The Library: Media & Communication: Books

Request an item purchase

Staff and students can request new items for the Library collection.

See the Request It! page to find out more.

If you can't find the item you need you can use our Request It! service and we will try and obtain it for you, either by purchasing it as an eBook or borrowing it from another library as an interlibrary loan.

Provides free access to details of materials held in over 180 UK national, academic and specialist libraries.

Students and staff can use other UK libraries through the SCONUL Access scheme, or by visiting the British Library reading room at Boston Spa.

If you live in Leeds you can join Leeds Libraries for free and borrow books from public libraries across the city.

Individual eBook titles can be accessed online through Discover. The following eBook collections are also available:

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
DOAB provides access to over 70,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books, on a variety of subjects.
- Accessibility information.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Discover a new topic or subject with these introductory eBooks written by authors who are experts in their field.
- Accessibility help for Very Short Introductions.
VLebooks This link opens in a new window
Titles from the VLeBook collection are purchased based on your usage - if you use a title, it will be added to the collection.
- Access VLebooks Bookshelf.
- Accessibility help for VLebooks.

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