Category Archives: News & Updates

McClay Library: Easter Hours, May Day and, 24-Hour Opening

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Jacqueline McCurry

Easter During Easter the McClay Library will offer exceptional opening on a couple of dates. On Good Friday (14 April) and, on Easter Tuesday (18 April), all four floors of the Library will be open for study access from 9 … Continue reading →

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Calling all final year medical students

Posted on 4th April 2017 by Richard Fallis

Final year medical students: did you know that, even if you leave Queen’s, you don’t need to leave the Library behind? If you start working for a Health and Social Care Trust within Northern Ireland, you will be entitled to … Continue reading →

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Wellcome Trust – New Publisher Requirements for Open Access publications

Posted on 15th March 2017 by Open Access Team

The Wellcome Trust has introduced new publisher requirements in response to the number of articles that are non-compliant with its open access policy. From the 1st April 2017, the Wellcome Trust/Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) that Queen’s receives to pay … Continue reading →

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RILM Music Encyclopedias

Posted on 8th March 2017 by Diarmuid Kennedy

The library has been given free unlimited access to RILM Music Encyclopedias for the period 1/3/17 until 31/12/17. RILM Music Encyclopedias is a unique collection of 45 seminal encyclopedias in full text, comprising 95,000 pages and including historical and current … Continue reading →

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2016 Customer Satisfaction Survey Results

Posted on 3rd February 2017 by Diarmuid Kennedy

Thanks to everyone who responded to our Customer Satisfaction Survey in November/December last year.  The survey forms part of the Library’s Customer Service Excellence Accreditation and we are very please with the positive response. Over 94% of respondents indicated they … Continue reading →

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Queen’s University Belfast Submits APC expenditure for 2016

Posted on 23rd January 2017 by Open Access Team

The Library’s Open Access Team has submitted, on behalf of the University, an Article Processing Charges (APCs) expenditure report to Jisc Collections for 2016. For the past three years Jisc Collections have been working with higher education institutions to collect and openly … Continue reading →

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Improving your Library – Did you know?

Posted on 20th January 2017 by wordpress

Away from the library desk, our staff work hard behind the scenes to ensure that the service we provide is the best it can be. Did you know? 100% of all returned books are available to customers within one working … Continue reading →

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Improving your Library – Did you know?

Posted on 11th January 2017 by Borrower Services

Did you know that 95% of our customers feel that library staff who deliver training are friendly and helpful and 93% are happy that they were knowledgeable about their subject? Did you know that on average we serve our users … Continue reading →

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Cambridge University Press e-books added to the Library catalogue for 2017

Posted on 11th January 2017 by John Knowles

Records for close to 17,000 Cambridge University Press e-books have now been added to the Library catalogue. The books are published from 2012 onwards and will be available in full text e-book versions from CUP throughout 2017. The titles available … Continue reading →

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Trial Access to AMD’s Eighteenth Century Journals

Posted on 15th December 2016 by Diarmuid Kennedy

QUB staff and students now have trial access to Adam Matthew Digital’s Eighteenth Century Journals (access ends on January 11th 2017).  You can access the database from this link.  Please note that PDF downloading is not available. Bringing together rare … Continue reading →

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