e-Library Product Information
A-Z List of the e-LIBRARY products that we subscribe to.
Trusted ONLINE resources FREE through the library and at home!
There is also a Subject Listing of these electronic resources.
You can access most of them in any RBWM library or from elsewhere using your RBWM library card.
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Ancestry (only available on the public PCs in the library)
Trace your family history using records from England, Scotland and Wales censuses from 1841 to 1901, birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate records.
Britannica Online - Safe and trustworthy information for school children, students and adults
Britannica JUNIOR - For ages 5-11
Britannica STUDENT - For ages 12-18
Encylopaedia Britannica - Over 18
COBRA - Starting your own business?
The Complete Business Adviser (COBRA) has information for setting up, running and managing a business - the qualifications, skills and personal attributes needed, the opportunities & market trends, risk factors, marketing, key legislation etc. Also provided are over 300 fact sheets covering management, marketing, office premises, personnel, raising and managing finance, starting a business, trading abroad, trading legally and understanding IT.
COBRA has got it all covered and it is up to date !
- What skills & qualifications do I need to be an animator?
- How do I develop a Marketing Plan?
- How do I write a Business Plan?
- What is the meaning of redundancy?
- I need a guide to using the Small Claims Court…
- How do I become a Dog Holiday Organiser?
- I need a guide about meeting the tax deadlines
European Sources Online
European Sources Online (ESO) focuses on the European Union, the countries of Europe, and on the issues of concern to citizens, stakeholders and researchers in the Europe of today. It draws on information from books, academic journals, legislative documents, judicial information, news sources, statistics, institutions, agencies, international organisations, think tanks and research organisations.
For more information on ESO
Global Issues In Context
Global Issues in Context focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming. It also covers more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues, such as:
- Arab Spring
- European Debt Crisis
- Human Trafficking.
GoCitizen
Taking the Life in the UK test?
GoCitizen.co.uk is an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test.
Hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test. New users must first sign up by choosing a username and password, which they can then use every time they log in. Your previous sessions will have been saved.
Issues Online
An invaluable resource for those who need up-to-date information on social issues. A host of materials including factsheets, newspaper reports and features, articles from books, magazines and journals, extracts from Government reports and statistics, pressure-group literature, statistics, including tables and graphs..
McGraw Encylopaedia of Science and Technology 20 volumes - 2007
Provides understandable and authoritative information on numerous topics in the various fields of science and technology.
Newsstand
Search 163 UK newspapers both local and national. Also coverage of the following magazines - Economist (from 1981), New Statesman (from 1988) and The Spectator (from 1988)
Use your RBWM library card and PIN you can download for free over 1,200 e-books and audiobooks.
- Best-selling and classic audiobooks and e-Book titles.
- Listen and learn over 15 languages from Chinese to Swahili
- Fiction titles, from 'Bleak House' to the 'Story of Pi'
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Guide books to Amsterdam and Istanbul to a biographies of Andy Murray and Obama
Oxford Art Online
From mosaics to multi-media, from performance art to printmaking and from Tracey Ermin to J.M.W.Turner, everything you need to know about the visual arts worldwide. Discover artists and art movements at the click of a mouse.
Oxford Biblical Studies
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Different logins depending whether from your Home PC or from Library PCs
Oxford Biblical Studies Online is designed to provide you with a full range of authoritative content and tools for the study of the Bible and biblical history. The Bible texts & commentary content include the following :
- New Oxford Annotated Bible, Augmented Third Edition [NRSV]
- Oxford Study Bible [REB]
- Jewish Study Bible [TANAKH]
- Catholic Study Bible, Second Edition [NAB]
- Access Bible [NRSV]
- The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha [KJV]
- Apocryphal Old Testament & Apocryphal New Testament
- Oxford Bible Commentary
- Concise Concordance to New Revised Standard Version
- New American Bible Concise Concordance
Different logins depending whether from your Home PC or from Library PCs.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The lives of 50,000 people from all around the world who have shaped the British past over the last 2400 years from the Greek explorer Pytheas (fourth century BC) to Princess Diana.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
The world's greatest dictionary with over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. It explains the meaning, history and pronounciation of any word in English, from earliest English to the present day. It is also a crossword solvers' dream !Different logins depending whether from your Home PC or from Library PCs.
