NUsearch upgrade: Yewno widget and saved searches
February 7, 2021
Find out about the new features in the latest upgrade to the university’s library discovery tool, NUsearch. Introducing the Yewno Discover widget In May 2020, University of Nottingham Libraries began running a trial of the next-generation search tool Yewno Discover. Designed to help users explore and discover connections between concepts, Yewno uses artificial intelligence to map and visualise links between topics across all academic fields, drawing upon ideas from millions of scholarly articles, …
Discover the School of Geography Map Collection on NUsearch
December 8, 2020
Are you a student or staff member or somebody who just loves maps? Maps in the School of Geography’s extensive collection are now searchable via the University’s library discovery tool, NUsearch. About the collection The School of Geography map collection is the main cartographic holding within the University and one of the largest in the East Midlands, comprising over 85,000 paper …
Research support – find out how we can help
September 17, 2020
University of Nottingham Libraries’ Research Support Team are here to help you in all aspects of the research lifecycle. Read on to find out more. It’s the start of a new academic year in which research priorities, and the amount of time available for it, may be changing. For some research leave may have been …
What to expect in our libraries (updated)
July 17, 2020
As you may expect, our libraries will look, and work, a little different to usual this year. Read on for details of some of the changes you can expect to see including how to access study space and our services. Arriving at the library | Safety measures | Help and support Re-opening libraries Throughout …
Updates to NUsearch – May 2020
May 18, 2020
We have updated our online library discovery tool, NUsearch to make it easier to find and access online resources. With most of us working off-campus at the minute, we want to make it as easy as possible for staff, students and researchers to search for, and access, our online resources. Full details of the upgrade and …
On trial: Alexander Street Black Studies
April 8, 2020
We are pleased to announce a month’s trial for Alexander Street Black Studies. These interdisciplinary resources feature rare and unique materials that survey the black experience throughout history, culture, literature, arts, drama and more. Researchers will find essential contributions from black writers, historians, filmmakers, and cultural figures representing many different backgrounds and contexts. There are 300,000 pages …
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
January 15, 2020
Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. From the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War, EEBO’s content draws on authoritative and respected …
Sharing your research data – World Digital Preservation Day 2019
November 4, 2019
Guest post from Beth Montague-Hellen, Senior Research Librarian (@PhdGeek) Two weeks ago, Libraries celebrated Open Access Week 2019 by running a series of workshops for researchers. One of the events that we ran was a data sharing workshop where we helped researchers to understand where and how they could store and share their digital data …
Over £11,400 raised to support literacy projects!
September 20, 2019
Over the summer, we’ve been removing some final copies of low-use books from our libraries and stores in order to improve access to more relevant texts. We’ve worked with our academic community to make decisions about which titles to discard. In this blog post, we want to tell you a bit more about what happens …
Seven Deadly Research Copyright Myths Busted
May 9, 2019
Increased open access has confronted academic authors with complex copyright matters that they might have preferred to let lie. But myths continue to litter researchers’ understanding of copyright. Tony Simmonds from the Libraries’ Research Support Team straightens out some of these confusions: 1. Copyright in research publications that I write belongs to me. Myth! If …
