Digital Resources

Discover, the library search tool, indexes books, e-books, journal articles, theses and digital archive materials in a single search. Access on and off campus using your university login; VPN is not required for most resources when authenticated through the library portal.

Search tips and video tutorials are linked from the library homepage.

Subject databases include IEEE Xplore, PubMed, Lexis+ for law, Education Research Complete and Business Source Premier. Browse databases by subject through the A–Z list. Open-access filtering helps identify freely available versions when subscription access is unavailable.

Reading list software linked from the virtual learning environment connects directly to library holdings for your modules.

Over 200,000 e-books are available through ProQuest, VLeBooks and specialist collections. Some titles permit limited concurrent users—close browsers when finished to release licences for classmates. Streaming video collections support film, education and health programmes.

The institutional repository NRepo provides open-access research outputs from Luma authors.

Research data management guidance supports postgraduate students depositing datasets in the university repository. Online tutorials cover literature searching, critical appraisal and reference management software including EndNote and Zotero, available free to Luma students.