Reading & Resource Lists

This page is to help support academic staff looking to diversity their Module Resource Lists.

Sections below cover background research and discussion on the topic, along with pointers to sources of diverse materials, alternative publishers and useful networks.  Library staff can offer help with locating, purchasing and making available books and other resources from specialist suppliers and publishers worldwide.  If you are interested in exploring these areas with the LLC, get in touch with the Library via  LLC-resources

Some key resources from the University of Dundee

• University of Dundee Equality Diversity & Inclusion page
• University of Dundee - Race Equality conversations on Yammer

Some background discussion & research 

• Schucan Bird, K., Pitman, L. How diverse is your reading list? Exploring issues of representation and decolonisation in the UK. High Educ 79, 903–920 (2020). Available online
•  Diversifying reading lists should not be skin deep. (2020). Times Higher Education, 2454.Available online
• THE podcast: What does it mean to decolonise a library? , 20/1/22
• Thomas, D. Democracy, diversity and decolonisation: staff student partnerships in a reading list review.  Advance HE,  8/1/20 
• Arshad, Rowena. Decolonising the curriculum - how do I get started? THE Campus, 14/9/2021
• Adewumi, B. and L. Mitton (2022). "Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach." Social Policy and Society 21(1): 54-67.  10.1017/S1474746421000506
• Rigney, S. (2020). "Creating the law school as a meeting place for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human rights." Law Teacher 54(4): 503-516.
• Price, R., et al. (2022). "A novel data solution to inform curriculum decolonisation: the case of the Imperial College London Masters of Public Health." Scientometrics 127(2): 1021-1037.

Alternative publishers, with a focus on decolonisation, and diversity in  gender and sexuality

• The University of Kent has collated sources of diverse material online link to Padlet

Finding authors from particular regions or institutions

• Databases such as the Web of Science and Scopus allow you to search by topic, and then to view  results by geographical regions

Open Access

Open access journal articles submitted for publication in academic journals  will be indexed in databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, British Education Index, Humanities Index,   the IEEE library, Pubmed, Econlit etc  depending on the subject coverage  of the database.. (View  the University of Dundee A-Z list of subscribed databases here)

You might like to explore the Digital Commons Network https://network.bepress.com/about/

Institutional repositories  -  created to record the  research outputs of an institution - cover  research articles, theses, conference presentations, datasets  public speaking events, such as those listed in the University of Dundee Institutional Repository, Discovery.   They're a good way to get an overview of an Institutions output -  though  some repositories may be older than others.   The map  under Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years  shows Dundee University worldwide collaborations.

The  OpenDoar project  lists  Open access institutional repositories worldwide. (The project was created in 2005 by University of Nottingham and Lund University, funded by OSI, Jisc, SPARC Europe and CURL).  Have a look at  the distribution  of Repositories by Country graphic from OPENDOAR.

You can search for a particular repository, or   browse by country to get an overview of what's available,