{"id":14,"date":"2021-02-01T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:26:07","slug":"start-here-navigating-the-library-resource-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Library Resource Guide is designed to be used alongside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/client\/en_GB\/kent\"><strong>LibrarySearch<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memslib.co.uk\/\">MEMSLib<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a student-curated guide to freely available resources on the web.<\/p>\n<p>The guide is structured around the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/reference-sources\/\">Reference sources<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0start your research journey by building an overview of your topic and help you establish suitable keywords.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/journal-articles\/\">Journal articles<\/a>:<\/strong> use our journal databases to find original research on a specific topic from reliable secondary sources.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/primary-sources\/\">Primary sources<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>find the raw data you need to analyse and test your working hypothesis and then to evidence and support your claims. There is one page listing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/primary-sources\/\"><strong>general and topic specific archive collections<\/strong><\/a>, one listing our most relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/special-collections-archives\/\"><strong>Special Collections and Archives.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/library\/collections\/online-resources\/open-access-resources\"><strong>The Institute of Historical Studies<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0have a very helpful guide for finding and evaluating suitable materials for research.<\/p>\n<p>The menu on the right provides useful tools and sources of help.<\/p>\n<p>Do not hesitate to get in contact should you have any queries or want one-one help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Library Resource Guide is designed to be used alongside\u00a0LibrarySearch and MEMSLib\u00a0a student-curated guide to freely available resources on the web. The guide is structured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68598,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}