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Did you know you should avoid Grapefruit Juice if prescribed Statins?

New content has been added to MedicinesComplete.  Pharmacy, Medical and Healthcare students can now access Stockley’s Drug Interactions.  This authoritative international source of drug interaction information is based upon the many thousands of published clinical papers and reports.   Stockley’s Interactions Checker also allows you to search for the interactions of one drug, interactions between …

More journals across all disciplines!

We’ve extended our e-journal access and are delighted to bring you 364 journal titles from the Cambridge Journals Collection. Key areas covered are mathematics, physical sciences, environment and conservation, agriculture, neuroscience and biomedicine, history, area studies, language and linguistics, and political science and international relations. You can discover the content through NUsearch, or browse by title or subject to …

We’ve increased our e-journal coverage for healthcare titles

Medical, Nursing and Veterinary Science students will be pleased to know that they now have access to the full healthcare journals collection from Mark Allen Healthcare. The package includes a wide range of clinical nursing journals as well as leading titles in midwifery, dental nursing, pre-hospital care and veterinary practice. Journals which are new to …

Turn over a new Greenleaf….

You’ve been using the digitized Greenleaf Online Library (GOL) for more than 6 months now. Between July and December 2015, there were over 700 full text downloads and 600 abstract views. Good to see that you’re finding it useful!   Greenleaf Publishing is a specialist publisher of books covering corporate responsibility, business ethics, environmental policy and management, responsible …

Love your library this LGBT History Month!

LGBT History Month is in full swing. Library Matters is delighted to join the celebrations with a guest post from Claire Henson, People and Culture Events Co-ordinator. When I think of libraries, I remember a nine year old me, trotting off to Basford Library in Nottingham, to get six new books. I remember vividly the library staff removing the …

New and on trial resources from Adam Matthew

Adam Matthew provide digital content for the humanities and social sciences. We already have access to Mass Observation Online, London Low Life, Victorian Popular Culture and Eighteenth Century Journals. To that list we can now add Migration to New Worlds, a collection of materials on the ‘Century of Immigration’, now freely available thanks to a collaboration between …

Congratulations, we’re engaged! To 5,165 of you!

…surely that’s not legal….!? We are committed to making our libraries work for you.  Over the past 18 months, we have been gathering, listening and responding to your feedback, and what a lot of it there has been!  Positive or negative, it is all useful stuff and helps us improve our services to support your …

Open Access – new mediated deposit service

Libraries, Research and Learning Resources have launched a new mediated deposit service, making it quicker and easier for researchers to store their publications in our ePrints repository. Following the implementation of HEFCE requirements on 1 April, researchers will need to have their articles available through Open Access within three months of acceptance to be eligible for the next …

National Libraries Day – Saturday 6th February

Saturday 6th February is National Libraries Day. An annual occurrence marked by events across the UK in celebration of the work of libraries. UoN Libraries have a comprehensive collection of resources to support your academic studies (as well as a broad collection of fiction and world literature for your reading pleasure). Nottingham also boasts sixteen public libraries (with many more in …

Happy NOOC Year – Three ways to get ahead with your studies

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone from UoN libraries. As we move into 2016 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, refreshed and ready for revision, it seems like an ideal time to remind everyone about our NOOCs (Nottingham Open Online Courses) available via Moodle. The NOOCs have exercises and materials to help you make the most of …