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Monday 24 February 2014

Library Fine Feedback

Have you ever requested a library book? Was the item returned late?

Information Commons Level 1, Room 126 Wednesday 26 February
12:00 - 13:00


As long as no-one has requested your books we will keep renewing them automatically up to the expiry date of your account.
We will send you an email to let you know if any of your books cannot be renewed due to requests.
Unfortunately, not all requested books are returned on time and this can be of great inconvenience to our customers

At this session, Lynn Sykes, Head of Customer Services, will be talking to our students about the pros and cons of fining or blocking customers that do not return requested books on time.  Her presentation will last about 15 minutes and then we will ask you to decide which of the 3 available options you prefer.

If you are unable to attend, please complete our online survey athttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libnews/request

Friday 21 February 2014

Searching for Researching workshop - 301: Student Skills and Development Centre

This workshop is delivered by The University Library and will teach you how to find resources for your first independent research project. You will look at the different ways to search for information and how to evaluate your results to get the highest quality information into your work. You will also learn about plagiarism - making sure you use your own ideas and referencing the works of others properly.

The next workshop is taking place on Monday 24 February 2014, (5:30 – 6:30pm) at the 301 Student Skills and Development Centre, Glossop Road



Book your place on the workshop here

Box Of Broadcasts Update

                                                    


Box of Broadcasts is an off-air media and recording service. It allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists.

Login via MUSE & StarPlus. Any programmes you record, playlists and clips you create will be stored via your MyBob section. Watch the BoB video tutorials for an overview of how to use the service:
http://bobnational.net/video_tutorials

BoB now supports several foreign language channels;

ZDF: Germany's national public TV
Canale 5: Italian private TV network
Tagesschau24: German channel
Rai News: Italian state-owned news
France 24: International news from a French perspective
BFM TV: news channel based in France- most watched new in France
Arte: Joint French-German TV network

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Boston Spa Minibus

Due to the refurbishemt of the Reading Room, the Bostom Spa minibus will not be running in March. The service will however return in April.

If you would like to book onto the April trip, please consult our Boston Spa Minibus web page

Friday 14 February 2014

Trial to Browzine


The library is running a trial of BrowZine, a new tablet application (iOS & Android) that allows you to browse, read and follow scholarly journals in a format optimised for your iPad or Android tablet.
To access the trial:
To get started please follow these few short steps:
  • Download BrowZine here or by simply going to the app store on your iPad or Android device and searching for 'browzine'. It's a free download! 
  • Next, find University of Sheffield in the list.
  • You will be prompted to put in your University Username and Password
  • Next, BrowZine will take a few moments to set up your library for initial use by synchronizing your holdings with our server.
This trial will end on 1 March 2014 

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Free webinar on etheses Thurs 13th Feb

This free webinar (online presentation) on Thursday 13th February at 15.00 is aimed at researchers, students, and anyone who is interested in finding and using PhD theses. 

EThOS is the national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It's a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely available to download
and use for your own research, and another 200,000 available to search and scan on demand.

Join the free webinar to learn how EThOS works. Find out how to search for and download theses, and what to do if a thesis isn't available. If you're a PhD student, find out what will happen to your
thesis once it's completed. The webinar will also explain how EThOS works with UK universities to support the whole research cycle, making the theses more visible and available for new researchers to use and build on. To attend the webinar register here

Friday 7 February 2014

Keep track of your WRRO stats

Sheffield's shared open access repository White Rose Research Online (WRRO) has recently unveiled its new statistics page where you can find out all the latest download stats.


The repository has had a fantastic 2,048,419 downloads overall for the full-text articles it holds with the most downloaded research paper getting a whopping 32,289 alone.
 
 
Here are the top downloaded research papers from Sheffield;


Clark, C.D., Evans, D.J.A., Khatwa, A., Bradwell, T., Jordan, C.J., Marsh, S.H., Mitchell, W.A. and Bateman, M.D. (2004) Map and GIS database of glacial landforms and features related to the last British Ice Sheet. Boreas, 33 (4). pp. 359-375. ISSN 0300-9483
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/911/ 

Baxter, S. and Brumfitt, S.M. (2008) Professional differences in interprofessional working. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22 (3). pp. 239-251. ISSN 1469-9567
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/10569/ 

Wang, J.B., Wang, W.Y., Jewell, G.W. and Howe, D. (2005) Design of a miniature permanent-magnet generator and energy storage system. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 52 (5). pp. 1383-1390. ISSN 0278-0046 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/820/
 
 

To find the stats you want simply use the 'filter items' option at the top of the page. From here you can find out exactly how many downloads each individual article, author or department has had for any given period. To look up a particular article all you need to search for is the EPrint id number which you can find at the end of every record's URL. 

We're developing the repository's statistic capabilities all the time so if there's further information that you think we should include just let us know. Contact us on eprints@whiterose.ac.uk