You’ll find the books you need to read for your programme in your module reading lists on Canvas. For independent research, use an ‘everything except articles’ search on Library Search or browse core subject collections.
Library Search
Library Search is our library catalogue; a powerful search engine that holds records for all the physical and electronic items that you have access to here at Newcastle University.
You can use Library Search to find a specific title or works by a particular author, or you can browse information available by topic. It’s an excellent place to start your independent research as it covers all subject areas.
Find out more about Library Search and how to search the catalogue effectively on the Library Search page of the Academic Skills Kit.
Core Collections
Library Search enables you to search across all print and e-book collections. However, the collections below provide access to key e-books for your subject area, use them to browse or search for essential reading.
- BAR Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
An online collection of academic archaeological research, BAR Digital provides full text access to titles published from 1974 to date. It includes both BAR’s British and international series, and covers archaeological research, excavation reports and other important series from around the world.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Contains digital facsimile page images of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
- Jacoby Online This link opens in a new window
A digital edition of fragments and testimonia of Greek historians, and other authors from antiquity. Comprises five works, based on the original multi-volume work by Felix Jacoby: Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker I-III, Brill's New Jacoby, and Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition.
- Loeb Classical Library Online This link opens in a new window
Online version of the Loeb Classical Library, containing volumes of Latin and Greek poetry, drama, oratory and more, together with English translations.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly all surviving texts written in Greek from the period between Homer (8th Century B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453, and large number of post-Byzantine texts (16th-20th Century. A.D.) The TLG requires all users to create a free TLG account. Click 'register' and fill in the online form.
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