Search reference titles and newspapers from home

Members of Ealing libraries can access a number of databases from home. Click on the links below and then on the next page you will be asked to enter your library card number.

Please note, you can only access the sites by going to this page first, each time you use them. Bookmark this page and not the pages for the individual databases.

General reference 
Biography 
Art 
Music 
Newspapers  

General reference

Oxford Reference Online *
The Premium Collection contains over 100 titles from Oxford University Press on a wide range of subjects including art, English dictionaries and thesauruses, computing, economics, history, law, literature, medicine, politics, religion and science plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and over 50,000 articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series.

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KnowUK  
Over 100 reference publications provide a comprehensive resource for everybody in the UK.  Most are unique to KnowUK and are not available elsewhere online.  Many of these are updated more frequently than the equivalent print copy, so KnowUK is the place to search first.

There are a number of different categories including Arts and Media, Biographies, Education, Health and Welfare, Personal Finance, Religion, and Tourism and Leisure.

Encyclopædia Britannica  
Encyclopædia Britannica Online gives access to the equivalent of a full-size multi-volume encyclopedia. There is also a world atlas and a dictionary and thesaurus of American English.

Britannica Student  
The student edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (for ages 12-18).

Britannica Junior  
The children’s edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (for ages 5-11).

Oxford English Dictionary * 
The complete multi-volume version is now available electronically.  You can easily search for the word or phrase you need in the full text of the dictionary, or in selected areas such as quotations or etymologies. There are also quarterly updates including updated entries and complete new words being added.

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Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*
Contains specially written biographies of 55,000 people who helped shape history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the start of the 21st century. There are regular updates and more than 10,000 illustrations, researched in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery.   

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Art  
Grove Art Online *
Contains the full text of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art together with the Oxford Companion to Western Art.  Some of the articles have been revised since their appearance in print and others have been added.

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Music
Grove Music Online  *
The full text of the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.  Some articles have been updated since their appearance in print.

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Newspapers
NewsUK  
NewsUK gives you access to articles in the major British national and regional newspapers and also the Economist, New Statesman and Spectator for recent years. The list includes 67 titles, with files going back in one case as far as 1991, and all can be searched by keyword to find news and information.