{"id":2116,"date":"2019-04-29T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:38:37","slug":"beyond-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/beyond-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/04\/airport-1890943_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/04\/airport-1890943_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/04\/airport-1890943_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/04\/airport-1890943_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/04\/airport-1890943_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will you be working on a dissertation or project this summer or next year? Worried that the Library might not have access to the specialist books and other resources which you need? Wondering how you can find out about resources relating to your research topic which are held in other libraries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder no more! There are three main ways you can find and access books and other resources held elsewhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Search<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can search the catalogues of over 100 UK and Irish academic libraries, national libraries and other major research libraries via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/copac.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COPAC<\/a>. For a more in-depth and up to date search, you can also search <a href=\"https:\/\/copac.jisc.ac.uk\/about\/libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">individual<\/a> academic library catalogues online. Need to look further afield? Search library catalogues&nbsp;internationally via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WorldCat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Visit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have more information about how you can visit other libraries, locally and nationally,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/about\/joining\/access-other-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. The SCONUL&nbsp;Access Scheme&nbsp;enables students to use other academic libraries around the country, but you need to register online first (and be sure to check the access arrangements for any library you are planning to visit, as they may alter during the year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Obtain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If we haven&#8217;t got the book you want, you can ask us to consider buying or borrowing&nbsp;it, via our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/services\/suggest-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Books on Time<\/a>&nbsp;service. If you need a copy of a journal article to which we don&#8217;t have access, please apply via our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/services\/inter-library-loans\/#5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inter library loan service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/andreas160578-2383079\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1890943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">andreas160578<\/a> from Pixabay.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you be working on a dissertation or project this summer or next year? Worried that the Library might not have access to the specialist books and other resources which you need? Wondering how you can find out about resources relating to your research topic which are held in other libraries? Wonder no more! There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/beyond-the-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond the Library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,114,1],"tags":[43,44,45,10,26,46,36,2,50,4,27,52,95,53,29,54,23,22,56,57,82,11,30,135,9,62,63,65,66,12,38,13,39,6,70,100,33,34,42],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-top-tips","category-uncategorised","tag-agribusiness","tag-agriculture","tag-animal","tag-archaeology","tag-architecture","tag-biology","tag-biomed","tag-business","tag-civil","tag-classics","tag-combhon","tag-countryside","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-eee","tag-english-language","tag-english-literature","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-fake","tag-art","tag-geography","tag-geospatial","tag-history","tag-marinesci","tag-marinetech","tag-maths","tag-mecheng","tag-media","tag-medicine","tag-music","tag-nutrition","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-planning-and-landscape","tag-politics","tag-sociology","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}