Academic Achievement Team
Are you:
- New to university life
- Researching your topic area
- Evaluating your research
- Writing up your assignment
- Doing statistical analysis using SPSS or NVivo
- Preparing to take exams or give a presentation
- Unsure about Referencing
- Wanting to improve your Digital Skills
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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University of Roehampton
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London
SW15 5SZ
+44 20 8392 3770
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.
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Loeb Classical LibraryThe digital Loeb Classical Library covers Greek and Latin literature. There are more than 520 volumes of Latin and Greek texts with facing translations.
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Brill's New Pauly OnlineA recognised standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. If you need to look anything up, this should be your first port of call (i.e. better than Wikipedia or Google!)
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Oxford Bibliographies: ClassicsEach article is a guide to current scholarship in Classics, written and reviewed by academic experts to guide users through the subject. Perfect for becoming an instant expert on a new field.
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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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Cambridge CompanionsThere are companions for pretty much most topics you will want to study. Browse them carefully thinking about the author, the genre, or the topic under which you might find relevant chapters.
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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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Cambridge CoreAccess to thousands of e-books and some of the best scholarship on the ancient world that Cambridge University Press has to offer.
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Academic Search PremierFull text journals and abstracts in a range of academic disciplines.
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Année PhilologiqueScholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilisations, e.g. literature, linguistics, history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music &science.
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Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerialsAtla (The American Theological Library Association) covers: bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; world religions and religious studies; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; theology, philosophy, and ethics
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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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Philosopher's IndexDatabase covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy.
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Project MuseJournal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Web Of Science Core CollectionDatabase comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
Highlighted Resources:
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ARTSTORA curated collection of over 2.5 million high quality images. The images are all copyright cleared for education and research so can be used in essays, presentations and other assignments. Artstor also provide curated guides on many disciplines, e.g. Classical Studies: Ancient Art: Aegean and Greek City States; Green, Etruscan, and Roman Sculpture; Greek Architecture; Etruscan and Roman Art; Ancient Mediterranean.
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EuropeanaAccess to digitised books, music, and artworks from Europe's museums, libraries, and archives.
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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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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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Pure (Student Theses)Search for University of Roehampton student theses.
In addition to the archives listed below, 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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Institute of Classical StudiesThe national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in Classics and related disciplines throughout the UK and abroad.
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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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