Join us for Healthy Campus Week!

Tuesday 17th February 11am–1pm, Tipi, Students' Union

This week we'll be taking part in the Students' Union Healthy Campus week with our session in the tipi... Creative Health Information. 

Working alongside our colleague Jo Marsden, the Outreach Librarian for STH, we'll be blending collage and storytelling with information finding skills to create a vision of a supportive campus for people with long-term health conditions. 

Everyone is welcome and there's no need to book. Just turn up!

Hope to see you there.

Vic, Anthea and Jo.

Spotlight on.... PathCAL

PathCAL is a set of web-based tutorials designed to help students understand the basic pathological principles of disease by exploiting techniques in learning psychology. 

The tutorials can be used by beginners for learning the subject for the first time or by more advanced students for review and self- assessment. The tutorials were written and developed by experienced university teachers over a ten year period and have been subsequently edited and enhanced by both staff and students. There are 115 tutorials with more in development.

Why not take a look at this resource and see how it can work for you! 

Trial e-resource: Cite them Right Online

We have trial access to Cite them Right Online, this is now active and will run until 2 March 2015.  This resource gives you examples on how to reference almost anything in the following formats:

• Harvard
• APA
• MHRA
• MLA
• OSCOLA
• Vancouver 

Student and staff feedback on this resource is welcome via this page

Orthoptics Literature Searching Workshop

Hi hope you found the workshop on Wednesday useful. Here's a quick recap of some key points...

StarPlus

A good starting point for any literature search. Remember, use University Collections to find books and journal titles. For online journal articles use the Articles and More tab. If you're looking for a particular journal article make sure you check both our print and electronic holdings.

Always sign in before you start by clicking the University Members link and use the e-shelf to save what you find.

Google Scholar

Link up to the Library catalogue before you start searching so you can check what the Library

Achieve More: Health Challenge

The Health Challenge kicks off this week and the Library is here to support you throughout your project.

Group Study Space

Book group study rooms by using 'My Rooms & Resources' (myR&R) in MUSE. There are lots of group rooms available, both at the IC and the Health Sciences Library. You can also book laptops and creative media equipment. 

Details of all Library sites and opening times are available here . 

Library Resources

StarPlus: You can find all the Library's resources, print and electronic, from our Library catalogue, StarPlus. Search the 'University Collections' tab for books, journals, maps, images and more. You can also use the 'Articles and More' tab to search for journal articles

New! Evaluating information and critical thinking tutorial

Are all sources of information equal? Can you believe everything you read on Wikipedia?  Are there cases where Twitter would tell you more than a textbook?

Learning to think critically about what you read, and how to choose the most appropriate information sources for your needs are some of the most important skills you'll learn at University.

We've created an new tutorial to help you ask the right questions about any information you find, to help ensure that your work is based on the best evidence available.

https://librarydevelopment.group.shef.ac.uk/shef-only/info_skills/critical_thinking.html

My Books - Books Chosen by You!

You said you wanted more books, and we listened!

The library has secured £50,000 to spend on extra copies and new titles for our students.
The scheme starts at 9am on Monday 2nd February.

From this time, any registered student can:

• order extra copies by logging into StarPlus and clicking on the ‘MY BOOKS – BOOKS CHOSEN BY YOU” button in the ‘Get It’ tab.

• order new titles by completing an online form which will go live at the start time, and can be accessed from www.sheffield.ac.uk/mybooks .

The money may go quickly, and we’ll keep you up-to-date with the expenditure.

We will buy the e-version of the title if available, so that as many students as possible can access the resource. For multi-edition titles; we will buy the latest available edition.