Depending on your research topic, you may need to consider using a wide variety of resources beyond journal articles and books, such as government reports/government statistics or news articles
Resource type |
Why use it |
Get started |
|---|---|---|
| Theses | For a summary of the key literature related to a topic Reference lists provide a great starting pointing for finding studies Ideas for refining your own research topic |
Help pages |
| Journal articles / conference proceedings |
Access to published peer review research Original research analysis |
Subject databases : Library resource guides |
| Books | Great for developing underlying knowledge of discipline Also deliver scholarly research |
Library search |
| Grey literature | Access to reports, policy statements that are not published by commercial vendors |
Government / organisations websites |
| Multimedia | Access to news from papers and TV, creative work from museums and galleries | Specialist streaming databases Library resource guides |