24 Hour Virtual Library

24 Virtual Hour Library

Person working on a laptop Homework and study help for all ages. If you have an Enfield Library Service card you can access Online Resources free of charge.

Click our red buttons to see and use all our Online Resources. When you log in, always use 'barcode' option to type in your library card number rather than username. A few resources are only available in libraries across Enfield.

Biographies, Study & Homework Support

Britannica Online: Encyclopedia Britannica
A great homework, study or research with in-depth articles, photos, audio links, videos, diagrams, index, A-Z browse, interesting links, a dictionary and much more for all ages.

Britannica Online: Britannica Student
A great homework, study or research resource with in-depth articles, photos, audio links, videos, diagrams, index, A-Z browse, interesting links, a dictionary and much more for people aged 12 - 18 years old.

Britannica Online: Britannica Junior
A great homeowkr, study or research resource with in-depth articles, photos, audio links, videos, diagrams, index, A-Z browse, interesting links, a dictionary and much more for people aged 5 - 11 years old.

Credo Reference
If you are looking for study help or information on the Arts, Business, Food and Drink, Dictionaries, Biogrpahies, Quotations, Geography, Law, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosphy, Pyschology, Religion, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology, this site is a must. Very similar to Oxford Reference Shelf, but with all other major publishers. It can also link your search to our Library Catalogue.

Issues Online
The UK's first comprehensive reference source on topics such as Crimes and Justice, Drugs and Alcohol, Economics and Welfare, Environmental and Global issues, Family and Relationships, Health and Well-being, Citizenship and Participation, Media, Rights and Discrimination, Science and Health. All printable with 100s of useful links. Ideal for study amd general interest.

Oxford Art Online
Articles, images and a comprehensive series of links covering painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, textiles, jewelry, design, furniture and more.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
An illustrated collection of more that 56,600 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all apsects of Britain's past.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection
A compendium of over 175 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offering unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics and computing to classics. You can also browse list of contents or by subject.

Oxford Music Online
Articles and sound clips covering musicians, genres, record companies, music, festivals, songs and more.

Who's who 2011 and Who was who 1898 - 2011
Who's who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living notworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year.

Who was who contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898, the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history.

Encyclopedie of Global Change
300 authorative articles and entries covering a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biogrpahies and case studies.

The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Over 800 entries from Antartica to the North Pole. The Oxford Comapnion to World Exploration offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions and the space age.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
This encyclopedia provides authorative and up-to-date information (4,300 entries) about theatre and performance from ancient greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York and around the globe. In addition to performance in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television and popular performances, including carnivals and circuses.

Encyclopedia of Evolution
A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
30,000 entries covering all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including Jazz, Country, Folk, Rap, Reggae, Techno, Musicals and World Music. The expanded edition includes thousands of new entried on trend, styles, record labels, venues and music festivals and more.

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
An indepensable reference work on all apsects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 A - Z entries and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology, churches and denominations, patristic scholarship and the bible, to the church calendar and it's organisation, popes, archbishops, saints and mystics and more.

Oxford Companion to the Book
Covering the book broadly conceived throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, palaeography, the history of printing, editional theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting and libraries, but it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book and much more.

Community Learning with Enfield Libraries
If you wish to learn how to use a PC / Email etc, try the Free My Guide page. If you have the basics but wish to improve your Word / Excel etc skills, try Alison. Much more available from the link above.

Or if you would like to view or print a handy leaflet explaining all our online resources, please click here.
Business and Legal Support

CANS Advice Notes
A readable and accessible guide to English (& Welsh & Scottish) legislation - a lay person's guide to the law as it affects rights, finance, families, migration etc. Regularly updated by a team of legal experts - the next best thing to consulting a legal professional.

COBRA - The Complete Business Reference Adviser
A comprehensive practical and continually updated information resource for anyone looking to start a business, write a business or marketing plan, or conduct research into new markets.

Lexis Legal Library
This major legal database is not available by remote access, but can be used in all Enfield Libraries. The most comprehensive legal library in the UK containing an unrivalled collection of Legal information, case law and legislation. Updated daily!

Lexis Direct: Business Library
This global news and business information database is not available by remote access, but can be used in all Enfield Libraries. Contains over 20,000 sources of authorative news, company, financial and market research data. Updated daily!.

Lexis: Public Support Lawyer
Not available remotely. Can be used at all Enfield Libraries. Lexis PSL helps you to get to relevant up-to-date information instantly. It provides online access to practical guidance. Butterworths commentary, cases, legislation, forms and precedents. Practice Areas covered include Company Commercial, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Family, Local Government, In-house, Personal injury and Property.

Financial Times Online
Financial Times.com gives you free access to 5 years worth of Financial Times business statistics and analysis. It can only be used in Enfield Libraries.

Library access only from this link, please ask a member of staff to log you in.

Which? Online
Even more consumer advice on products and services than in the print edition. Library access only from this link, please ask a member of staff to log you in.
Dictionary Corner

Oxford English Dictionary Online
The full text of the world's most comprehensive dictionary.

Oxford English Dictionaries and Thesaurus
350,000 definitions and 600,000 synonyms and antonyms. A vast bank of linked example sentences, taken from real English and detailed writing, grammar and spelling guidance.

Language Dictionaries
Inlcuding English dictionaries and thesauri and French, German, Spanish and Italian to English and back to English to French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Transparent Languages Online
Transparent Languages Online (TLO) is a language learning resource featuring more than 80 languages. With TLO you can learn reading, writing, speaking and listening skills form a narative speaker. There are also courses included for English as a second language. As it's all online there is no software to download and it's available 24 / 7 so just login and learn! (Requires speakers, headphones and a microphone if you want to record yourself.)
Driving and Citizenship Test Help

Driving Theory Pro - Pass first time
If you are learning to drive a car or a bike, Theory Test Pro is a highly realistic online simlulation of the UK's driving theory test. It contains the entire official test question bank, hazard perception video clips and an online version of the Highway Code.

All this material is licensed from the Driving Standards Agency (DSA,) the people who sets the test. It's free to try, so sign up now and find out how to pass your test on your first attempt. (You have to register a username and password.)

Go Citizen - Citizenship test training
Go Citizen is an online study resources for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK or British Citizenship test.

This is a comprehensive and proven study package. It includes an online version of the latest official study materials, licensed from the Home Office, the people who write the handbook plus hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test. (You have to register a username and password)
Family History and Genealogy

Ancestry.com (Library edition
This family history database is not available by remote access. It is available in our Local History Unit (020 8379 2724) and Enfield Town Library only - advance booking is recommended - Call 020 8379 8341.)

Find my Past
Find My Past, family history database (with added 1911 Census) is only available at our Local Studies and Archives Centre (Thomas Hardy House). Advance booking is recommended, call 020 8379 2724. Library access only from this link from Enfield's Local Studies and Archive.
Newspapers and Online Journals

Newsbank Online
Full text newspaper articles, from local, national and international newspapers. Online and free.

Infotrac: Custom Journal Database
Full text articles from a selection of UK and international magazines and journals

19th Century British Newspapers Online
Full text articles from a wide range of 19th Century London and GB newspapers. Lots of images also included. Articles on Trafalgar, Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Jack the Ripper to name a few.

The Times Digital Archive
The full text of every article to appear in the Times newspaper from 1785 - 1985 (use Newsbank for later articles). Please note access to TDA resources is very limited, and may not be available at all times.

The Sunday Times Digital Archive
Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large. Murder, Theatre, sport, and politics - all collide in its pages in an abundance of glorious narrative detail. In more that 800,000 pages, The Sunday Times Digital Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years.