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The Library for English students

How can the Library help you?

Collections

We are absolutely committed to helping you to carry out research, to support your essays, dissertations and projects. The Library is here to support you in your studies, providing copies of reading list texts (not enough for one each, unfortunately!), as well as other materials that may be of use for the independent research you do for your essays and dissertations. These include printed books and journals, held in the Library, and lots of e-books, e-journals and other materials available online. Please note that you will still need to buy your own copy of the primary texts for your modules, in most cases.

Including the Library's specialist databases for English. These include key resources such as ProQuest One Literature, the MLA Bibliography, JSTOR and Project Muse, as well as more specialist resources and huge collections of primary sources.

Support for Postgraduate Research

Our postgraduate Community Engagement team is working to support your studies and help postgraduate students to stay in touch with your community. Details of the support and online events are available on the PG Hub websiteLink opens in a new window.

The Library's Scholarly Communications Team are here to support throughout the lifecycle of your research project. We provide training and advice on managing your research data (including creating a Data Management Plan), publishing and disseminating your research and using metrics to help you to evaluate its impact.

We also offer guidance on copyright for research, teaching and learning and advise on the options available to make your research outputs Open Access, including Open Access funding and how to use the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP).

You can contact us at scholarlycomms@warwick.ac.uk.

Most importantly, please do get in touch with me, Sarah Akhtaruzzaman (S.E.Akhtaruzzaman@warwick.ac.uk), with any questions or requests for support. I am happy to help any way I can, by email, phone or Teams.

Do you want more books or help?

The Academic Support Librarian for English is Sarah Akhtaruzzaman and the Library rep in the English Department is Sarah Wood. Please do email either of them if you have any questions, comments or concerns about the Library, e.g.:

  • You want help finding materials on a particular topic
  • There is a new book that you would like the Library to buy
  • You would like the Library to buy more copies of certain books

You can also use the Library's online suggestion form, to request new books. This also goes to Sarah Akhtaruzzaman, to approve the request (which she will do, provided it is relevant for your course!).

You can also contact a Library Associate to voice any concerns, make a request or give your feedback on any aspect of the Library. These are English students who work with the Library to improve our services in response to student feedback. They, and we, would love to hear from you!

You said ... we did

We are very keen to get your feedback on the Library, so we have set up a "You said... we did" section. When you give us feedback, we will respond on this page. Please help us to continue to improve the Library service!