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Online

As a library member you can access a range of e-resources by logging in with your library card number and PIN.

• Reference books online - collections you can search general and specialist works for social science subjects
• Credo Reference - includes over fifty works on  social science, including, for example, the 'Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology', 'Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences' and the 'World of Sociology', a comprehensive, subject-specific guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, developments and pioneers related to the field of sociology
• Oxford Reference Online - includes several quick reference works including dictionaries of politics and political biography
• Encyclopaedia Britannica online - for more general articles, images and web links, see the
• Newspapers online you - search for articles from daily and Sunday newspapers, including the 'Financial Times'; for historical information there is also the Times Digital Archive covering 1785-2007
• Useful Social Science websites in WebLinks.

In the Library

• You can also find a range of books on all aspects of social science in the library. Search the Library Catalogue to discover what is at your local library

Page last updated: 26th November 2013