Please use the navigation links on the left to link to local universities and other libraries. If you have a favourite link you'd like to share, please let us know.
General
- Electronic Yellow Pages
- web version of the popular directory
- Phone Numbers
- BT's an online 'phone directory for the whole of the UK (except ex-directory), giving both business and residential numbers.
- Wikipedia
- the online encyclopaedia compiled by internet users.
- Medical Dictionary
- Medicinenet, a U.S. medical information site, offers an online dictionary as well as descriptions of diseases and procedures.
- English Dictionary
- online from Cambridge International Dictionaries
- Instructions to authors in the health sciences
- is an extremely useful list of links to web sites which provide author instructions for hundreds of different health science journals, including citation formats.
News
- The Daily Telegraph
online.
- The Guardian on the web.
- BBC Online.
- The Guardian on the web.
Search engines
- Yahoo
- Useful for its detailed directories of sites, which give some structure to a search.
- Dogpile
- an unfortunate name, but a very useful site. This is a metasearch engine, which will run your search across the other major search engines automatically.
- Still the best of the lot, if you can ignore the commercials and shopping sites.
Travel
- Trainline
- lets you buy train tickets online.
- Train timetables
- and other rail information.
- Road maps
- of the UK are on Multimap. Enough detail for planning car and train journeys, together with arial photos.
- RAC and The AA
- offer online routeplanning services and up-to-date traffic information