Library Services
The library catalogue (called Explore) is the principal tool to find books, journals and other materials (either in print or in electronic format) held in UCL libraries. On the catalogue, you will find the details of the location of the materials you are looking for: library site, collection and shelfmark.
The physical book and journal collections relating to Librarianship and Archive Studies are located on the 1st floor of the Science Library (the DMS Watson building). The books are arranged according to the Garside Classification system for Librarianship and Archives. The Librarianship collection includes books on library and information studies, publishing and digital humanities. The Archive Studies collection includes books on archives and records management.
Some books are not kept in the library and need to be ordered in advance using our Stores service.
On UCL Explore, you can look at the results of your search to quickly discover if a book is available in print or/and online: View Online means that the book is available electronically, while Available means that the book is available in print. In some cases a book is available both in print and online.
Most of the collections relating to Information Studies are in the Science Library but you may also find collections in the Main Library (the Wilkins building) useful.
UCL Press is a leading open access scholarly publisher, publishing mainly scholarly monographs, edited collections, textbooks and journals.
Everything they publish is available to download freely in PDF form or to read online anywhere in the world, without the need to log in.
Follow the link below to browse what they have published on the subject of Literary Studies.
A brief guide to finding and accessing e-books via UCL Explore.
Check out our Explore guide to find out more about how to use Explore for your research.
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.