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IEEE Xplore Training Event

Staff and postgraduate students are invited to attend a free session to learn time-saving techniques for searching IEEE Xplore, the online delivery platform for IEEE and IET journals and conference papers. During the live demonstration, participants will learn about advanced searching; personalization … Continue reading

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RefWorks Roadshow

  If you’re not using RefWorks you’re working too hard! Are you a new PhD or Masters student? Come and find out how RefWorks can help you store and manage your references  and produce your bibliography. Already using RefWorks? Need to … Continue reading

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1911 Census Exhibition

The McClay Library is hosting the exhibition Belfast 1911: A Day in the Life of a City.  It can be seen on Floor 1 of the library and further details are available here: http://www.belfastfamilyhistory.com/exhibition.php

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RefWorks for Science and Engineering

*News Flash* This course has been cancelled because of ongoing technical problems with RefWorks. We will reschedule it once the technical problems have been resolved. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. RefWorks is a bibliographic management service that you can … Continue reading

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Knovel University Challenge

Knovel is a database of 2,000 full-text engineering books that you can read online or cross-search to find answers to technical questions like What is the tensile strength of Titanium? or  What is the equation for Coulomb’s law force?

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Stephen Gilbert and Forrest Reid Exhibition

An exhibition exploring the life and work of the Belfast authors Forrest Reid (1875-1947) and Stephen Gilbert (1912-2010) is on display on Floor 1 of the McClay Library until the end of September. Reid published widely, and won the James … Continue reading

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Invitation to The McClay Library

  We would like to invite you to visit The McClay Library on Thursday 9 September from 10 am to 11.30am.  This will provide an opportunity for you to find out more about the excellent facilities and the changes that … Continue reading

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Check out a Kindle!

The Library has been awarded a grant from the Queen’s Annual Fund for an Amazon Kindle project targeting the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE). Five Kindles are now available for you to borrow from the Borrower Services … Continue reading

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Training Sessions for RefWorks 2.0

RefWorks Classic will soon be gone! At the moment Queen’s is running it in parallel with the new interface, RefWorks 2.0, but it is due to be switched off in September. If you would like to see the new version … Continue reading

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New Royal Society of Chemistry Platform Launched

The Royal Society of Chemistry has just launched a new, updated, content delivery platform for all its publications. It is hoped that the end of July timing for this launch will keep any possible disruption to RSC journal access to … Continue reading

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