The Higher Education Assignment Toolkit has been designed to help students through the different stages that you will go through when you work on an assignment.
Resource Lists are created by module leaders to direct you to key literature for the module and assignments. You can find them in LearningZone module shells or through the above link.
Help using our main search tool
A guide to accessing and downloading our e-books.
These guides direct you to key resources and support for your subject area.
Literature searching for a systematic review online course
This course takes you through how to conduct the literature search section of a systematic review, including using PICO and SPIDER frameworks, using reference management software, and completing your PRISMA diagram.
An introduction to Grey Literature, what academically appropriate sources of it are and how to search for it.
A toolkit showing how to be critical with information: evaluate its reliability, read it critically and use it in assignments.
Video: To use or not to use: Critically evaluating sources of information
Checklists to help you critically appraise different types of literature.
If we don't have access to a book or journal article you need you may be able to request it via Inter-Library Loan.
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides easy access to full-text articles when De Montfort University Library either subscribes to them, or an Open Access version is available. Articles can be read directly via the online platforms of journal publishers (such as Taylor & Francis Online, Elsevier ScienceDirect), index and citation services (such as Scopus), and other sites like Wikipedia.