Subject guides: Earth and Environmental Sciences: Books

How do I access my reading lists?

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard. Log in via MyManchester, then click the ‘Reading Lists Online’ link in the left-hand menu to see your lists, or use the link below:

Locating and Borrowing Books

Find help and support with all aspects of locating and borrowing resources .

Engineering and Physical Sciences e-books

You can find e-books by searching the Library Search or by using the links below:

Knovel
The database provides the full text of over 1,000 reference works in science and technology.
Note, You will need to register when you first login.
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Content includes data handbooks, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, monographs, conference proceedings and datasets. Data is enhanced with productivity tools (such as interactive tables, graphs and live equations) to help analyze and manipulate the data. The service offers browse and search features. The Advanced Search option supports data searching for over 150 property types, such as physical constants, electrical properties, thermodynamic properties, etc.
Lyell Collection
Features the full content of key journals, special publications and society book series. The content is fully searchable at the author, title, abstract and full text levels.
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From the following sources
- Geological Society, London, Special Publications
- Geological Society, London, Memoirs
- Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference Series
- Geological Society, London, Engineering Geology Special Publications
- Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis
- Journal of the Geological Society
- Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
- Transactions of the Geological Society of London
- Journal of Micropalaeontology
- Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
- Scottish Journal of Geology
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online provides access to over 120 reference works covering all subject areas
Royal Society of Chemistry ebook Collection
The collection is a point of reference for anyone interested in the chemical sciences. It contains over 1000 books, equating to over 20,000 chapters spanning more than 40 years.
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The result is an extensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science. The subject collections cover food science, physical, organic, environmental and analytical chemistry, materials and nanoscience, industry and pharma, biosciences and tutorial chemistry texts and paperbacks.
Royal Society of Chemistry Specialist Periodical Reports
covers a range of key subject areas including: catalysis, chemical modelling, spectroscopy and photochemistry

General e-books

You can find e-books by searching the Library Search or by using the links below:

EBSCOhost ebooks
Includes full text access to over 6,000 books plus over 340 publicly accessible e-books in a range of subject areas.
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It is possible to search the entire collection or to search within a specific title. The publishers represented include Blackwells, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Institute of Physics, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, McGraw-Hill and Wiley. All titles included in the subscription are listed in the Library Catalogue.
E-Book Central: ProQuest
The E-Book Central service provides access to e-books purchased on the ProQuest platform. The books are also listed on Library Search.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online provides access to over 120 reference works covering all subject areas
Science Direct
Includes access to a wide range of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanties e-books.
Springer ebook collection
The Springer ebook collection includes access to over 6,500 books published since the 1980's. These titles are also included in Library Search.

Printed books, e-books and theses

New Books

Locating books on the shelves

The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily. We're going to show you how to use Dewey to find a book at any Library site.

Guide to Printed Stock

The UML has an extensive collection of printed books and journals relevant to members of the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. Use the catalogue to check the location of the book or journal you require.

Books

The main collection of books relevant to earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences, is located on Blue 2 of the Main Library.

Journals

Earth, atmospheric and environmental sciences journals are shelved within the Physical and Life Sciences sequence on Green Ground of the Main Library.

Inter-Library Loans service

The University of Manchester Library is one of the largest subscribers to e-journals and databases in the UK but we don’t have access to everything.

If you find that we don’t hold a book, report, journal article or conference paper that you need, you can use our Inter-Library Loans service .

How to find and access theses?

You can find further information on theses held at the University of Manchester and elsewhere on our theses guide.

Doctoral/Research Theses

Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Pure, the University of Manchester’s internal repository.

EThOS (e-theses online service)
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. EThOS aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers. There are approximately 440,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions of which around 160,000 are available as full text. Requests for many of the remainder can be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility. You can download digitised PhD thesis from across the UK for free once you have registered on the website. Records are held for all UK PhD-awarding institutions, but EThOS does not yet hold all records for all institutions. This is constantly updated as more theses including University of Manchester outputs from March 2013 are submitted solely in electronic form.
ProQuest dissertations & theses global
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
University of Manchester theses
Details of University of Manchester Phd theses can be found on the library website.
Web of Science Conference Proceedings
Index to published proceedings for international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops and conventions across a wide range of disciplines.
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Proceedings relating to Business and Management can be found in the Social Sciences Proceedings on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science tab.

Using Google Books

It is worthwhile carrying out a search on Google Books to see if a book is available to view online.

If you have a reading list for your course and the books are in use by other students, you can check to see if it has been fully or partially digitised by Google.