Databases on CD-Rom
CD-Roms are available from the Service Desk of the appropriate Library and may be used on stand-alone, non-bookable machines on Level 2 of the Main Library. They can be used on a self-help basis, after training by Library staff (if required)
Unless noted otherwise, all CD-Roms are held in the Main Library
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Title | Location | Update Frequency | Coverage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-1945 Zeitgeschichte | Main Library | one-off purchase | Erleben Sie die Jahre zwischen 1933 und 1945 in wort, Bild, Ton und Film. | |
| A-Z of the Middle East | Main Library | one-off purchase | An account of the Middle East in the 20th Century. Includes treaties, agreements, UN resolutions, a chronology, websites, bibliography, c 250 photographs, animated maps, and 115 entries covering the most important figures, events and movements to have shaped the region's history. | |
| 68 Une Revolution Mondiale | Main Library | one-off purchase | Examines the key moments of change which swept across many countries of the world during 1968. Contains text, video,photographs and illlustrations. | |
| American History | Main Library | one-off purchase | Chronicles over 400 events from the Vikings to Operation Desert Storm. Contains over 500 photographs, 100 video clips, original documents, etc. | |
| Ancient Rome | Main Library | one-off purchase | The most important monuments of Ancient Rome, from its founding to the fall of the Empire, reconstructed in 3-D graphics and fully-navigable. | |
| Archivio della Tradizione Lirica: Da Petrarca a Marino | Main Library | one-off purchase | La tradizione del petrarchismo italano raccolta in un'unica grande banca-dati: le opere di 112 autori da Petrarca a Marino a cui si aggiungono le principali raccolte di rime tre-cinquecentesche (Rimatori bolognesi del Trecento e del Quattrocento; Rime del codice Isoldiano; Canti carnascialeschi del Rinascimento; Testi del Certame coronarion; Lirici toscani del Quattrocento; ecc). | |
| Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies | Main Library | one-off purchase | A major resource for research into Shakespeare studies, combining the Arden editions of every Shakespeare play plus poems and sonnets, with hitherto scattered reference material of prime importance. | |
| Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL-1) | Main Library | ongoing | First release of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana contains over 600 works from almost 300 scholars, providing access to all the Latin texts of Antiquity from the beginning to the end of the second century AD. It includes such important Late Antique authors as Ammianus Marcellinus and Macrobius. | |
| Blood Cinema | Main Library | one-off purchase | Exploration of 60 years of Spanish film and culture. Includes commentaries, fim excerpts, etc. | |
| The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: text and performance archive | Main Library | one-off purchase | An archive of textual and performance material relating to Shakespeare's King Lear. It contains the Quarto of 1608, the Folio of 1623, five other texts, 500 illustrations of performances, five critical essays and a wealth of annotation and reference material. | |
| CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts | Main Library | one-off purchase | The whole Corpus Patrum Latinorum, ie all texts edited by the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Continuation Mediaevalis, inc the exhaustive corpora of Augustinus, Hieronymus, Gregorius Magnus, plus texts not yet published in Corpus Christianorum, such as the Vulgate Bible, and the complete works of St Bernard. | |
| Chaucer: Life and Times | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| Cinemascope | Main Library | one-off purchase | L'encyclopedie multimedia du cinema francais - 7,290 fiches de films, 755 biographies, 1,348 illustations, etc. | |
| * Compendium of Health Statistics 1997 | Main Library | one-off purchase | UK health statistics produced by the Office of Health Economics. | |
| The Comprehensive John Calvin Collection | Main Library | one-off purchase | Complete collection of Calvin's writings, including the New Battles' Translation of Calvin's Institutes, the complete historical perspective and long forgotten works. | |
| Concordance of Medieval Occitan | Main Library | one-off purchase | Brings together the corpus of texts extant in the language, from the first attestation to those belonging to the end of the 15th C. | |
| Database of Classical Bibliography | Main Library | Covers every aspect of Greco-Roman antiquity. Its primary source is L' Annee Philologique, vols 47-58 (1976-1987), the principal international bibliography for classical studies - ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Coverage runs from 2000 B.C. until 500-800 A.D. | ||
| Deutschland seit 1945 | Main Library | one-off purchase | Multimedia CD-ROM of German history since 1945. | |
| Dictionary of the English Language: Samuel Johnson | Main Library | one-off purchase | Dr Johnson's Dictionary remains a major resource for, and cornerstone of, the English language. This CD presents the key 1755 and 1773 (1st and 4th) Editions, which may be viewed side by side. Digitized images of all the original pages are supplied. Searches may be made by words, phrases, headwords, quotations and source authors. Of value to scholars and students of language, literature, lexicography, history, and 18th C studies. | |
