QUB staff and students can access ProQuest’s Periodicals Archive Online until 10/10/2013 from here.
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Please send you comments and feedback to Diarmuid Kennedy.
Electronic Enlightenment is now available to QUB staff and students.
As of summer 2013 Electronic Enlightenment contains 63,967 letters and documents and 8,002 correspondents, Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Electronic Enlightenment is available via QCat and on the A-Z lists in the relevant the libguides pages. This is the direct link: http://queens.ezp1.qub.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.e-enlightenment.com
Work on this project has proceeded according to schedule and will be substantially completed by Friday 6 September.
Work in the atrium (with furniture installed and wiring in place) will be completed by Tuesday 3 September; installation of PCs will commence in this area on Wednesday 4 September. Students will have full access to the atrium, including the new reading rooms, from Monday 9 September. However, please note that commissioning of PCs in the atrium will continue over the next couple of weeks. All the PCs in the Extended Hours Reading Room will also be replaced by Friday 20 September.
Re-development of the student lounge is almost completed; new furniture and water coolers will be installed by Wednesday 4 September. Students will have full access to this area from Thursday 5 September.
The new toilets on the ground floor are likely to open by Friday 6 September.
Some minor work to install student seating in place of journal display shelving on floors 2 and 3 should also be completed by Friday 6 September. The furniture will be installed in these areas before the beginning of term. Commissioning of new PCs on floor 1 will be completed by Wednesday 4 September.
There will be some painting work across the floors over the next couple of weeks but this should be completed by 15 September.
International & Postgraduate Student Centre
Postgraduate students should note that the International & Postgraduate Student Centre will offer exceptional summer opening between 10.00am to 5:30pm on Saturdays and Sundays between Saturday 20 July and Sunday 15 September. This facility is being made available on a temporary basis to offer alternative study options for postgraduate students during the McClay Library Enhancement Project.
Thank you for your patience during this project.
In March 2013 we conducted a researchers’ survey covering areas such as electronic resources, reference management, open access (OA), and communication and training. There were 326 responses (114 research staff and 212 students) from all schools. As a result we have made a number of service improvements:
New Queen’s graduates can become personal associate members of the Library at a discounted rate of £48 (inc VAT) for 1 year. To avail of this offer you must apply within 6 months of your graduation date.
For further details and application form go to: http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/TheLibrary/LibraryMembership/AssociateMembership/
The Library has recently purchased a number of core medical Oxford University Press Textbooks and Handbooks which are available to access online from today. Available via QCat Discover for on-campus and off campus access.
Oxford University Press E-books
Aimed primarily at medical students and trainee doctors, the Oxford Textbooks and Handbooks are popular worldwide for their ease of use and practicality, with each book delivering reliable, up-to-date clinical
information.
Some of the key titles available online include:
Oxford Textbook of Surgery
Oxford Textbook of Critical Care
Oxford Textbook of Public Health
Oxford Handbook of General Practice
Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation & Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Urology
And Many more….
Springer Protocols is an extensive online collection of molecular biology and biomedical protocols enabling researchers to recreate experiments in their laboratory. They provide predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including bias, safety, equipment, statistical methods and reporting. The Protocols are taken from established sources such as Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Biotechnology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.
The resource can be accessed via QCat Discover by searching for Springer Protocols, or at the link below.
https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Re1000385
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics & Society is now available to QUB staff and students from here or via QCat.
This resource includes tens of thousands of historical primary sources relating to the social and political climate in Great Britain during the “long” nineteenth century, and consists of more than 1.7 million pages. The collections are sourced from a variety of institutions, including the British Library and The National Archives, Kew.
With British Politics and Society, scholars can research and explore a range of primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, Owenism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure.
Peace Process: Layers of Meaning is a hybrid project involving collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology http://www.peaceprocesshistory.org/
It includes the Lomond directory of surviving interviews, social investigations and oral histories of the Peace Process.
‘Junqueira’s basic histology’ by Anthony L. Mescher
13th edition
McGraw-Hill, 2013
Copies of the latest edition of this key histology text, fully-updated and now with over 600 full-colour illustrations, are now available to borrow from the QUB Medical and Biomedical libraries.
‘Junqueira’s basic histology’ features on the following QUB reading lists:
For shelf info, and to check copy availability, please go to: http://go.qub.ac.uk/91bbc
