Each Library Team has prepared detailed guidance for their reseachers, go to the guides below for more information on resources tailored to your subject area.
You will also find detailed infomation and resources on individual subject areas in the A-Z List of Subject Guides.
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Open Access refers to material that is free to all readers at the point of use. It mostly concerns research output appearing in published books and journals. |
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Grey Literature refers to material not published in the tradtional manner e.g. articles, books and can include theses, guidelines, reports. For more information on OA and grey literature take a look at the individual Library guides.
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Carrying out a systematic and comprehensive search of all available resources will make sure you have identified all the key papers and material in your research area.
Main Information sources
Where you look and the search techniques used may differ depending on your topic, always refer to your Librarian for advice.
The Library provides hundreds of databases in all subject areas. Contact your subject librarians to find out the best for your research.
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If the item you want is not available from Ulster sources, the Library's Document Delivery service can request material from the British Library and elsewhere. |
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You may request books and articles using the Online Request Form Article requests will usually be sent to you electronically for download so you must REGISTER for British Library's On Demand service prior to requesting and read the guidance on Secure Electronic Delivery (SED). Book requests will be supplied as loans. There is no charge for either service, although weekly limits may apply. |
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Use the A-Z Electronic Journals Database to find a journal or paper when you already know the details. To check the print journal collection use the main Library Catalogue, you can then filter by journals or serials.
To make the best use of Google, we recommend using Google Scholar. This limits results to higher quality academic resources; such as peer reviewed journals and research papers.
Looking for help on how to get the best out of Google Scholar? Take a look at this guidance information.
For help on searching regular Google take a look at the Top Tips leaflet
Want to check if the Library can provide full text from Scholar? Click Settings and then Library links. Search for University of Ulster and save your preferences. That way you will see links to full-text within our e-journal collection in your search results. We also have a short video to explain how to set this up.
