Explore: Finding books, journals and more

Explore is UCL Library Services' single search tool for finding journals, books, full-text articles, archive material and much more. Whether you're looking for items on your reading list or information for a project or research, you'll find it in Explore and you get instant access to any full-text to which we subscribe.

You can access Explore in several ways:

This video gives an overview of what you can find using Explore, as well as basic instructions on how to carry out a search (3 mins 44 secs).

Your choice of resources includes:

• All resources: Search everything in Explore
• Library catalogue: Printed and electronic book and journal titles from the UCL library catalogue
• Journal titles: Journal titles to which UCL Library provides access, print and electronic
• Journal articles: A remotely-held catalogue of millions of electronic journal articles and other full-text e-resources
• Databases: Electronic databases of bibliographic and related materials
• Digital collections: UCL Library Services’ digital collections
• UCL Discovery: Open access documents from UCL’s publications repository
• UCL Exam papers: Electronic copies of UCL exam papers
• Archives catalogue: UCL’s archives catalogue
• UCL Reading Lists: Links to lists of resources by course name or code
• Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA): Documents published electronically in the areas of education, training and skills
• UCL Research Data: content from the UCL Research Data Repository

Check out our new Explore guide to find out more about how to use Explore for your research.

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