To find out if a specific book is in the Library you just need to check the Enterprise catalogue (search box below). Enter the author's surname and one or two words from the title.
Example: "Hall pharmacy practice"
You can also search Enterprise for a topic to find related books.
Finding printed books and e-books
Search the Enterprise catalogue to find specific books or books on a topic.
Finding online book chapters
To find online book chapters on a topic search the Summon discovery service:
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Our Inter-Library Loans service can get books not held at Reading from other libraries (usually from the British Library).
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| 540 | Chemistry |
| 543 | Analytical chemistry |
| 547 | Organic chemistry |
| 547.2 | Organic synthesis |
| 547.3 | Organic analysis |
| 570 | Biological and life sciences |
| 571 | Physiology |
| 571.6 | Cell biology |
| 572 | Biochemistry |
| 579 | Microbiology |
| 580 | Botanical sciences |
| 581.634 | Medicinal plants |
| 610 | Medicinal sciences |
| 610.73 | Nursing |
| 612 | Human physiology |
| 612.4 | Endocrinology |
| 615 | Pharmacology and therapeutics |
| 615.1 | Drugs (Materia medica) |
| 615.19 | Pharmceutical chemistry |
| 615.5 | Therapeutics |
| 615.9 | Toxicology and poisons |
| 616 | Diseases |
| 616.01 | Medical microbiology |
Amino acids 547.75
Antibiotics 615.329
Bacteria, pathogenic 616.014
Biomaterials 610.284
British pharmacopoeia 615.1142
Cancer 616.994
Chemotherapy 615.58
Clinical trials 615.50724
Clinical drug trials 615.580724
Diseases 616
Disease control 614.4
Drug development 615.19
Drugs 615.1
Food analysis 664.07
Food poisons 615.954
Genetics 575.1
Genetics, Human 599.935
Herbals 615.321
Industrial toxicology 615.902
Law, Medical 347.1195
Medicinal plants 581.634
Metabolism 591.13
Microbiology, medicinal 616.01
Mycotoxins 615.95295
Narcotics and stimulants 613.8
Natural products 547.7
Nervous system, drugs effecting 615.78
Nucleic acids chemistry 547.596
Nursing ethics 610.694
Nutrition 612.3
Obesity 616.398
Pain management 616.0472
Pharmaceutical arithmetic 615.1401513
Pharmaceutical chemistry 615.19
Pharmacokinetics 615.7
Pharmacy in practice 615
Plants, drugs from 615.321
Plants, medicinal 581.634
Prescription writing 615.14
Proteins 547.75
Public health 614
Statistics in biology 570.15195
Statistics in therapeutics 615.5072
Therapeutics research 615.5072
Therapeutic systems 615.53
Toxicology 615.9
Vaccines 615.372
Virology, Medical 579.2
Vitamins and health 612.399
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