Category Archives: News & Updates

Easter Opening Hours and Public Holidays

The University Library will be closed on Saturday 17th for St Patrick’s Day. However the McClay Library will remain open until 2:00am that morning and, it will be open as normal the following day. On Monday 19th March, a public … Continue reading

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MBC Drop-in Sessions: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Subject Librarian

Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, is running drop-in sessions in the Biomedical Library, MBC, at the times below. Feel free to drop in, or if you’d prefer to book a slot then please contact Richard … Continue reading

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Electronic Access to Queen’s Postgraduate Research Theses- You Said, We Did

Feedback from the 2017 Customer Satisfaction Survey revealed that there is growing demand for electronic access to Postgraduate Theses at Queen’s. Concerns were highlighted about the lack of open access to theses and the impact that this has, both on … Continue reading

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Digital Loeb Classical Library Trial Access Now Available

QUB staff and students now have on-campus access to the Loeb Classical Library via this link: http://www.loebclassics.com. Key features include: Single- and dual-language reading modes Sophisticated Bookmarking and Annotation features Tools for sharing Bookmarks and Annotations Greek keyboard User account … Continue reading

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Trial access to Patrologia Latina Database now available

QUB staff and students have access to Patrologia Latina Database until 18th March 2018 from the this link. The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, … Continue reading

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Queen’s signs Open Access Agreement with BMJ

The library is delighted to announce that it has formed an institutional agreement for open access publishing with BMJ.  BMJ has 17 Fully Open Access Journals Under this agreement, eligible QUB authors who are publishing in any of these 17 Fully … Continue reading

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Improvements to Induction for Our New International Students – You Said, We Did

Through listening to student feedback, we became aware that our Semester 2 cohort of international students were not benefitting from the same level of Library induction that is delivered to those who arrive in the first semester. In order to … Continue reading

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The Northern Ireland Official Publications Archive (NIOPA)

The Northern Ireland Official Publications Archive (NIOPA) is available at http://niopa.qub.ac.uk/ The archive holds born digital materials published online from September 2015 and acts as a continuation of the Library’s print collections. The Library focuses on documents gathered from departmental, agency, … Continue reading

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Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences resources: quick survey

Have a few minutes to spare? Please complete our short survey to let us know how important library resources are to your work or studies within QUB Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences. The survey covers reference management tools, and other … Continue reading

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Queen’s signs Open Access publishing agreement with Frontiers

The library is delighted to announce that it has formed an institutional agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. Frontiers is a fully open access publisher with currently 60 journals. Under this agreement eligible Queen’s authors will have their article processing … Continue reading

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