Birkbeck Library

Search for everything held in the Library, including print and digital books and journals, CDs, and DVDs and videos.

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Search for articles and chapters in ebooks and ejournals.

Select and search a specific database or online resource.

Search for ejournals and ebooks by title.

Find out when the Library is open in term-time and in College vacations.

Find out about the number of items you can borrow and how to renew them, the Interlibrary loans service, and fines for overdue items.

Find out how to join the Library and what your membership gets you.

Get in touch with your queries, comments, feedback and requests, and find the contact details for your subject librarian.

Our comprehensive guides can help you with every aspect of using Birkbeck Library, from searching the catalogue to using specialist referencing software.

Take this tutorial to develop your library skills and optimise your study time. You don't have to log in and you can dip in whenever you want.

Our dedicated service offers a wide range of face-to-face support, assistive technology and other services for library users with dyslexia and disabilities.

Contact your subject librarian for information, guidance and support on finding and accessing Library resources. You can also come and meet us face to face.

Our subject guides can help you make the most of your time in the Library and find the best resources in your subject area.

Boost your exam revision and preparation by browsing past exam papers in your subject.

Browse and search various image collections and print or export images via LUNA Imaging software.

We host some specialist archives and collections bequeathed by renowned staff and alumni of Birkbeck.

Find out about, and book, the different study spaces available in the Library, including areas for silent and group study.

Birbeck students can book any of the Library's three study pods - they're ideal for group work.

Disabled Library users can book the Study Support room or the assistive technology booth.

Check the availability of study spaces in the Library.

Find the location of our printing, photocopying and scanning facilities and how you can access them.

Find out how you can access world-class libraries in Bloomsbury and across the UK to support your studies and research.

You can use this scheme to access and borrow from 170 academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Use this service to request books, chapters and journal articles that aren't available in Birkbeck Library.

You can check other UK library collections online before you visit them.

Find out how Birkbeck staff and students can deposit research materials and update records in The Birkbeck Institutional Research Online (BIROn).

BiRD is Birkbeck's data repository for any data that underpins publications or other research at Birkbeck.

Find out how to access MPhil/PhD theses written by Birkbeck research students, upload your thesis to ORBIT, and request theses from other institutions.

Birkbeck is committed to the principle of open access publishing and the Library supports this in a number of ways - find out more.

Information for staff and students on copyright and the licences held by the Library.

Read how Library staff can help and support Birkbeck staff with their teaching.

Birkbeck staff can use our digitisation service to make materials available in Moodle for their students.