We use cookies on our website. Find out about our cookie policy here.Continue

Open seven days a week, 10.00 - 18.00. Entry is free*.

Library catalogue

Our main library catalogue has changed and we no longer share a catalogue with Imperial College. Our new catalogue documents a large part of our library holdings stored at our Wroughton site and everything shelved in the Research Centre.

Over three-quarters of the catalogued book collections are on the computer catalogue, including:

  • All histories and biographies of science, technology and medicine
  • All books published before 1800
  • Nineteenth century books on mathematics, the physical sciences, medicine, engineering, and scientific exploration
  • Twentieth century books on general science, mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, transport, and scientific exploration
  • Everything published after 1983

Tip and hints

You can search the online catalogue for library material at London and Wroughton. Electronic resources will be added to the system gradually.

It is generally easier if you use the advanced search for:

  • Books: limit to Item types Book, Book Not for Loan and Reference Book
  • Journals: use Title Phrase instead of Keyword, and limit to Journal Not for Loan
  • Limiting by date:  you can only do this by using Advanced Search
  • Limiting by format: not all formats shown are used yet

Please contact us to find out what else we may have in the library collections and staff will check our card catalogue and our other lists of collections. Our remaining card catalogue entries are gradually being computerised. Volunteers are also listing our trade literature collection and we hope to add these to the library catalogue in the near future

Enhanced services

Once you have registered, you can use our enhanced services to:

  • Suggest new books to be added to the library
  • See your search and your reading history
  • Create your own reading lists (private or public)
  • Place a hold for loanable books stored remotely. They will then be transported from Wroughton to London or visa-versa, so you can use them there. You cannot do this for rare books – please see Ordering Library and Archive Collections
  • See what you have borrowed and renew items

Other Science Museum Group catalogues
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/collections-and-research/collections/library-collections/library-catalogue
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-17
36043
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:MACK4LB6QAVWMHOSBGYO5DLVNCHSHS27
<urn:uuid:51f2472e-289b-4e8e-be30-ede4660b5aba>
2017-04-25T02:59:14Z
62.128.207.33
sha1:ERKZ46EO4AMTUV7672ASTMOEWRKQBU5E
<urn:uuid:aae4fab0-4aaa-42f2-8ff6-9e7d736e1355>
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/collections-and-research/collections/library-collections/library-catalogue
response
<urn:uuid:c8f85c5e-af49-4deb-b08a-844997c7d0ec>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-17
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2017
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf