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Specialist subject resources accessibility statements

List last updated on 18 May 2022.

Library and Learning Services purchase or provide access to digital resources from a range of third-party commercial and non-commercial suppliers.

Third-party accessibility statements

The table below lists our digital resources, the supplier and a link to a third-party accessibility statements where suppliers have made these available. Where available, there may also be links to ASPIRE Reports and additional accessibility guidance.

Digital Resource	Supplier	Accessibility Statement	ASPIRE Report	Additional Accessibility Guidance
ACM Digital Library	ACM	ACM Web Accessibility Statement
AM Explorer American History 1493-1945 American West Defining Gender Food and Drink in History Gender: Identity and Social Change Mass Observation Project Sex and Sexuality Shakespeare in Performance Shakespeare's Globe Archive	Adam Matthew	Adam Matthews Accessibility Statement		American West VPAT Defining Gender VPAT Food and Drink VPAT Gender: Identity and Social Change VPAT Mass Observation VPAT Sex and Sexuality VPAT Shakespeare in Performance VPAT Shakespeare's Globe Archive VPAT
a-n The Artists Information Company	a-n The Artists Information Company	a-n The Artists Information Company Accessibility Statement
Anatomy TV including Anatomy and Physiology Online	Primal UK/Informa	Informa Accessibility Statement
Archives Hub	Jisc	Archives Hub Accessibility Statement
Art UK	Art UK	Art UK Accessibility
ARTSTOR: Public Collections	ITHAKA	ARTSTOR Accessibility
arXiv	Cornell University	Cornell Web Accessibility Assistance
BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)	British and Irish Legal Information Institute	Accessibility statement for bailii.org
BBC Shakespeare Archive	BBC	BBC Accessibility
BFI Player	BFI	BFI Player Accessibility
BioMed Central	Springer Nature	BioMed Central Accessibility Statement
BL Shared Repository Service	Managed by the British Library	BL Shared Repository Service Accessibility Statement		British Library Websites Accessibility Statement
Bloomsbury Design Library	Bloomsbury	Bloomsbury Design Library Accessibility Statement
Bloomsbury Fashion Central including Fairchild Books Library	Bloomsbury	Bloomsbury Fashion Central Accessibility Statement	Bloomsbury Fashion Central ASPIRE Report
Box of Broadcasts	Learning on Screen	Learning on Screen Accessibility Statement
British Council Film Collection	British Council	British Council Film Accessibility
British Geological Society Maps Portal	UKRI	British Geological Survey Accessibility Statement
British History Online	Institute of Historical Research	Accessibility Statement for British History Online
British Library Services British Library Digitised Manuscripts British Library Sounds	British Library	British Library Websites Accessibility Statement
Cambridge Core including: Cambridge Companions Online Cambridge Journals Digital Archive Cambridge Histories	Cambridge University Press	Cambridge Core Accessibility	Cambridge Core ASPIRE Report
Campbell Systematic Reviews	Campbell Collaborations	Campbell System Reviews Accessibility Statement
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations	Cardiff University	Cardiff University Web Accessibility
Childlink	Childlink Information Services	Childlink Accessibility Statement
Choral Public Domain Library	Choral Public Domain Library	MediaWiki Accessibility Statement
Churchill Archive	Bloomsbury	Churchill Archive Accessibility Statement
Cite Them Right	Springer Nature	Cite Them Right Accessibility
Clinical Sports Medicine Collection	McGraw-Hill Medical	McGraw-Hill Accessibility	McGraw-Hill ASPIRE Report
Cochrane Library	Wiley	Cochrane Library Accessibility
COPAC (Library Hub Discover)	Jisc	Accessibility Statement for Library Hub Discover
CORE	The Open University and Jisc	CORE Accessibility Statement
Dance in Video	Alexander Street Press	Alexander Street Press Accessibility Statement	Alexander Street Press ASPIRE Report	Alexander Street Accessibility Conformance Report
Digimap: Digimap Aerial Digimap Environment Digimap Geology Digimap Global Digimap Historic Digimap Lidar Digimap Ordnance Survey Digimap Society	EDINA	Digimap Accessibility Statement
Digital Bodleian	University of Oxford	Bodleian Libraries Websites Accessibility Statement
Digital Content Store	Copyright Licensing Agency	CLA Accessibility Policy
Digital Theatre+	Digital Theatre	Digital Theatre+ Accessibility Statement
Directory of Open Access Journals	Infrastructure Services for Open Access	Directory for Open Access Journals Accessibility Statement
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books	DOAB Foundation	Accessibility Statement for DOAB
Drama Online	Bloomsbury	Drama Online Accessibility Statement
Ebook Central	ProQuest	ProQuest Accessibility Statement: EBook Central	EBook Central from ProQuest ASPIRE Report
