Contact us via Skype

You can now contact me via Skype. My user name is dls.duthie - same as Meebo and the blog so you won’t forget!

To find out more about Skype and set up an account click here.

Metalib

Since yesterday there has been a problem with Metalib. This was thought to have been resolved yesterday afternoon, but unfortunately the problem persists. Please access e-resources via the Information Resources tab within the MWE for the time being. Apologies for the inconvenience.

We want your comments!

We are producing some publicity to advertise our ebooks and ejournals and we’re looking for some positive comments from students. If you have any good feedback for us please could you post a comment here or email dls@cf.ac.uk.

Many Thanks, Lucy.

Cochrane Library

To access the full text of Cochrane reviews you need to follow the instructions depending on where you live. If you live in the UK you should be able to gain full text just by following the link from the Databases page.

If you live outside of the UK, follow the Access to Cochrane link from the Cochrane Library homepage then select your geographic area form the list and follow the instructions for that area.

Web of Knowledge Disruption

Hi All

Web of Knowledge have some maintenance planned for Sunday 27th September 11.00am-12.30pm BST.

You should be able to access Web of Knowledge but you will be unable to access your personal account or Endnote Web during this time.

Thanks, Lucy

Ebooks Survey – Win £200 in Amazon Vouchers

The University Library Service would like to ask for your help by responding to this UK wide JISC survey about e-book usage:The aim of this survey, certainly the largest of its type yet conducted in the UK, is to explore whether electronic books might offer a solution to improving access to popular course texts. In other words, would you like to see the Library providing direct links to electronic versions of core textbooks?
The survey will take 10-12 minutes to complete, much less if you don’t already use e-books – but we would still greatly value your views.
You can enter the survey at http://tinyurl.com/9gt936 . If you leave your university email address at the end of the survey, you will be entered into a prize draw for £200 worth of Amazon vouchers.
You are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in this survey. Any information you give us will be held securely and we will under no circumstances reveal any findings other than at a highly aggregated level. We are collecting the data through a third-party, Survey Monkey, and you can check their privacy policy at http://www.surveymonkey.com/Monkey_Privacy.aspx

Looking for Something Nice?

Searching for NICE guidelines is simple and straightforward.

Go to:

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp

You can either search by type, topic or date.

Want a Sneak Preview?

Calling students of:

Diabetes
Medical Education
Medical Toxicology

We are looking for volunteers of an Information Literacy Toolkit to test out links flow, logic and general helpfulness before it is put on general release to your course.

If you want to be the first to see the Toolkit or want to brush up your searching skills and are happy to give us feedback; email: collinsl@cf.ac.uk with the subject line Toolkit or comment to this post.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Mari Ann

E-journals

Hi Everyone,

I’ve just had an update from the ejournals team and I wanted to update everyone on the best way of accessing ejournals from off campus at the moment.

It is by using the ejournals list at http://ejournals.cf.ac.uk/ 

It completely bypasses any need to hunt around for an Athens or Shibboleth login box on the journal site, so it is the easiest method for users to successfully get to full-text.

Going by Voyager (or direct to the publisher’s website) or library holdings in medline does not do this. We are working on getting the links loaded into Voyager and other sites, but that will take at least a couple of months. Until this is done, clicking on an ejournal link from Voyager will still work, but you will have to hunt around for the Athens or Shibboleth login boxes on the publishers sites, which are often hard to locate and lead to users failing to get access to full-text. 

So, I recommend you should go to ejournals via the list at http://ejournals.cf.ac.uk/ for best results right now for off campus access. 

HAPPY EJOURNALLING!

Mari Ann

European Journal of Palliative Care

There is unfortunately still a problem with accessing this journal online. We have identified the cause of this problem but the earliest we can fix it is Monday.