Library Facilities for Postgraduates
Library Facilities for Postgraduates
The University of St Andrews Library has a fine book collection in which many fields of History are strongly represented. In addition to well over a million print volumes, it offers access to an increasing number of e-books, e-journals and electronic databases. Historical Abstracts, State Papers Online, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Mass Observation Online and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index are amongst the many databases to which the library subscribes. A detailed subject guide to History resources is available at http://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/content.php?pid=146443, and postgraduate students are encouraged to contact the Academic Liaison Librarian Dr Alice Crawford (ac101@st-andrews.ac.uk) for guidance in using the Library’s print and electronic collections.
In addition to the Main Library, the Medieval Class Library is integrated into St Mary’s College Library in South Street, and students are welcome to study there or in the historic King James Library on the floor above.
The Special Collections Department is currently housed on the North Haugh, and contains around 220,000 rare printed books, an impressive range of manuscripts, a world-class collection of historic photographs and the University’s muniments and archives. Students may consult these materials in the Special Collections reading room, but should contact the Department in advance (speccoll@st-andrews.ac.uk) to book a study place and reserve the material they wish to view.
The Library’s collections can be searched via the online catalogue SAULCAT, or via the new discovery service SEEKER, which searches both SAULCAT and a wide range of electronic databases simultaneously.
Students may order books or journal articles not held by the Library on Inter-Library Loan. An electronic Online Document Request Form is available on the Library’s Inter-Library Loan page.
Alice Crawford
October 2011