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

Posted on 4th December 2014 by John Knowles

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 relevant Northern Ireland and Irish case law. A few English cases are noted if they are of particular importance to Northern Ireland.

Legislation is arranged according to broad subject areas which can be explored by selecting ‘Valentine’ from the Browse option in the Commentary section of the Lexis Library.  The subject areas are grouped under a general statutes heading (GENSTATS) and a criminal statutes heading (CRIMSTATS). The Quick Search option under Commentary also allows keyword searches to be restricted to Valentine’s All the Law of Northern Ireland using the drop-down menu choice.

All the Law of Northern Ireland has been compiled for many years by Barry Valentine, a practicing barrister in Northern Ireland and made available on CD. LexisNexis have now undertaken to continue revising the database and will be looking to further integrate notes within All the Law of Northern Ireland to additional sources within the Lexis Library.

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

Posted on 20th November 2014 by Diarmuid Kennedy

LGBTLife_Masthead_WebLGBT 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 thousands of select titles.

LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 150 full-text monographs and books.

To access the trial follow this link and scroll down the list to LGBT or LGBT with Full Text.  Access is available until 12th December 2014.

Please contact Diarmuid Kennedy if you have any problems accessing the Trial.

We are interested in hearing your options of this resource – you can let us know what you think by completing this brief survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DHN2VL2

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Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service E-book trial

Posted on 20th November 2014 by Diarmuid Kennedy

ArchaeopresslogoThe 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 no restrictions on user numbers or the number of times a file can be accessed.

Access is via www.archaeopress.com/queens (on campus only):

Username: queens
Password (case-sensitive): Bel=455?

Please contact Subject Librarian Carol Dunlop (c.a.dunlop@qub.ac.uk) or Patrick Harris at Archaeopress (patrick@archaeopress.com) if you have any comments or questions about this resource.

 

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24-hour Opening

Posted on 19th November 2014 by Jacqueline McCurry

Overnight opening starts on Sunday 30 November and runs until Friday 19 December. After Christmas it recommences on Friday 2 January and finishes on Monday 26 January.

During these periods:-

  • The upper floors will remain open until 2:00am every night.
  • On Saturdays the ground floor will be open from 6:00am (the upper floors open at 10:00am as normal).
  • On Sundays, both the ground and upper floors will be open from 8:00am
  • Fridays and Saturdays are the only two nights on which the Library is closed for a few hours (it shuts at 2:00am).
  • There is no change to staffed service hours.

Students will only be admitted if they have a valid card. Please note that additional identity checks will be in place and students should be prepared to show their QUB card when requested to do so by a member of staff.

For full details of the Library’s opening hours and staffed service hours please see www.qub.ac.uk/lib

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

Posted on 17th November 2014 by Diarmuid Kennedy

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 text access is available both on and off campus (Queen’s login required for off campus access). After September, the Library will retain up to 150 of the most used titles as permanent additions to the catalogue.

Titles are available from the following subject collections: Biological & Food Sciences, Biomedical Science & Medicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics, Pharmacology, Physics & Astronomy, and Psychology.

As we will only be able to retain a relatively small proportion of the e-books now available, we would encourage everyone to make full use of the titles in the period to September 2015, in order that our purchased titles will best reflect current research and teaching interests.

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Research Portal Prize Draw Winner

Posted on 10th November 2014 by wordpress

Congratulations to Dr John Hardy from the School of Pharmacy who won the Research Portal Prize Draw which was organised to celebrate Open Access Week 2014. The prize, a £50 Amazon voucher, was presented to John by Elizabeth Traynor (Assistant Director for Library Services).

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Congratulations also to the three runners-up who each received an Open Access T-shirt: Dr Jason Greenwood from the School of Mathematics and Physics, Dr Debra Phillips from the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering and Dr Saurav Goel from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

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Book Swap in McClay

Posted on 3rd November 2014 by Borrower Services

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 have a good collection of books already available so drop in with your old books or take a look at what we have.

The scheme is open to all Library users and may continue long term if it is successful.

McClay Library Book Swap

‘Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are’ – Mason Cooley

 

 

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English Historical Documents – Trial Access Now Available

Posted on 24th October 2014 by Diarmuid Kennedy

ehd_logoQUB 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.

Please let us know what you think of this resource:
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Library complaints policy – help us find out when things go wrong

Posted on 20th October 2014 by Borrower Services

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 sure that it is fit for purpose. This brief survey will only take a few minutes to complete and we would greatly appreciate your help in reviewing this procedure.

Help us to find out when things go wrong – so we can put them right.

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

Posted on 16th October 2014 by John Knowles

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. After April, the Library will retain up to 200 of the most used titles as permanent additions to the catalogue.

The books can also be accessed by title area from the Oxford Scholarship website. Full text access is available both on and off campus (Queen’s login required for off campus access).

Titles are available from the following subject collections: History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Religion, Classical Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Sociology, and Social Work.

As we will only be able to retain a relatively small proportion of the e-books now available, we would encourage everyone to make full use of the titles in the period to April 2015, in order that our purchased titles will best reflect current research and teaching interests.

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