Users of our Library and Archives can access these additional digital resources to aid their research.
The Library subscribes to a number of electronic resources which are available to registered readers within the Science Museum Group's ICT network. They are intended for non-commercial research purposes only—any commercial use is prohibited.
- The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise the British Library's newspaper collections (excluding major broadsheet newspapers). This collection gives access to over 20 million fully searchable pages, featuring more than 700 newspaper titles from every part of the UK and Ireland published since 1700. You will need to register when you first use the archive to allow you to search and view the records.
- Complete Dictionary Of Scientific Biography: nearly 800 in-depth articles of famous and influential scientists from ancient times to the recent past.
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archives: 1842–2003: a completely digital version of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, consisting of 260,000 full colour pages.
- JSTOR: 1,151 digitised full-text journals (over 5 million articles; over 28 million pages) from a wide range of disciplines; includes many science-related journals, such as the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: over 57,000 biographies of British people who have shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
- Oxford Reference Online: 175 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource.
- The Times Digital Archive: nearly 7.9 million articles from The Times newspaper published from 1785 to 1985.
- Who’s Who & Who was Who: the famous biographical directory of over 100,000 noteworthy and influential people in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually since 1849.