Co-creation

The University of Hull Education Strategy, 2020-2025 aims to build strong educational communities of learning. A stated way of doing this is through co-creating the curriculum with students and partners - which extends to reading lists and the sources included in them.

Catherine Bovill (2020) states that “students and staff can critique knowledge together using shared expertise and perspectives. This co-creation approach recognises that knowledge is contingent and messy, and it accepts that students can play a role in knowledge co-creation. Students are making sense of what they are learning collaboratively with their teacher and peers.”

Consider how you can involve your students in co-creating a dynamic reading list that changes to include the diverse and democratic knowledge and voices that they find. How will you incorporate those sources into your teaching, and use them to help students develop effective knowledge management practices?

Open access (OA) and OER

The Library's Open Collections page gives information about open-access articles, books, and other 'open' collections available via Library Search.

Search includes a number of OA sources, e.g. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Library of the Humanities (OLH), and Open Book Publishers (OBP).

You can include more OA sources by selecting the 'Add results beyond Hull library's collection' box at the top left of the Search screen. This may greatly increase the number of results, and you may need to refine your search terms and/or use the other filters.

OER are not included in Library Search. Two places to search are:

• EBSCO's Faculty Select. Provided by the Library, the licence limits usage to members of staff .
• Explore individual OER sites, several of which are listed in the Open Education Resources (OERs) for teaching section of the Library's Copyright guide.

Databases covering research outputs from the Global South

A crowd-sourced list of databases, curated by the University of Leeds.

The list is divided into sections starting with multi-disciplinary databases, and then by subject area.

If you'd like to suggest additions to this list, please contact the Library via the Support Portal.

Archives

Finding the histories of women, people from ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ people can be difficult.

The Diversity in Archives SkillsGuide, created by Hull University Archives, provides advice on searching for records of diverse voices held at Hull History Centre. The principles can be applied to all archives and special collections.

TV, film, and radio

The Library provides access to TV, film, and radio services. They can be found individually via the Databases A-Z or the dedicated Films, TV, and radio search option on the Library Search homepage and include:

Kanopy is a streaming service for films and documentaries, including the Race and class collection.

Box of Broadcasts, or BoB, is an online TV and radio recording service allows you to choose and record broadcast programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels. It is part of Learning on Screen, alongside TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching) which has listings for more than 560 TV and radio channels with data from 1923 onwards.

Gale Research Complete includes National Public Radio (USA) programs, links to videos from NYTimes.com and other news media, including regular updates to 2,300 global newspapers, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Newspapers

The Library provides access to TV, film, and radio services. They can be found individually via the Databases A-Z or the dedicated News and news archive search on the Search for things A-Z listing.

Current newspapers can be found in Lexis+ (on the Lexis+ homepage, go to Newspapers, not News), and in Gale Research Complete, OneFile News.

The Library's newspaper archives include The Guardian and Observer 1791-2003; The Times Digital Archive 1785-2019; The Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2016; and The British Newspaper Archives parts 1-3.

Blogs and podcasts

Blogs, podcasts, and other social media are used by researchers to disseminate their findings, and build networks.

They can be particularly important for researchers in the Global South with limited access to traditional academic publishing routes.

For these reasons, these media are useful when seeking under-represented people, and non-Western ways of creating knowledge.

For more about using social media in study and research, see the Digital Student SkillsGuide which has links to information about the Digital Teacher and Digital Researcher courses.

TED talks, YouTube, etc.

As with social media, both Ted talks and YouTube can provide access to minoritised and marginalised people and their experiences.

Grey literature

According to the Oxford English Dictionary grey literature is "documentary material which is not commercially published or publicly available, such as technical reports or internal business documents." This includes technical and government reports, statistics, and social media outputs.

For an overview of grey literature and how to search for it, see the What is grey literature? guide by the University of Leeds Library.

See the Library's grey literature page to access: Overton and Lens.org.