Library Help and Advice for online library use

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1. ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS OF DATABASES, JOURNALS, eBOOKS, AND DISSERTATIONS   

Access to comprehensive electronic collections:

Digital Collections

EBSCO databases

OpenABEKT Library Catalogue

• eBook Collection: explore our eBooks and find what is newly acquired in the library.
• eTextbooks: find in electronic format the main textbooks used for taught Units.
• eRecommended Readings:  includes a list of supplemental readings pertaining to Units. Grasp the opportunity to further meet course expectations by going through the suggested Recommended Material of the Unit Syllabi.
• eDissertations: locate the ecopy of dissertations held by students (title, subject, student name)

2. UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD LIBRARY RESOURCES

STARPlus Library Catalogue

Subject Resources & Support

3. OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES (DOA)

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)

• DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

• Includes over 20 000 peer-reviewed academic e-books which are free to read, primarily in the humanities and social science disciplines.  Full text is available to download for reading offline.

Additional library services include:

• Reference & Research Assistance: library services & resources are available 7 days a week: we are here to respond to your questions (by email or phone).
   
• 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.

Boost your skills and achieve the best results in your projects, assignments and dissertation.

We are here to support you.

• Library Guides for subject specific advice.

• Discover the tools for an effective research on a specific topic.

• Browse through our electronic Academic & Research Skills collection.

• Learn How to Manage References and what online referencing tools are available when you are writing and you use someone else’s words or ideas.

• Find downloadable Help Guides to support your study and research.

• Visit the Online tutorials webpages to find further support for your studies.