5 steps to a successful literature search
When you’re searching for information for your studies it is best to devise a search strategy. Follow these 5 steps to building your search: Before you start your search - make a plan! Identify...
Tagged: Social sciences
Finding open access academic research (without needing to log in)
*This post has been edited following the resolution of IT issues that the University experienced in October 2021.* Next week is Open Access Week all over the world, but at University of Sunderland we're...
A new database – Open Society Justice Initiative
The Open Society Justice Initiative is part of the Open Society Foundations. It aims to provide expert legal support for Open Society’s mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work...
LGBTQI+ New Archives
Studying MSc Inequality and Society? Visit our Inequality and Society Useful Resources list where we have added two new archives on LGBTQI+. The archives are both in the LGBTQI+ section and are: The Digital...
Shape Early Years and Children’s Reading
Are you engaged in teaching children reading skills? Do you want to widen the reading material you use in an early years setting or in primary school? Then we’ll share with you our hot...
Health Information Week
It’s Health Information Week from 5-11 July 2021 so why not celebrate the week by browsing through our eBooks in Health and Social Care? We have added to the collection published from 2016 to...
Web Scraping for Researchers
Are you researcher? Are you using website stories and news articles in your research? Then you might find it worth attending a free webinar Web Scraping with Google Chrome on 24 June 2021. The...
Strengths-Based Approach to Social Work
Interested in how to create a strengths-based approach in Social Work? Why not attend the free Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s upcoming free webinar Developing Strengths-Based Places – the Next Steps for Strengths-Based...
Black Lives Matter – a Year On
It’s a year this week since the killing of George Floyd in the United States and I’ve pulled together a number of programmes from the British Box of Broadcasts (BoB) which look at current...
Using Twitter in Your Research Webinar
Are you doing research for a dissertation or a PhD? Interested in incorporating Twitter data into it? Then you might want to sign up for the UK Data Service’s forthcoming free webinar The Twitter...
Women and COVID-19
This week has marked one year since we joined the rest of the United Kingdom in locking down for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in...
Policy Press eJournal Articles
Studying Social Work? Policy Press are celebrating Social Work Week with free access to a collection of eJournal articles through their Social Work Collection which focus on social justice and global support. These articles...
Using Venn Diagrams when Searching on HeinOnline
Are you a visual learner? Then you might like this graphic feature on HeinOnline. You can get HeinOnline to display a Venn Diagram of your search in the Law Journal Library HeinOnline’s Tip of...
Social Work Week 2021
For those of you studying Social Work it’s Social Work Week from 8-12 March. Social Work England is organising a programme of online events and you can sign up for these for free. The...
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 &...