Students
Library and research resources
What you get access to for reading and research, and what is still being arranged.
What is already true
Your reading is part of what you paid for.
Course materials are provided as part of your programme. Where a course requires a text you would have to buy separately, that is stated on the programme page before you enrol, never discovered in week three.
Everything is delivered online, so nothing about your reading depends on being near a particular building, and nothing has to be returned by a date.
What a student is entitled to expect
Four things, and eLadder will publish which it provides.
- Access to research material behind paywalls. A degree that requires you to cite peer-reviewed sources has to give you a way to read them.
- Somebody to ask. Knowing a database exists is not the same as knowing how to search it. Research support is part of a library, not an extra.
- Referencing guidance. The style each programme requires, and how to use it — the practical half of the academic integrity policy.
- Access from anywhere. Our students are in many countries and several time zones. Anything requiring a particular network or a particular hour is not access.
Why this page is short
A library is a subscription, not a statement.
We could describe a research library in general terms. But a student either can open a particular journal or cannot, and finding out mid-assignment that they cannot is worse than having been told plainly here.
When the provision is arranged, this page will name the service, the collections it covers and how you sign in.