British History Online (Trial Only)

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.

New Republic Archive (Trial only)

This trial ends on the 30th of November 2009

The New Republic, founded in 1914, is America’s leading journal of opinion on politics and the arts.
Current and past issues of the journal are now available together in a single, stand-alone online database.
The New Republic Archive presents insights from a variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, foreign policy, culture, current events, the arts, and much more.
The database features award-winning writers and critics from many fields and from most political viewpoints.
The New Republic Archive contains more than 4,550 issues, with coverage dating back to 1914. In addition, this database currently contains more than 82,000 PDF files with current issues continually added.

Legal Periodicals and Books (Wilson) Trial only

This trial is available until the 23rd November 2009

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books has been relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of the most important English language legal information. Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.

Past Masters (Intelex)

Since 1989, InteLex has been publishing the Past Masters® series of full-text humanities databases. We are focused on the needs of the scholarly community in the human sciences. InteLex assembles and publishes cohesive collections of excellent editions, in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. The Past Masters series provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts.

InteLex Corporation’s Past Masters series encompasses the largest collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world. We publish significant databases in the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and philosophy of science, germanic studies and sociology.

Since 2001, InteLex has been producing the largest collection of English Letters in electronic form, in conjunction with Oxford University Press and Pickering & Chatto. This collection encompasses the letters, correspondence, and in some instances the diaries and the notebooks of the most significant figures in English literature, letters, politics, the church and the arts.

Mintel Oxygen (Trial Only)

Mintel Oxygen is a one-stop online platform, designed to give you easy and fast access to our smart consumer and market insight.
More than 600 report titles covering UK, European, US and International consumer markets are added to Mintel Oxygen every year.

Requires a username and password the first time you access this resource. University of Melbourne staff and students may apply to Ann Wallis  amwallis@unimelb.edu.au.

Mintel Global Market Monitor (Trial Only)

Mintel Global Market Navigator is a comprehensive database designed to give your business instant access to critical market data for consumer industries across the world. At the touch of a button, Global Market Navigator will tell you the market size, segmentation and market share along with 5 years’ historical and 5 years’ forecast data. It includes more than 4,000 categories, spanning 54 countries and 22 industries.

Parker Library on the Web

Parker Library on the Web is a collection of high-resolution digital images representing almost 200,000 manuscript pages in the world-famous Parker Library, a peerless collection of medieval manuscript materials fundamental to scholarship in a broad range of humanistic disciplines.

Parker Library on the Web is the product of more than five years’ joint work by Stanford University, Corpus Christi College and the University of Cambridge, executed with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

ARTstor (Trial Only)

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ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Hart Publishing Law Journals (Trial only)

Hart Publishing, established in 1996, is an independent and privately owned law publisher in Oxford, UK, committed to the highest standards of excellence in legal publishing.

Journals are available from 2007



Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (Trial only)

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Dentistry & Oral Science Source covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics.