Science Direct will be unavailable this Sunday morning (3:30am – 12noon).
We are having intermittent problems with the login system for IHS. If your Athens login does not work, then follow the links on the A-Z database list for alternative password information. We hope to have the situation resolved soon.
Our new Inter-library loan service (Clio) is now up and running! If you need an item for your coursework, teaching or research, and we don’t have it in stock, you can request it through Clio. Check our ILL web page for full details.
In response to the ISB and the all Student Survey, the Faith and Belief Centre is going to be extended and renovated. This renovation will start on the week beginning 8th February and should be complete by 29th March, due to Health and Safety compliance it is necessary to close the Centre during this time. We have arranged temporary accommodation in the ground floor of the North Hanover Building, which offers prayer space for all and wash facilities and will accessible from 8.00am – 9.00pm.
Any students or staff wishing to book this space, please contact Carolyn Watt on carolyn.watt@gcal.ac.uk
We look forward to a re-launch of the extended Faith and Belief Centre and welcome any suggestions you may have for this, a date will be confirmed within the next few weeks.
We are pleased to announce that Debbi Boden has been appointed as our new Director of Library Services.
She has been the Deputy Director of Information and Learning Services at the University of Worcester since 2007 and prior to that was a Faculty Team Leader at Imperial College and Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Luton. Debbi also has developed an interest in plagiarism, and began the LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference) which is now in its sixth year and attracts international delegates.
Debbie will start with us on the 22nd of March, 2010.
Effective Learning Service / Library drop-ins for students in the School of the Built & Natural Environment, 12–1, M514, every Wednesday starting 3 February 2010. Please note change of lab! Come along for help with finding information, referencing, plagiarism and more. Can’t come then? Contact the librarians or ELS
We now have access to Biosis Previews from 1969 to the present as part of the Web of Knowledge database.
BIOSIS Previews is the world’s most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.
It indexes nearly 6000 journal titles.
You can search Biosis Previews separately or combine searches with the other databases on Web of Knowledge. Coming soon on the same platform: the Biosis Citation Index!
Librarian drop-in sessions run every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2-3pm. Drop-ins for 2010 will start on Tuesday 12th January in room 5 of the Carnegie suite, level 1 of the Saltire. Remember that we don’t work in that room, so if there is nobody there, contact us directly.
What is a library widget and why do we need one?
The library widget is a handy way to search for books and eBooks using the widget box on the top right of the desktop of all Caledonian computers. Click on the book icon and a search window will pop up. Type your keywords into the search box to search our books and eBooks
(for eBooks only add electronic resource to your search – eg Sociology electronic resource). You can then display the details and link in to eBooks.
All this and more!
You can also search our journals and ejournals, search Google scholar and Intute, use your subject guides and contact your subject librarian for more help.
To celebrate our 350th anniversary in 2010, Royal Society Publishing will be launching several commemorative initiatives, details at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/seefurther. Today Trailblazing takes most of the headlines on launch day and it has already received international media interest. Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010. It can be found at http://royalsociety.org/trailblazing. Each article has a short commentary and is presented in the form of a timeline alongside a series of major world historical events to illustrate the content in which each discovery was made.