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Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Month

RRU Library is pleased to highlight resources from our collection that centre Indigenous perspectives. Browse resources on environmental justice, Indigenous voices in media and art, Indigenous experiences in education, stories of reconciliation, Indigenous identity, and the history of Indigenous nations and territories.

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Celebrate Pride

For Pride season, we've put together a collection of relevant Library resources. Discover RRU faculty publications, graduate student theses and dissertations, as well as books and films from the RRU Library collection on topics related to the LGBTQ2S+ community.

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Langford Student Commons

Visit the Langford Student Commons for library services, student study space, and more

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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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Making marketing plans

Tools and advice for creating marketing plans, from gathering information to putting it all together.

Business research

Open access publishing

Open access is a publishing model that aims to reduce barriers to access to research. Learn about your options and opportunities as an author.

Scholarly communications

Concept mapping

Learn how to use concept maps for brainstorming, collaborating, teaching, and writing.

Reading, thinking, and learning

Four Feathers Writing Guide

Learn more about traditional Coast Salish teachings and approaches to learning that can support your development as an academic writer.

Academic writing All Writing Centre resources Indigenous approaches

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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.