LibGuides: Research support: Key resources

Introduction to key resources

This section introduces a wealth of multi-disciplinary resources that may be useful to you in your research journey.

We recommend you start with the subject guide that best matches the discipline, department or school in which you and your supervisor reside. This may be more than one subject - they have been compiled to support the taught courses.

We have gathered together the generic resources that could be useful to any postgraduate researcher in this section too, so dip into these and remember to ask your supervisor and other PhD students what they would recommend too!

Topics covered: Library guides; Research resources; Film, audio & video; Theses; Journal ranking and citation data; External libraries; Additional resources.

For support with using them, please contact library@hud.ac.uk

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Library guides

These topic guides provide in-depth information on the following:

Careers & employability
Disability support
ebooks
Journals
Newspapers
Open access - including finding open access content
Statistics

Research resources

Summon
The University of Huddersfield library's search engine with full text access to our physical material and online subscriptions.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature from more than 18,500 journals. Provides ability to search backwards, sideways and forwards from a specific paper.

Google Scholar
A broadly search for scholarly literature, across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Edit your settings so it recognises you are a member of the University of Huddersfield Library.

Video on editing Google Scholar settings.

Film, audio and video

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
This service enables all staff and students to select, view and record streaming radio and television programmes broadcast from over 60 Freeview channels.
Accessibility Statement
Please note: For use only within the United Kingdom.
For updates, please visit the Learning on Screen status page
Kanopy (streaming video service) This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service with over 30000 documentaries, classic and independent films.
Accessibility Statement
BFI Player This link opens in a new window
See shorts and features, showing the best from the British Film Institute (BFI), national and regional archives - including 120 years of Britain on film. Linked to free content, but there are rental and subscription options available at a cost.
Accessibility Statement
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Theses

EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Please note: Access the Ethos website is currently unavailable, as a result of a cyber-attack at the British Library. There is further information available here: Cyber incident update.

Search over 500,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.
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University of Huddersfield Repository This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of the University's research output.
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Summon
Search Summon for your topic and filter by Dissertation/Thesis.

Journal ranking and citation data

External libraries

Library Hub Discover This link opens in a new window
Online access to the catalogues of almost 120 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist libraries, hosted by Jisc. Incorporates the former Copac and SUNCAT services.
Accessibility Statement
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British Library (Yorkshire & London)
Details on how to visit the reading rooms at Wetherby, North Yorkshire or St Pancras, London.
SCONUL Access (visiting other UK libraries)
You can sign up to use study spaces or books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme.
Public libraries
You can become a member of a UK public library service too so you can borrow print and electronic resources. Don't forget to read for pleasure!

Additional resources

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both past and present.
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Census Data (UK) This link opens in a new window
Census statistics help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics, and underpin funding allocation to provide public services. The population of England & Wales on Census Day, 27 March 2011, was 56,075,912.
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Digimap This link opens in a new window
Digimap delivers Ordnance Survey maps and geospatial data, available either via download facilities for use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. The mapping tool (Roam) allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales as well as enabling the user to specify a map scale, area and content.
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Subject guides

Research support: Key resources