Category Archives: News & Updates

ProQuest Historical Newspapers – Trial Access

QUB staff and students now have trial access to 6 key US newspaper archives: Chicago Tribune Indianapolis Star Los Angeles Times The Boston Globe The New York Times with Index The Washington Post To access the trial click here (access … Continue reading

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Trial Access to Artech House Engineering E-books

The Library has set up trial access to the Artech House collection of 500 e-books. Artech House specialises in publishing books for a number of high-tech fields including: Microwave Radar Electronic defence Antennas GNSS/GPS Software development and security MEMS and … Continue reading

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Module reading lists

The Library is currently gathering information on books recommended in module readings lists for semester 2. All readings lists will be checked for book availability whenever received by the Library. Please note, however, that for lists to be checked for … Continue reading

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Students with Disabilities Library Survey 2014 – You Said, We Did!

In February 2014 we emailed a survey to 1,673 students who were registered with Disability Services in order to evaluate the service that the Library provides to them. Overall the survey shows that the Library is providing a good service … Continue reading

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Standards of Service

The Library has developed a suite of customer-focused service standards and measured our current performance against these standards. If you have any feedback or comments, please let us know via our Customer Feedback Page. We are particularly interested to hear … Continue reading

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Valentine’s All the Law of Northern Ireland now available from the Lexis Library

Valentine’s All the Law of Northern Ireland is now available through the commentary section of the Lexis Library. The database includes the full annotated text of Acts, Orders, Rules and regulations applying to Northern Ireland, along with a note of … Continue reading

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LGBT Life & LGBT Life Full Text – Trial Access Now Available

LGBT Life is the definitive index to the world’s literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for hundreds of LGBT-specific core periodicals, books and reference works, and data mined from priority periodicals and … Continue reading

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Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service E-book trial

The Library has set up a trial for Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service until the end of December. Archaeopress are publishers of academic archaeology titles (including British Archaeological Reports) and there are currently over 450 e-titles in their archive. There are … Continue reading

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Over 1400 Elsevier e-books added to the QCat Library Catalogue

E-book access to over 1400 Elsevier titles has now been added to the QCat Library Catalogue. The e-books will be available until the end of September 2015 and cover a broad range of subjects in science, medicine and engineering. Full … Continue reading

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Book Swap in McClay

Having been asked on many occasion for light reading and fiction the McClay Library is piloting a book swap scheme where you can donate books that you have finished with and, if you want, take another book to read. We … Continue reading

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