Library Matters

The following rooms have been booked for additional quiet study space from Monday to Friday 9am till 5pm, from 16th April till 4th May to cover the exam diet.

Rooms: M129A, M302, M303, W119, W401, W402, W402a , W428A , W429

Staff and students now have temporary access to EOLSS – Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.
The first Earth Summit of 1992, held in Rio de Janeiro, issued a document that is now famous as Agenda 21. This document refers to the Earth’s life support systems, considering the whole of our planet as a grand intensive care unit which supports all forms of life (both natural and human engineered systems). The EOLSS is based on this concept and the above definition of ‘life support systems’.
EOLSS has a thematic organization. It can almost be regarded as an ‘encyclopedia of encyclopedias’, presenting a wide range of major core subjects in a process of gradual development, from broad overview to great detail. EOLSS is being developed under the auspice of UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee. Subjects covered include:

• Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;
• Mathematical Sciences;
• Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences;
• Biotechnology;
• Tropical Biology and Conservation Management;
• Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences;
• Social Sciences and Humanities;
• Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology resources;
• Control Systems, Robotics and Automation;
• Chemical Sciences Engineering and Technology Resources;
• Water Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources;
• Energy Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources;
• Environmental and Ecological Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources ;
• Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources;
• Human Resources Policy and Management;
• Natural Resources Policy and Management;
• Development and Economic Sciences;
• Institutional and Infrastructural Resources;
• Technology, Information and System Management Resources;

Area studies (Africa, Brazil, Canada and USA, China, Europe, Japan, Russia).
You can log on to EOLSS at http://www.eolss.net. Click ’Access for Institutions‘ on the left pane. When you get to the Search page, you may either browse the Table of Contents or perform a keyword search. EOLSS is augmented and updated on a monthly basis.

The Proquest database service (including CSA) will be unavailable on Sunday, March 25th, 2012 at 03:00 for twelve hours while maintenance is being carried out.

There is a current known problem when exporting references from Discover to Refworks from off-campus. We are aware of this and our suppliers have identified a solution. It has been given the highest priority with our suppliers and we hope that it will be resolved very soon. The problem is only affecting the export function from off-campus; on-campus use of the function is fine.

There is a very simple workaround for this problem while we await the fix from our suppliers.  If you would like to try it, please follow these simple steps:

• From the page with your exported references (currently showing with the erroneous tagged format), save these references by choosing File_Save As…, naming your file appropriately and choosing Text File (*.txt) and saving it to your chosen location.
• Open up a Refworks session.
• Choose the Import option from the menu on the bottom right of the screen.  A new window will open, choose Browse to find your file and then click Import.
• Your references will now be displayed as normal for you to manage.

We apologise for this temporary problem and for the current inconvenience.

ResearchGate is the world’s largest professional network for scientists and researchers with more than 1.3million members. With access to over 45million abstracts (not full text!), Researchers can search through 7 of the largest databases and millions of smaller ones simultaneously, including PubMED, Cornwell University & CiteSeer; by using the
literature search at http://www.researchgate.net/literature

They also have the largest science and research specific job board in the world at http://www.researchgate.net/jobs/research/?nav=jobs

As well as the largest Science and Research Conference Board at http://www.researchgate.net/conferences/related/?nav=conferences

They also featured in the New York Times on Tuesday; the article is really good for explaining what ResearchGate is all about! http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html

Please be very careful to keep an eye on your valuables when you are studying in the Saltire Centre. Portable items such as laptops are very attractive to sneak theives.

We have added another day to the library drop-ins service. If you have a quick question come along to room 5 of the Carnegie Suite on level 1 of the Saltire Centre between 2pm and 3pm Mondays to Fridays.

Glasgow Caledonian University is an Eduroam site.  Our classification is as a “Home and Visited” site. This means that visitors to GCU can authenticate their laptops through their own institution, as long as it is an Eduroam site. This will give the visitor Internet access. Conversely, any GCU staff member who visits another institution will be able to authenticate their laptop back to GCU from the ‘visited’ institution. Instructions are available on our Information Services web page.

CINAHL is giving problems when submitting a search. We have reported the problem to the supplier and hope to have it resolved soon.

The Library is please to announce a 6 month trial to the complete Cambridge Books Online collection, through our membership of the SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library) Consortium

The trial gives access to over 11,000 Cambridge University Press eBooks. Cambridge publishes eBooks in almost all academic subject and records for all the titles have been added to our library catalogue. The trial provides:

* 24/7 access on site, at home or on the move
* Powerful quick search, advanced search & browse capabilities
* Extensive user functionality including hyperlinked references and personalisation features
* Enhanced discoverability tools
* Unobtrusive DRM and a usage policy which allows limited printing, copy/paste, and download to PCs, mobile devices and tablets

The trial ends at the beginning of July. To explore the whole collection

Go to – http://ebooks.cambridge.org/

Take the institutional login link at the top of the page and use your Athens username and password to access content

Feedback on the trial is welcome