Are you a final year undergraduate business school student?

Dear final year business school students,

Are you free next Wednesday 23rd November between 2.30pm and 3.30pm?
Then please book a place on a Library Research Skills refresher session to help you locate academic journal articles, company information or market research data.

To book a place email l.a.matheson@aston.ac.uk by Monday 21st November.
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Thank you,
Lydia

Lydia Matheson
Business Information Specialist, LIS

Making library resources mobile!

Did you know that many of the resources available to you via Aston University Library & Information Services are available from your mobile device as well?

This summer, we launched a mobile version of the Library Catalogue, making it easier than ever to find books as you navigate the Library shelves. This is accessible through the usual web browser on your mobile device.

Many of our resource providers have developed mobile versions of their interfaces as well.  For example, you can access the Web of Knowledge, EBSCOhost, IEEE Xplore and JSTOR when you're out and about using the mobile interfaces provided.  Sometimes, free registration is required for access to the mobile version.  Comment on this post or ask at the Help Desk if you have any questions about this.

Some of our providers have created apps for you to download.  Elsevier provide apps for ScienceDirect and Scopus Alerts.  To download an EBSCOhost app for iPhone or Android, access EBSCOhost as normal and click the link at the bottom of any EBSCOhost page to email yourself the download instructions, access key and a link to the app store.  The RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) have an iOS app for their journals and for ChemSpider.

Library Prize Winners

Library Matters Live
1795 of you attended a Library Matters Live Induction session.
Thank you for your participation and feedback.
The following students won prizes:

• Hayley - a £150 Waterstone voucher donated by Scopus.
• Nikol - £50 John Smith's voucher donated by John Smith's campus bookshop.
• Jayniz - £100 Bullring voucher donated by Aston University LIS.
• Nabila - iPad donated by Emerald

Library Laptop Survey
607 of you completed the survey.
Thank you for your participation and feedback.
Findings will be shared soon.

• Anish was the lucky winner of a Kindle, donated by Proquest.

Aston students only: Win a Kindle!

Can you spare 2 minutes to fill in our online survey about library laptops?

If so, then you will get the chance to win a Kindle.

Complete the survey by 09:00 on Tuesday 8th November.

The survey is now CLOSED.

ABS PhD students- refresher session

The Library welcomes ABS PhD students in to the Library on Wednesday 2nd November for a library workshop on "Reassessing information literacy skills".  The workshop is open to any ABS PhD student who would like to come along for a refresher and ask for help with their information searching.  Content could include:

• Accessing resources off-campus
• Searching individual databases effectively
• Setting up search alerts
• Citation searching
• Accessing PhD Thesis from other Universities

The workshop is being held in the Library Seminar Room, 2nd floor of the Library Building and will run from 2:00pm.  The information specialist leading the session will be Nicola Dennis.

Downloading PDFs from Business Source Premier EBSCOHost on a MAC

If you are having problems downloading PDFs from Business Source Premier / EBSCOhost and you are using Safari 5.1 on a MAC, then you may need to install a plug-in.

Please see the following instructions from EBSCOHost to help resolve this problem:

Why am I receiving a "Plug-in not found" error when opening a PDF on a Mac using Safari?
http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5765

Lydia Matheson
Business Information Specialist

Problems accessing e-resources

Unfortunately there are on-going problems accessing some resources off campus. The problems appear intermittent and are not affecting everyone. We apologise for this and are trying hard to resolve the issues, but need more evidence of where problems are occurring. If you experience any difficulties please email details to library@aston.ac.uk stating what you were trying to access, whether you are off or on campus, and please send a screenshot of any error message if possible.
Thanks for your help