The Online Library is a part of the University of London
Select your study programme below to find out which databases you can access, or visit your Study Programme page for more details.
Please note: all Online Library databases are password protected. For further information see the passwords page.
To login, click the ‘Login’ button and then select University of London Online Library (Distance Learning). Then enter the part of your Portal username before the @ e.g. ab123
ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and over 2,000 titles in full text, from 1987 onwards.
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Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975.
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Full text coverage of nearly 7,600 business publications, including full text coverage of over 1,100 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Coverage back to 1922 in some cases.
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Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through Cambridge Core. Our subscription also includes a small but growing collection of e-books in Cambridge Core.
The Dawson E-Book Collection has now been retired.
You can now access your ebooks on the VLeBooks platform. Click here to log in to the VLeBooks platform.
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This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated. Our subscription includes, but is not limited to, these journals:
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IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.
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To login, click the ‘Login’ button and then select University of London Online Library (Distance Learning). Then enter the part of your Portal username before the @ e.g. ab123
A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Online Library's subscription covers the Arts and Science Collections 1-15.
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This database includes full-text case-law and legislation for the UK, US (Federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, and local and national UK newspapers. Includes Halsburys Laws of England.
This database was formerly known as LexisLibrary.
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SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. We subscribe to three collections in SAGE: the Education Collection, the Management and Organisation Studies Collection, and the Politics and International Relations Collection.
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Full text access to over 3,800 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, psychology, business & management, economics and earth sciences. Full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for.
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The complete digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 1985.