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Top 10 tips for accessing online Library resources from home
Have you ever reached the above screen when trying to access an online journal article and thought “well… what do I do now?” Then hopefully this is the blog for […]
Read all about it! News sources online
Daily news is an important source of information for many degree subjects. Find out how you can access news stories online and use them in your assignments.
PubMed v MEDLINE
PubMed is probably the world’s most famous freely available medical database. In this blog post, we’re going to look at PubMed and MEDLINE (PubMed’s older more established cousin) and find out more […]
The Power of Open Athens
Have you tried to access a journal article online but couldn’t get access to the full text of the article? Did you try to access the article using OpenAthens?
Fictional Truths: using newspaper articles for inspiration
‘The wolf in your handbag’ (2008), ‘The degradation of the kilt’ (1899) and ‘Poisonous stockings’ (1879) are some of the intriguing headlines of articles available via the library’s newspaper databases. […]
Blistering Barnacles and Thundering Typhoons – The Language of Captain Haddock
Anyone who has read the Adventures of Tintin by Hergé will have no doubt enjoyed the strange but colourful exclamations and bizarre insults hurled by the irascible and often inebriated […]