Open Access Resources

There are other free, open access resources that you can use. These include:

• COVE: (The Central Online Victorian Educator, a scholar-driven open-access platform that publishes peer-reviewed Victorian material).
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): A non-profit platform for Open Access academic books.
• OAPEN Library: A non-profit platform for Open Access academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Open Library of the Humanities: A charitable organisation and publishing platform that hosts Open Access academic journals in the Humanities.

Moodle Courses

For help using the resources for English, we have opened up the following Moodle courses, so anyone can enrol on them. They are aimed at first years, but useful for anyone wanting a refresher:

• English: Researching for your Assignments
• English: Researching Unfamiliar Concepts
• English: Researching the Historical Context
• English Research Methods: Finding Information was designed for new postgraduate students in English, and is also available now for anyone to enrol in.

General Tutorials

There are more general tutorials to help you find, reference and present your research, available through our English subject guides and our general Library Online Courses.