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If you're a library member, you can access our premium subscription sites from a home or work PC as well as your local library.  If you’re not a member, you can join at any Glasgow library. 


Resources that can be accessed from home will say link from home.
To use them, click this link and then enter the first 10 characters of your library card number into the login box.


All of the following resources are avaiable through library PCs.   Free Wi-Fi access ia also available from The Mitchell, Partick, Hillhead and Library at GoMA.

Select the logos below to link to the resource.

	Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) - online indexing and abstracting which provides superb coverage of  technology and arts subjects and includes UK quality newspapers.
COBRA – the Complete Business Reference Adviser. How to start up, run or support your small business Link to COBRA from home
	For ages 5-11, Britannica Junior Encyclopedia has been created especially for readers at the primary school level. Subjects for school and fun. Link to Britannica Junior from home
With Britannica Student for ages 12-18 you can create a customised pages and store and retrieve articles. Link to Britannica Student from home
	The world-famous Encyclopedia Britannica even gives you the latest news, statistics and historical timelines. Create your own research area in the Workspace and even view media clips. Link to Encyclopedia Britannica from home
Kompass is THE place to find information about company products and services.  World-wide database covering 2.3 million companies in 70 countries. Link to Kompass from home
	NewsUK is a searchable online database of the most popular national and regional British newspaper and magazine titles. Supplements are included, but not pictures, graphics, cartoons or adverts. Date coverage varies from title to title. Link to NewsUK from home
Know UK is an ideal place to find information about the UK. Browse the Local Information pages to find out what’s happening throughout the country. Link to KnowUK from home
	Oxford DNB has over 50,000 historical biographies of the people who have help shape the history of the British Isles and beyond. Access the complete text of the first 33-volume DNB.  Includes over 10,000 portrait illustrations. Link to Oxford DNB from home
SALSER is the union catalogue of the periodical holdings of Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow (The Mitchell), numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland.
	SCRAN has a wealth of digital materials representing Scotland's culture and history. Search over 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. Only available from The Mitchell.
Formerly xreferplus, CREDO has over 3 million entries from a selection of well-known reference works: encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, conversion tables, books of quotations, subject guides. Plus video clips, animations, interactive maps and timelines. Link to CREDO reference from home