• Did you know…about the essential tools and good practice guidelines for computer users?

    Whether you are developing teaching and learning content or professional documentation for your department or service, there is good practice guidance and software available which all users may add to their resource toolkit. Inspiration® mind-mapping software creates visual representations of plans / ideas or concepts in the form of a diagram or mind map. Inspiration can transform…

  • Access a wealth of information – check out the subject web pages

    If you are a new Pre Registration health student you will just be starting out  with your studies and we are here to help you through the next few weeks as you settle into your first modules. The Learning Services web pages can provide you with a quick and easy access point to all your…

  • Holy grail found by librarians?…

    Four weeks into the trial of two discovery services, EBSCO and Summon,  which offer a single box to search our databases, e-books, full-text journals and the library catalogue, and opinion is divided on which of the two will best meet our needs.  The tools provide the best of both worlds: the ease of a google-type search facility combined with results from academic resources…

  • Emerging Technologies

    This week sees delivery of the first in a series of sessions on Emerging Technologies from the Learning Technology Development Team: QR Codes: Bridging paper and web? Have you seen code blocks similar to this appearing in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or on just about any object about which people might need information? Have…

  • Discover More!

    Have you ever wondered where to start looking for information resources for your assignments, dissertation or personal research? We are piloting two new discovery tools which will make this so much easier. They both offer a single box to search our databases, e-books, full-text journals and the library catalogue. The “tools” are called Ebsco Discovery Service…

  • E-asy does it!

    Did you know that Learning Services provides 60,885 electronic books and 16,304 electronic journals for students and staff across all areas of study? All our e-resources are easily accessible 24/7 through the Library Catalogue, whether you’re on or off campus – so you can do your research whenever and wherever you like.  And because they’ve…

  • Result of the trial for Pier Professional Journals

    At the end of last year we had a trial of the complete collection of Journals from Pier Professional. Pier Professional publishes journals in healthcare, social care and allied fields. There are 23 journals in the collection. Feedback was positive and a decision was made to take out a subscription for the whole collection.  New…

  • New Humanities Database on Trial

    We have got a trial of another full text journal collection from Ebsco. Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.  The database includes full text for nearly 1,200 journals. The collection has been added to our Ebsco collection and can be found at…

  • Project Muse Journals on trial

    We have taken out a trial to the Humanities Collection from Project Muse. Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full text online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities journals. The journals are indexed and peer-reviewed. The Humanities Collection consists of 167 journals and can be accessed at Project…

  • Collection of Health and Education Journals on Trial

    We have got a trial of the complete collection of Journals from Pier Professional. Pier Professional publishes journals in healthcare and social care and allied fields. There are 23 journals in the collection. We already subscribe to 6 titles – so this package would give us online access to the other 17 titles. New titles…