Find advice that will help you access electronic resources and guidance on what to do in case items are not available in fulltext while searching.
Tips on how to access library e-resources
Comprehensive electronic collections: including fulltext articles, ebooks, etc
YorSearch Catalogue: locate library material such as articles and book chapters.
Subject guide: look into subject-specific resources depending on your field of studies.
STARPlus Catalogue: online search tool that allows you to find and access articles.
Subject resources & support: find the link to your subject pages to access resources and support for your subject area.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature across disciplines and sources. The archive includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, scholarly societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Semantic Scholar
Helping Scholars Discover New Insights. Semantic Scholar provides free, AI driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. We index over 200 million academic papers sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.
ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.
The websites below are searchable directories of open access publications (journals and books), maintained and curated by not-for-profit scholarly foundations.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
If the fulltext of e-copy is not available, use one the following services
Interlibrary Request Service: when an item you are looking for is not available in fulltext, the library can locate it and send it to you by email.
Document Delivery Service: ensures email delivery (articles, book chapters, conference papers) through our photocopying and scanning service or postal items (books or dissertations) by sending an email at the library with full bibliographic details of an item.
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