Get instant access to books, comics, music, newspapers and magazines. Watch movies and theatre productions, access academic journals, research publications and professional training all for just €17 a year.
Why pay multiple international subscriptions when you have the British Council Digital Library?
Read or listen to thousands of best-selling fiction and non-fiction titles in your favourite genres anytime, anywhere.
Stream the world’s largest collection of full-length concerts and music films plus the best new music from the UK brought to you by Selector Radio.
Read full digital versions of over 2000 of the best comics and graphic novels from major publishers – for all ages.
Watch thousands of critically-acclaimed movies and tv shows plus an exclusive collection of children’s movies and story-telling and rhyme-times.
Enjoy hundreds of popular international publications covering all areas of interest including technology, business, politics, fashion and more!
Read the latest issues of more than 7000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines including Forbes, Newsweek, Vogue and many more!
Prepare for career opportunities with hundreds of video tutorials and training courses on a wide array of software applications and professional development topics.
Enhance your research with 24/7 access to world-class academic databases from EBSCOhost and Ebook Central from Proquest covering a wide variety of journals, magazines and eBooks.
We also have research reports from the British Council.
Improve your child’s language skills with the British Council’s collection of fun and engaging games, songs, stories and activities for children learning English as a second or foreign language.
The Digital Library app gives you instant access to all our digital resources in one place.
Log on to the web portal on your PC or laptop or download our app to your iOS and Android devices for a seamless digital library experience no matter where you are.
Once you have registered for the Digital Library you will receive welcome two emails to activate your subscription and to set up your access to our app.
Organise your go-to resources and reading material in a collection, bookmark and tag articles and study materials, or save content from select resources for offline use.
If you need support, please contact us at digitallibrary@britishcouncil.org and we will be pleased to help.