Intute Repository Search

The information gateway Intute has launched a new repository search which allows you to search for e-prints from contents of UK academic repositories, including our very own SHURA.

To date there are over 300,000 e-prints from 82 repository: the advanced search feature gives you a list of all the repositories that are covered.

If you are interested in placing your own research into SHURA, please contact Mark Clowes in the Virtual Learning Centre team.

O&M Librarian Subject Responsibilities

We've had a reshuffle. Over the last 6 months, we've had a number of changes to the team, and have decided to gently rearrange the subjects that we are responsible for to make the subject groupings slightly more logical.

Here are your new contacts;

Marie Bairstow - Facilities Management, Statistics Collection
Matt Borg - Food, Hospitality, Tourism, Leisure and Events Management, Newsletter / Blog editor
Dan Bye - Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing, Strategic Management
Angela Davies - MBA Programme, General Business
Geoff Russell - Financial Services and Banking, Financial Accounting, Media
Vacancy- International Business, Business Operations, Financial Information Systems (please contact Angela Davies)

You'll always find this list of contacts over on the right hand side of the blog.

As you can see, we are still in the process of recruiting to an Information Adviser (Maternity Cover) and the Information Specialist for the team.

Financial Times in Nexis

At the moment the Financial Times can only be searched with the General search either with the power search or easy search tab. Each user has to set up for access to the Financial Times, but once set up then it is available for all subsequent log ins/sessions.There is also a 24 hour embargo so the most recent FT is only available by going to the FT web site.

To set up access in Nexis:-

1) Click on Sources tab towards the top of the screen
2) Use the alphabetical find list and select F;
3) Tick “Financial Times (London), and you may also wish to tick Financial Times On Line Archive and Financial Times Mandate
4) Enter a name such as FT Collection in the “name selected sources box” and click in the “save as favourites” box
5) Click on the “OK Continue button” and you can now search the FT in power search or easy search.

Hopefully, this process should be streamlined soon, we'll keep you updated.

Reading Lists

Angie Donoghue (Senior Information Adviser, Virtual Learning Centre Team) has this to say on Reading Lists;

Now is a great time for you to be thinking about reading lists. Maybe you need to get some new resources ordered for next year. Maybe you don’t yet have your reading list available electronically via the Library Catalogue or in your Blackboard sites.

Despite your best efforts do you still find your students reluctant to either do the core reading or read around their subject and think critically to evaluate what they have read?

The reading list software gives you the opportunity to annotate the items on lists so that students can get a very clear idea of the purpose of your recommendations and your expectations of them. Items in the list link directly to the Library Catalogue records to show availability. You can get print texts digitised and added to your lists and also make links directly to full text journal articles and websites if you wish.