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Life and Health Sciences Research Support: Books

Books

Books are essential as they will give you not only background information and the established research on a topic but will identify key papers, reports and policy.

Use the Library catalogue (for print and ebooks) and our eBook databases to search for books available via Ulster University.  You can also search local, national and international catalogues - a selection is listed on this page.

Library Catalogue

The Library Catalogue is the best place to start searching for books housed across the three campus libraries.  You can limit your results to those available at a specific campus, such as Coleraine. 

You can also use the Library Catalogue to search for many (but not all) of our ebooks.  For some ebooks, you will need to access these via our dedicated ebook databases.  

 

 

Introduction to eBook use

The library provides access to eBooks in two main ways:

  • eBooks which are accessed via an eBook database from the Library's Databases listing.  Information on these subject collections is given below.

eBook Databases

The Library subscribes to a large number of eBook collections in many subject areas. You can access these databases by clicking on the links below or by going to the Library homepage and selecting the Databases link from the Quick Links area. Then scroll to the relevant database from there. 

The following will be of relevance to Life and Health Sciences students.

Database

ClinicalKey Student Foundations 

ClinicalKey Student Nursing

LWW Health Library 

IGI Global InfoSci eBook Collection 

Oxford Medicine Online

International Catalogues

Document Delivery Service

You can use this service to request books and articles from journals which we do not subscribe to.  

More information is available on our Document Delivery web page and online request form.

 

Access to other Libraries