Biographical and thematic dictionaries can be a very useful resource when you are starting to get to grips with a particular historical question.
Access to the entire text of the Dictionary of Art with regular additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Online collection of biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. Includes portraits, photographs and illustrations.
Access the complete text of the 20-volume second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, plus the 3-volume additions series.
Oxford Music Online (including Grove Music Online) is a comprehensive reference resource with dictionaries, encyclopedias and companions for all sorts of music.
A bibliography is a list of books, articles, and/or chapters on a specific subject. Bibliographies can be made for a specific piece of writing (an essay) or developed around a particular subject. This subject can be a specific geographic region (such as the British Isles and Ireland), or a specific theme (for example, LGBTQ+ history). They do not always provide full text, so you may have to do a second search to find out whether the material you've found is available in the library. If it isn't, interlibrary loans are available.
Consulting a bibliography is a fast and convenient way to find appropriate secondary reading for your essay, assignment or dissertation. If you have any questions or feel like you're getting stuck, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
Abstracts and index of academic journals, daily newspapers and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK from 1962 onwards.
Detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature from scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
These databases contain articles, papers, and abstracts (short summaries) on specific subjects. They should be used for searching for reliable writing about a particular topic and for when you need to conduct a more focussed search than the library search engine provides. The following are particularly recommended for history.
A not–for–profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. The University of Lincoln has full-text access to the JSTOR Full Archive Collection and a selection of eBooks.
Project Muse provides full-text, high quality articles for the humanities and social sciences from over 120 publishers
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Abstracts and index of academic journals, daily newspapers and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK from 1962 onwards.
Access to Oxford University Press journals. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles from Cambridge University Press on the humanities, social sciences and STEM displines.
Includes the Digital Journals Archive.
The library subscribes to a number of PhD and MA dissertation databases which you may find useful when writing your own dissertation or exploring a subject in depth.
Searchable index and access to open access research theses from European universities.
Searchable index of UK theses with full text available to order.
Information and a searchable index of international electronic theses and dissertations, including some open-access titles.
Search and view open access theses and dissertations.
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
If you wish to access full text theses, please make sure the "Full text" option is ticked under the search bar.