Latest News and Announcements
Christmas 2008 closure
23-Dec-2008
The Libraries will close at 3pm on Wednesday 24th December 2008 and reopen on Monday 5th January 2009. No email or phone enquiries will be dealt with during this period.
You can still renew your books online and access electronic resources during this period.
New trial - The Marketing & Management Collection
02-Dec-2008
The resource consists of online animated audio-visual seminar-style talks specially commissioned from leading world authorities.
Access this resource.
On-site access only. This trial will run until the 16th January 2009.
NewsFilm Online from EDINA now available at TVU
01-Dec-2008
NewsFilm Online offers access to over 3,000 hours of downloadable television
news and cinema newsreels dating back to the early years of the twentieth century. The content has been selected from the huge ITN/Reuters Television
archives. The link to this service is on our databases list.
Trial of Research Starters - Business and Education from EBSCOhost.
24-Oct-2008
The library has taken out a trial subscription to two new online resources, Research Starters - Business and Education. More information on our trials page.
Information for new users of the library
14-Oct-2008
Click here for information every new library user should know.
24 hour access to floor A2 at St. Mary#s road is not available this term until further notice.
06-Oct-2008
If you wish to contact us about the decision to suspend 24 hour opening at St. Mary#s road, please do so via our feedback form.
Database cross-searching now possible using SFX
05-Sep-2008
TVU library is using a system called SFX to allow searches to be transferred between databases and other online resources. More information.
TVU library now has access to Adept4Education
05-Sep-2008
Adept4Education offers a broad range of software for students, lecturers and staff in education establishments including tools for reference management, engineering mathematics, mathematical problem solving, system simulation, statistics, and much more. TVU e-Direct login required.
The library has a new subscription to the PsycARTICLES database.
07-Aug-2008
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals. The library no longer has access to the PsycINFO database.
Access available off-site via TVU e-Direct.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION for users of St Mary’s Road LRC
20-Jun-2008
Two floors of the SMR LRC, B3 and B4, will be closed from 30th June to 1st August 2008 due to refurbishment. This means that stock in the following areas will be unavailable during that period:
- Art and Design
- Broadcasting
- Cinema
- Computing
- Creative technologies
- Economics
- Finance
- Industrial relations
- Information Management
- Information systems
- Journalism
- Literature
- Media Studies
- Music
- Photography
- Sport and Leisure Management
- Taxation
- Television
- Tourism
We apologise for any inconvenience but hopefully the new look floors will make this worthwhile. If you have any problems please talk to staff at the Enquiry Desk.
HeinOnline database of English Reports.
13-Jun-2008
HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865.
Access available from within TVU only.
Link
New trial to the PsycARTICLES database on the EBSCOhost platform.
04-Jun-2008
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 13 from allied organisations.
See our trials page.
Dawsonera is a new e-book service provided by Dawson Books.
22-May-2008
Dawsonera has 260+ (and growing weekly) book titles selected by the librarians at TVU. Books can either be read on-line using the Dawsonera reader or downloaded to your PC for reading off-line using a PDF reader.
Dawsonera allows copy and paste facilities (up to 5% of a title), print facilities (up to 5% of a title). Please note, copy and paste/print facilities only available on the online reader. If you download a title, you will not be able to copy/paste or print any part of the text.
For more infomation see the help pages in Dawsonera.
Access available via TVU e-Direct. Worldwide access available.
Link to Dawsonera
The titles are also being added to the library catalogue.
5 online titles are now available from the IEEE Digital Library.
20-May-2008
TVU now subscribes to the Pick5 option, providing access to the following titles:
IEEE Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Access is currently within TVU only, but we are planning to introduce a proxied external service.
Link
New Database - GreenFILE
12-May-2008
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
GreenFILE is available on the EBSCOhost service. See our databases page to access this service.
Re-enrolment September / October 2008
09-May-2008
Re-enrol online from 2 June at http://www.tvu.ac.uk/mytvu.
And follow the simple steps - where you will be able toā€¦
ā€¢ Update your personal details online - available now
ā€¢ Confirm your course re-enrolment online - available from 2 June 2008
ā€¢ Indicate your module choices online - where applicable ā€“ you will be
notified via your TVU Student Email Account when this information
is available.
Please re-enrol online from 2 June and no later than Monday 1 September 2008 or 3 weeks before your course starts.
Please note re-enrolments are now paper-free - there will be no more re-enrolment forms!
http://www.tvu.ac.uk/mytvu.
Ebrary - e-book subscription ceasing on 31/5/08
08-May-2008
Access to the ebrary e-book service will cease on 31/5/08. Please retrieve any personalised notes that you have added to the e-books before that date.
The decision to cancel the service has been taken in the light of ongoing developments in the e-book market. We will be continuing to build up our e-book collection with titles from other e-book services and publishers who are now more able to provide relevant titles. Check this page for other e-book services.
Trial access to the Credo Reference service.
07-May-2008
This trial provides access to a digital library of high quality reference works including dictionaries, thesauri, image collections and encyclopedias in a wide variety of subject areas. Access details on our trials page.
New trial - Inderscience
01-May-2008
This gives TVU staff and students trial access to 200 full-text journals from Inderscience. More details on our trials page.
Part-time student survey
24-Apr-2008
If you are a part-time student, studying a course at undergraduate or a taught masters level, please help us by completing a
short online survey.
Launch of the new LRS website, 11th March 2008
11-Mar-2008
Welcome to the new LRS website. We hope that you will find it easy to use ā€“ please send us your feedback using the feedback form which can be accessed from the bottom menu bar on every page.
TVU now has access to the 19th Century British Library Newspapers database
10-Mar-2008
19th Century British Library Newspapers - 19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Access available via TVU e-Direct .
TVU now has access to the ICE Virtual Library
09-Mar-2008
The ICE Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) between 1836 and 2001. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived. Subjects range from civil engineering and history to architecture and transportation. The JISC has licensed the ICE Virtual Library archive in perpetuity on behalf of the UK education community, making it freely available to all UK higher and further education institutions.
TVU has trial access to the BBC Motion Gallery
29-Feb-2008
BBC Motion Gallery - BBC Motion Gallery is an archive clip licensing business and the BBC, in association with JISC Collections, it has developed a website allowing students and lecturers within higher and further education institutions in the UK to use BBC content for educational purposes.
The trial will run until March 28th 2008.
Access available via TVU e-Direct .
CINAHL and SPORTDiscus with Full Text are now on the EBSCOhost platform.
25-Jan-2008
CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is now available on the EBSCOhost platform. We have changed the subscription from Ovid because we were able to get unlimited access and full text from Ebscohost. This was a big improvement on the 4 concurrent user licence with abstracting and indexing information which was available on the Ovid platform. If you would like some training on the new interface please contact your Subject Librarian.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a new resource at TVU. It is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine journals, providing full text for 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.
Access available via TVU e-Direct. Worldwide access available.
Flood in SMR LRC
11-Jan-2008
There was a flood in St Marys Road LRC over Christmas holiday. Service was disrupted due to flood damage.