Friday, 25 May 2012

New electronic resource - Academic Search Complete

The Library has subscribed to a new major electronic resource which will be useful for Science students and staff. Academic Search Complete covers all subject areas and give us an extra 8,500 electronic journals, plus abstracts for a further 12,500. Some of the titles of interest to scientists include Nature back to 1997, many of the Nature and Nature Reviews sister journals, Science, Scientific American and New Scientist, as well as many others. The full list of titles is here.

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Improve your search skills

There are still places on this Saturday's Library workshop on Improving Your Search Skills. This session will cover the general principles of preparing a search strategy and carrying out a literature search, together with useful hints and tips on how to get the best out of online databases.


Book your place now at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Learn new skills - come to a Saturday workshop



The programme of Library Saturday workshops is now available on the Library web site at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills. This term our workshops are mainly aimed at postgraduates, but all are welcome. If you would like to:
  • Improve your search skills
  • Find and access theses 
  • Find out more about EndNote and EndNote Web
  • Keep up to date in your subject area
  • Learn to make the most of the Citation Indexes
book a place on a Saturday workshop. We look forward to seeing you there.