Trial – OpenEdition Platform TAGS: e-books | e-journals | humanities and social sciences | OpenEdition We have trial access to e-book and e-journal content on the OpenEdition platform until the 31st January. OpenEdition is the umbrella portal for OpenEdition Books, Revues.org, Hypotheses and Calenda, four …Continue reading →

Trial – BrowZine TAGS: app | browsing | BrowZine | e-journals The Library is running a trial of BrowZine until 19th December.  BrowZine is a new application that allows you to browse, read and follow thousands of the library’s scholarly journals …Continue reading →

Ladies in the Lords: Chrystal Macmillan Lecture Oct 2014 TAGS: e-journals | Events | online resources | Social & Political Sciences On Thursday 30th October the Lord Speaker Baroness D’Souza will deliver the Chrystal Macmillan Lecture on the topic of Ladies in the Lords: Women’s Representation in Political Life. Today there …Continue reading →

Emerald Insight Platform Downtime TAGS: access issue | downtime | e-books | e-journals | Emerald There will be a period of downtime on the Emerald Insight platform.  This affects e-books and e-journals. The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Saturday 25 October 2014, between …Continue reading →

E-Journals – at risk period TAGS: e-journals Our e-journal links are at risk during the period Sunday 12th October 3am – 11am due to some maintenance and a server re-boot.  Going directly to the journal’s website while …Continue reading →

Need help with using the Library? Help is available. TAGS: academic support librarian | e-journals | online resources | pop up library Having problems finding material from your reading list? Not sure how to reference or cite properly in your work? Need to work on a systematic review but not sure where …Continue reading →

De Gruyter E-Journals – Access Resolved TAGS: De Gruyter | e-journals Access to De Gruyter e-journals has been restored.  There are still ongoing issues with their website displaying the correct access rights so it is best to access their e-journals from …Continue reading →

De Gruyter E-Journals – Access Issue TAGS: De Gruyter | e-journals We have currently lost access to our De Gruyter e-journals.  This has been reported and we hope to have this resolved asap. This issue is now resolved.

Emerald Insight – platform upgrade TAGS: e-journals | Emerald | platform update Emerald Insight have completed their platform upgrade work this week. Prompted by customer feedback, this has resulted in: Increased discoverability – thanks to enriched metadata and search engine optimization Improved …Continue reading →

Top five library resources for Politics TAGS: Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | literature searching | media | online resources | Politics It’s one month to go until the Scottish Referendum and as Scotland is gearing up to decide its future and politics dominates the news we thought we’d give you a …Continue reading →