Category Archives: News & Updates

Forthcoming RefWorks Course

There are places available on the following course: RefWorks for the Engineering and Physical Sciences – Tuesday 1st March 2016 10am to 12pm McClay Library Auditorium To register, login to Queen’s Online and click ‘Training Courses’ from the ‘Other’ section … Continue reading

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Library Services Customer Satisfaction Survey 2015 – You Said, We Did!

Thank you to everyone who responded to the 2015 Library Services Satisfaction Survey just before Christmas. The focus of the survey was on overall satisfaction, speed of service delivery, quality of staff interactions, etc. and was sent to a 10% sample … Continue reading

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Queen’s University Belfast Submits APC expenditure for 2015

The Library’s Open Access Team has submitted, on behalf of the University, an Article Processing Charges (APCs) expenditure report to Jisc Collections for 2015. For the last two years Jisc Collections have been working with higher education institutions to collect … Continue reading

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Library sessions for Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Postgraduates

The Medical Library is running the following course in February and March, aimed at Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Postgraduates: The ‘Big 4’ Databases for Medicine, Health and Life Sciences: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science and Scopus To book a … Continue reading

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Trial access to RILM Music Encyclopedias

Trial access to the RILM Music Encyclopedias database is available until 12th February. The database is a full-text compilation of 41  titles published from 1775 to the present, comprising nearly 80,000 print pages, the majority of which are not available … Continue reading

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Coming soon: improved electronic document delivery from the British Library

The British Library have recently launched a new improved service for delivering journal articles and book chapters electronically. We’ll be adopting it from January 27th this year. We’re already used to fulfilling your Inter-library loan (Document Supply) requests electronically as much … Continue reading

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ISI Journal Citation Reports – new features available

ISI Journal Citation Reports, a database which provides impact factors for journals in science and technology and social sciences, is moving to the InCites platform. The new platform provides useful new features, including interactive maps and relations charts, improved sorting … Continue reading

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Medical Library training sessions 2016

In the new year, the Medical Library will be running more of its popular ‘Big 4 databases’ and RefWorks training sessions. The dates for these sessions are below. Click a date to book a place. Big 4 Databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, … Continue reading

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The South American Missionary Society archive papers – trial access

QUB staff and students now have trial access to The South American Missionary Society archive papers from the following link (on-campus only):  https://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/collection.php?cid=9781851172009 The trial ends on 10 /12/2015.  We would like to hear what you think about this resource … Continue reading

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Adding a Journal to Your Article in Pure: Best Practice Guidelines

When creating a record for a journal article in Pure it’s important to link it to a journal. Before creating a new journal entry for your Pure record check to see if the title already exists: In the Pure record … Continue reading

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