Library guides
Our comprehensive guides can help you with every aspect of using Birkbeck Library, from finding and borrowing books, to browsing our databases and using specialist referencing software.
academic subject guides (A-Z)
- Applied linguistics and communication
- Arts management
- Biological sciences
- Chemical sciences
- Community development and public policy
- Computer science
- Development studies and anthropology
- Earth and planetary sciences
- Economics, mathematics and statistics
- English studies
- Environmental management
- Film, media and journalism
- French studies
- Gender studies
- Geography
- German studies
- History, classics and archaeology
- History of art
- Iberian and Latin American studies
- Law and criminology
- Management and business
- Medieval studies
- Organizational psychology
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychological sciences
- Psychosocial studies
- Renaissance studies
- Research support and guidance
- Social sciences and sociology
- Victorian studies
Database Guides
- A-Z of databases and online resources - go to the listing
- Academic Search Complete
- Bloomberg - cheatsheet
- Bloomberg - creating an account
- Bloomberg - installing the Excel add-on
- Bloomberg - user guide
- Box of Broadcast (BoB) National
- BrowZine
- Flipster for mobile devices
- LexisLibrary
- LexisLibrary finding European and overseas materials
- LexisLibrary finding Halsbury materials
- PEP-Web (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing)
- PsycINFO
- Safari Books Online
- ScienceDirect
- Scopus
- Web of Science
- Westlaw UK - My Westlaw instructions
- Westlaw UK - student user guide
- World Advertising Research Center (WARC)
LIBRARY GUIDES
- Finding and using information for coursework
- Library and Information skills tutorial (on Moodle)
- Using Birkbeck Library
Patents, copyright and intellectual property guides
referencing guides
- Creating a bibliography
- Guide to the referencing tools in Word (on Moodle)
- Guide to using EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero (on Moodle)