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Berg Fashion Library

Access: On-Campus l Off-Campus (Athens required) 

The Berg Fashion Library is an online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion. The resource offers users cross-searchable access to an expanding range of essential resources in including studying fashion, anthropology, art history, history, museum studies, and cultural studies.

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BFI Screenonline

Access:   On-Campus only

BFI Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.


BioMed Central

Access: On- and Off- Campus | No Passwords required

Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine. Free access to peer-reviewed research articles made immediately and permanently available online.

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British Education Index

On-Campus | Off-campus (Athens required)

BEI contains a Journals database from 1976 to date and has subject descriptions of, and bibliographic references to, significant journal literature relating to education and training.

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British Standards Online

Access:  On-Campus | Off-Campus(Athens required)

Contains British Standards, eurocodes and International Standards (ISO). You can download the full-text document from the database.

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Burney Newspaper Collection (The)

Access: On-Campus | Off-Campus (Athens required)

The newspapers and news pamphlets, gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period, including the first successful London daily and first illustrated newspaper. The collection covers more than 200 years of accounts from newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland and a selection of papers from British colonies in the Americas and Asia.

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