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Learn more about the library's digital service offer
The library provides access to a vast range of digital resources including:
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Over 760,000 ebooks
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Almost 100,000 ejournal titles
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210 databases, archives, newspaper, film and documentary collections
As a response to COVID-19, we have significantly increased the availability of our online collections this year to support your learning and research:
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800,000 ebooks from De Gruyter publishers covering humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law
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Law Trove (202 ebooks)
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Politics Trove (36 ebooks)
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750 etextbooks on the Cambridge University Press Higher Education platform
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200 essential etextbooks on the BibliU platform (including 25 from Oxford University Press)
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Elsevier's ClinicalKey (200+ etextbooks, 850+ videos and 85000+ images)
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22 etextbooks from LWW Health Library
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ProQuest One Literature package (texts of over 350,000 works of literature with complementary criticism and reference resources)
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Selected additional modules from Bloomsbury's Drama Online collection
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2 veterinary etextbooks from Elsevier
To access online library resources:
- Use Library Search to find ebooks and online journal articles: search by title, or do a topic search and add filters for ‘ebooks’ or ‘full text’.
- Explore further resources with our subject databases.
- Use your subject guide for advice on recommended resources for your subject area.
- Your subject librarian can help you find and use resources for wider reading, assignments and research. Please email for 1:1 online help.
- The Study Skills team are running online tutorials, workshops and online study lounges for all students, including an interactive online resource on studying from home.
- You need to sign in to access online resources – use Library Search, your subject databases list or subject guides. Please note: if you bookmark resources direct or access them via a web search you may be denied access when away from the university network. Please see the advice on our access electronic resources page.
- You can contact us 24/7 using our Library Chat service on the library homepage.
Contacts
For help or advice on accessing electronic resources, please email:
e-library@bristol.ac.uk
For subject-specific help, please contact your subject librarian.
For technical help, please contact the IT Service Desk.