Study Rooms and Their Booking

We have two new study rooms on board, bringing us back to a full complement of four study rooms in Aungier St.   The third is next to study room 2 and the 4th will be the old print room adjacent to the four computers that face the library desk.

Not coincidentally, we've decided to retire our online booking system, which will now be melted down for electron glue.  It served us for a more than a few years, but it's now time for it to leave the scene.

We are waiting for a new booking system, that promises to be a lot better than what's gone before, but these things take time, so in the interim, we are reverting back to a paper-based system.  Please make your room bookings at the library desk, while we sort out a better online system. Thank you for your patience!  

Science Direct on trial

We have another database trial on the go at the moment.  It's Science Direct, which provides access to journals and books published by Elsevier, who are a bigname in the publishing world.  It's also fair to say that Elsevier are very well known to librarian and researchers

Details are: 

SD College Edition Complete - Books
SD College Edition Complete - Journals
 trial start date: 23/09/2015

 trial end date:  22/10/2015

Please check your trial access by going to the following URL; http://www.sciencedirect.com.

Access is available on campus, and theoretically you could try off-campus with your Athens account too.  Bear in mind that this is a particular subset of Science Direct - College Edition Complete, so I've no idea how much of the content is available to you, so I suggest you restrict any searching/browsing to Full-Text Access. 

Happy database browsing

  

Library Tours

They say a picture paints a thousand words, so below, 1,000 words

New term hours

Our new academic year commences on 21/09/2015.  This entails longer library opening hours thus:

Monday - Thursday  09.00 -22.00
Friday - 09.00-17.15
Saturday 09.30-17.00

The best of luck to all of you in your studies this year.

Research Starters: EBSCO Discovery

Our EBSCOHost Discovery service is full of interesting features.  One such feature, and one that I had forgotten about, is Research Starters.  This can be loosely thought of as "EBSCO Does Wikipedia".  When enabled (which it is), it provides links to citable, authoritative summary articles on thousands of popular topics. It has, say EBSCO, been designed to assist users with their research, having been developed based on extensive studies with undergraduate and graduate students.  Well, there you are.

When a user conducts a search in EDS, a Research Starter (outlined below in red) may appear at the top of the Result List.  For those topics identified as most popular, Research Starters will retrieve relevant articles that link the user to related information and detailed bibliographies.  Which is nice.



Research Starters content is collected from a variety of high quality sources, both proprietary and encyclopedic, including:

• Salem Press
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• American National Biography 

If a Research Starter appears on the Result List, as in the example above, simply click the article title or the More button to read about the topic or find related articles and images.
From the overview article page, you can read the HTML Full Text article, listen to the article using the Text-to-Speech feature, or add it to your personal folder. You can also click the icons under Tools to print the article, email it, save it to your computer, etc.  Happy researching!

This post may contain traces of nuts and traces of http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?topic=996&id=6951&page=1 

New database trial

For three weeks the library is trialling EMIS, a comprehensive research tool which focuses on the Emerging Markets; find leading coverage in Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Asia and Africa.

• All data sets are combined meaning students and academics can access company, industry and macroeconomic data in one place.
• Company data has public and private companies with full financials i.e. annual statements, financial statements etc. The company database is used across all major investment banks in the UK and US because there are profiles that are usually hard to find e.g. private companies in China.
• Industry data has peer analysis, concertation analysis , benchmarking and full industry reports. Meaning industries from different countries can be compared, the top companies seen, how much market they have, sales etc.
• Industry reports are aggregated from international and local provider including Market line, Euromonitor, BMI research
• Macro economics data for all emerging countries including filters like FDI inward by country, GDP, work force etc which can be cross compared.by country In addition to this, reports from Oxford Economics and Dun and Bradstreet are aggrgated
• M&A database market leading for developing countries 

 EMIS (on campus only)

August Bank Holiday Opening Hours

Yes, another boring opening hours post, presented as a public service.  The library is closed on Bank Holiday Monday, though we are open as normal on Saturday 1st August.  Building opening times for the weekend are as follows:

Aungier Street          

 Saturday 1st​, Sunday 2nd & B/H Monday 3rd - 8:00am to 6:00pm 

Castle House           

​Closed​

 

Aungier St Library - Temporary Closure

June Bank Holiday Opening Hours

I'll make a summer resolution to post something other than opening hours, but for now...

Aungier Street         Saturday 30th 8:30am to 5:30pm , Sunday 31st (closed)  Monday 1st  - 8:30am to 5:30pm  (Note that the library is closed)

Castle House            Saturday 30th, Sunday 31st  8:30am to 5:30pm (Closed B/H Monday 1st)

Balfe Street & Bow Lane    Closed

Summer Opening Hours