We are offering 1 to 1 Learning Development sessions from Monday 2 November. Undergraduate students can drop in for help with a range of queries including:
The 15 minute sessions will be held in UL102, on the 1st floor of the University Library, during semester, at these times:
Mondays 11:00 – 12:00
Wednesdays 14:00 – 16:00
Fridays 11:00 – 12:00
For more information see this leaflet.
We are now taking bookings for Learning Development Workshops for weeks 5 and 6.
Workshops on offer are ‘Overcoming your Fear of Presenting’, ‘The Effective Use of Grammar and Punctuation in your Assignment’, ‘Introduction to RefWorks’ and ‘Finding Journal Articles’.
All students and staff are welcome to attend; you can book your place from the Library’s Workshop page or by texting the relevant code to 07972 455457.
Click here for a list of workshops and dates.
We will advertise the workshops for weeks 7 and 8 in a fortnight.
Some better news about access to e-resources!
The problems that we were experiencing with access to the EBSCOhost databases / e-journal packages (at the end of last week & the start of this one) have now been fixed by EBSCO – you should now be able to access these services from on or off campus with no problems.
Apologies again for the interruption to service.
The EBSCOhost databases platform allows you to search 17 electronic databases at once or individually, including two of the most popular databases in the University (Academic Search Elite / Business Source Premier), plus specialist resources for business, computing, education, health, the humanities, performing arts, social sciences, sports science and psychology.
You can log in via: https://portal.lincoln.ac.uk/C17/C0/EBSCO/
(N.B. from off campus, you will need to log in using network\accountID and password.)
An urgent message from the University about Riseholme Park:
All staff are asked to note that due to a high voltage electric fault in the Riseholme area, all communications and electricity at Riseholme Campus are currently unavailable.The University understands that e-on (the electricity supplier) are working to fix this as a matter of urgency
A wheelchair-accessible, height-adjustable computer desk, with PC, is now installed in the Holbeach Learning Resources Centre.
That is all…
Until further notice, the University of Lincoln has trial access to the Literary Reference Centre service from EBSCO.
“Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.”
You can LOG IN TO THE FREE TRIAL HERE …
(If you are off-campus, you will need to log in using your network\username and password.)
You can also access the Literary Reference Centre trial through the main EBSCOhost platform, and cross-search with the University’s 17 existing EBSCO databases, plus other ongoing trials.
The Library would like your feedback on this e-resource trial: please contact your Academic Subject Librarian (the subject librarian for English is Lesley Church ~ lchurch@lincoln.ac.uk)… or, leave a comment here.
(Image: screenshot of the Literary Reference Centre)
The Electronic Journals A-to-Z website has been updated with the latest information about our 32 e-journal subscriptions from Cambridge University Press.
Lincoln’s Cambridge Journals Online package includes the following titles, mainly (though by no means all!) from the social sciences:
You can access them all, on- or off-campus, via the A-to-Z.
Students now have free access, via the University Portal, until the end of June 2009, to two new services on the EBSCOhost databases platform:
Designed for undergraduate students, the Research Starters…
“…consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. Topics parallel course offerings at major colleges and universities in the subject areas covered. These articles are designed to be starting points for students, providing them with topic overviews, definitions of relevant terms and concepts, detailed bibliographies, and importantly, links to top articles… Research Starters supplements textbooks and other materials with current and focused topic overviews, assisting students in undertaking their assignments and research successfully.”
Let us know what you think!
