-
Recent Posts
- One-Hour Wait to re-Borrow Books Abolished – You Said, We Did
- Extended Opening Hours for Students from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences – You Said, We Did
- Library Help Drop-In Sessions – Biological Sciences
- Document Delivery for Staff and Post-Graduate Research Students – You Said, We Did
- Library Communication – You Said, We Did
Archives
Meta
Tags
- anthropology
- Biomedical Library
- biomedical sciences
- book availability survey
- borrowing from the Library
- dat
- data
- database
- databases
- dentistry
- Digimap
- e-books
- e-resources
- electronic journals
- Electronic Theses
- feedback
- gold
- help
- history
- Inter-Library loans
- Marketing TF
- Medical Library
- medicine
- mendeley
- New Library
- newspapers
- Open Access
- primary sources
- psychology
- psycINFO
- reading lists
- reference management
- Refworks
- Resources for Medicine
- Respect
- Science Library
- Scopus
- support
- Surveys
- The McClay Library
- Theses
- Training
- training sessions
- write-n-cite
- You said
the library on twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: News & Updates
One-Hour Wait to re-Borrow Books Abolished – You Said, We Did
In the past, when you had reached the renewal limit on a book you had on loan, we used to make you wait an hour after you had returned it before you could take it out again. We thought that … Continue reading
Posted in News & Updates, Priority
Leave a comment
Extended Opening Hours for Students from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences – You Said, We Did
The McClay Library offers 24-hour opening to support students during the Semester 2 Examination period. Following demands from students and the School, the McClay Library has also offered extended hours outside term-time for students from the School of Medicine, Dentistry … Continue reading
Posted in News & Updates, Priority
Leave a comment
Document Delivery for Staff and Post-Graduate Research Students – You Said, We Did
With an increase in staff and post-graduate research students working from home, we wanted to investigate the desirability and feasibility of establishing a document delivery service for these customers. Between August and December 2018, we have been satisfying Inter Library … Continue reading
Posted in News & Updates, Priority
Leave a comment
Library Communication – You Said, We Did
We wanted to make sure that we were communicating with you in a way which makes sense for you and is the most useful. One way we assessed this was to hold a Focus Group in partnership with the Students … Continue reading
Posted in News & Updates, Priority
Leave a comment
The McClay Library Expansion Project – February 2019 Update
This is the latest in a series of regular updates planned for the 2018-19 academic year which will keep you informed on progress of the McClay Library Phase 3 expansion project. The project is progressing well with most of the … Continue reading
Posted in News & Updates, Priority
Leave a comment
Plan S – A response from Library Services
Library Services at Queen’s University Belfast welcomes the formation of cOAlition S and supports the aim of Plan S to make publicly funded research fully and immediately Open Access. We welcome the commitment to end hybrid journal publishing and believe … Continue reading
Plan S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 – feedback invited
In September 2018 an open access initiative (Plan S) was launched by an international consortium of research funders (Coalition S), including UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Plan S requires that, from 2020, “scientific publications that result from research funded by … Continue reading
ukpressonline – Trial Access
QUB staff and students have trial access to ukpressonline until 28/02/2019. ukpressonline is a gateway to over two million pages of the 19th-21st Centuries’ newspapers, from 1835 to today, all as published on the day they were published and all … Continue reading
Access to Safari e-books ending
The library’s subscription to Safari e-books is coming to an end. Where possible, books which were accessible via the Safari platform have been replaced with e-books from other suppliers. Alternatively, books are being made available in hardcopy. If you have … Continue reading
Primary sources: an introduction for history students
What do we mean by primary sources? Why are they important for students of history? How do you find them at Queen’s? During this brand new course Deborah Sherlock (Subject Librarian, HAPP) and Louisa Costelloe (Assistant Librarian, Special Collections) will take you … Continue reading