
Books and e-books
The Library is a major international research collection of 200,000 art historical books and journals and 60,000+ exhibition catalogues, and several million ebooks, online articles, and digital images available through LibrarySearch and our image databases. As such, it is a highly significant resource for the international scholarly community.
The Library is a major international research collection of 200,000 art historical books and journals and 60,000+ exhibition catalogues, and several million ebooks, online articles, and digital images available through LibrarySearch and our image databases. As such, it is a highly significant resource for the international scholarly community.
Find books and other holdings via our online catalogue.
Book loan limits are currently set at:
- 7 for BAs, MAs, PgDips;
- 10 for PhDs and Staff
Loan periods are 1 week for BAs, MAs, PgDips; 2 weeks for PhDs, 3 weeks for Staff.
However, your loans will automatically renew, unless a student requests the book that you’ve borrowed; in this case, you are notified via email and need to bring back the book by the due date. Every day you fail to return a book after it has been recalled, will result in a freeze on your account. For example, if you don’t return a recalled book for a week, you won’t be allowed to borrow books for a week.
Ebooks
E-books can be found through our online search catalogue, or through the following platforms. They are accessible off campus using your Courtauld username and password’
- A&AePortal (Yale)
- ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)
- VLeBooks (Browns Books)
- Ebook Central (Proquest)
- Ebook Collection (Ebsco)
- JISC Historic Texts (JISC eCollections) contains EEBO (Early English Books Online), ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and BL 19th Century (19th Century British Library Newspapers).
There are a wide variety of freely available e-book collections online. Please see our online resources page, under ‘open access resources, e-books‘.