The University Library Survey 2013 – tell us what you think

We would like your feedback about the Library. Your views will help us to understand which services are important to you and show us where we can make improvements. 

The survey is open to students and academic staff until 9th December and will take about 10 minutes to complete.  We have three prizes to win, an iPad Air 16GB and two £50 Amazon vouchers, which will be awarded to randomly selected participants. If you have any questions when completing the survey, send them by email to library@sheffield.ac.uk.

To complete the quiz and enter the prize draw go the Library web pages:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libnews/survey2013

Managing references in Google Scholar

Google Scholar has just brought out a new feature that allows you to save and organise the references you find when searching.

Once you're logged into your Google account simply activate 'My Library' from Google Scholar and then whenever you want to send a reference to your Library just click 'save' underneath each search result.

From 'My Library' you can create different labels to organise your references into groups, making them easy to find, and you can also export your references to endnote or other more advanced reference management software.

For more information on other reference management tools see the Library webpages.

New items this week

New items available at the Health Sciences Library this week:




Johnson, M.H.  (2013) Essential Reproduction.  7th ed. 





Cleland, J.A., & Cotton, P.  (2011).  Health, behaviour and society: clinical medicine in context.  New ed.




Girl Interrupted (DVD)





Lee, S.  (2011).  Sophie's story : my 20-year battle with irritable bowel syndrome




For more items available in your University of Sheffield library, check StarPlus.

Searching for Researching

301, the University skills and development centre, is offering a series of workshops aimed at helping students develop the skills they need to succeed in their studies.

The Searching for Researching workshop is delivered by The University Library and explores how to find resources for your undergraduate research such as an essay or report. 

You will look at the different ways to search for information and how to evaluate your results to get the highest quality information into your work. You will also learn about plagiarism - making sure you use your own ideas and referencing the works of others properly.

 

The next workshops are being run on the following dates - click to book a place: 

Friday 22 November 12.00pm-1.00pm
Tuesday 10 December 5.30pm-6.30pm

 

 

Top websites for the History of Medicine

While the Library's resources are the number 1 place to go when researching any topic, there will often be plenty of information freely available online too. Just remember to always check the quality of what you find, think about who has produced it, when and why and use your critical thinking skills to assess the reliability of every source you find. 

To get you started here are some reliable sites for the History of Medicine;

Wellcome History - a free magazine produced by the Wellcome Trust;

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Publications/Wellcome-History/ 

US National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine;

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ 

The International Society for the History of Medicine;

http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ishm/eng/debut.htm 

The Science Museum - exploring the History of Medicine;

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife.aspx 

Thackray Museum - medical museum;

http://www.thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk/ 

Reliable sites like the ones above will often link to further websites or academic publications so don't just limit your search to google. Find some good sites and use these to guide you in the right direction of high quality resources. 

For help on evaluating the information you find take our online tutorial.

Artwork in Silent Study Room

The artwork from the photography competition is now on display in the Silent Study Room in the Health Sciences Library - Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

The top three photographs were:
1st place "Cathedral Cove" by Jonny Brooke

Cathedral Cove by Jonny Brooke

2nd place "Cosmiques Arete" by Richard Quirke

Cosmiques Arete by Richard Quirke

3rd place "Lines" by Anisa Fadaei

Lines by Anisa Fadaei

The quality of the entries into the competition were exceptionally high, and as a result took us a great deal of time to shortlist and then choose the winners. As a result, there were also 7 runners up for the Silent Study Room and four runners up whose pictures have been used in the staff meeting room. 

If you haven't seen the winning entries, feel free to come in and take a look around.

Welcome Back!

Hope you all had a good summer. The Library has been busy while you've been away and there are quite a few changes that have been made to the Library services. Here's a quick run down;

1. Library Pin  - Your library pin number is now the same as your Ucard pin number. If you don't know what yours is go to https://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/password, login with your University username & password and choose option 6 to have your PIN e-mailed to you. You can also change your Ucard pin by selecting option 9. 

2. Automatic Renewals - From now on as long as no-one has requested your books we will automatically renew them for you. We will send you an e-mail to let you know if any of your books cannot be renewed due to requests on them, and we will also send you a weekly borrowing statement to remind you which books you have out on loan and highlight any that have been requested.

Keep up-to-date with you Library account by always checking your weekly borrowing statement!

3. Fines -  Fines are now only charged for the late return of requested items but will because of this accumulate at the rate of £2 per day. So again remember to check your library account and borrowing statements regularly!

4. Loan Entitlements -UGs and PGTs can now borrow up to 25 items at any one time - so you'll never run low on bedtime reading.

For any more information or questions about your Library account contact the Library helpdesk;

Tel: 0114 222-7200

Library@sheffield.ac.uk