Resource Guides
Browse by study area or topic
Our discipline-specific resource guides collect the library’s recommended information sources and tools to help with study, research or teaching in each area. Our ‘Finding and using resources’ guides offer advice and tips for improving your research, digital literacy and study skills.
Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering
All Architecture and the Built Environment guides
All Engineering guides
Business
All Business guides
Communication and Creative Arts
All Communication and Creative Arts guides
Deakin University English Language Institute (DUELI)
All DUELI guides
Education
All Education guides
Finding and using resources
These guides are useful to students and researchers across all faculties and study areas. They offer advice and tips for improving your research, digital literacy and study skills – and much more.
All guides
- Academic skills guides
- Beyond Deakin
- Copyright Modules for Students
- COVID-19: Finding reliable information
- Creating an infographic
- Deakin guide to referencing
- Making a video
- Open Access
- Primary and secondary sources
- Peer Review
- Reference Resources - Encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks
- Study Designs
Health
All Health guides
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- Advanced Search Health
- Agricultural Health and Medicine
- Beyond Deakin: Supporting you into the future
- Child Play Therapy
- COVID-19: Finding reliable information
- Disability Studies
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Exercise Science
- Food Science
- Free and Open Access Health Resources
- Grey literature for Health
- Health
- Health Postgraduate Introductory Library Modules
- Health Postgraduate Advanced Library Modules
- Medical Ethics
- Medical Imaging
- Medicine
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Nutrition
- Occupational Therapy
- Optometry and Vision Sciences
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Study Designs
- Systematic and systematic-like review toolkit
Humanities and Social Sciences
All Humanities and Social Sciences guides
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Anthropology
- Australian Studies
- Criminology
- Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
- Digital Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Geography
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- History
- Humanitarian Assistance
- International and Community Development
- Languages
- Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Studies
- Politics and International Studies
- Sociology