Online resources : databases

An e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers which functions as a means of communicating ongoing research information in these subject areas.

UKBORDERS provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many Geographic Information System (GIS) formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others), for teachers and researchers in the UK Higher and Further Education community to download and use in their work.

Contains manifestos for Conservative, Labour, Liberal (or Liberal Democrat) parties until 1992, as well as other parties from 1997-.

The official UK statistics site, this allows users to search the latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics and information about statistics, and provides free access to a selection of recently released publications and press releases.

The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. With SLD you can: 1. View amended legislation as it has changed over time; 2. See how legislation will be affected by amendments not yet in force; 3. See how legislation has been amended for different jurisdictions; 4. Navigate links between affecting and affected legislation; and 5. Search the text of legislation for words and phrases.

The Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community is a free tool to help researchers and librarians locate serials held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.

Nineteenth-century serials edition is a collection of six full-text British 19th century newspapers and journals: Monthly repository (1806-1837), Unitarian chronicle (1832-1833), Northern star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English woman's journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's circular (1880-1890). Digitization was a collaboration between Arts and Humanities Research Council, Birkbeck College, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, the British Library, and Olive Software. The titles were chosen for their emphasis upon social issues, political reform, and women's rights issues.

Provides searchable public access to nearly 400 full text ebooks.

The Urban Audit provides European urban statistics for 258 cities across 27 European countries. It contains almost 300 statistical indicators presenting information on matters such as demography, society, the economy, the environment, transport, the information society and leisure. The Urban Audit was conducted at the initiative of the Directorate-General for Regional Policy at the European Commission, in cooperation with EUROSTAT and the national statistical offices of the 25 current Member States plus Bulgaria and Romania.

The opening line of this upbeat production is "Teaching is both an art and a science." Filmed in three disparate but remarkable classrooms, it illustrates how effective learning takes place when teachers combine their knowledge of child development, subject matter, and cognitive psychology. The three teachers combine music and graphic art with reading, writing, and mathematics lessons in order to fully engage their student's minds.