In March 2013 we conducted a researchers’ survey covering areas such as electronic resources, reference management, open access (OA), and communication and training. There were 326 responses (114 research staff and 212 students) from all schools. As a result we have made a number of service improvements:
- A mobile version of QCat Discover is now available
- An alphabetical list of ejournals will be launched during the summer
- Two potential alternatives to QCat Discover will be trialled this autumn
- A large number of new journal subscriptions have been purchased and will be available in January 2014. These include package deals for:
- Duke University Press
- JSTOR – 6 extra collections
- Oxford University Press
- Springer
- Taylor & Francis
- The following new, full-text electronic resources are now available:
- Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2009
- IEEE-Wiley eBooks
- A selection of Oxford University Press Medical Handbooks and Textbooks
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online – British Politics and Society
- RCS eBook collection (1968-2012)
- Wiley Blackwell Psychology Collection
- We aim to introduce training courses covering bibliometrics, conducting literature searches for systematic reviews, and open access
- The range of YouTube videos will be extended to cover topics such as accessing electronic resources off campus and searching for journal articles using QCat Discover
- A QCat Discover search box is now available on the LibGuides homepage
- There are plans to increase the number of LibGuides targeted at researchers
- We aim to assess EndNote and Mendeley and are assessing RefWorks Flow (the new version of the RefWorks service)