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Featured Resources

Featured Resources

Science Direct
ScienceDirect combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that users can stay informed in their fields and can work more effectively and efficiently.
Scopus
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines.
Gale Academic Onefile
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science, and technology. This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers, many with full-text images.
Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents.
Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) is the leading multidisciplinary index in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Three centuries of indexed arts, humanities, and social sciences, from the first issue to 1995 or the date of its disappearance.
International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)
Covers journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951, on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material.
GeoRef
Provides access to references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. The database covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
Clarivate Web of Science
A multi disciplinary database. used in the Sciences and Humanities. Use it to search across a large range of academic e-journals, e-books and conference proceedings.

Postgraduate Information Sessions and Workshops 2023

There are Library sessions and workshops are for Postgraduate students.

Information sessions 10-11am (via Zoom)

26 Jul - Postgraduate Library Services – An introduction to Library support, recommended resources and services.
30 Aug - Effective Search Strategies - Learn how to search recommended databases for relevant literature, and manage your results
27 Sep - Thesis Information – For new thesis students, about preparation, copyright compliance, submitting, and depositing.
28 Jun; 25 Oct - Researcher Profiles - Building an online profile to promote your research, and yourself.

Hands-on Workshops 10-11.30am (via Zoom)

20 Jun; 22 Aug - EndNote for PC (Windows) - Use EndNote to store, group, edit and annotate references, and cite while you write
22 Jun; 24 Aug - EndNote for Mac - Use EndNote to store, group, edit and annotate references, and cite while you write
26 Oct - Research Data Management - Make sense of the complexity around data storage, description, re-use and archiving (face-to-face only).
31 Oct - Getting published - Practical tips for postgraduates. Learn how to develop a publishing strategy and identify the right journals for submission.
2 Nov - Impact Metrics - Understand tools that explain impact factors and ranking for what to read, and where to publish.