The Discovering strand will help you develop the skills you need to find subject specific information easily. This is useful if you are reading to prepare for a lecture or seminar, need to find resources for research, or want to go beyond your reading list resources for an assignment. Here you will find resources covering: how to use LibrarySearch, how to build effective search terms, how to use Boolean operators, and citation searching in LibrarySearch and databases.
The Evaluating strand will help you develop the skills you need to critically evaluate information so you're able to select reliable and appropriate information in your research and assignments. These skills are useful for helping identify fake news and misinformation, poor quality research and unreliable information. Content includes: podcasts on misinformation and filter bubbles, understanding and applying a framework for critical evaluation, and how to select the most suitable type of resources for different situations.
You can find a full selection of subject-specific resources for Classics on our Library Resources A - Z.
A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources ideal for scholars of languages, literature, religion and philosophy, history and the visual and performing arts. With feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, musicals, operas and plays, this database provides access to research that illuminates human thinking, action and interaction.
Hundreds of international full-text journals from North America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America bring a global perspective to researching the human experience. With locally published content integrated with region-specific authoritative resources from all over the globe, Humanities Source Ultimate provides unparalleled coverage of regional news pertinent to the humanities.
A multi-disciplinary databases with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, as well as over 3 million images.
Quick tips on searching JSTOR
Over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Subjects covered include cinema, cultural studies, drama, history, literature, mathematics, modern languages, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.Most journals available online from 1995 or 1996 onwards
PDF guide to searching Project MUSE
Video Tutorials on using Project MUSE (YouTube)
E-books of the Cambridge Companions in Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Music and Culture, giving accessible introductions to major writers, artists, composers, philosophers, topics and periods. Individual titles are listed in the library catalogue.
Over 270 e-books from the Cambridge Histories series, published since 1960. The collection covers a range of subjects, from American History to History of the Book, including Economic History, British History, Philosophy, Language and Literature, Ancient History & Classical Studies.
Covering Latin literature from its origins to the Renaissance. A multilingual research tool for scholars interested in the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The LLT-A contains a diverse range of Latin works from Antiquity, the Church Fathers, the medieval period and the modern period.
Includse genres as varied as chronicles, medieval saints' lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the early-modern period.
Presents a virtual library of all of the Loeb Greek and Latin literature texts (covering: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; Church Fathers & pagan culture).
How to use Loeb Classical Library
Oxford Handbooks in Classics bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in Classics.
Help with searching Oxford Handbooks
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
Over 100,000 free downloadable e-books in a range of languages, including classic literature and drama.
Areas of interest to medievalists include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Music, and Theatre.
A series of online research guides containing a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video user guide (YouTube)
A searchable digital version of the dictionary created by The University of Chicago Library.
One of the most complete and authoritative modern encyclopedia of the ancient world. In nearly 20,000 entries it covers two thousand years of history and culture of Greco-Roman Antiquity and the reception of this in the two thousand years that followed. searching help
One-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world and contains over 6,200 entries, covering Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity.
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
THE FIRST TIME YOU USE TLG YOU WILL NEED TO REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE. Collection of digitized texts written in Greek from Homer (8c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. searching help
Online resources about history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world, including primary and secondary texts, images, an interactive atlas and an encyclopedia. searching help
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform that offers films, documentaries and educational videos.
OneFile News is a full-text international newspaper resource that allows users to quickly search and compare news articles published worldwide.
A collection of historical archives (modern to present), newspapers and periodicals (17th to 19th centuries) including:
Archives Unbound
Daily Mail Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive
Nineteenth Century UK Peridicals - Empire
Political Extremism and Radicalism
State Papers Online Colonial
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from different news sources.
The link below will help you find Royal Holloway PhD theses, UK theses through British Library's EThOS service and theses and dissertations from other countries through ProQuest.
The online academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present.
Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
Over 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business.
A series of online research guides in a range of subjects including American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Victorian Literature, Geography, Classics and Philosophy. Each guide contains a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video user guide (YouTube)
Through this link you will find more information about accessing Senate House's physical and online resources, as well as information about accessing libraries at other institutions.
