In this section of the Library's Moodle space you will find resources and activities to help you develop your information searching skills.
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.
Recommended resources box as standard - populate tabs with types of resources relevant to your subject area.
This link opens in a new windowProvides 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
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
This link opens in a new windowNexis 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.
This link opens in a new windowUnprecedented diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives. Unparalleled selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 ebooks enables breadth and depth of study.
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowTorrossa, Casalini Libri's full text platform, offers access to articles and chapters, ebooks and ejournals from various Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese publishers.
This link opens in a new windowAn international Bibliography of German Literature and Literary Studies.
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.
A database of books published by Italian Academies between 1530 and 1700, listing printed material relating to the Italian learned Academies active in Bologna, Naples, Padua and Siena and now held in the collections of the British Library.
This database includes monographs, periodicals, maps and atlases, music scores and sound recordings, theses and dissertations dating back to 1913 Also, the database contains the holdings of the German Music Archive since 1976 and the archives of the German exile archive 1933-1945.
Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
How to use Early European Books
This link opens in a new windowUnprecedented diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives. Unparalleled selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 ebooks enables breadth and depth of study.
This link opens in a new windowTorrossa, Casalini Libri's full text platform, offers access to articles and chapters, ebooks and ejournals from various Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese publishers.
This link opens in a new windowOver 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business.
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.
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 Periodicals (Series 2, Empire)
Political Extremism and Radicalism
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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 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
This link opens in a new windowOver 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, Environmental Science, 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)
