The Library provides access to several collections of electronic journals. Some
of these collections are archival (JSTOR,
PAO) and provide long back
runs but not recent issues, while others (Emerald,
ESTAR, Literature
Online, Muse)
provide access only to recent years of the journals listed. Most of
the collections are licensed for onsite use only and cannot be accessed
off-site. They are available in the Humanities Reading Room and in
the Social Sciences Reading Room (and in other Reading Rooms) of the
British Library. To supplement the subject
listing of electronic journals we provide here a listing by title.
| 19th Century UK Periodicals |
Series 1: New Readerships.
Includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humour. Access to 1.2 million periodical pages, with full runs of titles when possible. (Onsite only)
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| Blackwell Synergy |
The online journals from Blackwell Publishing. (Onsite only) |
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| British Periodicals Collections I and II |
The collections when complete will include more than 460 British journals published between the 1680s and the 1930s.
Click here for a list of titles currently available. (Onsite only) |
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| Cairn Collection |
Collection of high quality, full text peer reviewed academic journals from France and Belgium. The collection includes journals in the fields of history, literature and linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, education, law and economics. Text and search interface in French. (Onsite only) |
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| ESTAR |
Provides electronic access
to many of the journals which are available in the British Library.
(Onsite only) |
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JSTOR |
Digitised backfiles of
core scholarly journals. For each journal there is a "moving
wall", a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2
to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published
issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
(Onsite only) |
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| Literature
Online |
Full-text of journals on English and
American literature and related subjects. Coverage varies, but
in many cases goes back several years. (Onsite only) |
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| Nineteenth Century Serials Edition |
Free online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. Beta version. |
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| Periodicals
Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text) |
An archive of hundreds of digitised scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Searching within the full text of articles is possible. Includes British Periodicals Collection I, which, when complete, will include 160 British journals published between 1681 and 1920 and which can be searched separately. (Onsite only) |
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| Project
Muse |
Project Muse provides electronic access to the full text
of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities,
social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies, but in many
cases goes back several years. (Onsite only) |
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Emerald
Library |
Emerald
provides electronic access to journals (mainly on management
and library and information sciences) published by MCB University
Press. (Onsite only) |
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| Oxford
Journals Online |
Online journals from
Oxford University Press. (Onsite only) |
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| Sabinet |
Sabinet is a collection of over one hundred South African journals, covering the social sciences, arts and humanities, and law. Full text is provided for most entries. (Onsite only) |
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| Springerlink |
Offers more than 1200 online journals published by Springer and the former Kluwer Academic. (Onsite only) |
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| SwetsWise |
Online access to 3000+ titles (Login
via IP authentication)
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| Taylor & Francis |
The Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles. (Onsite only) |
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| Internet
Library of Early Journals |
ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities
of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. The core collection
for the project are runs of at least 20 consecutive years of
a number of key early British journals. |
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| Free electronic journals |
A selective list of directories of
free electronic journals is provided under Periodicals:
A Guide to resources |
