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Search for electronic books (ebooks):

You can search across many of our ebook collections using the search box below. Type the title, author or subject you are searching for in the search box, select the appropriate field in the adjacent drop down menu and click 'Go'.

Search for ejournals: You can find a specific journal by entering the full title of the journal in the 'Title of ejournal' box below and then clicking 'Go'.
One stop search

You can search across many of our ejournal resources using our new One stop search. This cross disciplinary tool searches 40 of our largest collections, such as Academic Search Complete, IEEE Xplore, JSTOR, psycINFO and ScienceDirect. To help you improve your searches we have prepared a helpsheet.

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