Digimap Collection – additional content!
August 10, 2018
Digimap is an online map and data delivery service. Digimap primarily comprises two applications, one for creating maps online, the other for downloading data which enables further analysis and investigation in other packages. Our Digimap access has expanded for the coming year. In addition to the Ordnance Survey, Historic and Geology collections, we now have …
NUsearch August upgrade
August 7, 2018
The latest upgrade of NUsearch, our online library discovery tool will be available from Monday 6 August. There are three main changes in this upgrade; the addition of interactive elements via an ‘Explore’ option, more search shortcuts and new resource types to help you broaden and refine your searches, respectively, and the addition of 20 new …
IA Reporter (Investment Arbitration Reporter)
August 1, 2018
We are pleased to announce that we are providing trial access to the IA Reporter. The IA Reporter (Investment Arbitration Reporter) is a news and analysis service tracking international arbitrations between foreign investors and sovereign governments, including timely and nuanced reports on the latest legal pleadings, decisions and arbitral awards. The trial runs …
A Librarian perspective on how to manage the change from eprints to RIS
July 30, 2018
Here in the Libraries Research Support Team we’ve been gearing up for a big change, the expansion of RIS (Research Information Systems) to manage outputs and the move away from ePrints to a new institutional repository. I say a big change, because for those of us administering it that’s what it feels like, but what kind of change will it be for researchers? If you are a researcher …
Summer Reads 2018
July 18, 2018
Summer is in full swing and maybe you are struggling to find a good read… Fret not! Library staff have selected some of their favourites (all available in the UoN Libraries – you can find these and many more using our resource discovery tool NUsearch) for your delectation. Carol Hollier, Teaching & Learning Support Team One …
Farewell eLibrary Gateway you served us well, the future is NUsearch
July 10, 2018
We are decommissioning the eLibrary Gateway on all University of Nottingham campuses on 6 August 2018. We are no longer able to support this old system and NUsearch has replaced all of the functionality and more… Links to the ‘Find Databases’ option within NUsearch is available at the top menu of the NUsearch homepage or …
Libraries photo competition: The winners!
July 5, 2018
In May 2018 we set you the challenge of capturing, in photographic form, something you love about our libraries. Over 150 of you took up the challenge and entered our Libraries photo competition. The judging process was extremely tough. On the plus side, we were inundated with loads of truly wonderful images of our library …
NUsearch new filter option for searching by book chapter
June 28, 2018
We have introduced a new filter to NUsearch that enables you to locate information from within our online library collections at a book chapter level. This is great news if you would like to uncover more content that may be hidden within a whole edition of a book or within collected works. It is also helpful …
On trial: The Making of Modern Law
June 22, 2018
We are pleased to announce that we are providing trial access to 2 historical archives from Cengage: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 Trials, 1600-1926 American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 Drawing from the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), it focuses on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the …
On trial: Newspaper Archive
June 7, 2018
We are pleased to bring you trial access to the Newspaper Archive, the largest historical newspaper database online. The archive spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events and world news. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date. The trial runs until Tuesday 19 June 2018. Please note: …
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