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Search for books, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, ebooks, theses and dissertations, videos, and more using our Discovery search tool.

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Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Month

View indigenous resources from the Royal Roads University Library collection and sources across the web.

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Celebrate Pride Month

View LGBTQ+ resources from the Royal Roads University Library collection and sources across the web.

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Human Rights: Accessibility, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

View EDI and Human rights resources from the Royal Roads University Library collection and sources across the web

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New! SciFree Journal Search

Publishing open access? RRU Library is pleased to share this tool that allows RRU-affiliated researchers to find journals with reduced or zero costs.

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Library and Writing Centre guides

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Google Scholar

Connect to Google Scholar through RRU and get tips and tricks for improving your searches.

Literature searching

Develop a vision (Library & Writing Centre orientation, Stage 1)

Gentle introduction to the Library & Writing Centre; intended for students who haven't started coursework yet.

All Writing Centre resources Literature searching Orientation

Zotero

Practical instructions for installing and using Zotero citation manager.

Citation and citation management

Anxiety about reading

Learn more about techniques and tools to help you if you feel anxious about reading scholarly texts.

All Writing Centre resources Reading, thinking, and learning

More from the Library

Lean Library

Need full-text article access? This browser extension connects you directly to RRU Library resources from your internet searches.

Zotero

This free, open-source citation manager helps you collect, keep track of, and cite the sources you reference in your academic writing.

Get started with research

Learn how to use the library resources to get started with your research.

Business research guides

Learn about conducting market and industry research, creating business and marketing plans, and more.

Copyright information for theses & dissertations

Navigate copyright requirements related to publishing your thesis or dissertation.

Creating stable links to Library resources

Find instructions for creating stable links to licensed resources to share with other members of the RRU community.

Land acknowledgment

The Royal Roads campus is located on the traditional Lands of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

With gratitude, we live, work and learn here where the past, present and future of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, faculty and staff come together.