 2 HSS1 title list are available now.

How to access on and off campus:

Login to the University portal with your computer ID and password
Click on the My learning / Learning support page
In the Search the Library portlet select the Online databases and academic journals link
Scroll down and select Cambridge Journals Online in the list.

In Cambridge Journals Online choose the Browse Journals tab and select the By Title option.

When viewing individual titles you can gain access to the digitised archive by selecting Back Volumes from the Journals Menu column. If you search the platform rather than browse you will retrieve full text only where it is available as part of the archive.

Oxford Scholarship Online Ebooks

Learning Services is subscribing to 433 ebook titles in Oxford Scholarship Online. We have full text access to the Business & Management and Economics & Finance subject collections.

How to access on and off campus:
Login to the portal with your computer ID and password
select the My learning / Learning support page
In the Search the Library portlet select the Online databases and academic journals link
Scroll down to Oxford Scholarship Online in the list
From within Oxford Scholarship Online, select the Business & Management or Economics & Finance subject collection from the left-hand menu in order to search, browse and access the titles in each collection.

New Eresources: ACS Legacy Archives and ASCE Research Library

We have 2 new eresources available via the My learning / Learning support page in the portal.

ACS Legacy Archives
This online database provides full-text searching and instant access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the ACS from 1879 to 1995. Archives articles are delivered in PDF format.

ASCE Research Library
The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library provides you with access to more than 40,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings.

How to access
To access both resources on campus:
Login to the portal with your computer ID and password
Select the My Learning / Learning support page. 
In the Search the Library portlet, select the Online databases and academic journals link.
Scroll down to the resource in the list on the next page.
Select the name of the resource to be transferred to the search screen.

UK Data Archive

We now have access to the UK Data Archive (UKDA). The UK Data Archive is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Founded in 1967, it now houses several thousand datasets of interest to researchers in all sectors and from many different disciplines.

To access the resource, log into the portal:

Select the My Learning / Learning support page

In the Search the Library portlet select the Online databases and academic journals link

On the next page the resources are listed alphabetically.

Select the letter ‘U’ in the alphabetical summary or scroll down in the list and select UK Data Archive.


Click on the Data link and then Login

Choose Login via UK Federation

You will be re-directed to the UK Federation ‘where are you from’ institutional list. Scroll down to select University of Greenwich from the list before proceeding to the e-resource.

Note: You may be required to login again to the university portal in a new window to access the resource. Previous users are required to re-register at the start of each academic year.

New Business Eresource – WARC

Warc gives you access to thousands of case studies about the advertising campaign and marketing strategies of leading brands from respected industry sources.

Includes articles and best practice guides explaining the ‘how’ and ‘why of marketing challenges as well as market intelligence, including ad forecasts, brand profiles, conference reports and other material on major advertisers, brands and agencies.

Access is on and off campus via Online databases and academic journals link in the My Learning / Learning support page in the portal.

New resource – ProQuest Full Text Dissertations & Theses

Full text doctoral dissertations and master’s theses available from the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection.
Note that the database comprises the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities primarily in North America but also from outside the U.S

For access login to the portal with your computer ID and password
Select the My Learning / Learning support page.

In the Search the Library portlet, select the Online databases and academic journals link.
Scroll down to the resource in the list on the next page.
Select the name of the resource to be transferred to the search screen.

New Business Eresources

Thomson ONE core package
Offers quick and easy access to quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, market moving news, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and research from industry-leading sources.

NBER Working Papers
National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

To access both resources:
Login to the portal with your computer ID and password
Select the My learning / Learning support link. 
In the Search the Library portlet, select the Online databases and academic journals link.
Scroll down to the resource in the list on the next page.

Select the name of the resource to be transferred to the search screen.