Bristol Libraries: Reference Online

Your Bristol library card gives you access to the following online resources for free.

Not a member? Visit Bristol Libraries website to find out more.

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19th Century British Newspapers (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Contains full runs (where possible) of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. Includes The Bristol Mercury (1819-1900).

Home login: Once connected fill in the library membership number box. Enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No username or password needed

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Ancestry Library Edition (in library use only)

More than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 collections covering the United States, Canada and the UK.

Key sources include:

• UK census from 1841 to 1901, with images of the original records
• Index to births, marriages and deaths for 1837 to 1983
• Parish and probate records from the 1500s to 1800s, with some non-parish records from as early as the twelfth century
• Reference and finding aids such as surname dictionaries and gazetteers

Home login: Not available.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Annual Register (in library use only)

The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758, reproducing state papers, reviewing important books, and featuring historical sketches, poetry and essays, reproduced from books and periodicals. The Annual Register strove to remain non-partisan in its political coverage.
Please note that this resource has been supplied free to Bristol Libraries until July 2010.

Home login: Not available.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Cobra (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Cobra publishes a wide range of information on starting up and running small businesses. It offers opportunity profiles, how-to guides, reports, checklists and fact sheets. It provides tools for tackling crucial aspects of business, including, compliance with rules and regulations, finding new customers, and business planning. Fact sheets on specific trades or jobs present useful careers information.

Home login: Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Submit'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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GIN and PIN (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Online GIN and PIN offer the most effective way of searching over 4,000 charitable trusts and foundations which give grants to groups and individuals in the UK.

Home login: Having selected either GIN or PIN, select the word 'here'. Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.
Use GIN funding for groups and organisations.
Use PIN funding for individuals.

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Illustrated London News (ILN) (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Complete facsimile copy of the ILN from it's launch in May 1842 until 2003. The ILN commissioned a galaxy of great artists and draughtsmen to cover wars, royal events, scientific invention and exploration. In 1855 it launched the world's first colour supplement. Over the years the publication played host to distinguished contributors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie, as well as artists such as Melton Prior, William Heath Robinson, F Matania, Mabel Lucie Atwell and H.M. Bateman.

Home login:

Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Submit'

Library access:

No username or password needed

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Infotrac - Online Journals (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Infotrac offers access to 50 current journals whose content covers a variety of academic, professional, and general-interest subjects.

To see a list of our chosen 50 journals:

On entering the site, select 'Continue', then select 'Advanced Search', scroll down and select 'Browse Publication Title'.

Home login: Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Issues Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Issues Online addresses contemporary social issues. With more than sixty topics to choose from, it provides a wide range of information including, articles with news and views on each topic, key facts, key statistics and newspaper archives. It is an ideal homework resource for school students.

Home login: Once connected select 'Issues Online Go!'. Then at the foot of the screen, under 'Public Library Users Log In', enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Log In'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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John Johnson Collection (in library use only)

This resource allows digital access to the John Johnson Collection, housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world. It includes 65,000 items covering aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Home login: Not available.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Life in Great Britain (in library use only)

Life in Great Britain prepares people who are applying for UK Citizenship or an open-ended visa for the government test. The course material uses the Home Office publication 'Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey into Citizenship'. It is easy to navigate and has full English speech throughout. There are practice tests, with over 200 questions, with comprehensive coverage of topics in the Citizenship test. Users will need to devise their own username/passwords to ensure that tests remain confidential.

Home login: Not available.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Mint (in library use only)

Mint contains information on over 3.5 million active UK companies, plus half a million unincorporated businesses. It's news database includes regional and trade press as well as national news. The market research section contains over 160 UK industry profiles from Datamonitor, including information on the market, its size, companies' market share, the competitive landscape and forecasts. Both current and previous directors of UK businesses are included, giving their home address, their date of birth and their nationality plus a list of current and previous directorships.

Home login:

Not available.

Library access:

No username or password needed

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Naxos Music Library (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest classical music listening service. The collection of over 264,000 tracks of music is continually growing.

Home login: Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Login'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Newsbank Newspapers (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Full-text and up-to-date content of the newspapers Bristol Evening Post, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Economist, The Evening Standard, The Express, The Express on Sunday, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The News of the World, The Observer, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Times and The Western Daily Press.

Home login: Once connected enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Log in'.
Library access: No username or password needed.
Other formats: All Bristol libraries have daily newspapers.

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Oxford Art Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Oxford Art Online offers access to the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location, allowing users to access more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies and 40,000 image links.

Home login: Once connected do not enter details into the 'Subscriber Login User name/ Password' box. Instead, go to the 'Library card login' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (access in your library or from home using your library card)

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2004.

Home login: Once connected do not enter details into the Subscriber Login Username/Password box. Instead, go to the 'Library card login' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.
Other formats: Latest edition available in book format in the Reference Library.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (access in your library or from home using your library card)

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

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Oxford Music Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search the resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. It also features the Encyclopedia of Popular Music online for the first time. This is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present.

Home login: Once connected do not enter details into the 'Subscriber Login Username/Password' box. Instead, go to the 'Library card login' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Oxford Reference Online (access in your library or from home using your library card)

The Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The core collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Home login: Once connected do not enter details into the 'Subscriber Login Username/Password' box. Instead, go to the 'Library card login' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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Theory Test Pro (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Theory Test Pro is a realistic online simulation of the UK's driving theory test. It contains all the official test questions licensed from the DSA - the people who set the tests. Includes online version of Highway Code. Sign up and take a free mock theory test.

You must sign up and create a username and password to use this resource.

Home login: You will need your email address, your password and your library card number. Enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps.
Library access: You will need your email address and password

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Times Digital Archive (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Complete facsimile copy of the Times newspaper from 1785 to 1985. Content from 1986 onwards is available on Newsbank. All the text is fully indexed and searchable - advertisements, captions for photographs and illustrations, personal notices, sports results, wartime casualty lists.

Home login: Once connected fill in the 'Library membership number' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Proceed'.
Library access: No username or password needed.
Please note - our license only allows two people to use the service at the same time. Please try again later if you cannot log on straight away.

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Who's Who (access in your library or from home using your library card)

Who’s Who, published annually since 1849 and one of the most respected works of reference. It contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year.
Who Was Who has proved invaluable in identifying not only those who shaped the events of their time but others, now forgotten, who were familiar names in their own lifetimes.

Home login: Once connected fill in the 'Library Card Number' box - enter the letters ANP followed by your complete library card number with no gaps. Then select 'Go'.
Library access: No username or password needed.

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