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- ''Der Spiegel'' (weekly newsmagazine)
- --- Electronic access from 1986 to present (without pictures):
- --- CD-ROM archives 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001 (with pictures):
- ''Konkret'' (monthly leftist magazine)
- --- CD-ROM archives 1987-1996:
- ''Taz'' (daily newspaper)
- --- Electronic access from 1986 to present:
- German news agencies
- --- Various, electronic access from 1998 to present:
- '' New Scientist '' (weekly UK science magazine)
- --- Access to internet archive, about 10 years worth
- '' Science News ''
- ---Internet archive, back to April 25, 1996. Offline, archives back to 1966. -- 05:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
- '' The Economist ''
- --- Access to archive and premium content
- The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles 14 edition. Chart positions and dates for all singles which entered the top 75 since the fifties. -- 22:43, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
- The '' Globe And Mail '' (Canadian newspaper)
- ---Complete online archive
- The '' New York Times ''
- ---Online archives to 1999
- ---Complete archive from 1850. 23:52, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ---electronic access:
- ---online:
- The full OED
- --- on cd-rom (so without the online updates of the edition under preparation:
- --- online (with updates):
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 77th edition (1997) (chemical and physical data on just about anything):
Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993):
Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995):
A large (150-200 books) private library (print) on the subject 'voyages of discovery'. Especially interesting Raymond John Howgego: Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (2003). -
''Currently none.''
Free online English Language dictionaries:
- Merriam-Webster English as main entries, but include '''British''' English as 'See-also' entries. '''Dictionary''' and '''thesaurus'''.
- Cambridge Dictionary a dictionary, also recognises '''American''' spellings. '''Dictionary'''.
- ---One click will switch you to one of the following Cambridge dictionaries: , '''Learner's''', '''Idioms''', '''Phrasal Verbs''', '''French / English''', '''Spanish / English''' (just follow the link above).
- One Look To search many online dictionaries at once, great for and '''British''' English, check spellings and definitions. '''Dictionary''' and '''thesaurus'''.
- Dictionary.com can check and '''British''' spelling - refers to several other dictionaries, this is the spell checker used by Google . '''Dictionary''' and '''thesaurus'''.
- Language-reference Cross-foreign-language lexicon powered by its own search engine. All cross combinations between French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish.
Other:
- Google
- --- Google scholar Searches peer-reviewed sources.
- --- Bodnotbod's British media search
--Click it to restrict your Google search to:
-'' BBC News ''
-'' The Guardian ''
-'' The Times ''
-'' The Telegraph ''
-''FindArticles.com'' and a select couple of others.
--Once you have clicked you can drag the favicon to your links bar for future quick access or just add to your favourites.
--Add further sites simply by adding ''OR site:www.foo-bar.com'' to the end of the search in the Google input box; add no search terms; press ''return''; then bookmark or what-have-you.
- hypertextbook.com The largest part of this website is a collection of scientific essays written by high school students on various topics.
- PubMed Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System. Free access to biomedical databases: online science textbooks, clinical trials, biomedical literature, Human genome, protein structure, taxonomy, etc. Put out by the National Library of Medicine.
- Find Articles from LookSmart .
- ---Search results usually include free access to articles (esp sourced from British newspapers and magazines) not found through Google, including articles that pre-date widespread use of the Internet and even from the late 80s.
- Adam Carr's Election Archive : maintains the world's largest online archive of election statistics from every democratic country in the world.
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