Library Services

Category: Library resources

  • Main Library refurbishment update: area 2B opening November 2023

    We are working to bring you an improved study space on the top floor of the Main Library in area 2B, due for completion in November 2023. Some behind the scenes improvements are taking place as well as improvements you will be able to see when the area re-opens. Before we began, we held consultations…

  • How to access books during the Main Library top floor refurbishment

    Arrangements have been made to help with access to resources which are not available in their usual place on the top floor. Click and Collect All print resources used last year or which are on resource lists for this year have been relocated to a temporary location and are available by ‘click and collect’. Search…

  • Trial resource – Jus Mundi

    Jus Mundi – the search engine for International law and arbitration, produced by Brill – is out latest resource on trial, at the request of Dundee Law School. Staff in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral law and Policy may find it useful as well. Jus Mundi allows you to search Treaties, Cases, Rules and…

  • Resources for academic writing

    Essays, lab & project reports, presentations, posters, dissertation, thesis , research… – there’s a lot of writing at University.  Here  are some  resources to  help you with writing. Help is available  from  Academic skills  ( asc@dundee.ac.uk) who  offer sessions on academic writing – they do drop-ins and one to one sessions.   The Academic Librarian team …

  • 💖 We love data – Happy Anniversary Safepod 💖 #LoveDataWeek 💖

    It is hard to believe it is already one year since the University of Dundee SafePod opened for use. Located on the top floor of the Main Library, the SafePod is a small standardised safe setting that provides the physical security and controls for a researcher to access sensitive datasets. Approved researchers with a project…

  • LGBT+ History month – film resources

    Kanopy and  Box of Broadcasts (BoB) are both film streaming resources – both have  playlists/curated lists for LGBT+ films. Kanopy  covers films and documentaries, they have a playlist International LGBT+ STUDIES ; the database is also searchable. Login with your university username & password – accessible worldwide. BoB public playlists are created by  users – …

  • LGBT+ History Month 2023

    February is LGBT+ History month. The LLC was asked to arrange a display of books  to highlight  some of the material we have –  there’s  more material on LGBTQ+ histories/identities available online via  Library Search,  in books,  journal articles, and databases across all subjects. The titles can be viewed on the Recommend a Resource Libguide …

  • Kanopy – streaming Film resource accessible worldwide

      Kanopy is our latest streaming  film resource, (acquired in 2022)  and can be accessed from anywhere in the world, with a University of Dundee log in. It’s searchable, browsable by category (British /World cinema/ LGBTQ / Race ethnicity  & Identity/ Gender/ Human rights/Art & Architecture  and more) and  includes documentaries as well as film.  …

  • It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new University of Dundee, Open Access, student journal in this guest blog from Dr Anna Robb and Dr Richard Holme

    In early 2020, on the eve of the global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, two colleagues (Dr. Anna Robb and Dr. Richard Holme, Division of Education and Society) – who lead the highly successful Master of Education (MEd) programme – discussed the prospect of establishing a new open-access journal that would publish and share the best…