Finding that Google isn't meeting your research needs?

...well I'm not surprised to be honest! Google is good for many things, we all know that (well, give or take a few things we might not like...) but when it comes to finding academic research you still can't beat a good 'old fashioned' University Library.

And when that good 'old fashioned' University Library provides its users with easy access to most of its collection online, so much the better :-)

So don't miss out - go to the University portal for online students and staff and login with your MWS username and password and access the Online Library from here.

For further tips on getting the most from the Online Library and finding and managing information for your research, take a look at the Information Literacy Resource. This is a self study resource available on Embanet (MBA Area - MBA Information Literacy Resource, MSC Area - MSc Information Literacy Resource and MPH Area - MPH Information Literacy Resource).

Take a look and if there's something you're not sure about or you just want a chat about using the Library for your research, please contact me, Stephanie Allen at Online_Librarian@embanet.com

Times Higher Education freely available online

Times Higher Education (the re-branded magazine that used to be the Times Higher Education Supplement newspaper) is now freely available online. The site includes a free archive back to 28th October 1994. A link to this site now appears in the library catalogue and the searchable SFX journals list.

Interested in TV commercials? Try DAVID Reviews

The Library now has access to DAVID reviews. This resource allows you to view/analyse over 10,000 TV commercials and find out who produced them etc. All comercials are presented in 16:9 widescreen at near broadcast quality.

To use this resource you must first register and you will be given a PIN number to use. When you register you MUST please use your University of Liverpool email address - @liverpool.ac.uk , @liv.ac.uk or @student.liverpool.ac..uk - NOT your embanet email address or any other email address.

Access is via the Management Collections page.

Acceptable Use of Library E-resources

The Library have recently been alerted by a couple of publishers to some unacceptable use of their e-journals. Please see our web page about acceptable use.

In particular, note that it is unacceptable to "systematically download, save, or print articles from an e-journal". The following examples are therefore unacceptable:

1. Downloading three entire volumes of the Annual Review of Nutrition
2. Crawling the ScienceDirect site

When publishers detect unacceptable use they will usually block the offending IP address. If the journal is being accessed via EZproxy then this will deny access to all of our users.

If the unacceptable use continues then publishers may block access to the whole University or even cancel our site licence agreement.

Note that CSD's Regulations for the Use of IT Facilities at the University of Liverpool state:

3. All Users of all Systems will:
b. Adhere to the terms and conditions of all licence agreements relating to the Systems which they use

and any user who is in breach of regulations may have their access to computing withdrawn either temporarily or permanently.

Thanks for your co-operation.