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 our e-book 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.
E-book Collections
Library Search enables you to search across all print and e-book collections. However, if you want to search / browse e-books from a particular supplier or collection, you’ll find links to subject specific e-book collections below:
- ACS Symposium Series This link opens in a new windowThe ACS Symposium Series, peer-reviewed eBooks developed from ACS technical divisions' symposia.
- Cambridge University Press online books This link opens in a new window
Access to over 33,000 e-books and includes leading titles in over 30 subjects across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology & Medicine.
- De Gruyter Books This link opens in a new windowThis collection covers a range of subjects from humanities, sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central delivers a breadth and depth of e-books from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers.
- Elsevier eBooks Science Collection This link opens in a new windowExplore scientific, technical, and medical research on ScienceDirect. Browse by subject or publication title.
- Knovel eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
As well as all aspects of engineering, Knovel is useful for biotechnology, computing, food science, marine technology, molecular biology and chemistry. Subjects covered include technical reference books. There are Interactive graphs and tables,material and substance properties data and interactive equations. The Data Search tool can be used to build queries around different materials or substances.
- Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection Complete This link opens in a new windowThe RSC eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. Over 1000 books, equating to over 20,000 chapters spanning more than 40 years, have been brought together and digitised as fully-searchable pdf files.
- Science of Synthesis This link opens in a new windowScience of Synthesis is a full-text resource for finding methods in synthetic organic chemistry which have been critically reviewed and compiled by chemists for chemists. Organised by functional group and the products you want to make, you can find proven methods quickly and gather background information on the scope and limitations of specific approaches.
- SpringerLink books : biomedical and life sciences, 2020.The books in this collection cover topics in the biomedical and life sciences and related fields.
- World Scientific Book: Nanotechnology & Nanoscience This link opens in a new window
Includes full text e-book titles covering subjects such as nanoelectronics, atom manipulation, nanophotonics, nanomechanics, nanobiotechnology and more.
- World Scientific Books: Chemistry This link opens in a new windowA selection of full-text titles covering subjects such as organic chemistry, applied theoretical organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and nanoelectronics.
- World Scientific Books: Materials Science This link opens in a new windowContains full text titles covering subjects including ceramics, polymers, crystals and crystallography, superconductivity & magnetic materials, surface science, electron microscopy, scanning and tunneling and more.
- World Scientific User GuideA very handy guide from World Scientific showing you how to use this eBook collection. April 2020.
Bergey's manual of systematics of archaea and bacteria by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781118960608Publication Date: 2015Bergey's is a reference work aimed at undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, professors and experienced professionals at all levels. Bergey's is the most complete and authoritative description of bacterial and archaeal diversity.
Did you know we regularly take out trials of new resources (e.g. databases and digitised archives)? Find out what we are currently trialling on our blog. If you are interested in the resource, please explore it and remember to send us feedback!
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