These subscription services are available only to students and staff at the College. Details of how to access them are on the Online Learning Resources page on MyDulwich.
If you are connecting from outside you will need your network username & password, although some services will only work from the College network.
DICTIONARIES
OXFORD ART ONLINE
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Over 45,000 articles and over 22,000 links to art images worldwide.
OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE
"dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world."
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
OXFORD REFERENCE SHELF ONLINE
an excellent quick reference resource: dictionaries, quotations, subject reference dictionaries, quick encyclopedias, maps, etc.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
The full text, constantly updated and with links to thousands of other
websites.
There are three distinct areas: JUNIOR, STUDENT (Lower & Middle Schools) and BRITANNICA (Upper School). They include extra curricular materials such as study guides.
WORLD BOOK ONLINE
The international edition of the encylopedia - especially useful for the Junior & Lower Schools.
HISTORY
ANCESTRY LIBRARY
" Trace your family history - You can search censuses for England, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands from 1851 to 1901, England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes for births, deaths and marriages , plus UK and Ireland parish and probate records from the 1500s to the 1800s and even earlier. There are also a few military, immigration/emigration, court and probate records. "
HISTORY ON THE WEB
Includes the online edition of New Perspective, as well as GCSE and A Level resources and links to useful history websites.
HISTORY STUDY CENTRE
"History Study Centre is an online resource providing a vast collection of digitised primary and secondary sources for the study of history...[and] provides over 40,000 documents and articles, with over 50 reference works, 3,000 images and links to 2,000 Web sites."
HISTORY TODAY ONLINE
History Today Online provides fully searchable access to over 25 years of History Today journals. You can search by author, issue, topic or book review.
NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
FACTIVA
a global news service with nearly 8,000 newspapers and magazines from 118 countries, in 22 languages. Includes all the main British dailies and their European equivalents.
ISSUES
The online version of the excellent printed series, useful for debating topics, PSHE research etc. You can access information about our username and password on the College Intranet.
KNOW UK
"a unique online service developed to provide libraries with a complete collection of current, useful and UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK."
NEWS UK
"an online service developed to provide international, national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database."
ONLINE JOURNALS
ECONOMIST ONLINE
Offers access to the current edition and a fully searchable archive dating back to January 2000.
GREECE AND ROME
"Published with the wider audience in mind, Greece & Rome features informative and lucid articles on ancient history, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and the classical tradition." Contains the full-text of the current issue of the journal and an archive dating back to 2001.
JSTOR
A fully searchable and comprehensive collection of academic journals.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The TLS Archive gives access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994, searchable by headline, reviewer or article keyword.
PEOPLE
OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000.
SCIENCE
AMERICAN SCIENTIST
The magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. Contains the full-text of the current issue of the magazine and an archive dating back to 1970.
NEW SCIENTIST ARCHIVE
A full database of articles back to 1988.
June 2009