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Postgraduate Researchers: Welcome and Support

A warm welcome from Library and Learning Support

Welcome to BU to all new Postgraduate Research Students!  We hope you are settling in and looking forward to starting your research.

Library & Learning Support are here to support you throughout your time at BU.  We want you to have access to the best services, guidance, and resources at every stage of your research journey.

Online induction sessions have been arranged to introduce you to our library resources and help you to make the most of the support we offer.  All are welcome, including existing students who would like a refresher.

Please sign up using your BU email address for either of the sessions below

Library workshops

The library offers the following workshops as part of Doctoral College's Researcher Development programme:

  • Originality and plagiarism (Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation)
  • Managing research Data (Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation)
  • Managing your citations using EndNote (Domain A: Knowledge and Intellectual Ability)
  • Developing a search strategy and using researcher tools (Domain A: Knowledge and Intellectual Ability)

These sessions can be booked via the Doctoral College pages in Brightspace.

We also offer generic study skills sessions.

Welcome to the library

mySearch - find journal articles

mySearch allows you to search across a range of different databases to find peer reviewed journal articles and other resources.

Click here on this mySearch link to go directly to the advanced searching functionality

mySearch

        

 

Library Catalogue search

Reading lists

Reading Lists that support the four Vitae domains for researcher development are also available:

  • Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities
  • Personal Effectiveness
  • Research Governance and Organisation
  • Engagement, influence and impact

Contact us

Chat is currently unavailable - please telephone us.

For IT support:
tel. +44 (0) 1202 965515
available 24x7

 

Faculty library teams

Remember that your Faculty Library team is always available for help regarding resources, finding information, clarification about the submission of theses, copyright and other queries you might have.

Email us: