More support for final year students!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Academic staff may like to pass on the following information to their final year students.

 

The Library Engineering team have always supported students with  their final year projects, this year the team has decided to introduce new drop-in sessions to provide added support.  Students are encouraged to bring with them to the session project titles or key words relating to their project, they are also welcome to discuss a particular problem they may have with using library resources.

 

Where and when ?

 

Civil and Building Engineering drop-in sessions will be based at the Computer room, RT0.26 between 4 and 5pm in the following weeks:

 

Week 7    13^th November  

Week 8    20^th November

 

Contact:  S.F.McKeating@lboro.ac.uk if you wish to attend

 

Wolfson School sessions will be held in Training Room 1 ( on Level 3 of the Library)  between 12 and 2pm on the following dates:

 

Week 6     7^th November

Week 7     14^th November

Week 8     17^th November

 

Contact: T.M.Marshall@lboro.ac.uk if you wish to attend

 

Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering and Electrical Engineering drop-in sessions will be held in the Library Training Rooms, (on Level 3 of the library), between 12 and 2pm on the following dates:

 

Week 7        12^th November        Training Room 2

Week 8        19^th November        Training Room 1

Week 9        26^th November        Training Room 2

 

Contact: R.Jones2@lboro.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

 

More details about these sessions are available from the academic librarians. Just ask!

Database trials – Avery Index to Architectural Publications

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The Library has organised two trials of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database via each of the two platforms on which it is available – CSA and OCLC. How to access each trial is detailed below. We welcome feedback – good or bad – on these trials, please contact Steve Corn,
S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. These include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Articles are included from key publications such as American Architect, Baumeister, Byggekunst, Domus, and El Croquis, as well as architectural articles from art and planning journals such as American Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, Environment and Planning A, Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Revue de l’Art. Coverage is 1934 – current, (with selective coverage back to 1741).

Via the CSA platform until 15th November 2008

To access the trial from on campus please click here

or from off campus please click here

and login with your Athens username and password.

Via the OCLC platform until 16th November 2008

To access the trial from on campus please click here

or from off campus please click here

and login with your Athens username and password.

Keeping up-to-date with Occupational Health & Safety

OSH Update is a web-based database containing an ever-growing collection of (currently) 17 databases from worldwide authoritative sources of Occupational Health and Safety information.

This aggregation of databases currently contains well over 800,000 relevant references with abstracts or keywords and will keep you alerted to hot topics such as the health risks of nanotechnology, corporate killing and corporate social responsibility, bioterrorism, management of road risks, preparedness and business continuity as well as basic health, safety, hygiene and working environment information.

There are many thousands of references that immediately link to full text documents. When you start to search you will, by default, be searching all of the 17 databases.

Check out http://www.oshupdate.com/.  You will need a username and password to access OSH Update.

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