• SCONUL Access Band A

SCONUL Access is the largest borrowing scheme for Higher Education researchers in the UK and Ireland, its members can borrow books from 129 Higher Education institutions.

This scheme is for academic staff on open or fixed term contracts and postgraduate research students registered for a PhD, MPhil or similar qualification awarded purely by research.

Please apply online at http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access.

• A2A: Access to Archives, the English strand of the UK archives network, the A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day, updated regularly.
• AIM25, a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty Higher Education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area.
• Archive of Art and Design, the Archive of Art and Design (AAD) was established in 1978 to house the Victoria and Albert Museum’s growing holdings of collected archival material.
• Archives Hub, a national gateway providing free access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges.
• Artists’ Papers Register, a location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom.
• The National Archives
• The National Archives: The National Register of Archives
• The National Archives of Scotland
• Historic England
• National Portrait Gallery: Heinz Archive & Library

• BFI National Library
• British Library
• Goldsmiths: Library
• INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts): Stuart Hall Library
• Lambeth Palace Library, the Library has also put together a very useful pamphlet onSources for Architectural History at Lambeth Palace Library.
• National Art Library
• National Portrait Gallery: Heinz Archive & Library
• Paul Mellon Centre: Library and Archive
• RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects): British Architectural Library
• Tate: Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms
• University of London: Senate House Library, please note that registered readers of the Senate House Library can access these electronic resources.
• University of London Libraries (comprise Senate House Library and those of the Institutes of the School of Advanced Study, such as the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute)
• Wellcome Library

• Cambridge University Library
• Copac Academic & National Library Catalogue, Copac gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, see list of contributing libraries.
• National Library of Scotland
• National Library of Wales
• Oxford Libraries Information System

• Art Discovery Group Catalogue
• Art Libraries Network Florence – Munich – Rome
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• The European Library, searches the content of European national libraries.
• IRIS (Associazione di Biblioteche)
• KUBIKAT, the collective catalogue of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Paris and Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome.
• URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche), comprises such libraries as those of the British School at Rome and the Ecole française de Rome.
• WorldCat, searches the collections of more than 10 000 libraries worldwide.

• SALSER, a serials catalogue for Scottish academic and research libraries.
• SUNCAT, Serials Union Catalogue for the UK.
• University of London Union List of Serials, enables searching of libraries within the M25 region and more widely across the East and Southeast.