Box of Broadcasts help videos
How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts? Isn’t it a brilliant resource?! For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV &...
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Box of Broadcasts (BoB) update for UoS students overseas
Box of Broadcasts provides on demand tv and radio. Usually it is only available inside of the UK but as part of Learning on Screen's Covid response international students who are enrolled at UK...
Doctoral research
Sunderland University Library has a wealth of resources to support you during your doctoral studies. Check out our recent blog post for new students which highlights key ways in which we do this.
The Wayback Machine: a free tool for fact checking and internet research
How many times have you clicked on a link or reference, only to get the message that the webpage no longer exists? This phenomenon, which is called ‘link rot‘ or ‘content drift‘ can be...
Free webinars for PhD students
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
Ebook error on Library Catalogue – what does it mean?
The Library have received some reports from students about an error message when accessing ebooks on the Library Catalogue. Unfortunately you may see this error message when accessing a book on our Catalogue if...
Help with Referencing – Look at cite them right
Not sure where to go to get help with referencing? Cite Them Right is an excellent online tool to help you reference your assignments. In Education and Languages courses, you will often go beyond...
Recent articles from the British Journal of Special Education
Volume 47 Issue 3 (2020) Here are a couple of the articles in this issue. Tyrrell, Beverley, and Kevin Woods. “Gathering the Views of Children and Young People with ASD: A Systematic Literature Review.” British...
Ways to increase the proportion of electronic content on your reading lists for 20/21
This post is for our academic colleagues as you fine tune your modules. You may want to take this opportunity to review your reading lists or to add current topics to reflect teaching in...
Box of Broadcast – 2 minute video tutorials
Box of Broadcasts is an amazing resource! It is often referred to as ‘BoB’ and is an on-demand television and radio service that the University Library subscribes to – if you haven’t looked at...
Animating the science of Covid-19
A new animation has been created for secondary school students to explore how the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 works. The work also looks at how the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium is mapping how...
Academic writing – phrases you can use in your dissertations
If you’re working on your dissertation and you’re looking for some academic phrases that you can use when writing up your research you will find the University of Manchester Academic Phrasebank very useful. About...
Pride 2020 – LGBT+ Reads
The Library have added a lot of ebooks to our collections over the last year and in recognition of Pride Month 2020 we are highlighting the latest LGBT+ ebook titles: Toft, A., and Franklin,...
Culture in quarantine – Durham University’s response
You may have heard about the BBC’s initiative Culture in Quarantine, which is bringing arts and culture into your home during the current lockdown. Durham University’s Learning and Engagement have been inspired by this,...
Mental Health Resources in Education
During the pandemic the impact on peoples’ mental health is flagged as a major concern, but there have been concerns and reports on mental health long before this. There is already a wide variety...