Learn to study online
Introduction
Whilst we know our students enjoy studying in-person, we also recognise that students need resources to learn outside of their timetabled sessions and during the winter break. Therefore, this section provides access to resources, information, and activities to help you continue your learning experience.
Main body
Accessing your online subject guide
As you progress through your studies, you have likely found that you need the library and resources more than ever. The library provides a wide range of books, journals, and digital resources that you can access from campus, home, or anywhere in the world.
Library subject guides provide an easy-to-use, subject-specific online guide to use the library.
Get the most out of eBooks, Databases, and other digital resources
The library offers a wide selection of digital sources to support your studies. Access to these is via the Library Website via LibSearch or going straight through to the specialist database.
eBooks
The library provides a growing number of eBooks for you to read online. This 4 minute video on LibSearch will give you information on how to access these eBooks and how to use them effectively.
You can search for e-book titles and link to the full text of the e-books from LibSearch.
Databases
For your modules, you will likely need to use the specialist databases UWL library subscribes to, to help find more information on your topics. The databases tend to be subject-specific so there will be ones that are key for your subject area. The databases will provide access to journal articles, reports, newspapers and other relevant formats for your subject. You can access all the library databases through the A-Z Databases page. Here you can search through your specialist subject areas or alphabetically.
At a glance, it can look intimidating as there are so many resources for you to access.
Putting a search together
To discover the most relevant and useful sources to read on your topic, you need to put together a search plan. The main elements of the plan are deciding on your search question, thinking about relevant keywords to search on, considering limits to your search, and evaluating what you have found.
Watch these two short videos on how to put a search plan together:
If you are not sure of how to put together your search question, do some general searching on LibSearch for the overall subject area to get some ideas and inspiration on how you might want to narrow it down to a specific topic and search question.
