University of Sussex Library Updates

News and information from the University of Sussex Library

Heating update

Jan

26

SEF are experiencing issues with the heating; this is affecting the whole campus at times and you may experience cooler than normal temperatures. Further info

Restricted access to Library Catalogue 1st August 2013

Jul

26

The Library Catalogue will only offer a limited functionality on 1st August due to system work needed for the end of our financial year. Item requests, Interlibrary requests and book purchasing suggestions will be unavailable on this day.  ‘My Account’ features (such as renewing a book) will also be unavailable. You can renew books over […]

Open Day

Jun

28

Saturday 29 June is a campus Open Day – we are opening 10.00am-6.00pm!

Snow day opening – The Library and Special Collections are both currently open

Mar

12

We are really pleased to say that enough of our amazing staff have managed to get in to enable us to stay open until 4pm (weather permitting). Please see our twitter and Facebook pages for regular updates.

Changes to Project Muse platform

Dec

5

Project Muse have informed us that they will be changing their platform. The new platform will go live in January 2012, but is currently available to view in beta form at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. Please feel free to take a look and feed back any questions or issues you might have about it. Muse have alerted us […]

Proquest products unavailable 4th December 2011

Dec

1

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on December 4th, 2011. A twelve hour window will be required for this maintenance, from 03:00 for twelve hours. As a result, most Proquest products will be unavailable during this period. Apologies for any inconvenience.

No access to Reaxys 3rd December 2011

Nov

28

Due to scheduled maintenance, there will be no access to Reaxys on Saturday 3rd December. Access will be fully restored on Sunday 4th December. Reaxys apologise for any inconvenience.

Open resource to support PhD scholars with research data management!

Nov

14

An online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management developed at the University of Edinburgh is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities. The non-credit, free online course has interactive units focused on key concepts of data management including video […]

Survey Results! Library Support for Postgraduate Reasearchers 2011

Sep

14

One of the key services Research Liaison offers to doctoral students and academics is 1-2-1 support with using Library resources. This is a bookable session which is tailored to your own research needs. We can look at: Useful online resources for your subject Effective searching for relevant results Keeping up to date with research in […]

Web of Knowledge Maintenance, 17th July 2011

Jul

14

Thomson Reuters will be performing maintenance to Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and ResearcherID this coming Sunday, July 17th beginning at 2.pm. They expect this maintenance to last approximately 12 hours. During this time, there may be disruption of service and access to these products, including Web of Knowledge Personalization. We apologize for any inconvenience […]