Online resources and encyclopaedias

A range of high-quality online resources are provided for library members. Most are available from home by typing in your library card number but some are available only on library computers. For full details of each online resource see the links at the bottom of the page or just click the titles below to log on. For our free e-book lending service, click here.

Available from anywhere:

• Theory Test Pro - Online simulator for the UK 's driving theory test. Contains the official practice test question bank, hazard perception video clips and an online version of the Highway Code.
• GoCitizen - Online study resource for the Life in the UK Test or British citizenship test. Includes an online version of the latest official study materials plus hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test
• Encylopaedia Britannica Online - The world's best known reference work on Art, History, Geography, Science and many other subjects. Includes Junior (Age 5 to 11), Student (Age 12 to 18) or Adult (Age 18+) versions
• UK Newsstand home login or library computer login - Online newspaper database including The Coventry Telegraph (from Mar 28, 2000 to present)
• Oxford Reference Online - Language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press
• Oxford Art Online - Extensive and easily searchable online art resource including high quality images
• Oxford Music Online - Multiple music reference works in one location - contains more than 8,000 in-depth articles 
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 biographies of people who have shaped Britain 's past
• Oxford English Dictionary - The definitive record of the English language. Contains present-day and historical definitions of words and 3 million quotations

In library only:

• Ancestrylibrary.com - Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records Online. Offers access to 870 million searchable UK family history records (logs in automatically)
• British Standards Online - The leading database of standards covering a range of disciplines from manufacturing through to management practises (requires library staff to enter password)
• Which? - Trusted consumer products review site using independent experts (requires library staff to enter password)