Thursday 17 May 2007

RSS simplified

Tired of your daily (when you can find the time!) visits to web-based news sites to keep up to date with with what's happening in the world and your profession? Why not use RSS instead?

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) can deliver news to you, whether it be from news sites such as ABC Online, or from Blogs.
To find out more about it, how it can benefit you, and what you have to do to set it up, take a look at this short video from Commoncraft. It explains all you need to know about RSS in Plain English, in under 4 minutes.

Tuesday 15 May 2007

New Database Trial

We have trial access to 500 eBooks on ScienceDirect until 18 June 2007.

The books cover a range of topics including Biology, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, Immunology, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Physics and Psychology.

The ebooks are included with our existing books and journals on ScienceDirect and can be accessed usinng the Browse button from the menu bar at the top of the ScienceDirect home screen or by a Journal/book title search. Journals can be deselected from the title search, so that only books are displayed.

Access is from the database trials page. All books are available from off campus.