Latest Library News
- 17 May 2007
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Summer vacation opening hours
Opening hours for Paisley, Ayr and Crichton campus libraries during the summer vacation
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- 04 May 2007
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Trial of Stat!Ref nursing titles and Anatomy tv
Trial access of this electronic books service has been set up and will run until 4th June 2007. Contact the university library for the username and password.
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- 01 May 2007
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The university library will be closed for the public holiday on Monday 7th May
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- 19 April 2007
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Trial of Factiva database
Factiva.com is a global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
It is available to us on a 30-day trial and can be accessed on campus only. No password is required.
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- 10 April 2007
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New Chief Librarian
Following the retiral of Stuart James, Teresa Gilbert has been appointed as the acting Chief Librarian
until December 2007
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- 02 April 2007
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Scopus database
Our trial period of access to this database has come to an end and it can now no longer be used. For advice on
suitable alternatives please contact your subject librarian.
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- 30 March 2007
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Easter Vacation Opening Hours
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- 21 March 2007
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Aviation Paperbacks Special Collection
A catalogue and bibliography of this special collection of more than 350 titles has now been added to the library website.
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- 19 March 2007
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Early closing on 29th March
The main library on Paisley campus, and the Undergraduate Reading Room, will close at 4.50pm on Thursday 29th March
2007. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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- 13 February 2007
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IOS Press trial
Access is available on campus only to all IOS Press journal titles until 12th August
'07. IOS Press publishes some 70 international journals, ranging from computer science and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. No password is required.
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- 30 January 2007
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Crichton Campus Library opening hours extended
Details of the new and improved opening hours for semester 2
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- 26 January 2007
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Inter-Semester Break Opening Hours
Details of Paisley campus library opening hours during the Inter-Semester Break
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- 12 December 2006
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Wireless Network
Wireless network access is now available from all areas of the libraries in both Paisley campus and UCA. Details of what you can access and requirements for using the service are available from
http://www.wireless.paisley.ac.uk/index.htm
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Holiday Opening Hours
Details of opening hours for all campuses over the Christmas and New Year holiday period
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- The November edition of the library's
postgraduate newsletter is now available.
A guide to library resources for postgraduate research and an archive of
previous newsletters are also available from the same page.
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- 27 November 2006
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Oxford University Press Journals Digital Archive
has been purchased by JISC on behalf of the JISC Community and is now available.
The archive represents over 165 years of research which includes content dating
back to 1829. The archive provides access to all content from volume one, issue
one, for nearly 140 journals, compiled into subject-based archives. Individual
titles are included in our Find e-journal list and an Athens login is required
for off-campus access.
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- 13 November 2006
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Nineteenth Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
can now be accessed.
No password is required from on-campus, and an Athens login is required from
off-campus. It is possible to either search or browse the content
using Peter Cockton's 'Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary
Papers, 1801-1900'.
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- 24 October 2006
- The October edition of the library's
postgraduate newsletter is now available.
A guide to library resources for postgraduate research and an archive of
previous newsletters are also available from the same page.
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- 13 October 2006
- Full access to the ISI Web of Knowledge is now available. The following products and back years
are included:
ISI Proceedings - Science & Technology: 1990-present
Web of Science(r):
- Science Citation Index Expanded*, 1975-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index*, 1975-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index*, 1975-present
Access is available on and off-campus with an Athens login.
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- 6 September 2006
- Public Holiday. The Paisley Campus and RAH libraries will be closed on Monday 11th September due to the local public holiday.
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- 4 September 2006
- Access to the ISI Web of Knowledge
is now available on a trial basis until 1/10/06.
Access is from on-campus only and no password is required.
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- 31 August 2006
- Matriculation numbers have gone! All students will now have a
Banner ID
instead. This will affect loginIDs for many student services. Select the link
for further details.
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- Scanning Copyright Material for Online Student Delivery. More information on the
CLA trial scanning licence to which the
University has signed up.
