Over the last few days, we have seen a number of reported incidences of what is known as ‘Whaling’ or ‘Whale phishing’. Whaling is a type of fraud or phishing scheme that targets high-profile end-users, usually senior staff in an organisation, politicians, and celebrities. Fraudsters behind whaling campaigns aim to trick targets into giving out their […]
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Google Scholar Button
I just came across the Google Scholar button by chance and it seems pretty handy (actually this is old news that I’m ashamed to say I’m just catching up with!). The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari – it adds a little button to your browser toolbar. Then you can select […]
Tait and Watson Book Collections
Will you need to consult books from the Tait and Watson Collections over the next few weeks? The Library will soon be upgrading two of its closed access storage areas. From 27th November to 20th December, we will not be able to access books in the Tait and Watson Collections. If you want to access […]
EndNote X7 Users – Upgrade to X9 Now
If you use EndNote X7 and synchronise that with ‘EndNote Online’ you may experience difficulties depending on the size of your library if you do not upgrade to EndNote X8 or X9. After the 31st December 2018, EndNote will reduce online accounts from ‘unlimited’, to 50,000 references and 2GB of attachments. This basically means that:- […]
Altmetric new searches: subject area & author affiliation
Altmetric has recently added two new useful search options. (Altmetric is a tool that tracks online attention surrounding research papers). You can now search across the entire Altmetric database by subject area (using the Fields of Research classification) and by author affiliations (using GRID – a GRID ID or, somewhat easier, the organisation name). […]
EndNote X9 Now Available for Staff and Research Students
The latest version of EndNote is now available for University computers. New features include: ability to share a group of references with other researchers (previously you had to share your whole library); control permissions on who can edit shared references; generate Web of Science Citation reports directly from EndNote and use Manuscript Matcher to help […]
Update on problems with eduroam
15:45 Wed 17 Oct At 14.30 today, we identified a specific problem with a service related to eduroam, which we fixed. This improved the performance and availability of the eduroam service. We have since been monitoring and now believe that eduroam is stable enough for you to try. Please note that you may have to get […]
Learn how to use the new student printers
Students do you want to learn how to print, scan and copy using the new Ricoh MFD’s on campus? We are running a training session, see the details below; Tuesday 25th September 10 am – 3 pm In the Atrium outside the library. This session will be useful for both new and returning students. The […]
New slimline IS internal website
This week, the IS internal website will be getting a mini makeover. Over the summer we’ve been working really hard to move our Library and IT content away from the traditional web format and into easily accessible, bite-sized chunks of information delivered to you via UniDesk Self-Service Portal. We will still have an internal web presence […]
Meet UniDesk Self-Service, IT and Library support in one place
IS have been using UniDesk for the last two years to manage your enquiries to us. Over the summer, however, we’ve been working hard to transfer a lot of the information from our website into the UniDesk Self-Service Portal in order to make it easier to find. We’ve also transformed our content into bite-size chunks rather […]