1st Floor rooms closed during refurbishment

Image of refurbished University Library surrounded by seating, trees and hedges.

Revised impression of the refurbished University Library. The new entrance and café looks out onto pleasant landscaping. Silver-grey cladding, with regency-gold coloured highlights, increases energy efficiency, weather proofing, and reduces solar glare to the front study spaces

From today, some rooms on the Library’s 1st Floor will be closed to users during the current phase of our Refurbishment Project. This includes two group study rooms (111 and 110) and two PC rooms (109 and 105). However, there are many other group study rooms available on the Ground, 2nd and 4th Floors and other PC rooms elsewhere on the 1st Floor.

For more information about the project, see our Library Refurbishment Project webpage or contact the Library’s Facilities Manager, Robin Hunter.

Rachel Redrup, Library Marketing Co-ordinator
for Robin Hunter, Facilities Manager

Change to Web of Science default search coverage

There has been a change to the configuration of Web of Science, which means the default setting is to search the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ and not the full range of databases available on the site. This change has been made to avoid users missing out on enhancements that are specific to the Core Collection, such as citation searching and email alerts from saved searches. However, you may miss useful content from other databases such as BIOSIS (biological sciences), FSTA (food and nutrition) and MEDLINE (biomedical sciences).

If you access Web of Science directly from a search engine, and you want to revert to searching all content, just select ‘All Databases’ from the drop-down list to the right of ‘Web of Science™ Core Collection’:

Web of Science database selection drop down list

It is possible to configure your own options for using Web of Science, including the default database coverage. See this brief video for guidance.

If you follow a link to Web of Science from the Library website you won’t need to do a thing, as we’ve configured the link to search across all databases. There is a separate link to the Core Collection if you wish to explore some of the more advanced features (such as integration with JCR, funding filters, OA filters).

If you have any questions about searching Web of Science, or any of the databases available within it, please contact your subject liaison librarian.

Jackie Skinner, Library Web Manager