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- 21 June 2006
- MIDIRS -Important News
MIDIRS is moving from its existing platform to SilverPlatter. The contents of the database are the same, though it will now be called "Midwifery and Infant Care". The SilverPlatter database is easy to use - more like the other databases than MIDIRS.
Links to the database are on the A-Z
and Nursing, Midwifery & Health
database lists. It also uses Athens authentication for logging in, so no separate password is required.
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- 8 June 2006
- CINAHL Select database now available
Cover to cover full text for 174 journals indexed selectively in CINAHL.
All of these full text articles will appear in result lists from CINAHL
with Full Text. The advantage of the separate
CINAHL Select database is that full text is cover to cover, even though CINAHL
indexing is not.
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- 30 May 2006
- Summer Vacation Opening Hours (Applies Monday 28th May until
Friday 15th September)
The Library will be open
Monday – Friday 9am -4.50pm.
In addition, we will be open the following Tuesdays and Saturdays:
Tuesday 6th June – Tuesday 22nd August until 6.20pm
Saturday 10th June – Saturday 26th August
10am – 2.50pm
Normal term-time hours apply from Monday 18th September
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- 29 May 2006
- Due to essential electrical works taking place on Monday 5th June, it
will not be possible to access the University library website, including the
catalogue, for part of that day. The shutdown is likely to extend from approximately
4.30pm on Monday 5th June until 9.30am on Tuesday 6th June. The library staff regret
any inconvenience this may cause.
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- 27 April 2006
- Public Holiday
The library will be closed on Monday 1st May
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- 12 April 2006
- Easter Vacation Opening Hours
Friday 14th April- the library will close at 3.00pm, last transaction at 2.50pm.
Saturday 15th April - closed
Sunday 16th April - closed
Monday 17th April - closed
Tuesday 18th April - Friday 21st April, 9am - 5pm
Saturday 22nd April - 9am - 5pm
Sunday 23rd April - 9am - 5pm
Normal hours will resume Monday 24th April
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- 10 April 2006
- Due to essential electrical maintenance works taking place this weekend, it
will not be possible to access the University library website, including the
catalogue. The shutdown is likely to extend from approximately 3.30pm on
Friday 14th April until 10am on Tuesday 18th April. The library staff regret
any inconvenience this may cause.
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Scottish Schools Essay Competition 2005-2006 More information and results from this year's competition which was on the theme of
Long Ago and Far Away.
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- 4 April 2006
- A Talk About Modernism, MacDiarmid, Margaret Tait, Edwin Morgan and Enrico Cocozza
With Dr Sarah Neely and Professor Alan Riach, will take place in the
Library Seminar Room, University of Paisley (Paisley Campus) on
3pm Tuesday 25 April 2006. More information...
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- 24 March 2006
- The EBSCO databases Academic Search
Premier and Communication and Mass
Media Complete are currently available on a trial basis. Please
contact the library enquiry desk (email library@paisley.ac.uk
or telephone 0141-848-3759) for the login details.
- Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest
academic multi-disciplinary database and provides full text for
nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one
hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than
1,000 titles.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete provides
the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and
mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly
produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles
Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals
in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to
create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth
encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
- Nursing database CINAHL has moved from
Ovid to EBSCO. The same features are available and we think EBSCO is
easier to use. 2,500 journals are indexed and around 300 of these are
available in full text. Pre-CINAHL is also now available on EBSCO. This
provides bibliographic details of new articles which are not yet on the main
CINAHL database.
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- 25 January 2006
- Inter-Semester Break Opening Hours
Main Library, Paisley campus: Saturday 28th January 9am-5pm
- Monday 30th January-Saturday 4th February 9am-5pm
- Undergraduate Reading Room, Paisley campus: Saturday 28th January -
Sunday 5th February 9am-5pm
Normal hours will resume on Monday 6th February 2006
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