EBSCO Databases: AMED America: History & Life ATLAReligion Bibliography of Asian Studies British Education Index Business Source Premier Child Development & Adolescent Studies CINAHL with Full Text Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text Discover EBSCOhost ERIC Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text Historical Abstracts International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts MEDLINE MLA Directory of Periodicals MLA International Bibliography OpenDissertations Philosophers Index with Full Text Political Science Complete PsycARTICLES PsycINFO Regional Business News SocINDEX with Full Text SPORTDiscus Teacher Reference Center	EBSCO	EBSCO Accessibility Homepage EBSCOhost/EDS Accessibility Statement EBSCO eBooks Accessibility Statement EBSCO Mobile Accessibility Statement	EBSCO eBooks Aspire Report	EBSCO eBook Accessibility Guide
Education in Video including Teachers TV	Alexander Street Press	Alexander Street Press Accessibility Statement	Alexander Street Press ASPIRE Report	Alexander Street Accessibility Conformance Report
Emerald	Emerald Publishing	Emerald Publishing Accessibility Statement	Emerald Publishing ASPIRE Report
EndNote	Clarivate Analytics	Endnote ADA Compliance		Endnote X9 Product Accessibility Conformance Report
EPrints	ECS Partners	EPrints Accessibility Statement		University of Southampton Accessibility Statement
EThOS	British Library	EThOS Accessibility Statement
European Union resources: EUR-Lex EUROPA	European Union	European Union Web Accessibility Policy
EZProxy	OCLC	OCLC Accessibility Statement
Gale Database Collections: Gale eBooks Gale Literature: Gale Literary Index Gale Literature Criticism Gale Literature Resource Center Dictionary of Literary Biography LitFinder Scribner Writer Series Something About the Author Twayne’s Author Series Gale Periodicals: Academic OneFile General OneFile Infotrac Newsstand (Gale Onefile: News) Gale Primary Sources (Artemis Primary Sources): Archives Unbound 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection 19th Century UK Periodicals British Library Newspapers The Times Digital Archive NewsVault	Gale/Cengage Learning	Cengage Accessibility		Gale's Electronic Product Accessibility Policy Cengage Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates
Google Scholar	Google	Google Accessibility
GOV.UK	GOV.UK	GOV.UK Accessibility	GOV.UK
Grove Music Online	Oxford University Press	Grove Music Online Accessibility Statement		Oxford Music Online VPAT
HeinOnline	William S. Hein & Co., Inc.	HeinOnline Accessibility	HeinOnline ASPIRE Report
Historical Texts	Jisc	Historical Texts Accessibility
HSTalks Business and Management Collection	Henry Stewart Talks Ltd (HSTalks)	HSTalks Accessibility Statement
Human Kinetics Library	Bloomsbury	Human Kinetics Accessibility Statement
IEEE Xplore Digital Library	Content Online	IEEE Accessibility Statement	IEEE Xplore ASPIRE Report
John Johnson Collection	Bodleian Library, University of Oxford	John Johnson Collection Accessibility
Journal Archives	Jisc	Journal Archives Accessibility
JSTOR: 19th Century British Pamphlets JSTOR JSTOR: Open Content	JSTOR	JSTOR Accessibility Policies	JSTOR ASPIRE Report
Kortext	Kortext	Kortext Accessibility Commitment	Kortext ASPIRE Report
Law Commission	Law Commission	Law Commission Accessibility Statement
Law Society	The Law Society	The Law Society Accessibility
Law Trove	Oxford University Press	Law Trove Accessibility
Lawbore	The City Law School, City University London	Accessibility Statement for Lawbore Link Directory
Legislation.gov.uk	National Archives	Legislation.gov.uk Accessibility
LexisLibrary	LexisNexis	LexisNexis Commitment to Accessibility
LibGuides and LibCal	Springshare	Springshare Accessibility Statement
Library Hub Discover (COPAC)	Jisc	Jisc Accessibility Statement
Library Management System including the Library Catalogue	Capita	Library Catalogue Accessibility
Library of Congress Historic American Newspapers	Library of Congress	Library of Congress Accessibility Statement
MarketLine	MarketLine	MarketLine Accessibility Conformance Report
Music & Performing Arts: African American Music Reference American Music Classical Music in Video Classical Music Library Classical Music Reference Library Classical Scores Library Contemporary World Music Jazz Music Library Listening Opera in Video Popular Music Library Reference Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries The Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music	Alexander Street Press	Alexander Street Press Accessibility Statement	Alexander Street Press ASPIRE Report	Alexander Street Accessibility Conformance Report
National Library of Scotland Maps	National Library of Scotland	National Library of Scotland Accessibility Statement
Nature.com Complete	Springer Nature	Nature.com Accessibility Statement
NHS Knowledge and Library Hub	NHS	NHS Library Accessibility Statement
NICE Evidence Search	NICE	NICE Accessibility
OAIster	OCLC	OCLC Accessibility Statement
OER Commons	Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)	OER Commons Accessibility Information
