Changes at Sheffield City Library

Sheffield City Library is undergoing reorganisation as follows:

The Business, Science & Technology (BST) and the Arts & Social Sciences (ASS) Libraries will merge and become Reception, Reference and Information - a single access point for reference services and a reception /information point for the Central Library. It will be located in the current BST room on the ground floor. The current BST Library will close on Saturday 25th April and reopen as RRI Thursday 28th May.

During this period the Business, Science & Technology Library will be running a limited service, eg Newspapers (Financial Times etc), magazines and journals and a limited enquiry service from the City Library's Arts, Social Sciences & Sports Library.

Further information can be found at: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/find/reference-libraries

Researchers, what is your motivation?

Why do researchers choose to publish their work, and how and why do they cite other researchers’ work?

Take part in this RIN survey Publication and dissemination behaviour of researchers and the influence of research assessment before 6 May 2009 and you’ll be entered in the prize draw for £100 in Amazon vouchers.

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Electronic access to UK doctoral theses

Access to UK doctoral theses in electronic form is now available to researchers worldwide via the Electronic Theses Online service(EThOS). EThOS was developed by the EThOS partnership, comprising several UK Higher Education Institutions and the British Library with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Research Libraries UK(RLUK) and partners.

Media and Visual Resources Clinic

Information Services run drop-in sessions every weekday from 11am-1pm, in the media office on level 3 of the Adsetts Centre extension, by the DVDs and videos. Additionally we are now introducing twice-weekly Media and Visual Resources Clinics.

When?Every Wednesday and Thursday, 3pm-4pm during term time.

Where?Adsetts, room 6441, (by the entrance barriers on level 4).

Who can attend? For anyone – staff or student - who may have a query about any aspect of the services with which Media Materials and Copyright Team are involved. This might be:- creating, reproducing and manipulating images- finding media materials- copyright issues- VOD and IPTV.

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