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You can search for books on subjects related to global health and development using UCL's library catalogue, Explore. Books may be available in print or online format. You will need your UCL username and password to access online books offsite.
Print books can be found in the Global Health and Development Collection, which is located in the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library. Books in the Collection are available for standard (eight week) loan. You can use Explore to find the location of all print material available within UCL's libraries, including the library site, collection and shelfmark.
See our Explore Guide for more information about using Explore to find books and other publications.
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UCL Main Library is on the UCL Main Campus, in the Wilkins Building.
UCL Science Library is on the UCL Main Campus, in the DMS Watson Building.
There are a number of Biomedicine and Health Libraries at UCL, including:
The Global Health and Development Collection has its own classification scheme, which is used to arrange the books on the shelves by subject. An example of a shelfmark for the book Global health: diseases, programs, systems and policies as it will appear on Explore is:
The spine of the book will be labelled BA1 MER and this is the information you will need to note down in order to locate the book on the shelves.
An outline of the classification scheme used is below:
Development
Health
Check out our Explore guide to find out more about how to use Explore for your research.
A brief guide to finding and accessing e-books via UCL Explore.
Heat Exposure and Human Health in the Context of Climate Change by 
Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health by ReadingLists @UCL is an online service that gives students easy access to materials on their reading lists wherever they are, and allows academic staff to create and update their own reading lists.
