Miscellaneous tips

A collection of miscellaneous tips and tricks not covered in other articles that might help you with your research.

• Access some subscription websites with a Library Card.
  There are a number of websites including Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, The [London] Times and other newspaper sites which may help you in your research, where access is restricted . Card holders of participating Libraries including the following National Libraries (noting there is generally a residential requirement) Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, State Library of NSW, and many University Libraries can access some, or all of these websites. ECCO may also be accessed from the British Library Reading Rooms.,
  In England, a Borough or County Library Card may enable you to access The Times but probably not the other sites. However, enquire what is available to you.

• Access an obsolete website in archives.org.
  Go to http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and type in the website you require in the Wayback Machine and click Take Me Back.
  A helpful website which has closed is regiments.org, here is the archived site at January 2008

• Find the meaning of words used in India.
  Hobson-Jobson: the Anglo-Indian dictionary by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke published by Wordsworth Editions, 1996. Limited View Google Books

• You may find this Virtual Magnifying Glass is useful.