Electronic reference works

Alexander Street Press Databases:
Alexander Street Literature
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
Census dissemination unit (via MIMAS). Information about the UK Census of Population datasets. When you reach a login page, select the UK Federation link.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910: 50,000 images of manuscripts and printed material - an extensive range of extracts from ballads, pamphlets, diaries, books and journals. It is organised into five sections: Conduct and Politeness; Domesticity and the Family; Consumption and Leisure; Education and Sensibility; The Body.
Empire Online: an electronic publishing project offering images of original documents in the field of colonial history, politics, culture and society.
Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees. A comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
LION Literature Online . A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Choose the link to login via your home organisation, select the University of Dundee from the drop-down menu, and then login with your username and password.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources online
Oxford English Dictionary. Go to Athens / Other institution login, select University of Dundee, and login with your username and password.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Reference online. A wide-ranging and up-to-date collection of reference works from Oxford University Press. Search by subject-category or across the whole collection. Login with your University of Dundee username and password.