Using Read Out Loud and Coloured Overlays on eBooks
Recently I had a request from a lecturer to help a student who wanted to use read out loud facilities on eBooks. Read out loud is an essential facility if you have a visual...
Tagged: Social sciences
How to keep up-to-date with new blog posts
Our team of Academic Liaison Librarians are doing a excellent job of keeping you up-to-date with resources and services relevant to you. One of the ways we do this is by posting to the...
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies collection
Many publishers have temporarily lifted restrictions on access to content during the COVID-19 pandemic while university libraries are physically closed. We have asked for access to this content to help you with your studies....
February New Books for Social Sciences
We’ve just added the latest books (both e and in print) to our collection and our New Resources in Social Sciences Autumn-Winter 2019 list. In the current Coronavirus climate the eBooks are much more...
PedPods for Early Years Teaching
Are you study Childhood Studies or Early Years Education? The British Association for Early Childhood Education (BAECE) is offering PedPods Early Education Pedagogical Podcasts free online. You can subscribe to the podcasts and download...
Completing Your Dissertation or Research Project
Are you busy completing your dissertation or research project? Then don’t forget we’ve got a set of specially dedicated pages to help you with tips on evaluating evaluating information and writing critically. You’ll find...
Calling all our creatives!
Do you want to share your love of art, design, performing arts and all things creative with your friends and family? Here are some online resources you can access to share the love! Chill...
Children’s book illustration resources
Are you creating and illustrating a children’s book, or thinking of doing this in the future? The British Library has some excellent resources in their ‘Discovering Children’s Books’ resource including: Exploring issues of belonging...
Health Research Premium Collection for Social Sciences
We are currently running a trial of Health Research Premium Collection eJournal collection which offers students, staff and researchers access to a wide range of journals relevant to our social sciences subject areas. The...
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) now available in Europe
Good news. If you’re a European student who has returned home during the corona virus pandemic you will still be able to access Box of Broadcasts (BOB) until the end of July. BBC News...
Studying Online
As teaching has now gone online and you are likely to be studying at home now is the time to make the most of our online resources. eBooks If you’re new to using eBooks...
Study Skills: Citation Trails
Found a really relevant article on a topic you’re writing about? Want a quick way to find more? Citation trails is a way of finding articles related to your relevant article. Citation trails work...
Celebrate Academic Book Week
It’s Academic Book Week from 9-13 March and to celebrate the importance of books to academia take a look at January’s new books in Social Sciences which we’ve added to the New Resources for...
Health Inequalities 10 Years On
On 25 February the Health Foundation published the report Health Equity in England: the Marmot Review 10 Years On which updates the 2010 report and highlights how: Health inequalities have widened rather than retracted...
Newsstream – a new way to look for news content
From 1 March 2020, you will be able to search across over 600 newspaper titles and news broadcast outlets at the same time by using Newsstream via your library’s subscriptions. Newsstream will be replacing...