New eBooks -coming soon
Finding Books & eBooks
The majority of the Library's book collections are now available online as eBooks. You can search for both print and online using UR Library Search.
Here are some FAQs about finding and accessing books and eBooks:
- How to search UR Library Search
- How do I find a book on the shelves?
- Borrowing books and requesting items
- Click & Collect (Whitelands book delivery service)
- Scan & Send (request scans from print books or journals)
- Where can I find my module readings?
Here are the main locations for print books for Biological and Biomedical Sciences and their shelfmarks (also known as a Call Number).
| Subject | Shelfmark(s) | Location |
| Biochemistry | 572 | Second Floor |
| Biology | 574 | Second Floor |
| Biometrics | 570.15195 | Second Floor |
| Biotechnology | 660.6 | Second Floor |
| Cell biology | 571.6 | Second Floor |
| Chemistry | 540-549 | Second Floor |
| Ecology | 577 | Second Floor |
| Epidemiology | 614.4 | Second Floor |
| Evolution | 576.8 | Second Floor |
| Human Ecology | 304.2 | Second Floor |
| Human Physiology | 612 | Second Floor |
| Immunology | 616.079 | Second Floor |
| Medical microbiology | 616.904 | Second Floor |
| Metabolism | 612.39 | Second Floor |
| Molecular biology | 572.8 | Second Floor |
| Neuroscience | 612.8 | Second Floor |
| Pharmacology | 615.1 | Second Floor |
| Toxicology | 615.9 | Second Floor |
eBooks and Online Reference books
The following eBook collections are most useful for Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Collections with the 
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eBooks and journals in a range of disciplines. NOTE: We do not subscribe to all of the content in this database. You can filter your results by selecting the Refine option “Only show content I have access to".
- ClinicalKey Nursing This link opens in a new window
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Over 100 e-books from medical publisher Elsevier, including nursing, anatomy, psychology, health promotion, and more. Note: On first log in only, you need to complete a short form for access. See our Spotlight on Clinical Key Nursing blog post.
- ClinicalKey Physiotherapy This link opens in a new window
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Over 70 e-books and videos from medical publisher Elsevier, on physiotherapy, anatomy & physiology, neuroscience, rehabilitation, and more.. Note: On first log in only, you need to complete a short form for access.
- SpringerLink eBooks - Biomedical and Life Sciences This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to thousands of eBooks covering Biomedical Sciences and Life Sciences. Please note that some "preview only" content does take you through to full text content, the supplier is working to update this.
- Taylor and Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to thousands of eBooks across all Roehampton subject areas. Note: To find the books that we have access to, search for your topic, then click the filter on the left side of the page and check "filter by" and "content we have access to".
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary collection of online resources (including over 1500 journals published by Wiley) covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Reference works
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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The Oxford Handbooks series brings together the world’s leading scholars to write articles in their field, the focus of which is to review the key issues, make arguments and concepts, and set future agenda for new research.