Open Library of Humanities Library	Open Library of Humanities Limited	Open Library of Humanities Library Accessibility
OpenAthens	OpenAthens	OpenAthens Accessibility Statement
OpenLearn	Open University	OpenLearn Accessibility Statement
ORCID	ORCID	ORCID Accessibility Statement
OSF Preprints	Center for Open Science	OSF Accessibility*		Centre for Open Science VPAT
Oxford English Dictionary	Oxford University Press	Oxford English Dictionary Accessibility
Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology and Criminal Justice History Law Music Philosophy Political Science Psychology Religion	Oxford University Press	Oxford Handbooks Online Accessibility Statement
Oxford Journal Archives	Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press Accessibility
Oxford Music Online	Oxford University Press	Oxford Music Online Accessibility Statement
Oxford Reference Online	Oxford University Press	Oxford Reference Accessibility Statement	Oxford Reference ASPIRE Report
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)	Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press Accessibility	Oxford Scholarship Online ASPIRE Report
Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand)	National Library of New Zealand	Papers Past Accessibility
PEDro	PEDro	PEDro Accessibility Statement
Policing Insight	CoPaCC	Policing Insight Accessibility Statement
POST - Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology	UK Parliament	Parliament Websites Accessibility Statement
Practical Law	Thomson Reuters	Thomson Reuters Accessibility Statement
Project MUSE	Project MUSE	Project MUSE Mission Statement on Accessibility
ProQuest Databases Art, Design & Architecture Collection: ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM), Arts & Humanities, Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI), International Bibliography of Art (IBA) Black Freedom Struggle British Periodicals Dissertations & Theses A&I Early European Books Global Newsstream Historical Newspapers International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) LGBT Magazine Archive Literature Online Music & Performing Arts Collection: Music Periodicals Database, Performing Arts Periodicals Database One Literature Politics Collection: PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts PTSDpubs (PILOTs) Screen Studies Collection: AFI Catalog, FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database, Film Index International Social Services Abstracts Sociology Collection: ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts), Sociological Abstracts, Sociology Database Ulrichsweb Vogue Archive	ProQuest	ProQuest Platform Accessibility Statement	ProQuest ASPIRE Report	ProQuest VPAT
Psychological Experiment Online	Alexander Street Press	Alexander Street Press Accessibility Statement	Alexander Street Press ASPIRE Report
PubMed	National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library Medicine	National Library of Medicine Accessibility
Qualtrics Insight	Qualtrics	Qualtrics Website Feedback Accessibility
Radio Times (1923-2009)	BBC	BBC Accessibility
RefWorks	ProQuest	Accessibility Statement: RefWorks
Royal Shakespeare Company Image Library	Royal Shakespeare Company	Assetbank Accessibility Statement		Asset Bank and Accessibility
SAGE Catalyst	SAGE Publications powered by Talis Elevate	Talis Web Accessibility Statement
SAGE Premier	SAGE Publications	SAGE Journals Accessibility	SAGE Knowledge ASPIRE Report
SAGE Research Methods	SAGE Publications	SAGE Research Methods Accessibility Guide	SAGE Research Methods ASPIRE Report
Science Direct	Elsevier	Science Direct Accessibility Features
Sensus Access	Sensus Accessibility Consultants	Sensus Access Compliance
Social Care Online	Social Care Institute for Excellence	Social Care Online and Accessibility
Solicitors Regulation Authority	Solicitors Regulation Authority	Solicitors Regulation Authority Accessibility
SpringerProtocols	Springer Nature	Springer Nature Accessibility Statement
Sunrise	Sunrise Software Ltd	Sunrise Accessibility Statement
Talis: Talis Aspire (Your Reading List) Talis Elevate	Talis Education Ltd	Talis Web Accessibility Statement
Taylor & Francis Online	Taylor & Francis Group	Taylor & Francis Online Accessibility	Taylor & Francis eBooks ASPIRE Report
The Supreme Court	The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council	The Supreme Court and Accessibility
Tourism Cases	CABI	Tourism Cases Accessibility Statement
UK Parliament	UK Parliament	UK Parliament Accessibility Statement
U.K. Parliamentary Papers including House of Commons Papers	ProQuest	U.K. Parliamentary Papers Accessibility Statement	U.K. Parliamentary Papers ASPIRE Report
VLeBooks	Askew and Holts	VLeBooks Accessibility Guidance
Westlaw Academic Services	Thomson Reuters	Thomson Reuters Accessibility Statement	Westlaw ASPIRE Report	Thomas Reuters VPAT
Wiley Online Library Journals	Wiley-Blackwell	Wiley Online Library Accessibility	Wiley Online ASPIRE Report

