Further help with your studies
Information for part-time and distance learning students, students on placement, researchers studying at a distance and students with children
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Information Skills Tutorials The Library is continually developing online Information Skills Tutorials which aim to help you gain the information skills you need to complete your course successfully. As well as advice on making effective use of the Library and its resources, they offer, where appropriate, advice on the method of citing references used by your department. Further help with managing references you have used for your essays/ dissertations etc is available from the Quick links. |
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Subject guides There are many guides which provide you with information about specific subjects and how to obtain material relevant to those subjects, within the Library and on the internet. Amongst other things, the guides include links to the most appropriate electronic journals, databases and books for your studies. It is also worth checking whether one or more of the additional guides to subject sources supplement this information. |
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Literature searching guides These provide advice on successful literature searching strategies. |
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User guides to searching subject databases A number of user guides are available to help you search the subject databases. Some of these are produced by the Library and others by the Publisher of the database. |
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Electronic resources This web page provides a wealth of information and is very well worth exploring. |
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Other useful internet resources The Useful Internet resources section of the Library web provides links to a wide range of useful free web sites that can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection. It includes links to subject gateways, news services, search engines, government and company information and statistics and can be accessed from the Quick links. |