West Sussex County Council: Electronic Library

This service brings together a selection of electronic reference books and recommended websites. The service is available free on all People's Network Computers in West Sussex Libraries. Just click on  FREE INFO during the Login process.

Some of these products are available free from your home or work PC. You need to be a West Sussex Library Service member as you will need a library card number to gain access. It's free to join the library - join now!

For further help or advice about the Electronic Library please contact

The County Information Librarian

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Ancestry Library

Available at Worthing and Horsham Libraries

Ancestry Library provides access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. It includes records from the England & Wales Census, UK Civil Registration Index, Court, Land and Probate Records as well as US Census Information

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Book-Data Online

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries

Book-Data online is the most comprehensive database of titles in print, forthcoming and recently out of print in the UK and Ireland.

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British Standards

Provides access to the full text of all British Standards

Due to technical issues the link to the British Standards website has been suspended. It is hoped to have the service back as soon as possible.

Full free access is still available from all libraries in West Sussex.

Access from a West Sussex Library

Please note this service is restricted to non commercial use only and prints are subject to Copyright Law

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Credo Reference

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Credo Reference (formally xreferplus) is a digital reference library with over 100 searchable and browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers. Credo Reference will help you find the facts, words, concepts, people, places and sayings that you need.

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Dictionary of National Biography

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Biographical profiles of over 50,000 people who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the present day.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

An online version of the  well established and popular 32 volume encyclopedia. Browse by subject or keyword and also search the online thesaurus, world atlas, year in review and student and concise encyclopaedias

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Encyclopaedia Britannica - Junior Edition

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

An edition of Britannica designed for children aged 5-11

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Encyclopaedia Britannica - Student Edition

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

An edition of Britannica specifically for students aged 12-18

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Grove Art (now Oxford Art Online)

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Oxfort Art Online now contains the acclaimed Grove Dictionary of Art and provides the new gateway to an expanding range of Oxford's premier art resources.

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Grove Music (now Oxford Music Online)

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Oxford Music Online now contains the relaunched Grove Dictionary of Music and provides the gateway to an expanding range of Oxford's premier music resources.

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Issues Online

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

A comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues. With sixty topics to choose from, Issues Online provides a wide range of information including: articles with news and views on each topic, key facts, key statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites, research guides plus assignment/debate suggestions.

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Kompass

Available FREE in all West Sussex Libraries

This gives you access to the Kompass database of industrial and commercial companies across the world. The link will provide access for nine users at any one time, to the Full Kompass Worldwide Database. If you are unable to access the Full Service, please ask a member of staff.

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Lexis Nexis

Available FREE at Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Worthing libraries.

A comprehensive source of legal information, including legislation and case law.

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NewsUK

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

A collection of 67 national and local newspapers as well as some magazines. The newspapers are updated every week day, giving access to reliable information from established sources.

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Oxford English Dictionary - OED

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised words, The Oxford English Dictionary Online is the ultimate guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both past and present.

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Oxford Reference Shelf

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Access to a vast online reference library which cross searches over 100 dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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SearchMuze

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries,or from your home, place of study or work PC

The SearchMuze Music and DVD/VHS database allows you to search for information on all UK released music including pop, classical and spoken word. You can also search for film soundtracks, DVDs, VHS and even music featured in adverts.

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The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

Available FREE at Chichester, Crawley, Worthing and Horsham libraries.

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 is an online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of the Times.

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Which Online

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries.

Access to Which? Reports from the past two years.

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Who's Who and Who was Who

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC

Published every year since 1849, Who's Who is the leading source of up to date information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life today.
Who was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together the entries of nearly 90,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who 

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World Book

Available FREE in all West Sussex libraries, or from your home, place of study or work PC
Please note that you MUST enter your library card number preceeded by 'wsls' eg wsls759652483 to access this resource.

World Book is an excellent homework resource for children. It features thousands of articles, maps, pictures, sounds and video clips.

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