Find and use the Library e-Resources

The Library subscribes to a vast range of high quality digital resources, including e-books, academic journals, newspapers, multimedia and other publications. These resources are essential to your assignments, research and teaching.

Current CITY College students and staff: you can access all of these resources from anywhere with an internet connection.

Tips on how to access library e-resources

• As a registered student, you should be able to access our vast majority of online databases and journals both on-campus and off-campus.
• Make sure that you access our e-resources by visiting the Library webpages.
• Module related resources, items on Syllabi Reading lists, books and dissertations can be found in OpenABEKT Catalogue
• Usually you will be asked to log in to a specific e-resource by using your Library account credentials (username & password). If you do not know or remember your University username and password or you need help to setup your account refer to the Library Services Desk.
• If your are experiencing difficulties with your CITY College IT account (allows you to login to computing facilities & internal services) or forgot your password, approach the Computing Support Staff (L. Sofou building, 7th floor) or send an email support@york.citycollege.eu

OpenABEKT Library Catalogue

• eBook Collection: explore our comprehensive eBook collections and find what has been recently acquired by the library.
• Trending Now ebook collections: find out what’s trending nowadays, check out our most popular and must read collections.
• eTextbooks: access the electronic format of the main textbooks used for taught Modules.
• eRecommended Readings view the list of supplemental readings pertaining to Modules. Grasp the opportunity to further meet course expectations by going through the suggested recommended material of Syllabi.
• eDissertations: locate the ecopy of dissertations held by students (title, subject, student name)

If an item you found on the Library catalogue does not seem to be available online we may be able to get it for you!

Databases are collections of many sources, grouped by type or by subject. For example, we subscribe to various databases that collect together journals, images, newspapers, data or archival material.

EBSCO Resources

E-journal Collections

E-book Collections

YorSearch Catalogue: locate library material such as articles and book chapters.

The resources below are general non-subject specific tools which are freely available online.

• Google

Google's basic search, is useful for some types of academically relevant literature, e.g. policy documents, blog posts, conference presentations etc.

Even Google has an Advanced Search option! After you've run a search it's under 'Settings'. You can use quote marks "” to search for particular phrases or filter by region, language, date.

Mainly looking for books?  Try...

• Open Textbook Library Books licensed by authors and publishers to be freely downloaded, edited and distributed.
• DOAB Directory of Open Access Scholarly Books
• Springer Nature Open Access Books and Chapters

Mainly looking for journals articles, pre-prints, conference papers, dissertations and theses?  Try...

• Google Scholar
• Semantic Scholar
• ScienceOpen
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals and Articles
• CORE Multidisciplinary collection of open access research papers
• OpenDOAR Open Access material deposited in university research repositories (typically theses, dissertations and journal articles)

Looking for other media (e.g. audio-visual, software, archived books) and more? Try...

• Internet Archive

In this case, use one the following services:

• Interlibrary Request Service: when an item you are looking for is not available in fulltext, the library can locate it and send it to you by email.


• Document Delivery Service: ensures email delivery (articles, book chapters, conference papers) through our photocopying and scanning service or postal items (books or dissertations) by sending an email at the library with full bibliographic details of an item.

Boost your skills and achieve the best results in your projects, assignments and dissertation.

• Browse through our electronic Academic & Research Skills collection.
• Find material to further develop the abilities that today’s students need to succeed in their life and careers in our Trending Now: 21st Century Skills resources.
• Learn How to Manage your References and Cite your Resources.
• Visit the Skills guides webpages to find further support for your studies.

Subject Specific Enquiries

If you have a subject enquiry please contact the information services staff.

General Enquiries

Email: library@york.citycollege.eu