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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.
Reference works, Handbooks & Companions
Reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, companions, etc. are a great place to start learn about a new topic, e.g. by providing helpful summaries and useful bibliographies.
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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.
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Cambridge CompanionsIncludes the Companions in: Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Literature and the Classics and Music.
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Cambridge HistoriesCambridge Histories offer a big picture perspective in each subject area, making them essential reading for anyone researching or studying a subject that has an historical element. Includes The New Cambridge History of the Bible ; The New Cambridge History of Islam ; The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World.
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Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007Overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel.
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Encyclopaedia of IslamSets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World and reflects the great diversity of current scholarship. It includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.
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Brill's New Pauly OnlineA recognised standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world.
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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.
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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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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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Who's Who and Who Was WhoThe leading source of up to date information about over 90,000 influential people from all walks of life, worldwide, who have left their mark on British public life.Who Was Who is an archive of people included in previous editions of Who's Who.
Specialist databases
Databases are large, searchable collections of academic materials (journal articles, ebooks, newspapers, videos, etc). Some journal databases provide access to full-text articles, whilst others provide abstract or citation information about journal articles that 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 search you can choose to search the individual databases.
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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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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)A comprehensive social sciences database which provides an index to books and journals dating back to 1951.
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JSTORHundreds of full text journals and eBooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
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New Testament AbstractsNew Testament Abstracts is produced by Atla in partnership with Boston College. Abstracts are in English. Coverage includes New Testament general, Gospels-Acts, Epistles-Revelation, Biblical Theology and the World of the New Testament.
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Old Testament AbstractsOld Testament Abstracts is produced by ATLA in partnership with the Catholic Biblical Association. All abstracts are in English regardless of the language of the original work. Coverage includes antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, and philology.
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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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St. John's Timeline ProjectInteractive timelines containing video interviews from a theological perspective on subjects as diverse as 'Gospel and Empire', Jacques Lacan, onto theology, Richard Dawkins, natural evil, and feminist theology.
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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 (Roehampton Online Broadcasts)A streaming and recording service that allows students and staff to record Freeview TV and radio programmes, as well as create clips and playlists. You can access the growing archive of all recorded programmes, plus the BBC Digital and Shakespeare Archives.
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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. Covers a range of subject areas.
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EuropeanaAccess to digitised books, music, and artworks from Europe's museums, libraries, and archives.
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PressReaderOnline access to a vast range of current newspapers and magazines, with over 7,000 titles, from 120+ countries in 60+ languages. To log in while off campus, sign in via Open Athens: go to the Person icon in the top right hand corner, select Library or Group from the pop-up menu, find University of Roehampton and then Open Athens. You can also download the PressReader App.
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Biblical CommentariesThis list is intended to help you find Bible commentaries in the library. Please note, new books and ebooks are being added all the time so please use UR Library Search to search for additional titles.
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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.
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Jewish Resource Collection - UR ArchivesThe Jewish Resource Centre Collection is a collection of theological, historical and pedagogical books. It is a collection of the Jewish Resource Centre which was founded in 1996 as a joint project between The Roehampton Institute School of Education and the local Jewish Community. The aim of the Centre is to support Judaism and Jewish education and culture.
The Collection consists of theological, historical and pedagogical texts that will be of interest to a wide range of study programmes including Religious Education, History, Social Sciences and Human Rights. The JRC collection also addresses the wider community and will be of use to Hebrew specialist, the Religious Education teacher, the member of the Jewish community and to the general reader interested in Judaism. -
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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