Skills for Learning offers support on a variety of academic writing skills: report writing, writing skills for international students, literature reviews and time management advice. See the Skills for Learning website for step by step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation, and see workshops, bookable via MyHub, on topics such as:
Free access to full text European doctoral theses - over 1 million open access research theses from over 500 universities in 29 European countries.
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. It incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world.
Provides access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, with nearly 3 million full text dissertations available for download. Please note that, despite global coverage, much of the content is North American.
You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research and the Thesis and Research Data Repository (Figshare) contains online postgraduate research theses/dissertations from Leeds Beckett students.
The Library also has some hard copies of old dissertations and theses. You can consult these to see how previous students conducted and presented their work.
Search on Discover for dissertations and theses held in the Library:
The Thesis and Research Data Repository (Figshare) contains online postgraduate research theses / dissertations from Leeds Beckett students.
There are some printed dissertations in the Library.
You can also search on Discover for dissertations in other subjects too:
The recommended Referencing and Citation Management (RCM) tool at LBU is Zotero. It helps you to collect and organise your references and cite them in multiple styles. Our guides show you how to install it, and build your library. It works across a range of devices, operating systems and web browsers.
If you're unsure which RCM tool to use, we strongly recommend Zotero as the most straightforward. If you want to change to another tool, you can export your library. If you need further advice please contact your Academic Librarian.
