Finding different types of information

First of all

Finding books

  • The Library Catalogue - The University of Northampton's Library catalogue for books, journals, DVDs, multimedia equipment and other materials
  • British Library - the British Library has one of the most comprehensive collections of public available reports, conferences and theses in the world, covering all subject disciplines. Also Manuscripts Catalogue, Newspaper Catalogue, Sound Archive and other specialist catalogues
  • COPAC (Consortium of University Research Libraries) - COPAC is a union catalogue. It provides free access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
  • Selected publishers' websites - a list of the major publishers with a link to their website. Provided by Melbourne University, Australia

Finding online bookstores

Finding e-books

Finding journals

Finding e-journals

Finding online encyclopaedias

Finding grey literature

Grey literature refers to documents that are often difficult to locate and acquire because they are not commercially published, e.g. reports, theses, translations, non-commercial conference and official (government) material, etc.

  • UKOP - official catalogue of UK official publications since 1980, containing 450,000 records from over 2000 public bodies.
  • Parliament UK - for recent parliamentary papers
  • More links to government material - Provided by Newcastle University Library
  • British Library - the British Library has one of the most comprehensive collection of public available reports, conferences and theses in the world, covering all subject disciplines

Finding newspaper articles

Finding conference proceedings

  • Conference Alerts - a searchable database of upcoming academic conferences and a free alerting service
  • Allconferences.com - a directory focusing on conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Online - lists humanities and social sciences conferences
  • Medical conferences - lists medical conferences
  • Technical conferences - lists technical conferences
  • Hero Conference Diary - links to listings of conference and seminar events in a range of subject areas
  • ZETOC - provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents service, dating back to 1993. The database contains details of about 20 million journal and conference records, with 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings added per year
  • CERN conference listings

Finding dissertations and theses

Finding primary resources

Finding reading lists

Finding statistics:

Finding exam papers

Finding interesting websites:

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