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Free online information services from Wiltshire Libraries
The following online services are available free of charge to members of Wiltshire Libraries. Use them from home or from one of our in-library computers. Have your library card ready when using these services and enter your 10 digit card number without spaces.
If you're not a library member, you can find out how to join by visiting the Join the library page.
If need a PIN reminder, visit the Library catalogue and select Forgot PIN? at the bottom of the Login box.
All libraries in Wiltshire also have a range of reference books to help you with your information enquiries.
Access to Research gives free access to over 15 million academic articles.
Full text articles can only be viewed in the library.
We provide free access to Ancestry Institution on the public computers in the library.
Ancestry have provided us with a link to the Wiltshire Parish records and wills on Ancestry so that Wiltshire records can be accessed from home. There are over 6.8 million names searchable within the collection, ranging from 1530-1916. In order to see the full search results, you will need to register for a free Ancestry guest account, providing an email address and password and accepting the terms and conditions of the website. The free access works for the Wiltshire collections only and, if you try to search another collection, you will reach a paywall.
The British Newspaper Archive gives free access to millions of newspaper articles from the British Library newspaper collections. Register and view articles from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The John Johnson Collection is a collection of ephemera from the Bodleian Library that offers unique insights into everyday life in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
