Your reading list is your starting point for resources to support your studies. Search our reading list system to find the recommended reading for your modules.
Start your search for a reading list
Guidance for first time users of our reading lists system
We subscribe to thousands of online resources and sometimes, you might be asked to input your university username and password before you can access them. Find our guide to accessing online Library resources off-campus.
Use Library Search. the library catalogue to find books
Find out more about borrowing books from our library guide.
Includes information about:
Books
Journal articles
To connect to library resources such as databases and journals you will need to use the University’s VPN service called Globalprotect. Advice on how to set your connection up can be found on the iSolutions page How do I set up VPN on my device?
Unpaywall, Open Access Button and CORE Discovery are all Chrome and Firefox extensions that find legal open access copies. Open Access Helper works the same way for iOS and Safari
Google: if you find an article that is behind a paywall, try copy & pasting the article title into a search engine. If there is a copy in a repository it will often display on the first page of search results
Still no luck? Try our interlibrary loan service. We will try our best to get hold of articles for you, although it may not be possible or be delayed while libraries are closed
PhD/ MPhil theses
Undergraduate/ taught masters dissertations
The National Oceanographic Library houses the Ocean and Earth Science collection of undergraduate [3rd year project] and taught masters [Thesis (Masters)] dissertations. The dissertations written in the most recent few years up to 2019 are shelved in the library at the end of the books sequence. All of the dissertations up to 2019 are listed in the library catalogue
Dissertations from 2020 onwards are stored as electronic versions on the SOES Dissertations SharePoint site - [request permission to assess the site] please note that currently there are no Geology or Natural Science projects available.
The National Oceanographic Library holds print copies of all the Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton doctoral level theses in our archives; these are listed on the library catalogue and many of these are now also available online from ePrints Soton Please ask staff at the Help Desk if you need to see a printed copy of a thesis.
Use this online form to suggest a book we should buy for the National Oceanographic Library.
The National Oceanographic Library uses an in-house classification scheme
If you need assistance finding materials please speak to library staff at the Help Desk who will be pleased to help you.
The floor plan of the National Oceanographic Library which shows the layout of the collections.
These guides explain how to identify materials in the printed journals, Loose Papers and Reports collections on Library Search and where they are located in the National Oceanographic Library.