| Domesday Explorer | Main Library | one-off purchase | The Domesday Book, Britain's oldest and most famous public record, describes the condition of England south of the river Tees in 1066 and 1086. | |
| Dutch Navy Model Collection 1698-1889 | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| Dutch Printer's Devices 15-17Centuries | Main Library (Rare Books) | one-off purchase | Contains almost 2,000 Dutch printers' and publisher's devices , used to adorn title pages. Searches can be made on names of printers and booksellers, addresses, shop signs, years of activity, iconography, mottoes, initials, etc. | |
| The Electronic Scots School Dictionary | Main Library | one-off purchase | Features include: bilingual text, Scots/English and English Scots; user-friendly layout of dictionary words; electronic searching on all words; over 600 spoken pronunciations; regional maps; mini Scots grammar guide, etc. | |
| Encyclopedia of French Literature from the Middle Ages to 1925 | Main Library | one-off purchase | Searchable full-text of 171 great masterpieces of classic French literature, from Montaigne and Rabelais in the sixteenth century to Proust and Alain-Fournier in the twentieth century. Accompanying booklet contains biographies of 83 authors and details of works covered. | |
| Europa A-Z | Main Library | gift | Provides quick and comprehensive answers about the main themes, concepts and facts surrounding the European Union. | |
| F D Roosevelt | Main Library | one-off purchase | Created to supplement traditional textbooks, and uses sound, photographs, charts, graphs and videos, as well as text, to explore Franklin D Roosevelt's life. The full text of most of Roosevelt's major speeches is included. | |
| Film and History 1999 Annual | Main Library | one-off purchase | Over 30 articles on topics ranging from Reaganite cinema to the Crying Game; resource materials, etc. | |
| Financial Times 1994 - | Main Library; online via Custom Newspapers 1996- | |||
| Francesco Petrarca: Opera Omnia | Main Library | one-off purchase | Il CD-ROM raccoglie tutte le opere latine e volgari del fondatore dell' Umanesimo italiano e costituisce la prima edizione completa dell' opera petrarchesca dopo le edizioni basileensi del XVI secolo. | |
| French Culture at the Liberation 1944-47 | Main Library | one-off purchase | Lists some 840 individuals who played a role in the culture of the period, with biographical material and information about the cultural activities in which they were involved - Books, Articles, Films, Images, Music, Plays and a small number of Events. A selection of texts, images and sounds, and a bibliography of secondary sources are also included. | |
| Haldeman Diaries | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| Harrap's Multilingual Dictionary | Main Library | one-off purchase | Comprises 18 scientific and technical, business and general dictionaries, allowing translation of words between English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, plus American idioms. | |
| Heinrich Heine: Zeit Leben Werk | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| History of Parliament | Main Library | one-off purchase | All the text and illustrations from the 23 volumes of 'The History of Parliament', covering the majority of parliaments between 1386 and 1820. Contains full biographies of all members, constituency surveys, and introductory surveys by period. | |
| HymnQuest | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| Index Islamicus 1906-1999 | Main Library | Provides a continuous index to the literature on Islam, the Middle East and the entire Muslim world, including areas such as Albania, Bosnia and China. Coverage is from 1906 to 1996, with over 190,000 entries and 4,300 reviews. | ||
| Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801 - | Main Library | cumulative index of all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers published from 1801 to the current decade. It can be used as a stand-alone database or as a complementary index to Chadwyck-Healey's microfiche collections of Parliamentary Papers. | ||
| * INSPEC Physics 1989 - 2000 | Physics/Maths Library | The world's leading database on physics. Provides abstracts and indexing to over 3,500 journals and more than 2,000 conference proceedings, books and reports. | ||
| J F Kennedy:History Maker | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| John Minsheu's Spanish-English Dictionary, London, 1599 | Main Library (Rare Books) | gift | Searchable dictionary, printed in London in 1599; edited, researched and presented by Professor Alan KG Paterson. | |
| * Keesings Record of World Events 1960-1994 | Main Library | one-off purchase | An archive of worldwide news in digested form. Key features include: hypertext profiles of leading political figures and organisations; unbiased digest of information from many international and comprehensive sources; graphics from 1990-94. | |
| * LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) 1973-July 1998 | Main Library | semi-annually | Covers the fields of linguistics and language research - dialectology, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, artificial intelligence, etc., and abstracts c2,000 international periodicals. Includes book abstracts and review listings. | |
| LIZ (Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli) | Main Library | one-off purchase | Contiene it testi integrale di 780 opere della letteratura italiana. Gli autori registrati sono 182 (da Francesco d/Assisi a D'Annunzio e Pirandello). Gli autori maggiori (dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio ecc) sono presenti con il corpus completo delle loro opere volgari, i minori con quelle piu significative. | |
