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This exciting new addition to our ebook collections will provide access to key titles in engineering, IT, finance and business.

Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.

Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance, and much more.

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond.

On completion this unique digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,600 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. It currently contains over 1,550 play texts by 165 principal authors from North America, Britain and Ireland, India, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. The collection's contents range from canonical authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Langston Hughes, Sean O'Casey, Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill and Thornton Wilder, to off-Broadway experimentation and South African township theatre.

WARC.com provides the largest single source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide, drawn from more than 40 international sources.These include WARC’s own publications such as Admap as well those of its partners, which include The Advertising Research Foundation, ESOMAR, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and many more.

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.

Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA is searchable via Spanish, Portuguese and English interfaces.

The (British) House of Commons Parliamentary Papers coverage is now expanded to cover 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.  This new 18th century component features publications published officially by the House of Commons or the House of Lords from 1688 to 1834, including sessional papers and other material such as Journals and Private Acts.

The material was brought together and digitized from the major collections of parliamentary papers at the University of Southampton, the British Library, and the University of Cambridge.

The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 is a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.