Books and ebooks are key academic sources that can develop your understanding of the subject you are studying.
The reading list is the best place to start in your early years at University but you will be expected to read beyond it and decide what to read and wen you do that reading in your independent study time. This means that when you read you will need to critically analyse the text as to whether it is important and whether it relates to what you are studying or the assessments you undertake.
Ebooks give you immediate access to information after a few clicks. You can search the whole book for a theory or a Tv programme, film or band.
A basic or advanced search on the library website will link you through to books and ebooks.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Books in this collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Project Muse provides full-text, high quality articles for the humanities and social sciences from over 120 publishers
Don't forget that that you will be expected to use the Harvard referencing style when citing sources in assessments.
If you do not reference sources in your assessments you could be accused of plagiarism which is an academic offence. Also the university has created an originality statement which students need to use to state that an assessment is their own work. It is important to read and understand the originality statement that can be found in the assessment area of Blackboard, along with information about academic offences.
