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.
- Oxford University Press 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+ UK
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 coverage of 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 window
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, and the European Union, and provides access to a range of law journals.
Access Westlaw Books via the Westlaw UK homepage.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Online access to volumes of the Cambridge Histories reference series, with titles covering worldwide history from ancient to modern, as well as history of literature, language, music and theatre, philosophy, politics, and religion.
- 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.
- ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Contains digital facsimile page images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera in every subject published or printed primarily in England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States between 1701 and 1800.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new windowYou can access Oxford Handbooks, which cover a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law. To find the Handbooks available to you, go to the Advanced Search and apply the following filters:
- Content: All content I have access to
- Format: Book
- Series: Oxford Handbooks
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