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Science

Our science, technology and medicine collection covers current and recent publications in all fields of science and technology.

General catalogues

Library Hub Discovery 

Exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries. In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s National Libraries (including the British Library), many university libraries, and specialist research libraries.  

KVK - Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue 

A meta-search engine for the identification of several hundred million media in library and bookstore catalogues worldwide.  

WorldCat.org 

A resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one search box. 

Open access sources

Medical Heritage Library 

The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. is a collaborative digitisation and discovery organisation committed to providing open access resources in the history of healthcare and the health sciences. 

PLOS (The Public Library of Science) 

Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. 

ScienceOpen 

ScienceOpen is a freely accessible search and discovery platform that puts research in context. 

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) 

BASE provides more than 340 million documents from more than 11,000 content providers. Access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. 

DART-Europe E-theses portal 

Aggregator and search tool with access to over 1,389,942 theses from 585 universities in 29 European countries. 

Google Books 

Google Books has more than 10 million free books available for users. 

Google Scholar 

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Google Scholar helps find relevant work across the world of scholarly research of many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. 

Europeana 

Provides access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more. 

arXiv 

arXiv is a preprint server covering many areas of physics, which helped to establish the concept of a preprint server for other disciplines. arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. 

bioarXiv 

bioarXiv is a preprint server covering the whole domain of bioscience. 

HathiTrust 

Hathi Trust digital library preserves the published record for durable, long-term, and lawful access, stewarded in partnership with the academic institutions supporting our work. 

Internet Archive 

It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. The mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. 

Shared Research Repository 

The Shared Research Repository provides access to the research outputs of our participating cultural and heritage institutions, currently the British Library, British Museum, National Museums Scotland, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), National Trust, Science Museum Group, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

The separate repositories can be visited each in turn or explored together via a single search on the Shared Repository homepage. 

Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) 

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. 

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) 

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books with academic standards. 

COnnecting REpositories (CORE) 

It provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. The world’s largest collection of open access research papers. 

Open Edition 

Provides Open Access books and journals in multidisciplinary. 

Zenodo 

It is a general-purpose open repository which allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artefacts. 

Professional bodies

British Standards Institution (BSI) 

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products and services and also supplies certification and standards-related services to businesses. 

British Psychoanalytical Society Library 

UK collections of psychoanalytic works and from and donations from the private collections.  

Institution of Engineering and Technology 

Researchers can access a wealth of searchable information in print and online from the Institute’s outstanding specialist collections. 

Library and Archives 

Open Access Hub 

IET open access journals 

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Galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) research sources

Wellcome collections and library 

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library. Unique collections relating to the history of medicine including bioethics and some contemporary medicine. Through their collections, exhibitions and events, in books and online, they explore the past, present and future of health. 

Science Museum and the Dana Research Centre and Library 

Library collections on the history of science. 

The King's Fund Library 

Government publications, journals, magazines, reports, books on health care polices and management. Includes health care systems, services, leadership, NHS issues, collections from 1867. 

The Royal Society 

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. 

Free online databases

ChemSpider 

ChemSpider is a free database of chemical structures and properties, which can be searched by text or by drawing a molecular structure. 

Greenfile 

Greenfile is a free scholarly database provided by EBSCO covering environmental science. 

INIS Repository 

The INIS Repository is a bibliographic and full-text database covering nuclear physics and the peaceful uses of nuclear technology, provided by the International Atomic Energy Authority. 

Health Library & Information Directory Database 

A comprehensive directory of health libraries and information services across the United Kingdom. Sponsored by the NHS & CILIP includes over 500 medical libraries & 1684 contacts in the UK. 

PubMed: US National Library of Medicine 

Free US database in medicine, mental health, and alternative medicine. 

PubChem 

PubChem is a database of freely available chemistry information, hosted by the US National Library of Medicine. 

ZBMath Open 

ZBMath is a free database of mathematical publications, including the full content of the former print abstracting journal Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik. 

The European database of libraries 

The database contains 30,000 subject specialist librarians in the UK and continental Europe. 

VAWnet (formerly PILOTS PTSD) database 

USA Online resource library for gender-based violence and post-traumatic stress disorders. 

Heritage of the Printed Book Database 

A steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files.