Trial access to The National Archives DocumentsOnline service is available to staff and students of the university for a period of 30 days. Athens passwords
are required for the service at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/athens .
DocumentsOnline provides access to The National Archives’ collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. This vast collection has application to a wide range of subject areas, in particular Social History, Sociology and the Law, International Relations/Politics, Politics particularly political history, Conflict Studies, Legal History, History, Military History and Art History and Architecture. Its ‘about’ page summarizes all the content it covered by the service.
There are also many historical maps, diagrams, photographs and films available in the collection which, like the rest of the information available, can be inserted into teaching packs, learning materials, student essays and presentations.
DocumentsOnline is a subscription service. Feedback on the trial should be sent to it_services at the lib.cam.ac.uk domain to assist in evaluating its usefulness for research and teaching.