Library - Vacation Opening Hours

Check the Library website for full details.

Going away for the break?

In anticipation of the Christmas vacation, the Library wishes all students a very pleasant break.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions via Live Chat or email.

Best regards
Lydia 
on behalf of the Library Team

Library Workshop Programme - view the presentations

The Library Information Services Team prepared a workshop programme for you focusing on researching employers, literature searching, reference tools and finding statistics.

The Information Services Team are your Information Specialists:
Richard Hopkins, Clare Langman, Nicola Dennis and Kerstin Treder.                 

The workshops were for any student and the full programme included

• Introduction to free referencing tools          
• Beyond Google                                            
• EndNote                                                       
• Researching employers for job hunting   
• Introduction to finding statistics    
• Advanced Literature Searching                                                        

Presentation slides, recordings and workshop activity sheets are available to view via the Programme details web site

From Monday 28 November the Library will be open 24/7

From Monday 28 November to Friday 16 December the Library will be open 24 hours.

Please remember to bring your uniCARD on each visit and please do ask staff if you need any help.

Best regards
Lydia

on behalf of the Library Team

*New Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

*New Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

*New Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

*New Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

*Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

Chance to win £50 John Smith's and £50 Bullring voucher - calling all new students

Dear Student

Did you join Aston University this academic year?

Were you invited to / did you attend a Library Like Your Library Session? If you did attend, what did you think of it? If you didn't attend, why not?

We need your feedback!

Please can you spend just a few minutes to complete the short online Library survey:  https://aston.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/library2016

You will be providing valuable information to help next year's new students and if you choose to leave your name and email address, then you can enter into a prize draw to win a £50 John Smith's or a £50 Bullring voucher.


Best regards
Lydia

on behalf of the Library Team

*Library Workshop Programme* out now

http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/infolitworkshops

Problems with accessing Library SmartSearch off-campus now resolved

Dear Staff and Students

We've been informed that the problems with accessing SmartSearch off-campus have now been resolved

Please can you: clear your browser's cache

http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser's-Cache 

and try and search and login again:

http://www.aston.ac.uk/library 

Do let us know if there are any problems.

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to Ask the Library:

• You can use Live Chat, http://libanswers.aston.ac.uk/ 
• Speak to a member of staff at the Help point on the ground floor of the Library
• Send an email to library@aston.ac.uk (with details of what you're trying to access)  
• Telephone: 0121 204 4525

Thank you
Lydia

On behalf of the Library Team

Library SmartSearch on and off-campus access

Dear staff and students

Although Library SmartSearch is working as normal on-campus, unfortunately there are some intermittent problems at the moment off-campus which we are working with the publishers to resolve asap.

Please try either of these links to do your searches:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,guest&custid=s9815128&groupid=main&profile=eds

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=guest&custid=s9815128&groupid=main&profile=eds

In the meantime if you have problems with these links and are off-campus, you can locate books (print and electronic) via the Library Catalogue:
https://library.aston.ac.uk/

and journal articles via the publishers' databases:
http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/az.php

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to Ask the Library:

• You can use Live Chat, http://libanswers.aston.ac.uk/ 
• Speak to a member of staff at the Help point on the ground floor of the Library
• Send an email to library@aston.ac.uk (with details of what you're trying to access)  
• Telephone: 0121 204 4525

Thank you for your patience.  We are working to resolve the problem asap.

Best regards
Lydia

on behalf of the Library Team

Need help with accessing Library Resources?

Unfortunately there are some intermittent problems with Library SmartSearch at the moment which we are working with the publishers to resolve asap.

In the meantime you can locate books (print and electronic) via the Library Catalogue:
https://library.aston.ac.uk/ 

and journal articles via the publishers' databases:
http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/az.php

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to Ask the Library:

•    You can use Live Chat, http://libanswers.aston.ac.uk/
•    Speak to a member of staff at the Help point on the ground floor of the Library
•    Send an email to library@aston.ac.uk (with details of what you're trying to access) 
•    Telephone: 0121 204 4525

Thank you for your patience. 
Best regards
Lydia

on behalf of the Library Team

Fed up of carrying large textbooks in your bag?

The Library has purchased 1,000's of e-books over the Summer and you can access all of the new titles via Library SmartSearch.  For example;

Sage Social Science Digital Library

Thousands of carefully selected titles by world class authors on hot topics across the social sciences including academic and supplementary titles, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible student reference, and numerous practical professional titles in education. 



Taylor and Francis eBooks (Business and Humanities titles)
Access over 50,000 ebooks from across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Behavioural Sciences, Built Environment and Law.

Taylor and Francis eBooks (STEM subjects)
CRCnetBASE offers instant access to the world's premier scientific, technical and medical references with added support for libraries.

Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is an online library offering access to thousands of academic works from the celebrated scholary list of Oxford University Press. OSO covers subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

If you have an assignment coming up why don't you take a look and see if there is anything there for you?

Happy reading