Bath Information and Data Services BIDS is a national provider of network access to commercially supplied bibliographic database services for UK higher education and research.
Many services require registration.
It was founded in 1948 as the British Universities Film Council. Combined Higher Education Software Team Aims to obtain quality commercial software, datasets, training materials and other IT products for the education and research community. University Research Library Catalogue Internationally accessible union catalogue providing free access to the combined online catalogues from some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The Data Archive at the University of Essex houses the largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. It is a national resource centre, disseminating data throughout the United Kingdom and, by arrangement with other national archives, internationally.