Social Care Online is a free UK database of social care information, including research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, events and websites. It is updated daily by the  Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

HEDBIB is a database on higher education systems, administration, planning, policy, and evaluation. It has been maintained by the IAU since 1988 with contributions from UNESCO Headquarters; the European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES); UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP); UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America (IESALC); the American Council on Education (ACE).

The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy,  contains 9,014 signed biographical articles which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, painting, music, the stage, science, medicine, engineering, entertainment and sport.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714, is a new online resource for the study of Early Modern Britain and Europe. By reuniting State Papers Domestic and Foreign with the Registers of the Privy Council and State Papers in the British Library, the collection creates a new source for research and teaching in politics, government, social economic and religious history. State Papers Online, 1509-1714 reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.

19th Century UK Periodicals covers all aspects of British life in the 19th century – from art to business and from children to politics. Nearly 600 periodicals capture the change and growth during this period, a time of massive social and industrial revolution and expansion.

Latin American Newspapers provides more than 35 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere, Latin American Newspapers covers the people, issues and events that shaped this region between 1805 and 1922. Latin American Newspapers features such publications as La Nacion, La Prensa and Vanguardia (Buenos Aires), Correio da Manha  and Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro), O Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo), Mercurio (Santiago), La Prensa (Havana), El Guatemalteco (Guatemala City), Daily Chronicle (Georgetown, Guyana), La Revista de Yucatan (Merida, Mexico), La Patria, Mexican Herald and El Monitor Republicano (Mexico City) , El Dictamen (Veracruz Llave, Mexico), La Estrella de Panama and Star & Herald (Panama City), El Peruano and West Coast Leader (Lima), Port of Spain Gazette (Port of Spain), the Venezuelan Herald (Caracas) and more than a dozen others.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many 19th century titles. As part of the Readex America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from various African American newspaper archives in the United States— including those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress.

Patai covers all aspects of the chemistry of functional groups including physical organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and techniques, reaction mechanisms, chapters on synthetic pathways, reactions and strategies as well as applications in drug discovery, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry and molecular biology.

 Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.  York University Libraries has recently purchsed the following three collections:

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s - Organized alphabetically by organization, this collection covers a  range of viewpoints on political, social, cultural, and economic issues. It sheds light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of various American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society.

Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958 - This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women.

Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 - Organized by country, this collection covers different viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries. In the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are represented. This collection includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.

The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this collection of primary source materials brought together in the Imperial War Museum, London.

These documents – charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, and press cuttings – are published here in fully searchable form, along with interpretative scholarly essays.