A-Z Databases: Welcome
Using the A-Z
This guide provides access to all our online library databases. Please use the tabs along the top to find the resource you are looking for in the A-Z list. If you want to find out which of these databases are most relevant to your subject area look at the relevant subject guide
Acceptable use guidelines
Read our acceptable use guidelines for information about downloading, copyright, and sharing material from our electronic resources.
Chat with us
You can chat online with a member of Library staff, this service is available:
- Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
Get lean library for easier access to eresources
Ever been stuck behind a paywall for a journal article, newspaper article, or ebook?
Lean Library is a browser add-on that makes it easier to get access to these resources. Land on a webpage where you can't access a resource and Lean Library can give you a link directing you to the full-text version available through the Library subscription, or an open-access version. It saves you time looking for a login button or having to go back to Library Search to look up a title.
You can install the Lean Library browser add-on in most browser download.leanlibrary.com/
More information about Lean Library can be found in our guide libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/lean
Remote Access
If you have problems accessing resources when you are away from the University, we can help!
Check our Remote Access guide.
If you cannot access a journal article after you have logged in use the Search box on the Library homepage and search using the journal publication title, to see if the Library has a subscription
Get in touch, chat, or email and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
Trial Databases
Below you will find details about the e-resource trials currently running. This is a great opportunity to try resources which the Library does not normally provide access to. Please e-mail us at library@st-andrews.ac.uk with any feedback you have about the resources and how useful you have found them.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - via Gale This link opens in a new windowFormerly available through JISC Historical Texts. A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
- Muteferriqa This link opens in a new windowMuteferriqa is an online research portal. It contains an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century.
It paves the way for interdisciplinary collaboration in historical research through its English and Turkish language support. It opens new roadways in Ottoman and Turkish studies, and also Middle East studies. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The Scotsman This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time
(Temporary access available until 23rd November 2024)
It's not working!
Asking for payment
Either:
- We don't have a subscription to a specific journal or ebook - try searching using the Search box on the Library Homepage
- You need to sign in, look for Shibboleth or Institutional login, more details are on our remote access guide.
Problem signing in
- Caught in a loop? Does your browser keep returning you to the same page? You can either clear your browser history / cookies, or try another web browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.
- If there is no institutional sign in option or the information on our remote access guide doesn't help, please email library@st-andrews.ac.uk
Problem viewing files
- If you can't open PDFs, if you are using a Mac, please make sure Adobe is set as the default viewer, Preview will not open some files.
- Try locating the PDF in your downloads folder rather than opening it within your browser, or try another browser as Chrome sometimes cannot open files, try Firefox or Safari.