Online with your library

Your new Libraries website – launching on 1 April

We will be launching our new Libraries website on Wednesday 1 April. The site will not only have an improved look and feel, for the first time you will be able search the catalogue, join, log in to your account and borrow books from the homepage. Our existing Library webpages may be offline from Friday 20 March, in preparation for launching the new site. All your account information will be carried across on Friday 20, and will be there in the new site. The App will continue working throughout. We have more information on our website   

Access to Research

Access to Research is a service that provides free access to more than 30 million academic articles in public libraries across the UK.

A wide range of subjects is covered. Examples include:

  • art
  • architecture
  • business
  • engineering
  • history
  • languages
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • mathematics
  • sciences

You can use Access to Research in any Thurrock library. Articles are provided online through their publishers' websites.

Using Access to Research

You can open the Access to Research website from a 'bookmark' link in the Google Chrome browser on any library computer.

Although to can open the website from any device on the internet, you get access to more information when you open Access to Research from a computer on our libraries network.

Other research

For other ways to research with Thurrock libraries, go to: