Please be aware that the Library’s system provider has scheduled essential maintenance from 11pm on Saturday 9 to 12am on Sunday 10 November.
The library Discover search and Resource Lists system may be unavailable for some of this time.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
The library is currently running a trial to Health Library: Occupational Therapy, open to all users.
Health Library delivers trusted health science education and clinical content to students and staff through a single portal — providing interactive online access to essential textbooks, multimedia & imagery, real-life case studies, and quizzes. Health Library: Occupational Therapy brings together an assortment of resources covering core topics. Ideal as part of a curriculum or self-study, the library is designed to help acquire meaningful clinical experience and prepare for exams and professional practice.
You can find out more about Health Library by watching this short video here.
The trial is running until 5th November. You can find Health Library by searching the Library’s Database A-Z or by clicking here.
We encourage users to send us feedback on Health Library directly via our Twitter or by email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk
We are currently experiencing access issues to Scanned material that loads using Kortext Reader on Resource Lists. This is due to unexpected downtime from the platform provider.
The provider is working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
We will provide an update to this post with further information as we receive it.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
[UPDATE 29.02.24, 12.07]
This issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience, and our apologies once more for any inconvenience caused.
If you are experiencing any other issues with online resources from the library, please contact the team via email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk
The GCU London Library will be open as follows over the listed two week period in January (Monday 8 January 2024 until Sunday 21 January 2024):
| Day | Date | Time |
| Monday | 08/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Tuesday | 09/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Wednesday | 10/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Thursday | 11/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Friday | 12/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Saturday | 13/01/24 | Closed |
| Sunday | 14/01/24 | Closed |
| Monday | 15/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Tuesday | 16/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Wednesday | 17/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Thursday | 18/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Friday | 19/01/24 | 9am to 7pm |
| Saturday | 20/01/24 | Closed |
| Sunday | 21/01/24 | Closed |
The GCU London Library will be open as follows over the Festive period 2023/24:
Day |
Date |
Time |
|
Monday |
18/12/2023 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Tuesday |
19/12/2023 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Wednesday |
20/12/2023 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Thursday |
21/12/2023 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Friday |
22/12/2023 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Saturday |
23/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Sunday |
24/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Monday |
25/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Tuesday |
26/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Wednesday |
27/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Thursday |
28/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Friday |
29/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Saturday |
30/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Sunday |
31/12/2023 |
Closed |
|
Monday |
01/01/2024 |
Closed |
|
Tuesday |
02/01/2024 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Wednesday |
03/01/2024 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Thursday |
04/01/2024 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Friday |
05/01/2024 |
9am to 7pm |
|
Saturday |
06/01/2024 |
Closed |
|
Sunday |
07/01/2024 |
Closed |
Level 4 of the Sir Alex Ferguson Library will be closed from 5pm on Friday 20 October until 7am on Monday 23 October to allow improvements to power and USB charging provision at study spaces to be carried out.
There will also be some minor work carried out on Level 2 of the Library but the floor will remain open.
We thank you for your patience while this work is carried out.
Please be aware that there will be scheduled downtime on the VLebooks platform on Sunday 8th October between 4pm – 7pm in order for the vendor to perform essential maintenance. We have been advised that the platform will be VLebooks offline for approximately one hour during this period.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you are experiencing any other issues with online resources from the library, please contact the team via email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk
Please be aware that the Library’s system provider has scheduled essential maintenance from 11pm on Saturday 3rd to 1am on Sunday 4th June.
Discover search and Resource Lists may therefore be unavailable for some of this time.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please be aware that we are currently experiencing access issues to the resource Cite them right.
We are currently working with the publisher to resolve this issue ASAP and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
UPDATE: WORKAROUND
The vendor has issued the following advice on using Cite them right while the access issue is being addressed.
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Website information:
* We are aware of an issue with pages under two navigation menu links: ‘Choose Referencing Style’ and ‘Browse Categories’. We are working on a fix.
* Please use the search bar to find content you are looking for. All pages and articles with referencing guidance remain available. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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Further to this, GCU users can access the ebook version via the Library’s webpages here: https://bit.ly/3JzsI6E
If you are having any issues with online resources please contact the Electronic Resource Team at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk
Please be aware that there is scheduled maintenance to the British National Formulary online platform on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 February, 7am – 7pm.
The vendor has made us aware that users may encounter brief periods of downtime and may be unable to access BNF Online during this time. This is to undertake essential infrastructure maintenance work on the platform and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you have trouble accessing any of our online resources, please contact the team at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk