Suffolk Reference Direct
Online Reference Services
You can access these top quality subscription services for free from a computer in any Suffolk library or record office, or from any other computer with your Suffolk Library Card (Please note that Ancestry cannot be accessed from home).
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| General Reference, Dictionaries and Encyclopædias | |
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Access all three editions together in a library or use these links to access the adult, student or junior versions |
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Credo Reference: Over 500 well known books and encyclopædias, crossword solver and search facility to other subscription services |
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Wide range of reference books, periodicals and newspapers |
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Full, constantly updated version. Use this link to access from home |
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Major reference books from Oxford University Press |
| Biography | |
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50,000 people who shaped the history of the British Isles |
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Short biographies of noteworthy people of Britain since 1849, plus latest edition |
| Business | |
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Brand new online collection of over 10,000 international market reports from Euromonitor, now available from within any Suffolk library and from home. |
| Citizenship | |
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Interactive course to help you to prepare for your citizenship test |
| Culture | |
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Combines Grove Dictionary of Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists and other major art encyclopædias |
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Combines Grove Dictionary of Music and other major music encyclopædias |
| History | |
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Full text local and national articles |
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Library edition allowing free access from computers in Suffolk libraries and record offices only.
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Library edition allowing free access from computers in Suffolk libraries and record offices only. |
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18th and 19th Century ephemera from the Bodleian Library. |
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The entire Times newspaper: newly upgraded edition 1785 - 2006 |
| Newspapers and Periodicals | |
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National and Local Newspapers from Gale Cengage |
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Full text articles from 60 popular and academic publications |
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News
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Suffolk libraries' new online catalogue
We have now launched our new library catalogue. To have a look at it and play with it, please click on Search & reserve[http://suffolkreads.onesuffolk.net/cat] in the menu on the right. Read more »
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