Improve your personal and professional effectiveness at Vitae’s June National GRADschool! Places going fast!
Apr
19
Event overview GRADschools are experiential learning courses designed to develop your transferable skills as a postgraduate researcher. Many researchers who attend the course have a transformational experience, empowered to take charge of their own learning and career. GRADschools are designed to enable you to: develop your personal effectiveness identify ways to communicate effectively make more […]
Ethnographic Video Online
Apr
11
The Library has purchased Ethnographic Video Online. It offers access to 100s of online ethnographic films and associated study materials. These cover a wide range of cultures worldwide, including documentaries from key filmmakers such as John Marshall, Timothy Asch, Robert Gardner, David MacDougall, John Bishop, David Plath, from the 1920s to the present day. There […]
Helping you with REF2014: Support for Academic Staff
Apr
1
If you are a member of research staff, you will recently have received a letter from Professor Allison asking you to check your publication details on the new Sussex Direct REF2014 screen. This should represent a full, accurate list of your post-2008 publication output, whether published, submitted or in progress. Where necessary, you will need […]
Applications open for Cambridge/MIT Enterprisers programme!
Mar
29
Applications are now open for this year’s highly-renowned Cambridge/MIT Enterprisers 4 day residential programme, taking place at the end of May. Due to Sussex’s longstanding involvement with the course, the University of Sussex has secured 20 places for Sussex Doctoral students and all disciplines are eligible to apply, whether or not your studies are funded […]
Refurbishment Phase 8
Mar
21
We are now moving in to the final main phase of the refurbishment, which focuses on a large part of the ground floor. The large computer cluster (G70) and the accessible North Entrance will remain accessible during the works via a covered walkway going through the area being refurbished. The North Basement (which currently holds […]
Complete the RIN Survey and enter a prize draw for £100 Amazon voucher!
Mar
21
The Research Information Network (RIN) has commissioned a study intended to explore the role of supervisors in developing research students’ information literacy. You can read a description here: <www.rin.ac.uk/role-research-supervisors>. There are two parallel surveys, one for supervisors and one for PhD students. The results and data will be published by RIN later this year. For supervisors: This […]
ProQuest Maintenance Window – 19 March 2011
Mar
18
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on March 19, 2011, starting at Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 02:00 and lasting up to twelve hours. As a result of this, the following resources will be unavailable during this time: ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Chicago Defender, Guardian) Literature Online, Periodicals Archive Online, FIAF and Early English Books Online […]
North door accessible entrance
Feb
14
Update: based on user feedback we have now arranged that the accessible North Entrance will remain in use throughout the work in that part of the building. Due to essential building works the accessible entrance at the north end of the building will be closed from March to June. This may cause some users significant […]
Dedicated study area for finalists
Feb
11
We’ve created a space for finalists in the Library for quiet study (including quiet laptop use). The room is located on the first floor at the front of the building, near the group study rooms.
Tell us your views on our plans for future developments online
Feb
7
The Library is currently looking at how we can best serve our users online, both through our local services and working with others on the web. In particular we are looking at how we can enable you to discover content and resources relevant for your research more easily. With that aim, we’re developing a broad […]