Library news from 2005

08 December 2005

Athens password changes unavailable [update: resolved]

Technical difficulties with the Athens administration system mean that we are currently unable to reset forgotten Athens passwords. [Update: now resolved]

08 December 2005

NOL closing at 17:30 on 8 December

The National Oceanographic Library is closing at 17:30 on Thursday 8 December

15 December 2005

Biomedical Sciences Library closing at 18:00 on 15 December

The Biomedical Sciences Library will close at 18:00 on Thursday 15 December, so that the emergency lighting system can be checked.

28 November 2005

Christmas vacation loan dates

As we reach the end of term 1, we will begin to issue books for an extended period over the vacation.

25 November 2005

Changes to Level 5 of Hartley Library

The Library is refurbishing part of Level 5 of the Hartley Library to accommodate member of the Optoelectronics Research Centre displaced by the fire in the Mountbatten Building.

10 November 2005

We welcome feedback from you about our services and facilities. You may wish to make a suggestion on ways of improving our services, perhaps you have a complaint, or you may wish to register a positive comment: tell us what we're getting wrong, tell us what we're getting right.

04 November 2005

Mountbatten fire: Library arrangements

The Library has made a number of arrangements for users affected by the fire in the Mountbatten Building, including the suspension of overdues and recalls, and the special provision of inter-library loan and purchase of replacement material.

10 October 2005

Special Collections exhibition: "The Sea"

The Sea is an exhibition marking the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, using material from the manuscript and printed collections of the Special Collection Division.

10 October 2005

Continuing building work at the Avenue Campus

Continuing buidling work at the Avenue Campus means that there is some noise disturbance at the Avenue Library.

26 September 2005

Welcome to the new Library Website

The Library's website has been given a fresh new look, having migrated to the University's new corporate design.

08 August 2005

ACLS History E-Book Project

The Library has obtained access to over 1000 books in all fields of history selected by scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies, published from the 1820's to date, fully searchable, with 250 new books added a year.

01 August 2005

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) now available

11 July 2005

UK Libraries Plus borrowing extended to all postgraduates

UK Libraries Plus, the borrowing scheme for distance and part-time students, has been extended to include all postgraduates.

11 July 2005

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Library has subscribed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 biographies of the people who shaped all aspects of Britain, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

21 June 2005

Web of Science backfiles: 1970s

The Library now had access to the Web of Science backfiles, extending its coverage of journal literature to the 1970s.

13 June 2005

NetLibrary access to electronic books

The Library has subscribed to 93 course reading list titles via NetLibrary, which is an internationally known platform for delivering electronic books. These 93 electronic books mainly cover the areas of medicine, health, nursing, social and biological sciences. As a result of this subscription, we also get free access to a further 3,400 publicly accessible electronic books in all subject areas.

03 June 2005

Library launches new TDNet ejournal access system

The Library has improved the way in which it lists its electronic journal holdings by offering a new service called TDNet Journal Manager. TDNet is used by several large University Libraries in the UK and is also used by the US Library of Congress.

04 May 2005

SciFinder Scholar update

An update to SciFinder Scholar, the electronic version of Chemical Abstracts, has been released, and you can now download a patch to ensure you're working with the latest version.

28 April 2005

96% coverage for academic access scheme

SCONUL Research Extra, the scheme that allows academic staff and research postgraduates to borrow from other academic libraries, has been joined by 96% of all UK Higher Education institutions - just a year after it was started.

19 April 2005

CSA Sociological Abstracts enhanced

CSA have added abstracts to early records, plus over 1½ million cited references across the CSA social science databases. They are also in the process of digitising records in Sociological Abstracts from as far back as 1952 - this information will go live later in the year.

28 February 2005

Renewal limit increased

The renewal limit on 3 week and 1 week loan items is increased from 6 to 10 renewals.

09 February 2005

Free access to Institude of Physics journal archive

The University of Southampton now has free permanent access to the Institute of Physics Journal Archive (1874-1998) under an agreement announced on 24 January between the Institute of Physics and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), on behalf of the UK education community.

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