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Access to Research

Access to Research provides millions of academic research papers and journals covering art, architecture, business, engineering, history, languages, politics, philosophy, mathematics and the sciences.

Only accessible through library PCs.

Oxford Open Access

Part of Oxford University Press, Open Access aims to hold the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. Explore peer-reviewed, world-leading and trusted open access research.

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Oxford Research Encyclopedia

Part of Oxford University Press, Oxford Research Encyclopedias contain a wide variety of peer-reviewed and trustworthy research. Includes subjects such as business and management, planetary science, economics and finance, physics and more.

Only accessible through library PCs.

Encyclopedias and reference

• Britannica for adults: biographies, articles, primary resources and more on a range of topics
• British Newspaper Archive: millions of British and Irish newspapers from 1703 – 2003 (only accessible through library PCs)
• Collins Dictionary: the home of living English, with more than 722,000 words, meanings and phrases
• Dictionary.com: access to the Oxford English and Spanish dictionaries, thesaurus and Spanish to English translator
• The John Johnson Collection: printed primary sources from the 19th and 20th centuries
• World Digital Library: historical and international primary resources, available in 7 languages

Local studies and data

• Suffolk Archives: interactive catalogue of photographs and documents from Suffolk Record Office
• Suffolk Observatory: social and economic statistics for Suffolk, including full Census details
• Office for National Statistics (ONS): the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics

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