Turnitin Drop-in sessions: February 2011

Are you confused about Turnitin and electronic submission?

The Library is holding drop-in sessions for all students to help with:

• Using Turnitin to submit your assignment to the school
• How to use and access the ‘draft’ folder
• Information on what the originality reports mean
• How to attach disability stickers to your assignment

  

Sessions are taking place at the following times and locations. 
You don't need to book- just turn up:

   

Fri 18th Feb 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Allerton Library

Mon 21st Feb 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Allerton Library

Fri 4th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Allerton Library

Fri 11th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Allerton Library

Fri 18th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Allerton Library

Fri 25th Feb 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Mon 28th Feb 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Wed 2nd Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Mon 7th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Wed 9th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Mon 14th Mar 2pm-4pm Seminar Room, Adelphi Library

Wed 16th Mar 2-4pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 21st Mar 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 28th Mar 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Fri 1st Apr 9-11am Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 4th Apr 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 9th Apr 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 16th May 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Mon 23rd May 11-1pm Clifford Whitworth Library 208

Online support from the library training team

The Training Team in the Library provide ICT training and support for staff and students at the University of Salford, from courses to online training and drop-in support. You can find out more about the training team by visiting their web pages at http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/training/.



The Training Team appreciate that students have very busy timetables and can struggle to attend the scheduled courses or drop-in ITScope sessions available when they need help with ICT. For this reason they have added a new feature to their Facebook page where you can ask an ICT question and get a reply posted on their wall. This may help you and also others who have the same questions or problems.

To get quick online support, visit their page or search Facebook for the The-Training-Team-at-UoS.

You can also keep up to date with the latest news from the team by following them on twitter at http://twitter.com/UoSTrainingTeam.

Laptop loans in the Library

All library sites have laptops available to loan. You can borrow a laptop from the Enquiry Desk for up to 3 hours at a time for use anywhere in the library.

Want to work quitely on your assignment in the silent study area or sit near to the books or journals while typing? Borrowing a laptop allows you to be flexible in where and how you work. All laptops allow you to connect through the wireless network to gain access to the university's Library and IT resources such as Blackboard, Webmail and e-Library, and all allow you to save work onto a USB device, or upload it onto your own F Drive using the Filestore link on the Student Channel web site.

You can find out more about the scheme at http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/it/laptops/

A new look...

ILS at the University of Salford has been rebranded as The Library. We have redesigned our blog and renamed ourselves on Twitter to reflect this.

You can now follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hsc_library to keep up to date with news and services from your Health Information Specialists.

New e-Books now available

Three new e-Books are now available through the library catalogue:

Nursing care planning made incredibly easy!


Critical care nursing made incredibly easy!


Anatomy & physiology made incredibly easy!

All three can be accessed by clicking the OPEN link on their record within the catalogue. You will need your Athens username and password to view them both on and off campus.

Document Delivery - new electronic delivery service

If a book or journal is not held in stock at the University of Salford, you can use our document delivery service. You can find details of the document delivery process on the ILS website at http://www.ils.salford.ac.uk/library/using/document/

Document Delivery and SED
You now have the option of having journal articles delivered in electronic format to your desktop, using the Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) service from the British Library.

The Document Delivery request form offers the electronic delivery option, which requires you to provide an email address.

If the requested item is available electronically from the British Library, it will be delivered in electronic format as an Adobe PDF to your email account. If it cannot be provided electronically then a paper copy will be supplied as standard.

To find out more about SED click here.

News Update: New journals available

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy and the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research are now available electronically through the University of Salford's eLibrary. To access either title log in to eLibrary and select Find eJournal then search by title.

Both titles are provided by OVID. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy is available from 2000 onwards, and the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research is available from 2003 onwards. You will need your Athens username and password to access these titles both on and off campus. (You can learn more about Athens in a previous blog post.)

These titles each have licences for 1 user so if you are turned away it is because the title is being used - wait a few minutes and try again!

LaSU - Reading List System @ Salford

The LaSU (Lists at Salford University) system was launched in February 2010 and provides access to reading list resources.

You can access LaSU directly via http://lasu.salford.ac.uk/ - from here you can browse through lists by faculty / school, or search using your module title or lecturer's name.

LaSU reading lists are also linked through Blackboard, taking you directly from your Blackboard module to the relevant reading list.

However you get to your LaSU list, you will see a list of resources recommended by academic staff for the module. You can link directly through to the library catalogue record or in some cases electronic access for the item, saving you time searching for your reading list materials.

You can get more information on LaSU, including a user guide, from the LaSU page on the ILS website: http://www.ils.salford.ac.uk/library/resources/lasu.php