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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Contact Us
University of Roehampton
Roehampton Lane
London
SW15 5SZ
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.
Essential Resources
Journal databases
Many journal databases generally provide the pdf for articles in your results list. However some databases may 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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Project MuseJournal articles in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Communication and Mass MediaFull-text journal articles in media studies, communication, and other closely-related fields.
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Academic Search PremierFull text journals and abstracts in a range of academic disciplines.
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JSTORHundreds of full text journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
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Sage PremierOver 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
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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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ScienceDirectContains over 2500 scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals from the publisher Elsevier.
Key journals for Publishing
It is possible to set up regular email alerts for most journals. Once set up you will receive the most recently published table of contents, this is particularly useful if you want to improve your current awareness of academic literature in your research area.
Current newspapers and magazines
Newspaper and magazine archives
Use these Business Source Premier and Mintel to search for Industry Reports, e.g. book publishing industry reports, or trends in publishing.
WARC is useful if you are looking for the latest information/case studies on specific publishing companies.
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Project GutenbergOver 54,000 well-known books.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)Digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700, searchable by keyword.
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Early European BooksFacsimile images of books printed in Europe before 1701, searchable by keyword.
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Hockliffe ProjectA collection of early British children's books.
The Academic Achievement Team have a range of online resources to help plan, write and finish your dissertation.
Sage Research Methods Online also provide a range of useful tools including a Project Planner, which breaks down each stage of your research from defining your topic, reviewing the literature to summarising and writing up.
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AA Team dissertation videosA range of recordings to help you with each stage of your research.
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Sage Research Methods OnlineProvides help, guidance and tools for designing, writing and reporting research projects.
Problems logging in off campus? See our tutorial.
Useful links to online dissertations and 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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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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DART-Europe E-theses PortalFree access to nearly 800,000 open access research theses from 615 universities in 28 European countries.
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Roehampton Research Explorer - Student ThesesIncludes mostly doctoral theses.
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The Archive of British Publishing and Printing (University of Reading)Holds collections relating to the British book industry. These form a valuable resource for the study of all aspects of book production and printing.
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St Bride FoundationSt Bride Library is an extraordinary archive relating to printing, publishing and graphic design. With over 100,000 items, the library is probably the largest of its kind in the world and is regularly open to view.
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Archives & Special CollectionsThe 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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