Journals are generally more current than books and more specific in their focus. Many academic journals are peer-reviewed, meaning they are evaluated by other experts in the same field before publication. This makes them a good quality source of academic information.
You can access thousands of journals through the Library, most of these online: we subscribe to over 67,000 journals electronically.
For items not available in the library, use our document supply service.
Request articles, books and chapters for your research.
Order new books, borrow inter-library loans, digitise articles and chapters, request postal loans.
LibKey is a suite of tools that aim to provide easy and efficient full-text access to articles.
Working in the background while you search, LibKey Discovery and LibKey Link help select the best full-text article option - including Open Access materials and Library subscribed content.
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides seamless access to full-text articles while researching on the web. It works with publisher, academic and general websites (including Google Scholar, PubMed and Wikipedia). Once installed - similar to LibKey Discovery and LibKey Link - LibKey Nomad works in the background to instantly find users the best option for accessing articles and offers access to the full text.
To install LibKey Nomad on personal devices, follow the instructions here: https://thirdiron.com/downloadnomad/
Alongside LibKey Discovery, LibKey Link, and LibKey Nomad, another service of LibKey is LibKey.io. LibKey.io allows researchers to seamlessly connect to library resources. LibKey.io is a dedicated webpage that allows users to search for materials by their DOI or PubMed ID. Searching for material on LibKey.io will bring up direct links to the best full-text option of the material.
The University's LibkKey.io page can be accessed through the following link: https://libkey.io/libraries/3907
A humanities and social science journal archive that has strong covereage of history by place, period and theme.
Journals database of scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences, covering history, culture and society.
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities across 28 arts & humanities disciplines. Find out more.
Google Scholar
broadly searches the web for scholarly literature across disciplines and source types: journal articles, theses etc. from publisher websites and institutional repositories.
Find out more on the Library website here.