Searching other Library catalogues

The book you need may be available for consultation at a local library or at one that you can reach without difficulty. The "Links to Library Catalogues" page allows access to the catalogues of local university libraries and to other libraries in the UK and abroad.

  • COPAC is a combined catalogue including the holdings of the largest University libraries in the UK, such as Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, Leeds, as well as specialist libraries such as the British Library of Political and Economic Science, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Institute of Classical Studies.
  • Explore the British Library, the British Library's main catalogue. Details of other British Library catalogues can be found here.
If you have still not identified the book you need, you can use large bibliographic databases that combine the holdings of many libraries including the Library of Congress. Subject databases may include references to books, especially book reviews, and some index book chapters.