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Study Skills
Skills4Study – practical advice and downloads to help with your studies.
Study Skills Connected – a guide to using technology in your studies
Study Skills for Students with Dyslexia
Explorations of Style – a blog about academic writing. Well worth reading!
Avoiding Plagiarism – very short (2-5 minutes) activities. Learn to recognise what plagiarism is, the forms it can take and how to avoid it by developing your skills.
Research
Ready to Research – resources to help with research and academic writing if you are doing a research degree, but worth looking at if you are working on your final project or dissertation.
JournalTOCs – the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). TOCs for over 21,597 journals directly collected from over 1682 publishers. Discover the newest papers coming directly from the publishers as soon as they have been published online.
Directory of Open Access Journals – access to quality controlled Open Access Journals
The European Library – quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries
Smithsonian Libraries blog – Finding Current Research Using Free Online Resources. See also: Where to find new scholarly research papers: 30 key, free websites
Video Sites
Top 10 UK Academic publishers
1. Hachette Livre
2. Random House
3. Penguin Books
4. HarperCollins
5. Pan Macmillan
6. Pearson Education
7. Oxford University Press
8. Bloomsbury
9. Simon & Schuster
10. John Wiley & Sons