Borrow or Consult My Books Worldwide
From national legal deposit archives and university engineering libraries to local public lending collections, my books on renewable energy, model rocketry, biofuels, holography, and automotive electronics are stocked in hundreds of libraries across the globe—including translated editions.
Copies of my technical guidebooks, clean technology handbooks, and Evil Genius project volumes—along with their international translations in Italian and Chinese—are held in hundreds of libraries worldwide. Whether you are a student, researcher, educator, or hands-on maker, there is a good chance you can borrow or consult a copy without having to buy one.
The interactive map below tracks known institutional holdings across five distinct categories of collections:
- University & Academic Libraries: Engineering, architecture, and physical sciences collections at universities, polytechnics, and higher education institutions worldwide.
- National & Legal Deposit Libraries: Permanent archival holdings at national repositories, including the British Library, the National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the National Library of Australia.
- Public & Regional Libraries: City, county, and state lending libraries that make practical STEM, renewable energy, and electronics projects accessible to local communities.
- Further Education, Technical & School Libraries: Sixth-form colleges, vocational institutes, and high school STEM libraries.
- Specialist & Research Institutes: Independent laboratories, science museums, and professional engineering societies.
Tip: Click the drawer icon in the top-left corner of the map to toggle individual layers on and off, or click any pin to see which specific titles that institution holds.
Borrow or Consult My Books Worldwide
From national legal deposit archives and university engineering libraries to local public lending collections, my books on renewable energy, model rocketry, biofuels, holography, and automotive electronics are stocked in hundreds of libraries across the globe—including translated editions in Italian and Chinese.
Use the interactive map below to explore holdings by library type, or search WorldCat (Global) and Jisc Library Hub (UK & Ireland) to locate the nearest copy to you. If your local library doesn't hold a title on the shelf, quote the ISBN listed below to request it through your library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.
Track Down a Copy Near You
If your local or institutional library is not yet shown on the map, you can search regional and global union catalogs directly to locate the nearest physical or digital copy, or request one via Interlibrary Loan (ILL):
- Worldwide — OCLC WorldCat: The world's largest network of library content. Enter your postcode or city to find the closest holding library anywhere on the globe.
- UK & Ireland — Jisc Library Hub Discover: Searches across 200+ UK and Irish university, national, and specialist research libraries simultaneously.
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Continental Europe:
- France: Search the ABES Sudoc University Catalog.
- Germany & Austria: Search the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) or the German National Library (DNB).
- Italy: Search the ICCU SBN National OPAC (particularly for the Italian Hoepli edition, L'energia solare e le sue applicazioni).
- North America: Check the Library of Congress Catalog in the United States or Library and Archives Canada (Voilà) in Canada.
- Australia & New Zealand: Search the National Library of Australia's Trove Service.
- Digital & Accessible Lending: Selected titles can also be previewed or borrowed digitally through the Internet Archive Open Library.
Spot a Missing Library?
Library catalog data is updated periodically from public union registries. If you spot one of my books on the shelves of a university, school, or public library that isn't pinned on the map yet, please get in touch and let me know so I can add it to the next update!