Library services for researchers

• Subject staff: provide specialist help and guidance in designing a literature search, locating sources of information and using electronic resources. Find your Subject Librarian from this subject list.
• Training sessions
• We provide an online newsletter aimed specifically at researchers. It contains information on training sessions, updates on resources and services, news and tips. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, contact hkwhittaker@brookes.ac.uk
• Off campus services and facilities
• Supporting Researchers. A guide to library services for researchers. Available as a PDF.

• Managing references: EndNote reference management software, citation guides.
• Keeping up to date: new books, new journals and database alerting services, cited reference searching, conferences, news, TV and radio, Web feeds.
• Research data management: information,guidelines and online tutorials relating to good practice in managing data collected as part of the research process

• Books to support your research Word document PDF: this is a selective list of books in Oxford Brookes University Library that may be useful for new researchers. For further titles, please look on the Library Catalogue or contact your Subject Librarian if you need further help.
• Guide to Web of Science with Conference Proceedings: covers features for researchers such as cited reference searching, setting up alerts and citation reports.
• Research methods
• Theses: locating Oxford Brookes theses; locating theses from other institutions worldwide.
• RADAR: the Brookes repository of research outputs
• Open access repositories: other repositories worldwide
• Electronic resources

Document delivery

• Interlibrary Loans service: use our service to obtain material not available at Oxford Brookes University Library.
  Full details of the Interlibrary Loans service are here. Last year we introduced a new online request facility.
• Commercial document delivery services

Using other libraries

• SCONUL Access scheme: this gives researchers access and borrowing rights to over 170 higher education institutions in the UK and Ireland.
• Oxford University Library Services: admissions information.
• British Library: admissions information.

• Special Collections at Brookes
• A2A Access to Archives. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
• MASC25. MASC25 is an online resource guide to printed special collections in libraries within the M25 Consortium.
• Repositories of Primary Resources. A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.