Here are the opening hours for the Library and the ARC gym over the festive period. Have a great holiday!
Category Archives: Library news
Electronic Delivery of Inter-library Loan items
Journal articles, book chapters and conference papers supplied by the British Library will now be delivered to staff and students via the DRM Lite service.
Benefits of DRM Lite
- No need to install plugins or special software.
- DRM Lite allows you to view the item on any device with internet access.
- Once you have downloaded the item, you will have access to it for up to 3 years and can print one copy.
How do I get articles via DRM lite?
- There is no change to how you request the item through our inter-library loan service, Clio.
- A link to the item will be emailed direct to you. To download it you will need Adobe Reader version 10 or above. This software is installed on all GCU staff and student machines and is available to download free of charge on your own devices.
Full information is available on our web pages. https://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/inter-libraryloan/drmlite/
Referencing Guide Updated
We have completed our annual review of the Harvard British Standard Referencing Guide. Continue reading
New Subject Guides
This summer we have completely updated our subject guides – these guides are a great first place to look for help with your subject resources. Continue reading
Discover Upgrade: What’s New?
Over the summer the Library team have been giving Discover, the library search engine, a bit of a face lift. Based on feedback from users we have been making improvements and enabling new functionality to bring you the best user experience we can.
If you have any feedback about the improvements made to Discover, please let us know by using our feedback form on the library website or by emailing library@gcu.ac.uk
Locking filters
In Discover, you can now lock the filters on the right hand side of the page. This ensures that the filter remains persistent during your search session, even if you start a new search. Continue reading
Discover Upgrade: What to Expect
Over the summer the Library team have been making improvements to Discover, the library search engine. All our enhancements will be going live on Monday 2nd July and while we are upgrading, users may experiences some issues while using Discover.
Behind the magic button: peer review
Students often tell us they’ve been asked to find ‘peer reviewed’ journal articles for an assignment. Librarians and academics sometimes talk about peer review in very general terms – ‘rigorous editorial process’, ‘evaluated by experts’, ‘reliable academic standard’ and so on. The language we use to talk about peer review tends to be quite positive and therefore it’s no surprise that on campus there seems to be a general consensus that peer review is a good indicator of high quality information. Continue reading
Extended opening hours – Trimester B Exam Diet 2018
To support your studies during the exam period, the Saltire Centre will be open as follows:
| 23rd April – 14th May | 24 hour opening |
| 15th May | Midnight – 11pm |
| 16th May | Regular building opening hours resumed |
May public holidays
Monday 7th: Staffed services 9-5pm
Monday 28th: Closed
Festive Feedback 2017
We thought it would be useful to tell you about some of the comments we received during our festive Feedback campaign, and some of the actions that have taken place in response to your feedback.
We received 54 responses over the festive period covering these areas:
Are you working on your dissertation or Honours’ Project?
The Library has lots of useful resources that can help you with your dissertation or Honours’ Project.
Planning your search strategy
We have a range of books that can help you get started with your literature review and with your dissertation or project more generally (for example here, here and here). Additionally our online training package SMILE has lots of tips that will improve the quality of your research. Continue reading
