Government and parliamentary documents
UK Parliament: the offical website of the UK Parliament contains a huge amount of material, including Hansard, reports and publications from committees, current and draft Bills, business papers and publications from both Houses, and research publications.
legislation.gov.uk: search for or browse Acts of Parliament and other legislation within the UK.
GOV.UK: search for documents, publications, reports and other information produced by UK Government Departments.
Europa: the official website of the European Union, containing EU policy, law, statistics and publications.
Congress.gov: the offical website of the US Congress, containing Bills, reports and other documentation from the US Federal Legislature.
Patents
Ipsum - Online Patent Information and Document Inspection Service: a service from the Intellectual Property Office for searching for and accessing information on UK patent applications.
Patent publication service: covers all UK applications published and granted after 3 January 2007 and all UK corrected documents published after 1 April 2010, provided by the Intellectual Property Office.
Espacenet: worldwide coverage of published patents and patent applications from 1782 to the current time.
Policy documents
Policy Commons: discover and access over one million documents from IGOs, NGOs, research centres and thinktanks.
Theses and dissertations
The London Met Repository: doctoral theses completed at London Met are digitised and uploaded to our Repository.
EThOS: the British Library e-thesis online service. It offers free access to the full text of digitised UK Doctoral theses. Users will need to register to download a thesis but can search without registering. If the thesis you require has not been digitised yet, the British Library will obtain it and digitise it, and you'll be informed when it is ready to download. In some cases, if you are the first person to request a thesis and so it has to be digitised for you, you may be asked to pay towards the costs of digitisation. Library Services will normally cover the cost of digitisation for London Met staff and students.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal: a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD): OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Thesis Commons: A crowdfunded Open Access platform for students across the world to share their undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.