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Problems accessing Discover More
Learning Services would like to apologise for the technical issues we are experiencing with our Discover More service. If you use Discover More to access content, you will find errors as you try to login in.
Content – eBooks and eJournals – from other publishers eg Science Direct, Proquest, InterNurse are still accessible directly from the library catalogue. The problems are occurring with our resources from Ebsco.
Our staff will be available to help you over the phone until 6.00pm this evening (Saturday 11th Jan) and if this is not resolved today, staff are also available 11.00am – 6.00pm tomorrow (Sunday)
For any questions about the resources please ring the team
01695 584286
Apologies again
Learning Services
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RefWorks training webinars for January
RefWorks are running the following online training sessions this January:
– Beyond Direct Export: Five Other Ways to Import Information to RefWorks (30 minutes)
– Using RefWorks to Quickly Import Citations and Write a Paper (30 minutes)
– Gather and Organize your Research Sources in RefWorks — Part 1 (30 minutes)
– Gather and Organize your Research Sources in RefWorks — Part 2 (30 minutes)
– The new Write-N-Cite (45 minutes)
– The new Write-N-Cite for the Mac (45 Minutes)
– RefWorks Collaborative Features (45 minutes)
To sign up to any of these go to the RefWorks-COS Training Webinars website (http://www.refworks-cos.com/training/ ) to view a list of RefWorks Live and Recorded Webinar programs. Registration is limited and enrollment is required.
Yvonne Smith
Academic Liaison Librarian (x4300)
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Staff Development in January
Make the most of the new year and any new devices you might have got as a Christmas gift, and come along to one of our Developing Digital Excellence staff sessions.
In January we have sessions running within the Digital Practitioner strand which will focus on getting the most from your mobile device and the digital tools which are out there.
The Digital Practitioner
Help! My Mobile Is Smarter Than me 9/1/14 12pm–1.00pm
Making research easier with mobile devices 14/1/14 12pm–1.00pm
(eJournals, Annotation and Referencing)
Keeping The Conversation Going Online 20/1/14 1.00pm–2.00pm
eShare: Making the Most of Your Digital Repository 22/1/14 2.00pm–3.00pm
Electronic Assessment Management 29/1/14 1.00pm-2.00pm
ICT skills very much run alongside those skills needed to develop your Learning Edge and use more mobile technology with students. If you have got a new mobile device or PC why not find out more around using Outlook, including using the web access version. There are also sessions around the two most popular Microsoft Office products, Word and PowerPoint.
The Digital Office
Outlook email 6/1/14 2.00pm-4.00pm
Outlook Calendar 7/1/14 10.00am–12pm
Outlook Web access 9/1/14 10.00am–12pm
Folder and file management 15/1/14 2:30pm–3:30pm
On the Edge Hill University Network
PowerPoint 1 – Introduction to On-Screen 16/1/14 9:30am–11:30am
Presentations
Word 1 – Managing Paragraph 23/1/14 10.00am–11:30am
and Page Formats
Book your place via the HR Staff Development wiki
Happy New Year, the Developing Digital Excellence Team
