24-Hour Opening and Christmas Vacation Hours

Posted on 31st October 2017 by Jacqueline McCurry

A four-week period of Twenty-Four opening will commence, in the McClay Library, on Sunday 19 November 2017.

During these weeks, the Library will open its doors at 8 o’clock on Sunday mornings and remain open until late on Friday evenings, closing at 2 o’clock on Saturday mornings.

It will then open again, early, at 6 0’clock on Saturday morning and, remain open until 2 o’clock on Sunday mornings.

The last day of Twenty-Four opening will be on Friday 15 December 2017.

A valid Student or Library Card will be required to obtain admission. Staff will be carrying out additional identity checks during this period.

 

In the run-up to Christmas, the Library will close earlier than normal.

It will be open from 08:00, Monday to Friday week beginning 18 December and, close at 20:30, except on Friday when it will shut at 17:30. It will also be open on Saturday 23 December from 10:00 until 17:30.

The Library will be closed from Christmas Eve until New Year’s Day inclusive. However, study and self-service facilities will be available in the McClay Library from 09:00 until 17:00 on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 December 2017. Students will need to have a valid card to obtain admission. Staff will be carrying out additional identity checks during the Christmas Vacation.

Normal term-time opening, 08:00 until 02:00 will resume on Tuesday 02 January 2018.

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Database of the Month: Nexis UK

Posted on 30th October 2017 by Isabel O'Kelly

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Worldwide newspaper coverage from the past forty years.

Newspapers are a rich information source and can also raise the quality of the research in many academic areas. Contemporaneous reports of an incident, reported in a reputable news source quickly become sources for historical research; how a new law is received, how political events change a country, what impact financial markets have on a society…

Newspapers can inform, inspire, confirm, contextualise.

Nexis UK provides access to a wide range of news and business sources.

Nexis UK contains over 20,000 full-text sources including 12,500 news sources, local, national and international, (local newspapers include the Belfast Telegraph; Irish News and Belfast Newsletter) and a huge range of company, financial and industry sources. The database also includes access to a variety of trade and professional business journals.

It is possible to search groups of sources (for example, UK Broadsheets, Major World Newspapers) or an individual publication. Coverage is from the 1980s onwards and is updated daily.

A range of tutorials to help you use the database effectively is available from the Help link on the Nexis website.

Nexis is available from the main catalogue and is also listed on the newspaper area of the LibGuides. Take time to explore the databases of older newspapers and periodicals on the same page.

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JustisOne trial

Posted on 27th October 2017 by Isabel O'Kelly

The library has a trial for JustisOne from now until the end of the year

Core  content of JustisOne includes the largest collection of UK superior court judgments, Irish cases and Caribbean case available online, alongside extensive coverage from Australia and Canada.

  • UK Core
  • Ireland Core
  • Canada Core
  • Caribbean Core
  • International Core (International Law Reports, Jersey Law Reports, Aspinall’s Maritime Cases, Singapore Academy Collection)
  • Irish Reports and Digest
  • English Reports
  • Immigration Appeal Reports

You will be able to access the platform using the URL below;

https://accounts.justis.com/ – Click the JustisOne box and login from here.

Please let us know if you have any feedback on this by filling in the online form https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/P9WYDT2

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International Open Access Week begins 23rd October 2017

Posted on 18th October 2017 by Open Access Team

This year’s International Open Access Week kicks off on the 23rd October with the theme “Open in order to…”

The theme is an invitation to answer the question of what benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available.

In the past our team has spoken of the many potential benefits that open access can bring to a wide range of people. This year however, we decided that we wanted to focus specifically on the benefits of OA to the researcher and their publication. We wanted to hear directly from our academics here at Queen’s and find out if they felt OA has had a positive impact on their publication.

To achieve this, we decided to create a new page on our OA LibGuide devoted to discovering the “Impact of Open Access”.  This new webpage contained a simple “Open Access Feedback” box where academics could share their OA experience and thoughts with us.

A small number of Queen’s academics were emailed and invited to share their OA experience.  Within a very short space of time, over half of the academics emailed had responded.

What was really pleasing and perhaps a bit surprising was the level of detail in each response. It became clear that our academics have had their own specific OA experience and they were happy to share this with us.

The great benefit of our “Impact of Open Access” page has been that we no longer have to only speak of the potential benefits that open access can bring.

So whether it’s “Open in order to… “widen the parameters of who has access to my research” or  “achieve significantly higher citations and greater attention from the scientific community and beyond”, we can now say that the benefits to making scholarly outputs openly available are real.

If you would like to share your OA experience with us, please visit our “Impact of Open Access” page.

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Acoustic testing (McClay Library) Wednesday morning, 18th October.

Posted on 17th October 2017 by John Knowles

As part of a project to extend the McClay Library, acoustic testing will be carried out between 8.00 am  and 10.00 am on Wednesday 18 October 2017. There will be serious noise disruption throughout the building during this time. We are sorry for the inconvenience this will cause.

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Library Closed – Monday 16th October

Posted on 16th October 2017 by John Knowles

In light of updated information from the Met Office on Hurricane Ophelia, Queen’s will close today from 12 noon (including the Library and all public facing student services).

The University plans to re-open tomorrow morning as usual, however, further updates will be posted on social media & by email as necessary.

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Literary Print Culture: The Stationers’ Company Archive – Trial Access Now Available

Posted on 9th October 2017 by Diarmuid Kennedy

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QUB staff and students have trial access to Adam Matthew’s Literary Print Culture: The Stationers’ Company Archive database until 6th November 2017.

You can access on-campus via this link: http://www.literaryprintculture.amdigital.co.uk
(Please note that PDF download options are not available during the trial).

The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Explore extremely rare documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century in this invaluable resource of research material for historians and literary scholars.

Please let us know what you think of this resource: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7CLW8GD

 

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Science Direct journals – You have entered an invalid username/password combination

Posted on 6th October 2017 by Geraldine O'Beirn

If you receive the message

You have entered an invalid username/password combination. Please re-enter your username and password and click the Sign in button.

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when accessing journals on the ScienceDirect platform please try accessing the ScienceDirect URL again.

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Error contacting your identity provider on Lexis Nexis

Posted on 3rd October 2017 by Geraldine O'Beirn

If you receive the message Error contacting your identity provider when accessing Lexis / Nexis platforms

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please clear your browser cache and cookies (see Clear your cache section on http://libguides.qub.ac.uk/eresources/help/troubleshooting) and access again.

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On your reading list? Not in the Library? Let us know!

Posted on 2nd October 2017 by Megan Corrigan

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The Library makes every effort to hold the key texts that are on reading lists.

If you are a student, and after checking the Library catalogue, you find the Library does not hold a book title on your reading list then you can submit a request to purchase the book. This can be done by either sending us a book form or emailing the details to your Subject Librarian.

The Librarian responsible for your school will receive the request. If they think it is appropriate and book funds are available they will order the book, however funds are limited and so the Library may not be able to purchase every request. We will get back to you once we’ve received your request and let you know what action is going to be taken.

It can take anything from two weeks to several months for a book to arrive and be available for borrowing so in the meantime you could try the following:

  • check the catalogue to see if another book would be useful. You can search by keyword, author and title.
  • check the Readings Online available for your Module, there may be useful scanned journal articles and book chapters. To access these, just select the relevant Module in Queen’s Online look under ‘Library Links’ and you will see any scanned readings attached to that module.

If you have any further queries about reading lists or Readings Online please contact your subject librarian by clicking on the relevant guide.

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