New ways to find journal articles

Two of our main full-text journals packages, Academic Search Elite and Business Source Elite are now offering new ways to search. As well as the traditional ‘think of a keyword and type it in the box’ method there is now a visual search facility. Log in to either of the databases (Athens passwords needed) and you’ll see a range of ways to search, displayed on tabs at the top of the screen. We often recommend the advanced search for maximum control of your results, and now there is a new option: visual search. Click on the tab to load the page (it requires Java, so you may need to download this the first time you use it- just follow the instructions). Type a keyword into the box and click on search. Results are presented as a visual map of circles and squares, guiding you through different topics and suggesting related keywords. Abstracts and full-text links can be seen by clicking on the squares. Students who have seen this method of searching so far have been really impressed with their results, finding the visual search easy to use. To quote one student “It’s great. I don’t think in straight lines!’ Highly recommended.

Economic Geography contents alert

Economic Geography has just launched a FREE Contents Alert service, which will send you an e-mail with the Table of Contents of each new issue when it is published.To sign up, please go to Alert sign up:

After you have registered, you will receive an e-mail requesting confirmation — follow the instructions to reply and that will place you on the list.Once you are on the list, you will be sent an e-mail containing the Table of Contents for new issues as they become available. 

Geobase

Just a reminder that we now subscribe to Geobase. Replacing the paper publication of GeoAbstracts and Ecological Abstracts – those old favourites and so user friendly – Geobase gives bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, and development studies. It provides current coverage of over 1,800 journals and archival coverage of 2,000 additional titles from 1980 onwards.

Campaign for Normal Birth

The Royal College of Midwives have launched a website to accompany their Campaign for Normal Birth. The campaign aims to 'inspire normal birth practice' and is a mine of information, themes, tips and stories, useful for midwives and clients. 

IBSS Social Science competition – win £300!

 

The International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) is giving prizes of £300 to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers for case studies showing how they have used IBSS in their research.

You can see full details of the competition here.  

ENT and Cancer Specialist Libraries

Nursing and health people interested in ENT and cancer have two new specialist libraries available from this week. Each online library contains information about conditions, treatments and evidence for health care professionals. Information for patients and carers is also available. These two new libraries are part of a range provided by the NHS, covering a multitude of subjects including Child Health, Diabetes and Emergency Care. The resources are free, and no passwords are required. Have a look, let us know what you think, and if you like what you see, pass the web addresses on to others.

Interactive Whiteboard Training for staff

An Interactive whiteboard training session will take place on

Friday 7th April 0930 – 1045 in Cotswold C

The session will last approximately 1.25 hours, with the room being available for a further 30 minutes for those who wish to ask questions or practise further. The session will cover

• Using the equipment as a basic whiteboard, utilising different colour pens/highlighters etc from the toolbar.
• Annotating over the top of other software packages.
• Callibrating the board and basic trouble shooting.
  
  

If you would like to attend, please email P.Thornton@worc.ac.uk

Pete Thornton

New e-book collection

 

Have a look at our new e-books collection at MyiLibrary. The subjects covered so far are business, education, health and sport (plus a general research methods e-book). We’ll be adding books from other subject areas in the near future.

Click on ‘my content’ and browse through the subject headings (but beware – some subjects may not be under the headings you expect, e.g. Sport comes under Geography!).

You can also search for a particular title using Quick or Advanced Search.

Links from the catalogue and other ILS web pages will be added shortly.

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