| Margaret Thatcher: Complete Public Statements 1945-1990 | Main Library | one-off purchase | A collection of the best surviving texts of every public statement made by Margaret Thatcher, including over 7,100 speeches, broadcasts, presss conferences, interviews and articles - many of which are published in full for the first time. | |
| McGraw-Hill Science and Technical Reference Set | Main Library | one-off purchase | Contains the complete, updated text of the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (1992). Includes all terms and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. | |
| Masters of landscape : the Norwich School of Artists 1803-1833 | Main Library | one-off purchase | Over 250 paintings from national and international museums & galleries. Fully interactive multimedia CD-ROM, with links to subjects within the National Curriculum: Art; History; Geography; Design Technology and IT. | |
| Le Monde 1987-89 | Main Library | one-off purchase | Full text of Le Monde. | |
| Monumenta Germaniae Historica | Main Library | updates planned | Contains selections from all five divisions - Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, and Antiquitates - of the MGH collection of medieval Central European Latin and Greek texts, first published in 1826. While only a sample of each book is currently included, Brepols plans to make the entire MGH available, over the next 10-15 years. | |
| Nietzsche Werke | Main Library | one-off purchase | Nietzsche's collected works. | |
| Oxford 3-in-1 Bilingual Dictionary | Main Library | one-off purchase | ||
| Palmer's Index to the Times 1790-1905 | Main Library | one-off purchase | The only index to the Times newspaper published during the 19th Century. | |
| Photographers Encyclopedia International | Main Library | one-off purchase | Includes chronology of the history of photography; biographies, exhibition lists, bibliographies and addresses of 3135 photographers, plus brief details of 3000 others; and more than 5900 images. | |
| PWN Computer Dictionary of the Polish Language | Main Library | one-off purchase | Polish language dictionary. | |
| La Recherche 1970 - | Main Library | one-off purchase | Electronic version of this distinguished French scientific journal. Contains illustrations and the complete scanned text of all issues from first publication in 1970. | |
| Revue XVIIe Siecle | Main Library | one-off purchase | Searchable text of all 164 numbers of XVIIe Siecle published between 1949 and 1997. | |
| Romanticism | Main Library | one-off purchase | Range of resources for the introductory study of the Brotish Romantic Period: primary texts, secondary sources, illustrations, maps, chronologies and bibliographies. Over 1,200 full-screen images are included - prints, paintings, maps and photographs. Includes section on the Gothic, a chronology, biographic dictionary, annotations, etc. | |
| Royal Historical Society Bibliography on CD-ROM | Main Library | one-off purchase | Comprehensive guide to historical writing about the history of Britain, Ireland and the British overseas. Covers more than 250,000 records to books, articles in journals and book chapters, published between 1901 and 1992, and a considered selection of those published before 1901. | |
| Scotsman/ Scotland on Sunday 1995 - 2000 | Main Library; now online from 2001- | |||
| The Scottish People 1840 - 1940: a Social and Economic History | Main Library | one-off purchase | Over 800 primary resources, including photographs, film clips, statistics and source lists. | |
| Social Trends 1970-1995 | Main Library |
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| Theatre du Grand Siecle: Cornielle, Moliere, Racin | Main Library | one-off purchase | Searchable full-text of 77 plays by Corneille, Moliere and Racine. | |
| Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) | Main Library | ongoing | The largest dictionary of classical Latin and the authoritative starting point for all research involving Latin. It covers from 3rd B.C. to A.D. 600, including both literary texts and documentary evidence (inscriptions, etc.). It contains full-text, cross-references, etymology, etc. 89 of the 154 fascicules (until P) are now included. | |
| Torquato Tasso: Tutte le Opere | Main Library | one-off purchase | Il CD-ROM raccoglie l'opera completa del piu rappresentativo scrittore italiano della seconda meta del '500, accompagnata da un apparato documentale che comprende l'epistolario e la biografia tassiana di G B Manso. | |
| (The) Transatlantic Slave Trade | Main Library | one-off purchase | Contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages mase between 1595 and 1866. Allows users to track information by keyword, time period and geographic region. Data in SPSS format can be downloaded for use in other programs. | |
| Wife of Bath's Prologue: Chaucer | Main Library | one-off purchase | Full transcripts, collations and digitized images of all 58 pre-1500 manuscript and print versions of Chaucer's famous poem. | |
| Wittgenstein's Nachlass | Main Library | one-off purchase | Access to 20,000 transcriptions of Wittgenstein's writings as photographic facsimiles. | |
| Works of John Ruskin | Main Library | one-off purchase |
The Library's collection of CD-Rom material is constantly being updated. Please contact Jean Young (ext 2294; e-mail: jmy) or ask Reference staff in the Main Library for further information.
