UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library blog

In  partnership with UCL Library Services, the Development and Alumni Relations Office can now offer UCL alumni free access to thousands of online academic journals. To start using the digital libraries, please click on the links below and enter your Alumni Web Community (AWC) log-in and password when prompted.  Information about the terms and conditions of use can be found online, together with the answers to frequently asked questions . JSTOR JSTOR hosts back issues of more than 2,000 academic journals from the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Back issues are defined by JSTOR as those published more than five years ago. Sage Sage's portfolio contains more than 750 journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.    Project Muse   Project Muse provides access to 500 journals across the   humanities a...

The UCL ICH Library staff wish all our Library users a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 

Our new Self-Issue terminal was officially opened on Friday 20 th  November The system has been in operation since September, and has been very successful so far, so we thought this achievement was worthy of an official launch and celebration. Anastasia  Bow-Bertrand, MSc student, was recruited to  cut the red ribbon of  our new self-issue terminal which enables all staff and students to borrow and return books when the library is open. We would like to thank everybody who contributed to the system’s introduction and who made the launch such a success.

We are pleased to announce that the self-issue (RFID) terminal is now live in the library. This means you can now borrow, renew or return items whenever the library is open, including evenings and weekends.  The terminal is very easy to use. Just follow the on-screen instructions. If you should need any assistance, just ask a member of library staff.

We are pleased to announce that the Library was awarded a Platinum award at this year's UCL Green Impact Awards which took place earlier this month. Jing and Grazia receiving the Platinum award from Vice-Provost Professor Anthony Smith Green Impact is an annual programme that empowers staff and students to improve their departmental environmental performance, save money and improve the sustainability literacy of their peers and colleagues. This year we faced stiff competition from offices, labs and UCL's catering outlets. Richard Jackson, Director of Sustainability, emphasised "the essential role that Green Impact teams play in improving UCL's impacts", highlighting "the big energy, resource and financial savings made possible by action from the UCL community". Our success builds on previous years when we achieved both bronze and silver awards. This year's trophies were made from slices of recycled wood from a tree felled...

UCL now has a subscription to  Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy . This has been added to the list of UCL databases  

Remote access to UCL electronic resources by GOSH staff is possible if you have (or are entitled to) a UCL honorary contract. All GOSH Consultants are entitled to a UCL honorary contract and we have posted further guidance on this here . GOSH staff who either don’t want or cannot get an honorary contract can access all the UCL electronic resources from the Library as we have five computers where people can access all the UCL paid resources The reason for these procedures is that t he access to UCL  electronic resources is determined by the legally binding contracts that UCL ,  as a University, signs when entering into an agreement with a publisher or provider. Most UCL contracts have educational arrangements, agreed on a national basis with such bodies as  Eduserv Chest  and  JISC . Further information on this is posted on the UCL Library Services webpages at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/electronic-resources

During Summer 2015 the way UCL  users  log into  email and other Office365 services will change. At the moment, the username is in the format userID@live.ucl.ac.uk, but after the change, it will be userID@ucl.ac.uk. For more information please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/email-calendar/login-rename

As part of the UCL Library project to introduce self-issuing of books across all sites, staff from 3M will be working on our book and journal collections from today. This will cause some disturbance for our readers. Work has started in the Reading Room and we anticipate that 3M staff will have completed this area by the end of the week, after which they will move into the main part of the library. We apologise for any inconvenience this work may cause, but it has necessarily been timed to take place over the summer, when the library is less busy. We will post further updates as the work progresses.

Due to changes in copyright law it is no longer necessary to complete a Copyright Declaration form when collecting your Inter Library Loan. Users are now able to acknowledged copyright compliance by clicking the appropriate button on the online Inter Library Loan request form. We will only be able to process a request if the copyright declaration has been accepted . If you reject the declaration, a member of staff will contact you to discuss the request further.

Thomson Reuters have released the latest edition of  Journal Citation Reports ® (JCR), listing over 11,000 peer reviewed journals from 237 disciplines and 82 countries, with 272 journals receiving an impact factor for the first time. JCR uses citation counts to evaluate the impact of journals, aiming to present a systematic, objective review.

We are pleased to report that Heather Chesters is a joint author of two book chapters on getting involved in research and on literature searching. The book is the sixth in the Unofficial Guides to Medicine series. It aims to prepare and equip junior doctors for their inevitable roles in research, audit and teaching. Qureshi, Z; Tang, C-M and Fischbacher, C. 2015. The unofficial guide to medical research, audit and teaching (Unofficial guides to medicine). London, Zeshan Qureshi. Selections from the book can be previewed via Amazon .