Category Archives: News & Updates

Trial Access to BBC Monitoring Now Available

BBC Monitoring provides a service of news and information based on its monitoring of global news media. It is part of the BBC’s Global News Division, which also includes BBC World Service, BBC World News, BBC Media Action (was the … Continue reading

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Improvements to Library induction for new students – you said, we did

We wanted to make sure that our Library inductions were as helpful as possible so, following student feedback, we have made the following improvements: You said that the Schools did not give you enough information about library inductions We will … Continue reading

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RCUK Open Access Block Grant Extended to 2020

Research Councils UK (RCUK) have confirmed that the open access block grant will continue for the next two years. Queen’s receives an open access grant allocation from the RCUK twice a year.  The funds are made available to support universities … Continue reading

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Medical and HSC Library Opening Hours Survey – You Said, We Did

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Medical and HSC Library Opening Hours Survey 2017. The survey ran from 25 April to 19 May and its focus was to gauge opinion about the opening hours and whether they met … Continue reading

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Queen’s signs Open Access Membership Deal with Cogitatio Press

The Library has signed up to a membership program with the open access publisher Cogitatio Press. This deal means that the article processing charges (APCs) of all articles authored by Queen’s corresponding authors will automatically be covered by the library. … Continue reading

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Trial Access to the TLS

    QUB staff and students now have trial access to the TLS Historical Archive 1902-2012.  Access is available from this link: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/qubelfast?db=TLSH Access ends on 01/07/2017 If you have any comments or feedback on this resource please let it … Continue reading

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Restriction in the use of the RCUK Open Access Block Grant.

Due to increased demand for ‘gold’ open access and a significant reduction in the University’s RCUK open access block grant allocation, the Open Access Team has introduced a restriction on the use of the fund for the payment of Article … Continue reading

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Desks in high demand

Desks cannot be left unattended for more than 30 minutes. RESPECT others need for a study space Reserving seats: You can leave your desk for up to 30 minutes. Use slips available at the enquiry desk so other users and … Continue reading

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Queen’s Wi-Fi not available Thursday 20th April

Maintenance work on the Queen’s Wi-Fi network on Thursday 20th of April means that the service is likely to be unavailable between 8.00 am and 11.00 am. There is also low risk of interruption on Wednesday 19th April and later … Continue reading

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MEDLINE video tutorials

Muddled by MEDLINE? ‘How to search MEDLINE (in 10 minutes or less)’ is a new video series that covers all the basics of searching this key medicine and life science database, including: Planning a search Entering search terms Applying limits … Continue reading

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