Duthie IT Labs will be closed Sunday 20th April

Duthie IT Labs will be closed from 4pm Saturday 19th April until 9am Monday 21st April.

Apologies for any inconvenience, this is due to electrical work being carried out by the Trust. 

Alternative IT facilities are available in Cathays Park – IT rooms and facilites

May Bank Holiday Opening Hours

The Duthie Library will be closed on the May bank holidays:

Monday 5th May

Monday 26th May

How can we improve Cardiff University’s Libraries and IT for you?

Top prize of £100!

Please check your University email for a link to the online survey – all undergraduate and taught postgraduate students will be contacted.

The survey is running from the 25th April to 9th May. Paper copies of the survey are also available in libraries – please ask staff.

Your views are valued!

INSRV Annual Report 2007

The Information Services Annual Report is published to make the work of INSRV more visible to the whole University Community. The report details just some of our achievements from 2007.

The Annual Report is available at INSRV locations across campus or you can download it as an Adobe PDF file – please follow the link below.

Read the Annual Report online

New! Information Literacy Podcast

Get hints and tips from academics, library staff, students and the student counselling service on what makes a good essay.

The ‘Student Survival Guide to Writing a Good Essay’ is a 6 part series of weekly podcasts produced by Information Services and Xpress Radio.

Listen online or download podcast

New ejournal subscriptions for 2008

Dermatology in Practice 1999 to present

Molecular Psychiatry 1997 to present

International Journal of Obesity 1997 to present

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2002 to present

Multiple Sclerosis 1999 to present

Palliative Medicine 1999 to present

E-book survey – win £200 Amazon vouchers

The University Library Service would like to ask for your help by responding to this UK wide JISC survey about e-book usage:

The aim of this survey, certainly the largest of its type yet conducted in the UK, is to explore whether electronic books might offer a solution to improving access to popular course texts. In other words, would you like to see the Library providing direct links to electronic versions of core textbooks?

The survey will take 10-12 minutes to complete, much less if you don’t already use e-books – but we would still greatly value your views. The closing date is midnight on 15th February 2008.

You can enter the survey here. If you leave your university email address at the end of the survey, you will be entered into a prize draw for £200 worth of Amazon vouchers.

You are under no obligation whatsoever to take part in this survey. Any information you give us will be held securely and we will under no circumstances reveal any findings other than at a highly aggregated level. We are collecting the data through a third-party, Survey Monkey, and you can check their privacy policy at here .

If you have any problems or questions, please contact slais-surveys@ucl.ac.uk

Nature Archive 1869-1949

The final installment of the Nature archive was launched this week.

This completes the entire archive from volume 1 up to the present.

New Medical E-books Available

Cardiff University is taking part in the JISC National E-books Observatory project, this provides us with access to ten medical e-books published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for two years. The e-books are available via Books@Ovid and you don’t need to login to use them.

We would appreciate any feedback about how easy the books are to use and whether they are titles you are interested in.

Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology
Clinical Epidemiology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Lever’s Histopathology of the Skin
Merritt’s Neurology
Rockwood & Green’s Fractures in Adults
Rockwood & Wilkins’ Fractures in Children
Studying a Study and Testing a Test
Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology

New Ovid Service

From 4 February 2008 a new and enhanced Ovid healthcare database service only will be available through the Cardiff University Library Service. At the moment both the present and future Ovid are being run together. The new version can be accessed by going to the existing Ovid service and clicking on “Try OvidSP!” at the top of the database menu, (gateway.ovid.com/athens).

The new version has all the current Ovid features plus many more. Users will be able to continue searching as at present by clicking on the “Ovid Syntax” link. Enhanced features of the new service include a basic,natural language search facility,where users can type in their searches in ordinary, everyday English and retrieve relevant journal article references,as well as the ability to create RSS feeds,which provide current awareness updates.

Lunchtime drop-in sessions will be held on the 8,9 and 10 January in the small Duthie Library Teaching Lab between 12-1. The intention will be for ten or fifteen minute brief demonstrations of the new Ovid service so please come at any time between 12-1 on those days.

Please direct further enquiries about the new service to Rowland Somers in the Duthie Library, extension 4656, email Somers@Cardiff.ac.uk