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University Library Services

Library Guide for Independent Distance Learning Students

Learn about how to use the Library off campus, including searching for ebooks and journals, referencing and how to attend Library Webinars.

Help Finding e-resources

When you’re looking for e-resources, such as ebooks and journal articles there are a number of tools you can use - we recommend you start with Library Search (on the library web page). You will be able to access any resources that University of Sunderland subscribe to with your University User ID and password. An increasing amount of research is being published open access (free to read) too, for example on Google Scholar.

Below we’ve curated a few guides to help you navigate University of Sunderland online resources and wider open access material. Expand the sections below to browse the help guides available.

 

All about ebooks

Your questions answered.

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Search for ebooks

A demonstration of searching using Library Search.

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Search for journal articles

A demonstration of searching using Library Search.

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Make the most of journal articles

Some tips for using journal articles.

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Citation trails using Google Scholar

Using the Wayback Machine

Search for older or archived web pages.

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Downloading ATbar to read an ebook

YouTube video.

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Using Adobe Read Out Loud

YouTube Video.

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