Finding resources
How do I find...?
These pages will help you to find the book, journal or information resource you need.
Depending on what you need may depend on how you go about finding it.
Books
For a quick book search, go the Catalogue.
There is no need to log in unless you wish to renew your books or place a hold.
To do this, enter your library card number - the lower one on your student card.
In addition to the catalogue we have a large collection of e-resources which can accessed on and off campus.
You can also use the Catalogue for more detailed searches for:
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DVDs
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e-books
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Theses
For advice on how to find books by shelfmark, see our quick guide.
Books and more... Try Summon
Summon is a new search facility that searches across our library catalogue and many of our other electronic journal collections finding books, journals and other literature to match your search.
If you are trying to find a book or journal article that you already have a reference to, simply search for the title of the book or article.
eg to find the book:
Cottrell, S. (2008) The study skills handbook. 3rd edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
search for: "study skills handbook"
eg to find the journal article:
Wolfson, S., Wakelin, D., & Lewis, M. (2005). Football supporters’ perceptions of their role in the home advantage. Journal of Sports Sciences, 23(4), 365-374
search for: "football supporters perceptions of their role in the home advantage"
Alternatively, if you want to find books or journal articles by keywords, simply enter your keywords into the search box.
Summon search tips:
- Add more than one keywords by linking them together with and
eg "study skills" and Cottrell - On the results page, narrow your search by selecting Book, Journal Article etc from the Content Type field to the left of the results
- For books: check Availability for the shelfmark
- For articles: check for full-text by linking to the article title
Summon is excellent for a quick easy search, however it may not always link to everything that we subscribe to.
Other search tools:
Alternatively, you can search:
- Catalogue: you can search the catalogue on its own to search for print books, e-books, DVDs, music scores, and print journals – basically everything that is physically inside the library.
- E-journals: is a comprehensive A-Z list of all of our e-journals
- Databases: is a comprehensive A-Z list of all our databases
