Researchers in the library
We offer one-to-one training and advice on finding and using research resources, as well
as support for other research-related activities including online surveys, current
awareness and funding bids.
Other useful sources
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Bodleian Library - the Bodleian Library is the main research library of the
University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its
collections are used by scholars from around the world
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British Library - the British Library has one of the most comprehensive
collections of public available reports, conferences and theses in the
world, covering all subject disciplines. You can also access the
Manuscripts Catalogue , Newspaper Catalogue , Sound Archive and other
specialist catalogues
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COPAC (Consortium of University Research Libraries) - Copac is a union
catalogue. It provides free access to the merged online catalogues of 24
major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, as well as the
British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library
of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
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The European Library - for searching the content of European national
libraries
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HERO Library resources (Library Catalogues in Britain and Ireland) - Hero
is the official gateway to universities, colleges and research organisations
in the UK
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Suncat - Suncat is a comprehensive source of information about the
location of serials held in libraries throughout the UK. Suncat contains
records from nearly 50 UK libraries
Finding online bookstores
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Abebooks - for second hand and out of print books
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Alibris
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AcademicBookTrade.co.uk - for second hand academic books
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Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com
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Bibliofind- searches for rare, used and out of print books
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Booksearch x3 - searches inside books from A9.com, Google.com and
MSN Live Search at the same time
Finding e-books
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Go to The Library Catalogue and select 'electronic resource' as the Library
site
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Safari Tech Books Online
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EBL eBook Library
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Netlibrary - Electronic books for Health
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EEBO - Early English Books Online
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Project Gutenberg - the internet's oldest producer of free electronic books
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More free e-books - provided by Newcastle University Library
Finding journals
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Quick Guide to Finding Articles
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Go to The Library Catalogue and select 'journals catalogue' as the Library
site
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Search through Find a reference: Journal
Finding e-journals
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e-journals.org - links to the world's electronic journals
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A to Z list of electronic journals - powered by SFX
Finding online encyclopaedias
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Onelook - online encyclopaedia and dictionary
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Online Encyclopaedias - list of online encyclopaedias
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Wikipedia
Finding grey literature
Grey literature refers to documents that are often difficult to locate because they are not
commercially published, for example reports, theses, translations, non-commercial
conference and official government material.
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UKOP - official catalogue of UK official publications since 1980, containing
450,000 records from over 2000 public bodies.
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Parliament UK - for recent parliamentary papers
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More links to government material - provided by Newcastle University
Library
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British Library - the British Library has one of the most comprehensive
collection of public available reports, conferences and theses in the world,
covering all subject disciplines
Finding newspaper articles
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Times Digital Archive
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LexisNexis
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All the Web - searches web news services for the past week.
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British Library Newspaper Library Catalogue
Finding conference proceedings
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Conference Alerts - a searchable database of upcoming academic
conferences and a free alerting service
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Allconferences.com - a directory focusing on conferences, conventions,
trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings
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Humanities & Social Sciences Online - lists humanities and social sciences
conferences
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Technical conferences - lists technical conferences
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ZETOC - provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of
Contents service, dating back to 1993. The database contains details of
about 20 million journal and conference records, with 20,000 current
journals and 16,000 conference proceedings added each year
Finding dissertations and theses
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Index to Theses - a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts
accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland
since 1716
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Proquest Digital Dissertations - the most recent two years of dissertation
abstracts can be searched, free to members of academic institutions.
Coverage is mainly of North American doctoral theses
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
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Psychology Test and Dissertation Database
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History Online Theses
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Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities
Finding primary resources
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Cornucopia – a database of 6000 important collections from almost 2000
museums, libraries and archives, including arts, history and waste
collection
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The National Archives of the United Kingdom
Finding reading lists
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University of Northampton Reading List Catalogue
Finding statistics:
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UK National Statistics - home of official UK statistics
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Nationmaster - world statistics, country comparisons
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UK Higher Education Statistics - statistics about publicly funded UK higher
education
Open access publishing
Many researchers now place their research in an electronic repository such as an e-print
archive or an open access journal. This means that research can be made available free
of charge to anybody.
Subject-based repositories
A subject-based repository holds electronic copies of research papers in a specific
subject.
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Cogprints - electronic archive for self-archive papers in psychology,
neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology,
medicine, anthropology, physical, social and mathematical sciences
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ArXiv – e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science and
quantitative biology
Institutional repositories
An institutional repository is an online collection of electronic copies of research papers
of a specific institution.
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Sherpa - information on UK repositories
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OAIster - search service across open access repositories worldwide
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SPARC - scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
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DAREnet - worldwide access to Dutch academic research results
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WIRE - Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses