Category: Library resources
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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…
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Supporting the Inclusive Curriculum
As reported in the Staff Newsletter of 26/1/2022, the LLC has set aside £5,000 which can be used to purchase books/resources to support the Inclusive Curriculum, equality & diversity as it relates to modules in your discipline – as well as the usual method of adding titles to your online module reading list. The fund…
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Elsevier and the University of Dundee: agreement reached
After extensive negotiations between the UK Universities and Elsevier, facilitated by JISC, a three year (2022-24) open access transitional agreement has been achieved which will maintain read access and allows for unlimited publishing in core hybrid Science Direct, Cell Press and Lancet titles. Elsevier is the largest academic publisher, and is the one with whom…
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Elsevier and the University of Dundee
The University of Dundee’s current subscription to Elsevier journals is our largest, both in terms of volume and cost. We currently subscribe to 1865 journals, representing almost 20% of our expenditure on scholarly materials. As well as being widely read, researchers at Dundee publish extensively in Elsevier journals. Our current subscription agreement with Elsevier officially…
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Title not in stock? Try MoreBooks@dundee.ac.uk
MoreBooks@dundee.ac.uk is a service for students (undergraduate, taught & research postgraduate) that encourages you to ask us to purchase books relevant to your studies which aren’t in stock (as ebooks or print) in the Library. Email us from your @dundee.ac.uk email address, with the full details of the tile required. Titles will be bought as…
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Getting Started Resources: Resources for new students (undergraduate or postgraduate)
A few resources to get you started…. 1. The Library homepage – www.dundee.ac.uk/library 2. People 3. Guides 4. Library Search 5. The Library App 6. Your online reading/resource list (for taught modules) 7. Referencing 8. Linkedinlearning
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Resource lists & ordering – we’re back
Just in time to say Happy New Year ! We’re back & ordering has restarted. We order as much material as possible as ebooks, but some subject areas may still have more print than online material. Resource lists in draft are due to be published this week, before the start of Semester on the 17th…
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Happy Christmas & see you in the New Year
Here are some titles we ordered earlier (selected by my colleague Yvonne)… have a look at some light hearted Christmas themed material available from the Library & Learning Centre –
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Remembrance Day book display, Main Library
The Main Library book display updated for Remembrance Day, 2021. You can see the titles in this carousel – Book display Main Library – Recommend a Resource – LibGuides at University of Dundee