Research support
General Library service information for Rothamsted staff and students
EndNote: available on all Rothamsted PCs, contact the library for guidance.
- Copyright and copying published material + completing publisher’s copyright forms
- Rothamsted Data Repository
- Copyright take-down policy
Open Access guidance on Rothamsted's intranet
- Also see UKRI Open Access Policy detailing funders' requirements
UK research library resources
- Use Library Hub Discover to find material in UK and Irish academic libraries.
- Repository search: Core and Openaire (for EU research)
Heritage Collections: use the Archives Catalogue (PDF)
- Lawes and Gilbert's correspondence
E-RA long term experimental data, including Rothamsted Annual Reports
Print lab notebooks are kept in locked shelves in the library. Search the Database for details using project codes or search the catalogue (above) for details of books on shelves. Contact library@rothamsted.ac.uk to request items.
Data Archive Boxes held in the library can be searched on the Project Archive Database.
Theses
- EBSCO OpenDissertations (formerly American Doctoral Dissertations)
- EThOS listing of all UK PhD theses, provided by the British Library - is currently down due to hacking incident - use the general catalogue and select theses.
E-resources
- A-Z Rothamsted ejournal browse by title
- American Chemical Society Archives (1879-1995)
- GreenFILE via EBSCOhost
- Nature
- Oxford Academic Journals (OUP)
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
- SpringerLink (Springer)
- Wiley Online Library
- Farmers Weekly online - contact library@rothamsted.ac.uk for login details
Databases
- Web of Science + Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
- BCPC/NIAB UK Pesticide Guide online - contact Library for login details
- BCPC Knowledge Bank - digitsied publications 1954 - 2009
- Dimensions free bibliographic tool, also providing ‘how to Create Altmetrics badges’.
- NIAB online subscription
- PubMed/Medline via NCBI + PubMed Central (Europe)
- Reaxys Chemistry information tool
- Springer Nature Experiments and Springer Protocols Archive (1981-2013)
- Statistics: UK Data Service, Office for National Statistics
- Maps: Digimap (Ordnance Survey and Environment)
- Magic interactive maps and UK Soil Observatory static maps
For Rothamsted Patents use Repository fields search, select patent in item type.
Search lens.org, Espacenet, Google Patents and US Patent Office for other patents