With many students thinking about dissertations it seemed a good time to remind you about Senate House Library. This amazing resource is open to all students and provides many excellent resources for all disciplines.
Online Resources
You can use their online resources without visiting. Simply register online to use Senate House Library e-resources
You can view their database collections here either by subject area or as a complete A-Z list.
These are some particularly useful databases for Royal Holloway students which you can access via Senate House:
- ABI Inform Global (via Senate House)
- ARTstor (via Senate House)
- Academic Search Complete (via Senate House)
- America: History and Life (via Senate House)
- Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft (via Senate House)
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (via Senate House)
- Chicano Database (via Senate House)
- Deutsche Nationalbibliografie (via Senate House)
- Dissertations and theses (via Senate House)
- Electronic Enlightenment (via Senate House)
- Financial Times (via Senate House)
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (via Senate House)
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (via Senate House)
- Hein Online (via Senate House)
- Historical Abstracts (via Senate House)
- In Principio (via Senate House)
- Index to Theses (via Senate House)
- IngentaConnect (via Senate House)
- International Index of Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text (via Senate House)
- International Index to Music Periodicals (via Senate House)
- International Medieval Bibliography (via Senate House)
- Library of Latin Texts – Series A (via Senate House)
- Library of Latin Texts – Series B (via Senate House)
- Making of the Modern World (via Senate House)
- PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas (via Senate House)
- Philosopher’s Index (via Senate House)
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (via Senate House)
- Slavery, abolition and social justice 1490 – 2007 (via Senate House)
- Victorian Popular Culture (via Senate House)
Online Journals
You will also find many journals that will be relevant for your studies. If you find the Royal Holloway Library Service don’t subscribe to a journal or our subscription doesn’t cover the years you require then you should also check the Senate House catalogue.
Print Resources
You can access the print collections of Senate House by visiting them in central London. You can borrow books and return them to the drop box on campus at the University of London Depository (Building 39 on campus map). The drop box is located just outside the main entrance at the top of the stairs and there are a few things to note:
- The box is open 24/7
- Items deposited will be taken off your account on the same working day
- Fines money cannot be taken at the Depository, and nor can fines disputes be dealt with there