{"id":46,"date":"2021-02-01T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:15:39","slug":"using-your-digital-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/library-tips\/using-your-digital-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Using your digital library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University subscribes to a vast range of high-quality digital resources, including e-books, academic journals, newspapers, data sets, multimedia, and government publications. They are essential to your assignments, research, and teaching. Navigating these does take a bit of getting used to so we have a collection of guides to help you get the most out of them.<\/p>\n<p>There are four main interfaces for accessing our collections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch-europe.kent.ac.uk\/client\/en_GB\/kent-e\"><strong>LibrarySearch Digital<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is the best starting place to start searching for digital secondary resources, especially e-books and journal articles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/e-resources\/a-z\/index.html\"><strong>A-Z of e-resources<\/strong><\/a>: all our subscribed resources are listed here except individual journal and e-book titles. Click on the\u00a0<strong>resource name<\/strong>, search within it for the content you need and follow\u00a0<strong>full text<\/strong>\u00a0links.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/resources\/index.html\"><strong>resources gateway<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0lists resources by type, for example newspapers, official publications, and archive collections.<\/p>\n<p>Check your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/subjects\/\"><strong>subject guide<\/strong><\/a>s\u00a0for advice on the best resources for your subject. It is always a good idea to check several subject guides if your topic is cross disciplinary.<\/p>\n<p>Our guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/find-and-access-library-e-resources\"><strong>finding and accessing library e-resources<\/strong><\/a> goes into more detail, I recommend you have a browse of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University subscribes to a vast range of high-quality digital resources, including e-books, academic journals, newspapers, data sets, multimedia, and government publications. They are essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/library-tips\/using-your-digital-library\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68598,"featured_media":0,"parent":99,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mems-library-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}