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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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Asian Heritage Month

Join RRU Library in celebrating Asian Heritage Month this May. Our highlighted resources explore various facets of Asian heritage in Canada and across the world

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Library and Writing Centre guides

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Building an argument

Learn how to construct an argument that will persuade your readers.

Academic writing All Writing Centre resources

Share your voice (Library & Writing Centre orientation, Stage 4)

Orientation for students in final stages of their program, working on a final course, capstone, thesis, or dissertation.

All Writing Centre resources Literature searching Orientation

Lean Library

Use the Lean Library Access browser extension to find and access library resources directly through your internet searches.

Literature searching

Showcase

Overview and guidelines for displaying research in the RRU Library Showcase.

Scholarly communications

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.

Google Scholar

Search for scholarly articles across the web. Access Google Scholar through the Library to streamline your full-text access.

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.