The Dictionary of Irish Biography includes the lives of 9,000 Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland from James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne MacBride, Shane O'Neil to Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands. It is a collaboration of Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy.
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Digital Dictionary of Buddhism is a collaborative Internet site developed by user contributions and maintained by a professor of the University of Tokyo.
Digital Scholarship is a web portal to information on open access publishing since 1989.
The www.dissonline.de information system provides a wide range of information on the electronic publishing of dissertations and post-doctoral theses.
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.
LibDex is a website which serves as a directory of libraries of all types (though it appears not to be comprehensive in its coverage) in dozens of countries around the world.
A comprehensive resource for Library and Information Science research, this EBSCO database provides full text articles from more than 430 LIS journals, indexing for hundreds more and selected full text monographs.
The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's catalogs and its very significant digital collections.
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (no longer subject to copyright restrictions).
The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike.
A library of materials pertaining to Ancient Greece, which is expanding to include resources on Ancient Rome. Includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of Greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources.
Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Updated 24 times a year.
ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels.
ProQuest Ebook Central is a web-based ebook lending platform.
ProQuest Indian JournalsĀ is a specialized set of full-text, scholarly journals across major subject disciplines, including business, medical, science, technology, social sciences, and humanities.
ProQuest Research Library is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students.
This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity.
Requires registration. This resource is the only Internet-based reference for over 150,000 domestic and international print and electronic publications including magazines, journals, e-journals, newsletters, and monographs. It provides quick and easy access to detailed publication information including, titles, formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN numbers.