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Full Text Databases generally provide the pdf for articles in your results list. However these databases also contain records of articles published elsewhere. You may be able to access these articles by clicking the Full Text Finder button, provided we have a subscription to the journal they are in.
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Academic Search PremierFull text journals and abstracts in a range of academic disciplines.
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Cambridge CompanionsIncludes the Companions in Literature and the Classics
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Cambridge CoreAccess to thousands of e-books from Cambridge University Press in a range of disciplines including science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, economics, history, law, politics and international relations.
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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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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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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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JSTOR eBooksHundreds of full text journals 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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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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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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Project MuseJournal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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SAGE KnowledgeA digital social sciences library of more than 5,100 titles, including reference works, handbooks, and articles.
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Web Of Science Core CollectionDatabase comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
Click here for off-campus access.
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KANOPYStreams thousands of films, documentaries and training videos across a wide range of subjects. Many films have captions, transcripts or subtitles and are compatible with technologies for visual impairment, such as JAWS. Please note, we do not have access to BBC productions via this service but BBC programmes may be available via Rob Roehampton.
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ROB RoehamptonA streaming and recording service that allows students and staff to record Freeview TV and radio programmes, as well as create clips and playlists. Users can access the growing archive of all recorded programmes, plus the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives.
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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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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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Pure (Student Theses)Search for University of Roehampton student theses.
The University's Foyle Special Collections & Archives consist of rare books, original documents and artefacts which support various teaching and research areas of the University of Roehampton. The collections relate to Friedrich Froebel and the kindergarten, Froebel College, Children's Literature and the children’s book author Richmal Crompton, Dance, and to a number of other areas including Religious Studies.
The Library also subscribes to number of large archive collections that are not freely available online. These can be found on the other pages in this guide.
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Special Collections & ArchivesThe University's Special Collections & Archives homepage. Includes information about the Children's Literature and Richmal Crompton Special Collections.
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Digital Archives & Research ResourcesThis pages contains links to useful archives and digital collections, e.g. The National Archives, The British Library Digital Collections, Archive Hub, etc.
It also contains a selection of digital content from the University's own collections, includes historical photographs, images of archival material as well as publication fragments (which can be made available to individuals upon request), and the Roehampton Digital Collections a freely available digital library of key texts for the Children's Literature Collection and the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies.
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