New research database - Scopus

Learning Resources has recently acquired a new database SCOPUS.

SCOPUS is the largest database for abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature on the market with records of 19,500 peer-reviewed publications from around the world.

It covers all subject areas and links to the full text of articles (where the University has a subscription).

The really great thing about SCOPUS is that it provides links to all the references used by an author to write their piece of research so you can find out more about the available research in a particular area. 

It also tells you which other articles have cited a particular source and provides links to these articles, helping you to discover which are the most popular journals when researching a topic. (This will of course, make it easier for you to find the quality material for your topic and help with critical analysis).

You can watch a video about accessing SCOPUS here.

Jisc Journal Archives unavailable Tuesday 30 April, 8-9am

There will be maintenance on Jisc Journal Archives on Tuesday 30 April 2013, which means the platform will be unavailable from 8:00-9:00am.

Web of Knowledge maintenance this weekend (27th-29th April)

Access to Web of Knowledge will be disrupted over the weekend, beginning at 11pm on Saturday 27th April. It should be back to normal by 2am on Monday 29th.

Zetoc - new screencast videos

The people at Zetoc, the British Library's Table of Contents service, have produced some helpful videos to get you started. Topics include Introduction to Zetoc, Authentication to Zetoc, Zetoc Search and Zetoc Alerts.

Dawsonera upgrade Wednesday 24th April

The Dawsonera ebook platform will be getting a new look from Wednesday 24th April. There will be some disruption to the service during Wednesday evening:

"dawsonera will see two periods of 10 minutes downtime on the evening of the 24^th April at 17:00 BST and 19:00 BST.  At approximately 22:00 BST users will start to see the new version of the reader portal. There should be no downtime while this happens, however users that are on the platform at the time of the switchover will be logged off. When they log back on, they will be on the new reader portal and will be greeted by a message welcoming them to the new look dawsonera".

Following this, there will be a period of disruption to the search function within Dawsonera, which may last until 6pm on Thursday 25th. This will not affect your access to ebooks via DISCOVER or the library catalogue.

XpertHR login problem fixed

The problem we were having with login to the XpertHR database has now been fixed - please let us know if you have any further problems.

XpertHR database unavailable

The XpertHR database is currently unavailable. We have contacted our supplier and hope to have access restored as soon as possible.