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Visitors and external users
The pages below outline access schemes and procedures for visitors to the Templeman Library on the Canterbury campus. To find out about access to the Drill Hall Library on the Medway campus, please go to the Drill Hall Library visitors pages.
E-resources access for walk-in users
Members of the public visiting the Templeman Library can access a wide-range of electronic resources via the dedicated visitor PC on Level 2 Centre.
How do I get access?
Visitor access to e-resources is only available via the dedicated walk-in user PC on Level 2 Centre of the Templeman Library.
If you would like to access online resources, please speak to a member of staff on the IT & Library Support Desk on Level 2 Centre. You will have to fill in a form with some personal details to use the walk-in user PC and access online resources.
Once the registration process is complete the member of staff will log you into the PC and a web browser will be available for you to use. If you wish to access any of the online resources listed below, please mention this to the staff; they will then log you into the resources you wish to access.
Visitors from eduroam participating institutions with their own laptops may be able to use the eduroam Wireless Service instead, which is likely to better meet their needs.
When is the service available?
You can use the walk-in user PC during IT & Library Support Desk staffed hours in the Templeman Library .
Within IT & Library Support Desk staffed hours you can use the walk-in user PC for a minimum of 30 minutes. But if another visitor is waiting to use the PC you may be asked to finish your session at the end of that period.
Can I save or print material?
The walk-in user PC has a USB port, enabling you to save material to a memory stick. Printing is not available.
What are the conditions of use?
- Resources can only be used for educational purposes, ie teaching and learning, private study or research. They cannot be used for commercial purposes.
- Walk-in users are expected to abide by the Library regulations and IT regulations.
Available resources
To access some of these resources you may need to follow login instructions and choose 'University of Kent' from a drop-down list. In-depth support for the resources is not provided by the IT & Library Support Desk, although the staff may be able to refer you to a librarian during core staffed hours (weekdays, 9am-5pm).
| Resource | Information and access |
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| ACLS Humanities E-Book: fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities |
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| ACS Journals: full-text journals from the American Chemical Society |
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| Brill Journal Archive: full-text journals, chiefly in the humanities and social sciences |
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| British History Online: digital library of core sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles |
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| British Newspapers 1800-1900, from the British Library: 2 million pages of 19th century newspapers from 49 local and national titles |
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Digimap: |
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| Early English Books Online (EEBO): digital facsimile pages of works in English, or printed in the British Isles and British North America, from 1473-1700 |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century |
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| European Sources Online: database providing information on the EU and the wider Europe, focusing on its institutions, structures, countries, regions, people, policies and processes |
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| Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports: transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world, 1974-1996 |
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| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688 |
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| Institute of Physics Journal (IOP) Archive: full-text journals covering science, technology and medicine |
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| JSTOR: digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals and other scholarly content |
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| Literature Online: cross-searchable database of literature and criticism |
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| NewsFilm Online: selected news from the ITN/Reuters archives |
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| 19th Century UK Periodicals: fully searchable facsimile resource for the study of British life in the 19th century |
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| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB): illustrated collection of more than 57,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britain's past |
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| Oxford English Dictionary (OED): online version of the ultimate dictionary of English |
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| Oxford Reference Online (ORO): cross-searchable full-text of language and subject reference works from Oxford University Press |
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| Oxford Scholarship Online: cross-searchable full-text of over 4,000 Oxford University Press books |
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| ProQuest Periodicals Archive Online: archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences |
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| Scopus: large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with an emphasis on the sciences |
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| Times Digital Archive: searchable full-text of The Times, 1785-2006 |
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| Web of Science (WoS) and WoS Backfiles: citation indexes for sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities |