Gale Newsvault
Nov
12
NewsVault provides a way of cross-searching to explore Gale’s range of historical newspaper collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across the Times Digital Archive, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, and others. Provides access to over 10 million digitized facsimile pages. To access NewsVault go to http://find.galegroup.com/dvnw/start.do?prodId=DVNW&userGroupName=sussex
Science Direct and Scopus scheduled downtime 13th November
Nov
10
Science Direct and Scopus will be offline and unavailable for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, November 13th, between 12:30PM GMT – 9:30PM GMT, due to scheduled upgrades. Elsevier apologise for the inconvenience.
The Big Move is over : current stock locations
Oct
15
For the last two weeks we have been moving hundreds of thousands of volumes as we move in to the next phase of our refurbishment. The good news is that this is now complete and books are currently located as follows: Shelfmarks A, B, C and D-DA are on the top floor Shelfmarks DB-DZ E, F, G, J, Y and European Documents are in the North Basement […]
Recommender service to find articles relevant to your needs
Oct
15
The Library now has access to a recommender service called bX, which uses information gathered from usage data from subscribing institutions to suggest alternative resources when a user does a search. It works along the same lines as Amazon’s suggestion of “People who bought this also looked at…” so, when you do a search, along […]
Library services for academic staff Newsletter
Oct
1
The October 2010 Library services for academic staff Newsletter has just been published. You can view it online as a PDF. It includes information about events on campus for Open Access Week, a new area in the Library just for researchers, updates on our refurbishment, many new online resources and more.
Open Access Week: Sussex’s Research available to all
Sep
30
Want to find out more about Open Access publishing and how it can increase the reach of your research? Come along to one of the events being held by the Library as part of Open Access Week. Two lunchtime seminars are being held where you can find out more and discuss this with publishers, research […]
British Library Postgraduate Training Days
Sep
30
The British Library is inviting research postgraduates from across the UK to attend a specially tailored day of talks, workshops and networking opportunities, focusing on your research subject. Each day includes a general introduction to relevant research sources, curator talks and workshops, and details on how to get a Reader Pass. To ensure the days […]
Box of Broadcasts (BOB)
Sep
23
Members of the University now have access to Box of Broadcasts (BOB), which allows you to record television or radio programmes due to be shown in the next seven days. For some channels, you can also retrieve programmes from the last week or watch items that have been recorded by other users of the service. […]
Westlaw International problems
Sep
6
There are currently problems accessing Westlaw International. Westlaw are aware of the problem and are working to remedy it as a matter of priority. In the meantime, they have provided a temporary password to enable access. The password is 10217567QZFP. The password is case sensitive, so all the letters are upper case. Our apologies for […]
Elsevier launches SciVerse
Sep
3
SciVerse Hub integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus and targeted web content from Scirus, Elsevier’s science-specific Internet search engine. SciVerse Hub beta allows for a single search across its integrated content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication.