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:
- OUP Law TroveOxford University Press Law Trove contains most of the essential, recommended and background reading titles a Newcastle Law School student would find listed in their lecture and seminar handouts and on the Law Library shelves. An essential resource for studying law at Newcastle University.
- Lexis+ UKThis new interface heralds a "new era in legal intelligence". Lexis+ UK is primarily a legal database providing full-text access to case law, journal articles, legislation and commentary from a range of courts and jurisdictions, with unique access to Halsbury’s Laws of England and the All England Law Reports. Content includes the UK, Europe and the USA with additional international content covering the Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand).
Access the books collection via "Books and Journals" within the "Content" tab on the Lexis+ homepage.
- Westlaw UK (including Westlaw Edge UK) This link opens in a new windowWestlaw UK is one of the leading online legal information services combining up-to-date legal information from the UK, Europe and the United States. It covers cases, legislation, European Union and journals. We also have access to Thomson Reuters Westlaw (Westlaw International), which covers international materials and an extensive collection of law journals.
Access Westlaw Books via the Westlaw UK homepage.
- Oxford Handbooks: LawThe database provides access to a collection of Law handbooks from the OUP publisher. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and how those debates might evolve. For more information: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/page/law
- Oxford Very Short IntroductionsProvide concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
- The Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and more, with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". This can be a valuable source of historic legal material, for example, Oppenheim's International Law (1905) and MacQueen's Practical Treatise (1842).
- ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowContains the digital images of every page of books printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. Includes 18th Century Acts and Statutes of Ireland made in Parliamentary Sessions in Dublin.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowContains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - 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.
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