Scanner available in the Library for Great Ormond Street staff

Scanning is now available in the library for Great Ormond Street staff as well as UCL users. The scanner is attached to one of the GOSH PCs.

World Bank eLibrary Trial

The Library has a trial to World Bank eLibrary until 31st December 2013. The eLibrary offers full-text access to the complete back-list of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank since the 1990s.

The eLibrary can be found at http://elibrary.worldbank.org

Please try out this resource and feedback any comments to the Library.

How to access EndNote X7 via Desktop@UCL

Desktop@UCL is the new Desktop Service that is available on public computers at UCL.

Information about remote access to Desktop@UCL can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/common/ucldesktop/anywhere-user-guide. The Desktop can be accessed remotely by staff and students with a UCL computer account. Access is either by logging in through the Web, or by installing software on your own computer.

Once you have logged into Desktop@UCL:

·      click on the white + sign (at the left of the screen)

·      click on Applications E-L

·      Click on EndNote – APP (beneath the EndNote 7 heading)

·      Double click on the EndNote icon that appears on your desktop to start using EndNote

Other applications can be accessed in the same way. If you wish to use Microsoft Word with EndNote, you will need to use it within Desktop@UCL. If you wish to import references from online resources into EndNote, you will need to use a browser within Desktop@UCL.

Work saved to the “N” drive, can be accessed, both onsite at UCL and offsite.

How to Redirect UCL Emails to Another Address

We are posting this information which may be of particular interest to colleagues in GOSH who normally access their NHS email account. To ensure you don't miss important emails from UCL (eg reminders to renew your UCL computer account), you can redirect your UCL emails to your NHS account (or any other email account) by following these steps.

1. Login to your live@UCL account in Outlook Web.
2. Click on Settings [the gearwheel icon] > Options > Organize Email > Inbox Rules
3. On the Inbox Rules tab, click on the + sign
4. Under When the message arrives, select Apply to all messages
5. Under Do the following, select Redirect the message to
6. Select the email address you want your email to be sent to by double-clicking it in the address book view. If the email address you want to redirect to isn't listed in the address book, you can enter the email address in the To line at the top of the window.
7. Click OK to save your selections and return to the New rule window.
8. Click Save to save your rule and return to the Inbox Rules tab.

Your UCL emails should now be redirected to your chosen address.

Britannia Image Quest

UCL has purchased  access to Britannia Image Quest - http://quest.eb.com

Britannica Image Quest is an online image library which contains images from over 40 of the world’s best providers including National Geographic, Getty Images, National History Museum and many more. All the images are rights-cleared so that users can easily search and use the images within an academic environment.

•Over 2.45 million high resolution images, from 46 of the worlds leading sources worldwide.

•All comprehensively categorised according to subjects

•Images are all rights-cleared so they can be incorporated in any academic work or within power point presentations.

Please see the flier at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/SupportInfo/index/1598 for additional information 

British Cartoon Archive

The British Cartoon Archive is now available with a UCL username and password. If you want to download any cartoons you need to login with your  UCL username and password  and agree to their terms and conditions. You’re prompted for the username/password once you have selected UCL from the drop down list of subscribed institutions. 

What students really do in libraries

There is an interesting paper published in The Reference Librarian which investigates what American College students spend their time doing when in the library. The findings include: reading print material (18.8%), perusing social media (11.4%), visiting non-educational websites (9.3%), viewing online library materials (5.9%), working collaboratively (5.6%), texting (4.1%), reading news websites (2.6%), watching YouTube videos (2.1%), shopping online (1.1%), and sleeping (0.7%).

Since this is an observational study, the authors seem unable to determine whether all (or most) of these activities are related to course assignments.