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:
- ACLS Humanities ebook Collection This link opens in a new windowFull text of over 5,400 ebooks in the humanities, with new titles added regularly.
- Blackwell language and linguistics e-books online This link opens in a new windowOver 30 full text reference books in various fields of language and linguistics
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowSearch over 360 volumes of this major series, covering worldwide history from ancient to modern, literature, language, music, and more. All volumes are also individually listed on Library Search. NEW! We have just added 11 more volumes, covering Ireland, Communism, modernism and slavery.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window54 volumes of this scholarly collection, with titles in archaeology, linguistics and literature.
- Pluto Press Collections (Academic Library ebooks) This link opens in a new windowOver 650 ebooks in politics, media, and cultural studies
- Early European Books This link opens in a new windowDraws together a diverse array of printed sources from major European libraries, covering 15th to 17th century.
- Frantext This link opens in a new windowFrench language corpus which contains the full text of approximately 5,400 French language books published mainly between the 16th and 21st centuries, covering various genres: mainly literature, but also some technical works.
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