Bodleian Libraries users now have access to the complete ASM Digital Library. This builds on previous access to the ASM Handbooks on the same platform.

The ASM Digital Library provides discoverable, convenient, and interactive access to articles, books, databases, and industry news on current engineering practices and scientific research in the development, manufacturing, testing, modelling, and application of engineered materials.

Resources in the ASM Digital Library include ASM Handbooks Online, ASM Technical Books, the ASM Failure Analysis Database, ASM Conference Proceedings, and Alloy Digest. Additional resources are being added to the library on an ongoing basis.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to over 1,100 e-books in Chemistry and Materials Science published by Springer Nature from 2022 to 2025. This will include new publications as they come out during 2025. Individual e-books are listed in SOLO.

Access will continue until 29 June 2026. At the end of the access period, we will select books based on appearance on reading lists and heavy use during the period. These selections will be added permanently to the e-book collection of the Bodleian Libraries.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to Trade in Early Modern London: Livery Company Records, 1450-1750 from AM.

This resource is useful for the study of the history of early modern London through the lens of the livery companies and trade. It provides access to the various livery companies records, providing a unique overview of trade in early modern London over a key three-hundred year period. They are also a useful commentary on pivotal events such as the Reformation, the Civil War, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire of London.

Livery companies evolved from London’s medieval guilds, becoming corporations under royal charter responsible for training in their respective trades, as well as for the regulation of aspects such as wage control, labour conditions, and industry standards. The companies’ rich and varied records document the central role that these institutions played in the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the city.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to section 2 of the AM collection Apartheid South Africa, covering 1967 to 1975. This expands the coverage already provided by section 1, covering 1948 to 1966.

Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation.

Bodleian Libraries users now have access to The Nineteenth Century Stage: Industry, Performance and Celebrity from AM.

The Nineteenth Century Stage brings together primary source material from archival collections in the UK, USA and Australia to reveal the shifting and expanding theatre world of the nineteenth century. Featuring material such as prompt books, programmes, company records, photographs and playbills, users can explore the multi-faceted nature of the nineteenth-century theatre industry, the lives and careers of well-known actors and actresses and the production, performance and reception of popular plays of the time.