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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Learning Skills Hub on MoodleWorkshop and drop-ins calendar, session recordings, online tutorials and more
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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.
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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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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Web Of Science Core CollectionDatabase comprising Science, Social Science and Arts & Humanities citation indexes.
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English Historical DocumentsContains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.
Bible commentaries aid in the study of scripture by providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text. The library holds commentaries forevery book of the bible. To help you nd a commentary for your book you’re working with, please refer to the reading list below:Bible commentaries aid in the study of scripture by providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text. The library holds commentaries forevery book of the bible. To help you nd a commentary for your book you’re working with, please refer to the reading list below:Bible commentaries aid in the study of scripture by providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text. The library holds commentaries for every book of the bible. To help you nd a commentary for your book you’re working with, please refer to the reading list below
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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.
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The Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism for freeFree online database, containing many open access journal articles on the subject of Ethics and Theology. Its focus is on theology,intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics, and ecumenism. To access full-text articles you must create a free account.
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.
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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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