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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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Black History Month

Find books, articles, movies, and research about black history and the contemporary black experience from the Royal Roads University Library collection

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SciFree Journal seach tool

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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Simply Analytics guide
Simply Analytics

SimplyAnalytics is a powerful data visualization and mapping tool. It will allow you to create maps and reports to display demographic, business, and marketing.

Business research Collaboration and presentation
Keeping up with new research guide
Keeping up with new research

Resources and strategies to help you to stay updated with new research more easily.

Scholarly communications
Altmetrics guide
Altmetrics

Understand alternatives to standard bibliographic metrics and how they can help you measure your research impact.

Scholarly communications
Spelling and vocabulary guide
Spelling and vocabulary

Learn about how to improve spelling and vocabulary in your writing.

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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.

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