Cyberlibrary eResources
Reference and news resources
While the libraries are closed, you can access e books, e audio books & e magazines, even if you're not currently a library member. Use this link https://www.librarieswest.org.uk/client/en_GB/default/search/registration/$N?pc=SYMWS to go to an online form. Fill in your details, selecting a 4 digit PIN number, then click on Register. You will then get a temporary membership number. Make a note of this. Then go back to the Library webpages and use this number and your PIN to register.
NB. If you live in Bournemouth just select any Poole library from the drop down list of locations.
This is CyberLibrary, home of Bournemouth Libraries' electronic resources. The CyberLibrary resources use Single Sign On. You only need to sign in once with your library card. Further resources can be found using the links in the right side of this page.
Reference, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
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Art encyclopedia, with an image library.
A modern dictionary and guide to today’s language.
Biographies of famous Britons.
A guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of English words past and present.
Encyclopedia Britannica Library Edition is an easy to use, trusted source of information available in three levels: Junior, Student and Level.
Oxford Reference
Information from 200 Oxford University Press reference titles.
Oxford Music Online is the eighth edition of "Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians", and contains articles commissioned specifically for the site as well as articles from "New Grove 2001", "Grove Opera", and "Grove Jazz". The recently published second editions of "The Grove Dictionary of American Music" and "The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments" are still being put online, and new articles are added to GMO with each site update.
American National Biography Online
Over 19,000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history.
Issues Online
Find out facts and figures for homework with Issues Online. High quality articles on today's social issues.
Oxford Bibliographies
You can now access Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature and British and Irish Literature for free logging in with your library card.
Every article on Oxford Bibliographies is a respected guide to current thinking in that area, written and reviewed by experts, and with original commentary and annotations.
The Victorian Literature module includes annotated bibliographies on over 100 topics including Gender, Charles Dickens, Race, and more. In the British and Irish Literature module you’ll find over 100 bibliographies, including topics such as Arthurian Literature, John Keats, and Christopher Marlowe.
Click on the images below to start exploring.
Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature
Oxford Bibliographies in British & Irish Literature
Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions (VSI) is the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly, combining facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make often challenging topics highly readable.
For the first time, these books are available online on an exciting digital platform.
Very Short Introductions will change the way you think about the things that interest you, and are the perfect route into subjects you previously knew nothing about.
You can also access ten Very Short Introductions titles: Twentieth Century Britain, British Politics, Drugs, Contemporary Art, History, Management, Mathematics, Nutrition, The Earth, and Planets
News
Newsbank in libraries
Newsbank at home
Articles from local, national and international newspapers.
Times Digital Archive
The complete digital edition of The Times, from 1785 - 1985 (London).
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive is a project to digitise up to 40 million pages from the British Library's newspapers. Search millions of articles.
Available only in Libraries.
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