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Once registered with the website, and logged in, you will have FREE access to all the following resources:

Who Else Writes Like?...
Who else writes like? is designed to answer the perennial question: 'I've read all the books by my favourite authors, who shall I read next?'

British Standards
In BSOL you will find, British standards, European and International standards adopted by the UK, jointly developed standards and Publicly available standards.

Issues Online
A comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues.

Heinemann World Book
Thousands of easy-to-read encyclopedia articles on a broad variety of topics.

KnowUK
Access to over 100 reference publications.

NewsUK
Search national and regional newspapers.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Welcome to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Library Edition. Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and websites.

19th Century Newspapers
Full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain

Oxford Art Online
The most extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art resource available today.

Oxford Music Online
The most extensive and easily searchable online music resource available, a virtual music library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is 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. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

Wirral Libraries also offers FREE access to ANCESTRY.COM, but this is only available on public PCs within our libraries.