Give us your views and win £100 in John Lewis vouchers!

The Library is conducting a survey of students and wants to hear what you think of the Library and its services. This will help us to improve what we provide to you. Those who complete the questionnaire will be entered into a prize draw.
First prize - £100 in John Lewis vouchers
2nd prize - £50 in John Lewis vouchers
Five prizes of £10 in John Lewis vouchers.
The survey is available until 25th. June 2010 at: http://tinyurl.com/2vofnhw.

ScienceDirect's Top 25

Keep up with the latest research in your subject area with ScienceDirect's Top 25. Every quarter they list the 25 papers with the most downloads in a variety of subject areas. Check the latest list for your subject area at http://top25.sciencedirect.com. You can also sign up to receive the list as a quarterly email alert.

Learn to use EndNote Web

Want to learn more about EndNote Web? These YouTube videos from EndNote Training will help you to get started. EndNote Web will help you store your references and also works with Word to help you with writing up a piece of work by inserting citations correctly for you and automatically compiling your bibliography. See how to sign up for an account here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecNCZJ7udUQ and see the list of videos to the left of this one for more tutorials.

More information on EndNote and EndNote Web is here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/endnote

I am available for group and one-to-one help with using EndNote and EndNote Web- my contact details are on the Library web site here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/contact/sue/. Please feel free to call or email me.

Feast your eyes ...

... on these two fabulous image sites:
Wellcome Images: Historical images from the Wellcome Library collections - Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, beautifully illuminated Persian books and much more.
The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease, surgery, general healthcare and sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques. See also the Wellcome Image awards 2009 for the latest award winning images.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is on at the Natural History Museum until 11th April 2010 and is well worth a visit. Read about the controversy surrounding the winning picture that has been disqualified http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped

Keeping up to date with alerting services

There are a plethora of ways to keep up to date with the journal literature in your subject area - a few alerting sites you might want to investigate are listed below.

• TicTocs - a journal alerting service that covers hundreds of journals from different publishers http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Zetoc - a journal alerting service from the British Library. Go to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ and click on Alerts
• PubCrawler - an alerting service for PubMed and Genbank http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
• ScienceDirect also gives you the opportunity to set up alerts to the journals it contains . Go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/ and click on the Alerts link
• Use the Web of Science to create journal and search alerts. Go to http://isiknowledge.com/wos Sign in to create a profile and you can then create your journal alerts and search alerts

Film and Sound Online

Film & Sound Online is a set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. The collection includes film from organisations such as The Biochemical Society, St George's Hospital Medical School and the Wellcome.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/databases/arts/fso

Plagiarism tutorial

This tutorial, developed by the University of Leicester, gives some good examples of what does and does not constitute plagiarism and some very good advice for anyone producing a piece of academic writing, from undergraduate essays to dissertations and theses.
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
There are subject specific tutorials for Biological Sciences, Geology and more