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

Update on Aston e-Library problem with accessing individual resources

We are pleased to report that the problem with the Find Resource option within the Aston e-Library has now been fixed. We apologise for any inconvenience this problem has caused. If you are still having problems please email library@aston.ac.uk

Aston e-Library: Problems accessing individual resources

We are currently experiencing some problems with the Aston e-Library which is affecting access to the Find Resources part of the service. Staff are working to resolve the problem and LIS will let you know via the Blogworm when the service is fully available again. In the meantime please use the electronic resources webpage to link through to databases.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Are you studying BMM646 as part of your MSc in Marketing Management?

We welcome students studying MSc Marketing Management (Supervisor Group 2) and (Supervisor Group 1) students to the Library on Monday the 24th October.

Students will be attending an Applied Research Methods workshop run by the Information Specialist, Nicola Dennis as part of their preparation for researching information for assignments, presentations, group work and the MSc project at the end of the programme.

Students will be using the Library Seminar Room on the 2nd floor of the Building between 2:00pm - 5:00pm.
(Supervisor Group 2) 2:00-3:30
(Supervisor Group 1) 3:30-5:00

Proquest access problems

There are currently intermittent problems with accessing the Proquest database. Proquest are working to try and resolve this and we will update this post as soon as it's been fixed.