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We’ve just made two more videos showing you how to access additional e-resources:
Follow the ‘Key link’ from our homepage for more Library Videos which:
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Off-campus access to the ProQuest databases has been restored.
You still need to have the Reading Athens Cookie installed on your browser. Then follow these steps to login:
Our ProQuest databases are:
If you experience any other problems accessing the ProQuest databases, or any other resource, please fill in our E-resources problem report form.
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Our latest ‘Featured Resource’ is now available, which this month focuses on the Public Information Online. Check out the feature for information on this ‘one-stop shop’ for offical UK Parliament documentation.
This is one of a series of tips helping you to save time and effort finding information.
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Reading finalists! Take up your chance to tell the National Student Survey about your course, your University and your Library resources and services. What do you think is good and what needs improving?
NSS results are made publicly available on Unistats to help prospective students choose where and what to study. Institutions and their students’ unions also use the data to identify strengths and improve student experience.
At Reading, you can see our University, with its Students’ Union, has listened and acted upon what finalists have said in the past about the University Library.
What will you say this year?
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Students! Who will you nominate for a RUSU Gold Star teaching award for going that extra mile to support you in your academic studies? Nominations are open until Friday 22 March to recognise the fantastic work of your lecturers, tutors and support staff (including Library staff) at the University of Reading.
Faculty rep and Course rep of the year awards are also open for nomination, recognising student reps who have made positive changes, working with their department to enhance the student learning experience and feedback the student opinion.
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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!
International code of nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants : (Melbourne code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress, Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 / prepared and edited by J. McNeill … [et al.].
Konigstein : Koeltz Scientific Books, 2012.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–580.14-INT
Encyclopedia of biotechnology in agriculture and food / edited by Dennis R. Heldman, Matthew B. Wheeler, Dallas G. Hoover.
Boca Raton ; London : CRC Press, 2011.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–630-ENC
Encyclopedia of agricultural, food, and biological engineering / edited by Dennis R. Heldman, Carmen I. Moraru.
Boca Raton ; London ; CRC Press, 2011.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–664.003-ENC
Food additives data book / edited by Jim Smith, Lily Hong-Shum.
Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
2ND FLOOR REFERENCE–664.06-FOO
The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism.
Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–801.9-JOH
Key terms in literary theory / Mary Klages.
London : Continuum, c2012.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–803-KLA
The encyclopedia of the Gothic / general editors: William Hughes, David Punter, and Andrew Smith.
Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–809.91-ENC
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon : biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch / begründet von Wilhelm Kosch.
Braunschweig : de Gruyter, 2012.
3RD FLOOR REFERENCE–830.3-KOS
The Oxford handbook of political philosophy / edited by David Estlund.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–320.1-OXF
IB world schools yearbook 2013 / editor, Jonathan Barnes ; publishing director, Derek Bingham.
Woodbridge : John Catt Educational, 2012.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–370.116-IB
The UK primary education directory 2013.
Southborough, Kent : Education Marketing Direct, 2013.
4TH FLOOR REFERENCE–372.942058-UK
Thesaurus linguae Latinae / editus iussu et auctoritate consilii ab
academiis societatibusque diversarum nationum electi.
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
5TH FLOOR REFERENCE–473-THE
For more reference works, look up individual titles on the Enterprise catalogue.
The encyclopedia of elder care : the comprehensive resource on geriatric and social care
The dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers
Key terms in literary theory
Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century
Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history
The 9/11 encyclopedia
The changing wealth of nations : measuring sustainable development in the new millennium
The day after tomorrow : a handbook on the future of economic policy in the developing world
The encyclopedia of literary and cultural theory
The 2012 annual register : world events of 2011
The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics
To find existing titles go to our Online dictionaries and encyclopedias page or search the Enterprise catalogue.
Other new books and new e-books are listed on the Enterprise catalogue.
We are trialling a new online collection of plays, critical background texts and practical guides from Drama Online. Try it out and let us know what you think of it!
Drama Online includes material from Aeschylus to the present day, major foreign works in translation plus scholarly and practical works. The trial is available on campus only and will finish on 31 May 2013
Send us your feedback on Drama Online - contact Natalie Guest
Please note: Drama Online is in Beta release, so not all planned content is available yet. Drama Online will be adding this content (including the Arden Shakespeare titles) during the next few months.
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Standard loans will be extended to Tue 23 April for undergraduate and masters students between Thu 14 March and Tue 2 April
Note: 7-day loans and 6-hour/overnight (and fines for their late return) will remain unchanged for all library users
The Library is closed Thu 28 March to Tue 2 April inclusive when you can use the Book Drop to return items. Check all other opening hours on the Library website.
Borrow over the break as follows:
The latest in our series of monthly ‘Info Tips’ has just been published, which this month focuses on how to get the Library books you want. Read the tip to find out more about placing holds, booking Course Collection items and accessing e-books.
This is one of a series of Info Tips to help save you time and effort finding or using information.
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On 9 March 2013 ProQuest are changing the way access their databases from off-campus.
You will still need the Reading Athens Cookie, and you will still need to use the Athens login link on ProQuest, but once you click on the link you will need to select “University of Reading” from a list of institutions.
Once you have done this the cookie will direct you to our Athens login page where you can login with your University username and password.
This will effect access to the following databases:
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The University has listened and acted upon what students told us through National Student Surveys, via RUSU representatives and other channels: that you would like longer Library opening hours.
For the summer exam period, Monday 15 April to Friday 7 June the University Library will remain open 24 hours a day, most of the week. One small exception is that the Library will close 21:00 Saturday night to 08:30 Sunday morning for any essential and highly disruptive building maintenance work. You may like to use this time for some essential rest and recreation yourself. After exams, and for the rest of the summer term, Library opening reverts to normal term-time hours, as extended last spring.
Kara Swift, RUSU’s VP Academic Affairs says:
‘After a long campaign stretching many years of RUSU student officers, I cannot express how pleased I am to see the 24-hour library come into existence! We have been working very closely with the University on out-of-hours study provision this year and a 24-hour Library during the exam period will allow students to continue working in an environment which provides all the learning resources necessary for them to have the best academic experience possible.’
Check full date and time information on our Library opening hours webpage.
Whilst the Library will be self-service only from early evening, there is much you can do for yourself. All study areas will be available, as will PC and printing areas and photocopiers. You will be able to borrow material at Self-Service Points, including ‘holds’ you can now collect yourself, thanks to another recent Library service development. Staffed services resume in the morning. Detailed Library service levels information is on our website.
Please note that cleaning, including the use of vacuums, will take place regularly 05:30-08:30 Monday to Friday, plus occasional reactive cleaning. Whilst we apologise for any disturbance to your concentration, this is essential to maintain a pleasent working environment for all.
There will also be fire alarm testing every Monday at 08:30.
See our blog ‘Your views on 24-hour Library opening’ to find out what some students told us after the first week and give us your own opinions.
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We are pleased to report that Cambridge University Press have resolved the problem with off-campus access to their Cambridge Companions website.
When accessing a specific title via the Enterprise catalogue select the Athens option from the institutional login page to access titles held in this collection.
Alternatively login to the whole collection via the off-campus access link on our website.
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