Full text resources

  • English and American Literature - The LION (Literature Online) service gives access to more than 330,000 full-text works of English and American poetry, prose and drama.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • ECCO - Eighteenth century collections online provides full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages from books published in the eighteenth century, covering the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • EEBO - Early English books online contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. It also includes the Thomason Tract collection of pamphlets, books, newspapers and manuscripts issued from 1640-1661.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password
  • Frantext - includes the full text of approximately 4000 French language books published between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries and covering all subject areas.
    Access is on-campus or through RAS off-campus
  • Patrologia Latina - This database is the full-text of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature including the works of the Latin Fathers. It covers the period 221 AD 1216 AD.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals - Series I provides access to close to 100 periodicals for the study of British life in the 19th century - from women to sports and leisure, and from children to humour.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • 19th century British Library newspapers - a selection of 48 regional and national newspapers.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • Economist Historical Archive 1843-2007 - the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. A multidisciplinary primary source for researching the 19th and 20th centuries.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • HarpWeek - Harper's Weekly 1857-1912 - searchable full-text covering the American Civil War ear, Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Harper's Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the 19th century. It includes news, literary works, illustrations, cartoons and advertisements.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password.
  • John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera - provides access to facsimile images of thousands of covering the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1913 - fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
  • The UK Data Archive (UKDA) - holds the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.
  • Histpop: the Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) - collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
    Authentication: Campus ID and password
  • Stormont Papers - 92,000 printed pages of Parliamentary Papers cover the development of Northern Ireland.
  • Irish Parliament - includes official parliamentary debates of the Dail, Seanad and Committee from 1919 and Legislation from 1922 to 2007.
  • Works of John Ruskin - This database is the full-text of the 39 volumes of the works of John Ruskin, edited by E.T.Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. It can be found on a database PC on Level 3 of the Robinson Library.