Amazon (UK) [Useful for identifying titles, and viewing table of contents and index, as well as buying]
BFI Collections Search [British Film Institute search]
COPAC [union catalogue of UK research libraries. See guide.]
CORE - an aggregated search of UK repositories (it's like Google Scholar for UK research repositories). Further information.
DART-Europe - research theses from a consortium of European research libraries
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
EThOS [Electronic Theses Online Service from the British Library. Selected items available for download after registration]
Google Books [for searching the contents of books]
Google Scholar [a broad search of mainly academic sources]
Library Search
Library Catalogue (retro catalogue)
OAIster [Union catalogue of open access resources, provided by OCLC/Worldcat] Further information
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative
initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model
for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
OpenDepot Search | Search of e-prints from researchers at institutions that do not have an institutional repository
OpenDOAR Search | Search contents of open access repositories listed on OpenDOAR [Directory of Open Access Repositories]
PQDT Open [Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge]
ROAR Search | Search contents of repositories listed on ROAR [Registery of Open Access Repositories]
Search25 [union catalogue of London-area university libraries - replaces Inform25]
SHERPA Search | Search of UK repositories
SUNCAT [union catalogue for serials - use to track down journals and magazines]
WorldCat [International union catalogue of library catalogues]
