We are pleased to announce as a pilot Kenrick Library will be open during the Christmas vacation on a self service basis.

Many of our online resources, online journals and ebooks are also accessible, however as the university will be closed from the 24th Dec – 4th Jan staff will not be available to answer questions, please check out our help pages for relevant information.

Don’t forget you can also renew your library books online or by phone over the vacation.

Further help and information is available on the Library web pages.

We have recently renewed the following electronic resources : FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy), ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index), BHI (British Humanties Index), ARTbibliographies Modern, Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Art and Grove Music), and ICONDA (International Construction Database).

Please get  in touch with us if you want help in using any of these databases.

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The ZETOC service (which provides  access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents)  is ‘at risk’  on Tuesday morning 15th December and you may not be able to login for up to 2 hours after 10:00am.

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We have a trial till the end of the month for Professional Engineering Publishing Journals – who are publishers to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

http://journals.pepublishing.com and http://archive.pepublishing.com (on-campus only).

Please leave your comments on these resources below.

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We are not renewing our subscription to Literature Online after the end of the month – so make sure you get the best of it before it runs out.

For alternative full-text titles check our AtoZ of FullText Journals.

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Athens  is now working again as the service has been down between 5:36 and 09:59 today. Our CICT colleagues have resolved the problem for us, though we are still looking into why this happened.

If you still have problems logging in, please contact us on athens@bcu.ac.uk 

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Unfortunately access to videos on the Digital Library http://www.bcu.ac.uk/uceel off campus is temporarily unavailable. This followed multiple tests off campus. There remains full access to video content on campus.

If students urgently need to view a video we can burn a copy to DVD if necessary – just contact me.

Thank you, Bev

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Beverley Dodd
Digital Library Manager
Birmingham City University
City North Campus
84 Aldridge Rd
Birmingham B42 2TP
Tel (0121) 331 5286/6350
Fax (0121) 331 6510
email; uceel@bcu.ac.uk

SwetsWise will be unavailable this Saturday from 7am to 7pm whilst a new release is loaded into SwetsWise. They have told us that this new release should fix the problem of Taylor and Francis titles asking for payment.

If you are looking for a journal that is from Swetwise,maybe try looking on our AtoZ of Electronic Journals for the same title, from a different supplier.

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The links to our full-text content between Swetswise and Education databases on Dialog – such as British Education Index are now working.

If you still have problems with these links please let us know via athens@bcu.ac.uk

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Please help us evaluate this new resource for legal practictoners – it would be great to get your comments if you are on the LPC course.

We have put login details for the trial here. (login with Athens to see these off-campus). Your comments won’t be published, but we will take them into account when considering whether or not to buy this resource.

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