Science Direct and Scopus unavailable 10th-11th December

Elsevier has advised us of the forthcoming scheduled maintenance and downtime :


Please note that we have an upcoming scheduled outage which will affect our SciVerse, SciVal, Journal Consult and Admin Tool products.


These products and services are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 13 hours on December 10-11, due to scheduled maintenance.

Downtime by region is expected as follows:


*Greenwich Mean Time: 12:30PM GMT - 1:30AM GMT Sunday, December 11th


We apologize for the inconvenience while we improve your Elsevier products.

Kind regards,

The Elsevier team

Welcome to new and returning students!

The Health and Social Care Academic Support Team would like to welcome our new and returning students to Salford. A lot has been happening in The Library and the University over the summer. Here’s a quick update:


Our Digital Developments Team have been working hard to introduce our new Resource Discovery Tool, SOLAR (Search Our Library’s Academic Resources). This replaces the old library catalogue and e-library and allows you to search across both print and electronic resources in one interface. You will also access our electronic databases through SOLAR too. Look out for future blog postings on how to use SOLAR.

IT Services have also been working hard on a new print system which allows staff and students to send their printing to any ‘Follow You’ Printer in the University and release their work for printing when they are ready. For example, you could be working in Clifford Whitworth Library but decide to collect your printing in Newton Building. All that you need to do is send your printing to the print queue, then find a printer with the ‘Follow You’ logo and you can release your work using your ID card. A user guide on the new printing system is available from: http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/help/userguides/computing/fyprint.pdf

During the first few weeks of term your lecturers may have organised Library inductions and lectures from one of the Academic Support Librarians. We will be showing you how to find and use our resources and make you aware of the support available to you.

The Academic Support Librarians within your College are Monica Casey and Neil Donohue. Monica is the main contact for the School of Health Sciences and Neil is the main contact for the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work. Their contact details are available on The Library Website at: http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/subjects/

We hope you enjoy your time at Salford. Keep coming back to our blog for updates on library services and new resources available.

Google Scholar and Full Text

 

http://www.scholar.google.com/



Google Scholar searches scholarly literature like journal articles across multiple disciplines and can be helpful for carrying out simple searches.

You can use google scholar to locate relevant material, and where possible connect you to the full text.

Using Google Scholar on campus

When you access Google Scholar on campus you will automatically see the "Find It @ Salford" links to the right of any articles we have electronic access to.

If Salford University does not have full text access electronically the Find It link will appear underneath the article and will take you to a page where you may find other options for access.

Using Google Scholar off campus

By configuring the way Google Scholar displays you can access the Find It options from off campus as well.

• Go to Google Scholar
• Click the Scholar Preferences link
• In the 'Library Links' section search for Salford
• Tick the box for 'University of Salford - Find It @ Salford'
• Click on Save Preferences

Information Literacy Week Started!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Information Literacy Week at the University of Salford began yesterday evening with a launch event attended by Professor Huw Morris and a number of internal and external guest speakers. These included:

• Drew Whitworth, Programme Director, MA: Digital Technologies at Manchester University
• Usman Ali, National Union of Students Vice President and former University of Salford Student Union President
• Ricky Chotai, current University of Salford Student Union President

Throughout the week there will be a number of events for staff and students, including a series of student focus groups for students to share their thoughts on issues such as information literacy, referencing, Turnitin and the library induction. The focus groups will be held on Wednesday 16th March 12:00-14:00 at the three library sites:

• Clifford Whitworth - Lady Hale Building Room: LH204
• Allerton Library - Library Seminar Room
• Adelphi Library - Library Seminar Room

A light lunch will be provided.

Please visit the Information Literacy Website to find out more about what is happening: http://www.informationliteracy.salford.ac.uk/prog/

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/