Due to an upgrade to the electrical infrastructure there will be no access to any IT systems from 23:59 Saturday 5th December until 23:59 Sunday 6th December, please note this includes Moodle, you will not be able to access notes or submit assignments, please ensure to downloaded all required notes prior to this time. Also please be aware all PC's in DBS will also be inaccessible.
That's includes internally hosted library systems such as the website and LORLS. The library catalogue, Athens and EBSCO will still be available as they are not hosted internally.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Monday, 16 November 2015
Emerald Full-Text
In the spirit of reduce, reuse, recycle! Here's an old posting revisited
A question that gets asked again and again goes something like this:
"When I search on Emerald I always get lots of articles coming up that are abstract only. Why can't I see the full-text?"
Here's the answer:
Emerald is not a single database; it's a collection of different products all gathered together and searchable via the Emerald website. We have access to Emerald Management Xtra. If you click the link above, you'd see it's one of many Emerald products. One of these, Emerald Backfiles, is promoted by Emerald. This promotion takes the form of appearing at the top of your search results. Being there, the Backfiles articles are likely to be the first articles that you click on...leading to some frustration and irritation when you see that they're abstract only, because DBS do not have a subscription to them.
Before you contact the library, consider the fact that these articles all date from at the most recent, the early to mid 1990s. It is entirely possible that there are more recent articles on your subject that appear further down the list of your search results.
Alternatively, you can remove all articles from Emerald Backfiles, and indeed removed all non-DBS subscribed content from your searches by amending some search options. On the advanced search options page, make the sure the options below are checked thus:
That's:
1) Only content I have access to *
2) No EarlyCite
3) No Backfiles
* That should really be "Only content to which I have access"
A question that gets asked again and again goes something like this:
"When I search on Emerald I always get lots of articles coming up that are abstract only. Why can't I see the full-text?"
Here's the answer:
Emerald is not a single database; it's a collection of different products all gathered together and searchable via the Emerald website. We have access to Emerald Management Xtra. If you click the link above, you'd see it's one of many Emerald products. One of these, Emerald Backfiles, is promoted by Emerald. This promotion takes the form of appearing at the top of your search results. Being there, the Backfiles articles are likely to be the first articles that you click on...leading to some frustration and irritation when you see that they're abstract only, because DBS do not have a subscription to them.
Before you contact the library, consider the fact that these articles all date from at the most recent, the early to mid 1990s. It is entirely possible that there are more recent articles on your subject that appear further down the list of your search results.
Alternatively, you can remove all articles from Emerald Backfiles, and indeed removed all non-DBS subscribed content from your searches by amending some search options. On the advanced search options page, make the sure the options below are checked thus:
1) Only content I have access to *
2) No EarlyCite
3) No Backfiles
* That should really be "Only content to which I have access"
Friday, 30 October 2015
New database trial Hein Online
This one's for our law students:
Until December 31st, we have HeinOnline on trial. This is a legal information source with a bias towards US legislation. Its content includes a large number of law journals also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more. Access, as is the norm with database trials, is restricted to on-campus only.
Oh, so you actually want a link to this do you? Here you go
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Need help getting started? http://help.heinonline.org/, has a number of resources available to
help you get make best use of HeinOnline. Here you will find PDF training guides, video tutorials, FAQs, search examples, how-to's and other assistance.
Until December 31st, we have HeinOnline on trial. This is a legal information source with a bias towards US legislation. Its content includes a large number of law journals also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more. Access, as is the norm with database trials, is restricted to on-campus only.
Oh, so you actually want a link to this do you? Here you go
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Need help getting started? http://help.heinonline.org/, has a number of resources available to
help you get make best use of HeinOnline. Here you will find PDF training guides, video tutorials, FAQs, search examples, how-to's and other assistance.
Friday, 23 October 2015
October Bank Holiday Opening Times
Below
are DBS building opening times for the October Bank Holiday weekend.
The Library is open Saturday as normal, but we're CLOSED on Monday - as is the Aungier St building
Aungier Street
Saturday 24th 8:00am to 6:00pm , Sunday 25th & Monday 26th Closed
Castle House
Saturday 24th, Sunday 25th & Monday 26th 8:00am to 6:00pm
Balfe Street & Bow Lane
Closed
Thursday, 15 October 2015
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!
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!
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
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
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
Thursday, 17 September 2015
New term hours
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.
Monday, 31 August 2015
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:
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
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
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