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 window
A collection of high quality, full-text, academic e-books covering subjects in humanities and social sciences.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
We have access to more than 1,000 Oxford Handbooks on a wide range of subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and law. To find the Handbooks we have access to, go to Advanced Search and filter by: All content I have access to>Format: Book>Series: Oxford Handbooks.
- Pluto Press Collections (Academic Library ebooks) This link opens in a new windowOver 650 ebooks in politics, media, and cultural studies
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new windowFull text literary works, including editorial annotations, enabling you to track variations between editions. We have bought the Romantics Prose, Romantics Poetry (NEW FOR 2018/19!) , 18th Century Drama and 18th Century Prose collections (c.350 titles).
- Oxford World's Classics This link opens in a new windowOnline access to 301 novels and other works from the 18th and 19th centuries from around the world.
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