The full story of how the Library supported our University last session is now told in the Library review 2010-2011. Collect a print copy from the Library or flip through online.
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You are currently browsing the monthly archive for February 2012.
Ethos is the British Library’s online PhD theses service where you can search for UK PhD theses and, where available, download them for free. As well as being the place to find out what researchers in your area are writing about, it’s also a brilliant way to showcase your own research to other scholars worldwide. Find out more
On-campus access made easier
A new access method is now available for the Web of Knowledge database, making on-campus access much simpler. You can now choose to use “IP authentication” from any machine on the University network, meaning that you do not need to download the Athens cookie, or login with your username and password, to access Web of Knowledge any more.
Web of Knowledge incorporates several databases, giving you access to high quality, academic research references. It includes:
- Web of Science (covering Arts and Humanities, Science and Social Sciences)
- BIOSIS – biological abstracts
- MEDLINE – biomedical references
- Journal Citation Reports – use to find out which journals have the greatest impact in your subject
New features now available
The new access method also means that you can search Web of Knowledge using EndNote’s ‘Online Search’ option from campus machines, giving you extra functionality and making it even easier to download references into your EndNote library.
More to explore
Why not try out some other Library databases to explore more academic information? We subscribe to a wide range of databases giving you extensive access to articles and other materials.
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We need you please, to ‘watch out’ with us – for your own property and for any suspicious activity. There is a thief (or thieves) about in the University who also visit(s) the Library. A library does after all present the largest concentration of people on campus with laptops and phones in front of them but preoccupied with their studies … and where some ‘just step away for a minute’ to fetch a book or a coffee. There have been 35 reported thefts here since October, predominately of laptops. Don’t become the next crime statistic yourself.
What we are doing about it
There are laptop lock holes in all Library study desks. It costs under £10 to make your laptop harder to steal. Buy a lock from RUSU’s ‘Campus central’ shop next door or other suppliers.- Library staff encourage students to take care of their valuables as part of regular patrols enforcing good conduct. We are not legally permitted to look after your laptops. Take note of our warning ‘Thieves work here too’ card on each study desk. If we leave one on your unattended laptop, be thankful it was just us noting the opportunity for theft.
- University Security have stepped up patrol of the University Library. They are also conducting spot checks on Library users. Have your Campus/Student Access/Library card to hand or sign our Visitors’ Book.
- Thames Valley Police also operate in the Library, including in plain clothes.
What you can do about it
- Please take care of your property. Keep it with you or leave it in the care of someone you know you can trust. You may be insured but you don’t need the hassle of losing precious coursework which you didn’t back-up, contacts on your mobile, or replacing bank and University cards.
- Please report anything suspicious. Save these numbers in your phones: 101 (a new national Police number) or University Security on 0118 378 6300 to report anything suspicious. Dial the Police emergency number 999 if you see a theft in progress.
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Finalists told us via previous National Student Surveys that more Library books supporting their courses would have made their time at Reading even better. So the University Library is providing £50,000 extra this financial year to buy in-demand and reading list books, including e-books. The extra money has been shared between all departments.
How to suggest books for purchase
Tutors! Please send your reading lists to your subject’s liaison librarian so they can order material for the Library.
Students! Please tell us about it any reading list items not in the Library using our online request form or contact your subject’s liaison librarian.
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Need to look something up? Your Library gives you access to many different respected resources - both in print and online - like dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Here is just this month’s list of new reference works!
New printed reference works
For more reference works, look up individual titles on the Unicorn catalogue.
Oxford textbook of medicine.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–616-OXF
Oxford essential Polish dictionary : Polish-English, English-Polish =polsko-angielski, angielsko-polski.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
3RD FLOOR DICTIONARIES–491.8532-OXF
The original British theatre directory 2011-12 / editor Spencer Block.
London : Richmond House, 2011.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–792.0942-ORI
Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal = Woordenboek der Friese taal.
Leeuwarden : Fryske Akademy Ljouwert, 2011.
5TH FLOOR REFERENCE–439.23-WUR
New online reference works
Aesthetics A-Z
Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing
Financial Times World Desk Reference
Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS
Key Concepts in Developmental Psychology
Key Concepts in Ethnography
Key Concepts in Leisure Studies
Key Concepts in Public Relations
Key Concepts in Sports Studies
Key Concepts in Teaching Primary Mathematics
Key Concepts in Urban Geography
Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope
The Oxford Reader’s Companion to Conrad
Oxford Reader’s Companion to Hardy,
Oxford Reader’s Companion to George Eliot
New editions of :
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences
A Dictionary of Astronomy
A Dictionary of British Place-Names.
Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
To find existing titles go to our Online dictionaries and encyclopedias page or search the Unicorn catalogue.
Other new resources
Other new books and new e-books are listed on the Unicorn catalogue.
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