Library

The University Library provides a vast array of high quality online resources, books, and spaces to work. Staff are here to help, whether that’s in person at the Help Desk or via email, phone, chat or social media. Find out more about where to start with the Library Essentials guide. This includes information on using the library catalogue, your library account, online induction resources and opening hours. For general help, contact the Library Help Desk.

Reading lists

Reading lists and resources are provided in each module VLE site via the ‘Reading Lists’ button and are regularly updated by the module leader.

Your online reading lists are designed to help you get started with reading for your module. Your lecturer might have structured your lists by topic or by week to help you navigate them more easily, and you'll find that items are tagged as essential, recommended or background so that you know which to read first.

The online system provides information about where items are in the Library and it also tells you if books are out on loan. If we have electronic resources they will link directly to the reading so it is really easy for you to access it. 

Your academic liaison librarian 

Your Academic Liaison Librarian is David Brown. David can help you to search effectively for resources, understand how to use and evaluate these and how to reference your work correctly. David can be contacted at lib-healthsci@york.ac.uk/+44 (0)1904 323846. Further details can be found in the Health Sciences Subject Guide.

The Subject Guide contains links to useful resources, as well lots of online materials to develop your literature searching and study skills and a set of literature searching FAQs.

Electronic resources

The University Library also provides access to a wide range of e-resources via its web pages. These resources include over 10,000 electronic journals. Access is also provided to bibliographic databases such as Medline, CINAHL Ultimate, The Cochrane Library, British Nursing Database, Embase, and PsycINFO which help you search the literature. You can access these e-resources both on and off-campus.

Study spaces

There are over 1000 places to work across the three sections of the Library: the Morrell, the Fairhurst and the Burton. These include a variety of quiet and silent areas, IT rooms, and bookable group and individual study rooms. There is also library space on the 1st floor of Piazza Building on Campus East, and a 24/7 Library Study Area in Vanbrugh (V/N/058).