Recommended Websites

This is a list of websites we recommend to help you find information on the Internet:

Arts, Museums and Galleries

• 24 Hour Museum Guide to UK museums, galleries and heritage
• Art Guide
• Museum Net Museums in the UK
• Oxford Art Online Contains over 21,000 biographies and over 5,000 images. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Biographies

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 50,000 biographies of people who shaped Britain and beyond. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Books

Tameside Libraries has an extensive guide to books and reading on the internet in the Readers Links Section. Go there for author information, genre guides, book reviews, help on what to read next and family reading websites.

Business Information

• Ask About Business - Includes Cobra - The Complete Business Reference Advisor (You will need your library key card to log into Cobra)
• Business Link
• kellysearch Kelly's Business Directory online
• Tameside Business Directory
• Tameside Trading Standards

Careers

• Connexions
• Graduate Prospects
• Hotcourses
• Learn Direct
• Tameside Adult Prospectus - Contains details of all the education and training opportunities available in Tameside

Crossword Solver

• One Across

Dictionaries

• Babelfish Translations
• Hyperdictionary
• Merriam Webster Online
• Oxford English Dictionary The origin, history and definitions of over half a million English words. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Economics and Finance

• How Much Is That?
• Financial Services Authority
• HM Revenue and Customs
• This Is Money

Education

• Ashton under Lyne Sixth Form College
• DFES: School Performance Tables
• OFSTED
• School Zone
• Tameside College
• Tameside Adult Prospectus - Contains details of all the education and training opportunities available in Tameside

Entertainment (Films, Television, Theatre & Music)

• Allmusic
• Internet Movie Database
• On The Box: TV Listings
• What's On Stage
• Oxford Music Online Includes Grove Music Online and much more. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Encyclopedias

• Bartleby
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online Contains thousands of articles covering a range of topics. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Europe

• Europa The European Union Online
• Eur-Lex The Portal to European Law

Family History

• Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre
• Family Search from The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
• GENUKI

Funding Guides

• FunderFinder Online Advice Sheets NB: The FunderFinder CD Rom for People in Need is available at Tameside Libraries Information Service.
• Student Money page from Hotcourses

Government

• 10 Downing Street homepage
• Direct Gov
• Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council Homepage
• UK Parliament website

Health

• NHS Direct
• Patient UK
• The Patients Association
• Patient Information Centre
• Self Help UK over 1,000 support groups

History

• BBC History
• History Channel
• Hyper History

Jobs

• Look at our Jobs page for 30 websites that list vacancies nationally and locally.

Law

• Community Legal Service Direct
• Delia Venables Online Legal Resources
• Greater Manchester Police

Libraries and Archives

• A2A: Access to Archives
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
• Greater Manchester Archives
• The People's Network

Literature

• Bibliomania Full text database of classic novels
• Digital Library full text of books
• Shakespeare Complete Works Online

Local Information

• Ashton-under-lyne.com
• Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council Homepage
• Tameside on the Internet
• Virtual Manchester

Maps

• Multimap
• Streetmap
• Tameside Maps

News

• BBC News Online
• ITN Online
• NewsUK Full text articles from national and regional newspapers and magazines. You will need your library key card to log into this site.
• Tameside Advertiser

Reference Books Online

• Oxford Reference Online Over 100 reference books from the Oxford University Press. You will need your library key card to log into this site.

Science

• BBC Science and Nature
• How Stuff Works
• The Why Files

Search Engines

• Ask Jeeves
• Google
• IxQuick Metasearch Searches multiple search engines at once.
• Yahoo UK & Ireland

Sport

• BBC Sport
• Soccernet

Statistics

• National Statistics Online
• Neighbourhood Statistics

Transport

• The AA Homepage website includes AA Route Planner
• Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
• National Express Bus and Coach Travel
• National Rail Travel Timetables

Weather

• BBC Weather
• The Met Office
• http://uk.weather.com/index.html from The Weather Channel