Oxford Islamic Studies
Different logins depending whether from your Home PC or from Library PCs
Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture
It is designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information and context on Islam.Key features:
- 3,000 A-Z reference entries, with updates throughout the year
- Chapters from scholarly and introductory works
- Qur'anic study materials—with two widely respected English interpretations of the Qur'an and the Concordance of the Qur'an
Primary source documents with editorial introductions - Timelines—one relating milestone events affecting the Islamic world, with a contextual timeline of general world events
- Learning Resources area, with glossary, links to Internet resources, the question-and-answer guide What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, and recommended further reading lists
- Images—including photographs and maps
Take a tour and find out more
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) site following fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and study materials in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Find out more by taking a powerpoint tour...
What can you do with Oxford Language Dictionaries Online?- Search Oxford's authoritative bilingual dictionaries to get accurate, up-to-date translations you can rely on
- Choose the right word or phrase using contextual clues and examples
- Use quick search box on every page to find translations fast
- Use advanced search options to search the full text of the dictionary, or restrict a search to specific parts of speech, subject area, or language register, and perform Boolean searches
- Browse the dictionary using alphabetical entry lists
- Find a list of other entries that have your search term somewhere in them
- Click from any word in an entry to look up that word in the dictionary
- Get click-through explanations of phonetic symbols and mouse-over explanations of parts of speech
- If you can't find an exact match, the "Did you mean" feature can help you find the entry you're looking for
- Print, email, cite, or link all entries
Oxford Music Online
From Mozart to Madonna, punk rock to polka, panpipes to bagpipes, Oxford Music Online is about anything and everyone related to the world of music. It contains Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music and the The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Reference Online
130 subject dictionaries, plus a range of titles in the Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, offering coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics. It is the ultimate resource for homework containing facts and information about any subject. Art, History. Languages, Law, Literature, Religon, Science, plus much more !
Safari - Computer Books Online
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An online collection of over 300 technical e-books that you can view cover to cover. These are from the world's top IT publishers including O'Reilly Media, Pearson Technology Group and Microsoft publications. The subjects covered include popular computing and electronics, ranging from servers and desktop software to digital photography and using the iPAD2.How to login to Safari Books Online?
- You can access Safari, from a Library PC .
- You can also access Safari from a Home or a non-Library PC by using PIN as well as your library membership number to login. After you login, the link to Safari will be visible.
Why use Safari Books Online?
- You have instant access to the best IT books from the top IT publishers
- Titles for everyone - from beginner to the IT professional
- Search the collection by keywords or browse titles like a book
- Every page is available in full text including diagrams and coding which can be copied and pasted
What's on Safari @ RBWM?
- Using Microsoft Office - Word 2010, Excel 2010, Powerpoint 2010 etc
- Home entertainment & social networking - covering digital photography, YouTube, eBay, Twitter, Facebook etc
- Hardware - Google Android, iPAD2, iPOD, iPHONE, Palm Pre, fixing PCs etc
- Networking - Virtualization, VOIP security, Home Networks, Bluetooth, Skype, ZENworks etc
- Operating Systems - Windows 7, Windows Server, MS Active Directory, Vista, Mac, Ubuntu, Linux etc
- Databases - SQL, Data warehousing, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Filemaker Pro, MS Office.
- Graphics, Multimedia and Desktop Publishing - Flash, Adobe CS4, Dreamweaver, Website design etc
- Programming & software enginering - Java, CSS, VBA, ASP.NET, Ajax, XML, Crystal reports etc
This is what one of our users had to say after being introduced to Safari -Books Online at Maidenhead library :
" Safari online book service... It's a great service - I've already been through one book to bring me up-to-date on Excel and am starting another to teach me web design. I don't know how I would have been otherwise able to find such books so easily and and at so low a cost. "
Thames Pilot
Images and documents on the history of River Thames
Theory Test Pro
Pass the driving test on your first attempt!
LearningTheory Test Pro is a highly realistic online simulation of the UK's driving theory test. It contains the entire official test questions licensed from the DSA, the people who set the tests.
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
Amazing full-image online archive of every page published by The Times from 1785 to 1985. Every headline, article, illustration, advertisement & classified advertisement!
Who's Who & Who Was Who
Who's Who is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 32,000 influential people in British public life today. Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, which were included in previous editions of Who's Who.
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