• You Want it, We Get It!

    From our Collections and Archives Team If there is a book, chapter, or journal article that you want to read but can’t find through our library holdings, ‘You Want It, We Get It’ is the service to go to! The combined service provides a one-stop-shop for all your access requests. Simply fill out the request…

  • Catalyst Pin Camera

    As a student in Edge Hill back in 2014, I saw a news article on the Edge Hill website about an amazingly ghostly photograph taken with a pinhole camera, over the course of 312 days, documenting the construction of Creative Edge. The simple camera made from a box with a tiny hole in lieu of…

  • Study Tools: Box of Broadcasts

    Whilst Catalyst is home to thousands of books and a multitude of journal articles available online, Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is another great resource to help enhance your assignment writing. BoB contains over 2 million online resources dating back to the 1990s and includes all your favourite channels such as BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4.…

  • Submitting Your Assignment: Tips from a 4th year…

    Once you’ve finished your assignment, closed those 300 tabs you’ve had open for days and tidied up the remains of endless coffees and snacks, all you want to do is to upload your work to Turnitin and never see it again. But… you’re not quite finished. There are things to do BEFORE submitting your assignment.…

  • Which Edge Hill research gets the most attention?

    Using Altmetric data, we can get a picture of the most-mentioned research from Edge Hill in terms of news media, policy, bloggers, social media and more. Here are the top results, broken down by faculty. Altmetric is a company which provides an ‘attention score’ for research, measuring the number of times an article, book chapter,…

  • Sage Research Methods: here until 31 March!

    ——-*STOP PRESS* The trial has now been extended to 31 March——- We have a trial to Sage Research Methods, a resource to answer all your research methods questions until 13 February 2020. Sage Research Methods is an online platform with ebooks, videos, and tools that provide authoritative information on how to perform hundreds of research…

  • #EHUKeepCalmSubmit Competition ?

    We know this time of year can be stressful with deadlines nearing and exam revision to do, on top of an ever-increasing demand to be social for all those festive activities! We want to help ease the burden a little and give you a reason to carry on ploughing through until the end of term,…

  • Are you graduating in December?

    If so, Learning Services would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best in your future accomplishments, be that further study or starting out on your chosen career path. Did you know that you can still access library resources after graduation? Apply for an Alumni membership of the University Library after graduation to access…

  • Keep Calm and Submit ☃️

    As your first semester comes to an end and deadlines begin to approach, it is a good time to elf yourself by thinking about how you can submit on time and revise for exams! Do not panic as Keep Calm and Submit week is returning Monday 9th – Friday 13th December to offer you help,…

  • Learning at Work Week – Impact Awards 2019

    Learning at Work Week – Impact Awards 2019

    We are very pleased to announce that in the Learning at Work Week Impact Awards 2019 we have won in two categories ‘Shaping Digital Futures’ and ‘Innovation in Learning & Development’! Learning at Work Week took place in May and provided staff in Catalyst with an opportunity to not only get to know each other…