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The next REF will include an open access policy that affects everyone and applies to journal articles and conference proceedings accepted after 1 April 2016. If your publication doesn’t comply from the date of publication, it will not be eligible for REF. UCL provides lots of support, including a new set of REF open access webpages with simple steps for complying with the REF policy, FAQs and a list of exceptions. Contact the Open Access Team if you’d like more information.

We are pleased to announce that  during the recent judging of the Sally Hernando Awards for Innovation in NHS Library and Knowledge Services for 2014-15, three of our submissions were commended for good/best practice. Our successful submissions, entered by Grazia Manzotti, were: 1) ICH Library App Our free app was judged to be an innovation. The free app for smartphones and tablets that delivers an up to date and growing list of trusted and relevant medical apps and mobile resources right at your fingertips. The app has been created by ICH Library staff - see http://gosh-lib.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/library-app.html 2) New Library webpage on Mobile Resources and Apps   This submission was judged to be a marketing initiative to be shared. The ICH Library website now contains details of a wide range of mobile apps and resources that are available to NHS  users. The list covers a range of important mobile resources including Medical Databases, Medical Jour...

UCL has trial access to  China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database  (CNKI)  until 20th May 2015. For off-site access please use  Web WTS  or  Desktop@UCL Anywhere  . The resource can be viewed either in  English  or  Chinese  and comprises of: China Academic Journals Full-text Database  (CJFD) China Statistical Yearbooks Full-text Database  (CSYD) National Population Census of China  (NPCC)

UCL now has online access to the newly-released 2nd edition of Elsevier’s International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences Please see below link: http://libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080970875 .