Category Archives: News & Updates

English Historical Documents – Trial Access Now Available

QUB staff and student have access to English Historical Documents until 21st November 2014 from the following URL http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com/ (Access is from on-campus only). English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914. … Continue reading

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Library complaints policy – help us find out when things go wrong

The Library is currently working towards Customer Service Excellence accreditation. As part of this exercise we are consulting groups of users on various policies. Our Complaints Policy is an important element in our customer services strategy and we want to be … Continue reading

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Over 6,000 OUP e-books added to to the QCat Library Catalogue

E-book access to over 6,000 Oxford University Press titles has now been added to the QCat Library Catalogue. The e-books will be available until April 2015 and cover a broad range of subjects in the arts, humanities and social sciences. … Continue reading

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Loeb Classical Library – Trial Access

QUB’s 60 day trail access to the digital version of the Loeb Classical Library starts today (09/10/2014).  Access is available on campus from the following link: http://www.loebclassics.com We would be very grateful for any feedback on this resource – please … Continue reading

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New-look Library website

Find your way around the new-look Library website with this handy Visual Guide.

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Resource Development and Management Policy

The Library’s Resource Development and Management Policy has been updated and we would welcome any comments from library users before the document is finalised. Comments can be made using our online Feedback Form.

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RefWorks for PG1s in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool.  It allows you to build you own database of references which you can then use to generate biliographies.  RefWorks also integrates with Word making citations easy to manage when writing. Training on RefWorks … Continue reading

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Phaidon Atlas of Architecture – trial access

We currently have trial access to the Phaidon Atlas of Architecture. Featuring tens of thousands of previously unpublished technical drawings and plans of key buildings completed since the year 2000, the Atlas is one of the world’s largest resources for … Continue reading

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Dissertation Library Workshops

Are you a Masters student in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences about to start work on your dissertation? Are you unsure about how to find articles and the best library resources to use? Then these short, informal workhops are for … Continue reading

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Changes to Library Catalogue item descriptions

Queen’s has now implemented new rules for the description of catalogue items. This brings us into line with RDA (Resource Description and Access) cataloguing principles – a revised approach to cataloguing currently being adopted by the library community. The new … Continue reading

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