Research Tools

Using the Library Portal for Your Research

The Library Portal is a comprehensive digital library offering access to thousands of journals and eBooks. It should be your first resource when starting your research for the latest peer-reviewed information.

To find out how to use the basic features of the Library Portal, visit our Getting Started page for some top tips on how to get up and running.

What are Research Tools?

Research tools can be used to find, organise and manage information for your research and assignments. The Learning Success Hub provides a variety of tools to support your research and make it easy to find resources and manage citations effectively.

BrowZine

BrowZine is a journal platform that brings together all the academic journals in the Arden Library collection and allows you to browse by subject area, search by journal title, save articles for offline reading, and build a personal library. You can even set alerts for new issues to stay up to date with the latest research.

Open BrowZine

How to use BrowZine

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. You can use Google Scholar to search for academic books, articles, theses and case law, across a wide range of subjects and sources. You can also adjust your settings so Google Scholar will provide links to resources through Arden’s Library Portal if there is full text availability.

Go to Google Scholar

How to use Google Scholar

Google Scholar

LibKey Nomad

When searching the internet for academic resources, you can download and use the LibKey Nomad browser extension to tell you if a journal article you’re searching for is open access or available in Arden’s Library collection.

Open LibKey Nomad

How to use LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad

LibKey.io

LibKey.io is a research tool you can use to save time in accessing journal articles of interest, by searching using the article’s unique digital object identifier (DOI) or PubMed identifier (PMID). If the article you are looking for is available in the Library’s collection or open access, LibKey.io provides one-click access to the full text.

Open LibKey.io

Reference Management Tools

Reference management software tools enable you to collect, organise and annotate all your academic resources in one place. These tools also work with text editing software, such as Microsoft Word and LibreOffice, to create references and bibliographies in many styles and formats.

Open Mendeley

Open Zotero

How to use Mendeley

Workshops

Understanding Research

Research articles and papers can be complex and hard to understand. This workshop aims to make it easier to understand some of the language and features of research, and how to evaluate if the research is appropriate for your studies.

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Identifying A Research Topic (Dissertation)

This workshop is for those students approaching their final year research project. It will help you to generate ideas for research topics, assess whether topics are feasible, and get you started on the first stages of research

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How To Find Journal Articles In The Library Portal

Journal articles are one of the main forms of academic source that you’ll encounter during your studies. This workshop will introduce you to advanced search techniques and show you how to find high-quality journal articles, using both the Library Portal and academic databases.

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