The Library provides access to subscription databases, electronic journals and e-books. This section lists the resources that are available outside the Library to registered members.

Getting access 

We subscribe to many online resources (databases, electronic journals and e-books) to support your research. Library members can access some of these resources from anywhere, subject to the license agreements with the individual service providers. To access these selected resources, choose from the list below.

If you have any comments or problems with remote access, please email our Library Systems Support team.

There is a separate access page for Wellcome Trust Staff.

Security certificate messages

As you connect to these e-resources, you may see security certificate messages. Don’t worry - this is to be expected. Simply click through all security messages to access the site.

Resources available outside the Library

Connect to:
 123Library
 17th-18th Century Burney Collection newspapers
 19th Century British Library Books
 19th Century British Library Newspapers
 19th Century UK Periodicals
 ACLS Humanities e-book
 ACP Journal Club
 Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED - Ovid)
 American National Biography
 Ancestry Library Edition
 AnthropologyPlus
 BFI Screenonline
 Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
 British Periodicals, Collections I & II
 Chicago Manual of Style
 Chicano Database
 Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
 Digital Images for Education
From logon options, select 'Search and download via direct access'.
 Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh
 Early English Books Online (EEBO)
 Early European Books
 Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
 Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
 Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews (Ovid)
 Film & Sound Online
From logon options, select 'Search and download via direct access'.
 FRANCIS
 Health Reference Center (HRC)
 History of Science, Technology and Medicine
 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
 Illustrated London News Historical Archive : 1842-2003
 Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
 International Who's Who
 JAMA (current and archive)  
 JISC Historic Books
 JISC MediaHub
From logon options, select 'Search and download via direct access'.
 John Johnson Collection
 MyiLibrary
 Nature 
 Nature Biotechnology
 Nature Genetics
 Nature Immunology
 Nature Medicine
 Nature Neuroscience
 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
 Nature Reviews Genetics
 Nature Reviews Immunology
 Nature Reviews Microbiology
 Nature Reviews Neuroscience 
 Newsfilm online
From logon options, select 'Search and download via direct access'.
 OCLC FirstSearch
 Periodicals Archive Online: JISC collections selection
 ProQuest UK Newsstand  
 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
 Russian Adacemy of Sciences Bibliographies
 SCIPIO
 Times Digital Archive 
 Trew Letter Collection
 World Biographical Information System
 World of Learning
 WorldCat

Wellcome Trust staff remote access

Close up of the compound eye of a fruit fly (drosophila). Scanning electron micrograph. Wellcome Library, London