UEL Library, Archives And Learning Services Subject Support
Welcome to UEL!
At the University of East London, you have access to a huge number of resources to support your learning. Our team is here to help you make the most of those resources, providing highly skilled guidance to help you find the best research that will take your work to the next level.
Introducing the Academic Services Team
Our Academic Services Team provide support across all subject areas, with a dedicated Academic Services Librarian for each School.
Architecture, Computing and Engineering - Nicholas Balmforth
Arts and Creative Industries - Simone Okolo
School of Childhood and Social Care - Win Pang (Education and Communities) & Maria Preshaw (Psychology and Counselling)
Health, Sport and Bioscience - Nicky Hale
Royal Docks School of Business and Law - Kelly Travers
You can find the contact details for all our Academic Services Librarians on their Subject Guide (see the QR code on the next page).
How We Can Help You
The Academic Services Team is here to help you make the most of the thousands of resources available to you at UEL.
As well as library inductions and teaching in your programmes, we provide one-to-one support for all students, guiding you on how to use resources effectively.
In these one-to-ones, your academic services librarian will highlight key resources for your subject area, talk you through their features and demonstrate how you can use them effectively to find the research you need.
Alongside our one-to-one support, we also provide guides covering all subject areas. These guides include:
• Information on key resources.
• Information on useful study guides.
• Guidance on using Google Scholar.
• Guidance on Open Access resources.
• A brief overview of artificial intelligence and research.
• A link to make an appointment for a one-to-one.
You can find the guide for your subject area by scanning the QR code below or visiting libguides.uel.ac.uk.
RESOURCES
As well as important academic resources such as ScienceDirect, Emerald, EBSCO and JSTOR, we also provide access to a range of multimedia resources such as Box of Broadcasts (BoB) and Kanopy.
BoB is a streaming service available to UEL staff and students based in the UK. You can access content from 2007, giving you access to a wide range of TV and radio channels.
Kanopy provides access to a broad collection of films, including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases covering a wide range of topics.
ANTI-RACISM COLLECTION
We seek to develop our collections in a way that better reflects global knowledge creation, ensuring the collection more extensively reflects the theories, thinkers and ideas from the global South and away from one dominated by the global North and which privileges white, Western, and Eurocentric intellectual thought.
We are building a collection of resources, discoverable through our Library catalogue, that connect students to books on decolonisation and anti-racism across all subject areas. The collection is constantly growing, and we encourage everyone to engage with the collection and help to develop it.
You can access the collection by scanning the QR code on the right or searching for "Decolonisation" on LibrarySearch. If you have any suggestions of books we can add to the collection, please contact your Academic Services Librarian.
Make a space in your diary for Skillspace!
It’s not always easy to find the research you need. There’s so much to wade through, so many places to search…how do you find that magical research paper that unlocks the door and helps you take your work to the next level?
Covering everything from understanding how to use LibrarySearch effectively to literature searching to specialised databases to Artificial Intelligence, the Academic Service team provides a wide variety of online sessions that can support you in your studies.
Whether you are an undergraduate taking your first steps in conducting research, or a postgraduate looking to develop their skills, there's a workshop for everyone, no matter what course you are taking.
After attending a Skillspace workshop, you'll find that you have significantly improved your skills, increasing the efficiency of your literature searching and increasing your confidence in conducting research.
Visit libguides.uel.ac.uk/skillspace for more information, or scan the QR code on the right.
Referencing
Cite Them Right is the standard Harvard referencing style for all Schools except for Psychology and Counselling, which use the APA system, and the Law School which uses OSCOLA. Our subject guides for Psychology and Counselling provide advice on the APA referencing system, and the Law subject pages provide guidance on OSCOLA.
The good news is that we provide full access to the Cite Them Right website, which provides guidance and worked through examples for every resource you might need, from journals to books and from government reports to social media.
Clearly laid out and intuitive to use, it ensures you can reference correctly and avoid plagiarism. The website also includes tutorials and lots of additional information to help you with your referencing.
As well as the website, the book is also available at both our Stratford and Docklands campus libraries.
You can access the online version of Cite Them Right via citethemrightonline.com or the QR code on the right. For access off campus, you must log in with your UEL email address and
Postgraduate Students
If you are a postgraduate student and interested in using reference management software, such as Zotero or Mendeley, get in touch with your Academic Services Librarian and they will be happy to talk you through getting started with the software.
Artificial Intelligence
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has already made an impact on how we seek and consume information. From ChatGPT to dedicated image generators, it raises questions about what we see online and to what extent we can trust it.
In our dedicated guide, we take a look at the issues with generative AI, from bias to hallucinations and from privacy to the climate. We pick apart what you need to know to ensure you have the skills to engage with this emergent technology critically.
The guide also highlights some key literature searching tools that use artificial intelligence, as well as resources to help you better understand the technology and the issues associated with it.
Visit libguides.uel.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence for more information, or scan the code on the right.
Keenious
Keenious is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to recommend journal articles based on text analysis. The AI analyses downloaded articles, selected passages from an article or text written in a Word document to recommend related articles.
Connected to LibrarySearch, Keenious ensures you are directed towards high quality, verifiable research.
Visit libguides.uel.ac.uk/keenious for more information, or scan the code on the right.
