Academic Achievement Team
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The Academic Achievement Team is committed to helping students realise their academic potential and move towards becoming independent learners.
The team consists of five members of staff including the Team Leader.
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Getting Started
Not sure where to start?
Have a look at our How To... page for our three part tutorial on getting started with your research. The Starting Your Research tutorial is tailored to your School/Department.
You will also find guidance on searching Library databases, provided by some of our database providers.
Roehampton has strong collections of materials to support the study of children's literature, both in print and online. These include primary sources, historical and contemporary children's book collections, critical works and commentary, biography and autobiography of children's authors and illustrators and children's literature journals.
Reference, Handbooks & Companions
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American National Biography OnlineProfiles of more than 18,700 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, who have influenced and shaped the United States of America's history and culture.
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Cambridge CompanionsIncludes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.
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Cambridge HistoriesAmerican and British history, economic and scientific history, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies, warfare and literary studies.
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Encyclopedia of Children's LiteratureIncludes biographies of every major author and illustrator and essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works and prominent trends and themes throughout the world.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.
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Oxford English Dictionary OnlineA fully searchable online version of the Second print edition of the OED.
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Oxford Handbooks OnlineThe Oxford Handbooks series brings together the world’s leading scholars to write articles that survey the current state of scholarship in their field. The articles review the key issues, reveal original arguments and concepts, and set the agenda for new research.
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Oxford Reference OnlineThis collection of reference works allows cross searching of over 100 dictionaries and encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
Specialist databases
Databases are large, searchable collections of academic materials. Some provide access to full-text journal articles, whilst others provide abstract or citation information about journal articles which we may or may not have full-text access to. The content of most databases are linked to 'Search Everything' on UR Library Search, or for more precise and relevant searche you can choose to search the individual databases.
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Children's Literature Review (now on the Literature Criticism Online platform)Access to Children's Literature Review is available for volumes 98 (2005) to 232 (2019).
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Education Research CompleteCovers all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, plus multilingual education, health education and testing
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ERIC (Education Research Information Center)Journal articles, theses and conferences on education, mostly published in the USA but with good UK and international coverage
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Hockliffe ProjectA collection of early British children's books.
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Humanities IndexContains 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
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JSTORHundreds of full text journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
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Literature Criticism OnlineLiterature Criticism Online is the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. It includes scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.
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Literature OnlineEnglish and American poetry, drama and prose from the 8th to the 21st century, with thousands critical articles, essays, biographies and encyclopaedia entries.
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Project GutenbergOver 54,000 well-known books.
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Project MuseJournal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Special Collections & Archives at University of Roehampton Library
The Library also holds a School Experience Collection on the first floor containing a large collection of picture books, young adult titles as well as teaching materials.
Digital Archives and other Research Resources
The Foyle Special Collections and Archives has a selection of digital content from its collections. This includes historical photographs, images of archival material as well as publication fragments (in addition to the Roehampton Digital Collections). The content can be made available to individuals upon request.
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Gale Primary SourcesA cross-searchable platform of eight databases containing searchable facsimile reproductions of newspapers, periodicals, books and ephemera from the 17th to 20th centuries, including digital archives of the Illustrated London News, the Listener, Times & Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
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British Library NewspapersThe British Library’s archives of searchable facsimiles of regional and national newspapers from the 19th century.
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British PeriodicalsPeriodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
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Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineFull text searching of millions of pages of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Guardian (The) and The Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Historical local, regional and national UK news from 1791 - 2003.
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Illustrated London NewsA digital archive of the world's first weekly illustrated newspaper from 1842 to 2003, providing contemporary accounts and images of significant British and world events.
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John Johnson CollectionArchive of printed ephemera covering everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Nineteenth Century Collections OnlinePrimary sources covering British politics, society, and culture, including theatre, music and literature.
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Nineteenth Century UK PeriodicalsAccess to close to 100 periodicals for the study of British life in the 19th century - from women to sports and leisure, and from children to humour.
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Periodicals Archive OnlineAn archive of hundreds of digitised journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. covering scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences from 1802 to 2000.
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Times Digital ArchiveThe Times newspaper in facsimile from 1785 - 2014.
Other major collections catalogues and digitised collections
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International Children's Digital LibraryThe ICDL is a rich resource which can be used in a wonderfully wide range of situations by children, parents, teachers, librarians and others from all walks of life. Children can expand upon the stories to create games; parents can extract themes to help explain important lessons; teachers can utilize the multicultural nature of the collection to teach languages.
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International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together.
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EThOSNational thesis service provided by the British Library which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral theses.
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Open DissertationsEBSCO Open Dissertations is an online thesis and dissertation database with access to over 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.
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