Note: All links working as of 18/05/2022.

Additional accessibility statements

Library and Learning Services also has third-party accessibility statements or documents for the following digital resources:

Digital Resource	Supplier
EMBASE	Wolters Kluwer
Konica multi-function printers and print management software	Konica Minolta
Mintel	Mintel
Psychotherapy.net	Psychotherapy.net

If you would like to view any of these third-party supplier accessibility statements or documents, please email Library and Learning Services at support@yorksj.ac.uk.

Missing accessibility statements

Unfortunately, Library and Learning Services does not have third-party accessibility statements for the following digital resources as suppliers have not made these available. The absence of an accessibility statement means we are unable to verify the overall accessibility of the platform and content from the supplier, and we will discover the platform and contents' accessibility on a case-by-case basis.

The following resources do not have accessibility statements:

Digital Resource	Supplier
AfricArxiv	AfricArxiv
ART-Dok	Heidelberg University Library
Bibliography of British and Irish History	Brepolis
bioRxiv	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Bookdash	Bookdash
CareKnowledge	Pavilion
Circle Lab Knowledge Hub	Circle Lab
Curia	Court of Justice of the European Union
EdArXiv	EdArXiv
English-Corpora	English-Corpora
EPPI	UCL
Euromonitor Passport	Euromonitor International
FAME	Bureau van Dijk Publishing Ltd
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library	International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
InCite JCR	Clarivate Analytics
InCite ESI	Clarivate Analytics
Infolaw	infolaw Limited
Internet History Sourcebooks Project	Fordham University
IRDB	Institutional Repositories DataBase
medRxiv	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mutopia Project	Mutopia Project
NHS Shared Research Repository	NHS
Open Access Digital Theological Library	The Open Access Digital Theological Library
Open Textbooks	Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
Otseeker	Otseeker
Policy Commons	Coherent Digital
Project Gutenberg	Project Gutenberg
RISS	KERIS
Royal Shakespeare Company Performance Archive	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shibboleth	Shibboleth
Smithsonian Open Access Images	Smithsonian
SocArXiv	University of Maryland
SportrXiv	SportrXiv
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive	University of Oxford and Jisc
Transvestia	University of Victoria Libraries
TRIP	TRIP
UKPressOnline	Digitorial Limited
WGSN Fashion	WGSN Limited
WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors Users	WGSN Limited

If you would like further information about the accessibility of these third-party resources, please email Library and Learning Services at support@yorksj.ac.uk and we will contact the supplier directly.

Further support

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of the Library and Learning Services resources and services. If you find any problems or think we can do more, please email support@yorksj.ac.uk.