At King's, you will have access to student spaces and facilities tailored to your needs.

King’s libraries at all the main campuses provide key services and resources that support teaching, learning and research. Information on specific disciplines can be found in the Library Subject Guides.

The library service holds 900,000 hard copy books, 345,000 ebooks and 36,000 journal titles. Libraries provide a range of working environments including computer rooms, silent study rooms and spaces for group work.

King’s students also have access to the Senate House Library (University of London). Learn more about this and the regional and national access schemes King’s participates in on our libraries page.

Postgraduate only workspaces are available at the libraries based near the Strand Campus and on the Waterloo and Guy's campuses.

IT services at King's provide:

• Over 1,200 student PC workstations with access to software, email, internet resources, printing, data storage and remote login facilities
• Computer rooms open 24 hours a day, seven days a week
• Internet and PC access, including wireless, at all College residences
• Access to specialist departmental software and personal files from any PC/laptop with an internet/wireless connection via the Global Desktop
• Software advice and distribution services, including discounted software deals.

King's treasury of five million archival items and nearly 300,000 special collection books is of international significance both as a scholarly resource and as part of our cultural heritage. Professional archivists and rare book librarians advise on materials available for specific research and provide methodological guidance. Holdings in the archive include:

• The historical library of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office; 60,000 volumes covering five centuries of the UK's interactions with the world.
• The largest archives in London reflecting the practice of medicine, psychiatry and healthcare.
• The individual lives of Londoners over several centuries.
• Scientific discoveries and firsts including Maxwell, Wheatstone, Appleton, Franklin and Wilkins's work.
• Research interests in the history of war and international politics (the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives)
• Modern poetry including an unmatched collection of recordings of concrete poets.
• Papers on the history, culture and politics of modern Greece and Portugal.

King's core research facilities provide access to essential technology and equipment to enhance the research conducted by King's scientists.

These include the:

• Biological Services Unit
• Centre for Ultrastructural Imaging
• Imaging scanning facility
• MRI scanner.

There are also smaller facilities including the:

• Genomics facility
• Mass spectrometry facility
• Proteomics
• Genome manipulation facility
• NMR facility
• Optical spectroscopy facility
• Protein production
• X-ray crystallography
• Biacore facility
• Cell sorting facility
• Intravital microscope
• Infectious disease biobank.

King's is committed to ensuring that all research with human participants is conducted with integrity and according to generally accepted ethical principles. The ethics application process at King’s is designed to assist staff and students in identifying ethical issues and how they might be best addressed.

The Research Ethics Office is able to provide support via online resources, expert advice to those applying for ethical approval within the College and training in research ethics for staff and students.