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A service dedicated to students of the Caspian School of Academic's Distance learning community. We provide online resources, professional support and guidance to all our students whenever, and from wherever they have chosen to study.

Perlego - Online Library - Over 900,000 Books, 950 Topics

With Perlego’s online library of books, academic texts and tools, trusted by students worldwide

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Online Resources

Find the best library databases for your research.

Perlego

Perlego is a digital online library focusing on the delivery of academic, professional and non-fiction eBooks.
Caspian School of Academics has subscribed Perlego to provide unlimited access to over 900,000 textbooks, over 950 topics and subtopics to choose for students and teachers. Perlego provides individual access to many of the key texts you will use on your programme of study, as well as unlimited access to all the books on Perlego. If you are having any difficulties, contact [email protected] and the team will be happy to help.

EBSCOhost

EBSCO provides research databases covering a variety of subjects for students, researchers and librarians. Reseachers can also use EBSCO Essentials to search for reliable articles and connect to their library to access additional EBSCO content.

Archives Hub (JISC)

The Archives Hub provides access to over 18,000 descriptions of unique and unpublished primary source material held in archives and manuscript collections in over 80 UK universities, colleges, and research institutes. The Archives Hub forms part of the emerging National Archives Network and covers a broad range of subject areas.

Bibliomania

Thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays. Also study guides, dictionaries, biographies, religious texts, and popular non-fiction.

CORE

CORE provides seamless access to millions of open access research papers.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

A collection of freely available academic eBooks in a wide range of subjects. An initiative to increase discoverability of peer-reviewed open access publications from across Europe.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Access to over 1500 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access academic journals and is not limited to particular languages or subject areas.

DiVA Academic Archive/DiVA Portal

DiVA Portal is a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at 47 universities and research institutions. It is developed and maintained by Uppsala University Library and serves as online academic archive for research and student theses for long term preservation of publications.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Open Dissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. It contains records (some with links to full text) for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

EThOS: Electronic theses online service (British Library)

Search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.

EUR-Lex

Free access to European Union law and other public documents, including the Official Journal. Contents amount to over 2 million documents with full text back to 1951.

Getty Open Content Images

Getty Collections is releasing all their images of public domain artworks in high resolution. Images are freely available to download and use. The link takes you to the Open Content browse and search site.

Legislation.gov.uk

Managed by The National Archive on behalf of HM Government. All UK legislation is published here, including original (as enacted) and revised versions of UK Public General Acts (Statutes) in full from 1988, and UK Statutory Instruments in full from 1987. There are additionally, partial datasets for UK Public General Acts (1801-1987), and for UK Statutory Instruments (1947-1986). Changes to and by legislation can be tracked from 2002.

London Lives 1690-1800

Primary source database of 240,000 records of 18th century London and Londoners, searchable by name. Material includes parish, hospital and guild records, coroners' reports, poor relief, and criminal justice reports. Users may create individual accounts for increased functionality and the ability to contribute to the database.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

Open Access Theses and Dissertations is an index of over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

Open Research Library

The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.

Open Research Online (ORO)

Open Research Online (ORO) shares the OU's high-quality, peer-reviewed publications. It features over 30,000 research outputs across a broad range of OU research from science to arts. Nearly three quarters of Open University research was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014. Where copyright permissions allow, a full copy of each research publication is directly available from ORO.

OpenDOAR

An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. Additionally, it provides tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure. Current development work is funded by JISC, with contributions from the CRC host organisation, the University of Nottingham. OpenDOAR has also been identified as a key resource for the Open Access community and the leader in repository directories.

Oxford Text Archive

The Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues, and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. It holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Includes online versions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora. Searchable by author or title.

Project Gutenberg

A collection of over 57,000 freely available e-books. Searchable, with list of "top" authors and titles.

The Electronic library of mathematics

The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources in the field of mathematics. All material is in electronic form and access is generally free, except for some periodicals with a "moving wall", i.e., a certain delay period after which resources become freely available.

The London gazette

Searchable archives of the London Gazette, Britain's continuously published newspaper, dating back to the late seventeenth century. Includes the Edinburgh Gazette and Belfast Gazette. Note that to save searches users will need to register.

UK Data Services

UKDS provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. It comprises several specialist data services that promote and encourage data usage in teaching and research. N.B. Registration required (on first visit only).