If you’re packing your bags and leaving Winchester shortly, don’t forget to say goodbye to the Library first. If you still have books out or haven’t paid off all your fines, you may face delays in getting your results released!
If you’re packing your bags and leaving Winchester shortly, don’t forget to say goodbye to the Library first. If you still have books out or haven’t paid off all your fines, you may face delays in getting your results released!
As some of you may have noticed, the library has been carrying out a small survey of journal usage over the last semester. This has been to give us an idea of which journals are in high demand and which we could perhaps replace. Up until now, however, the survey has only checked how often the current journals (on the open shelves) are being used and we would now like to get an idea of how often the past issues (held in the rolling stack) are being used.
If you have used the journal collection during your time at the university we would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to let us know which journals have been of particular use to you. Whether you use the weekly magazines to keep up to date with industry news or use the academic publications for your research, it is important that we know our collection is offering the appropriate material for your studies.
Please email the journals assistant with the titles of journals you have used and feel are valuable to the collection, or indeed with any other suggestions:
Hannah.McQuarrie@winchester.ac.uk
The Library is now providing access to the full text of more than 500 sports journals via the SportDiscus database. A new link has been added to the Databases page on the Library web site. Please log off from the database when you have finished, as our licence is for a limited number of simultaneous users
A new Table of Content service has just been launched.
The service is linked from the Databases page of the Library websiter.
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The Library can now offer access to the Burney Collection of newspapers online. A new service allows allows our users to search this in combination with the 19th Century British Library newspapers collection, which is already available. Both collections are linked from the Online Newspapers section of the Library webpage. The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press”, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection. Newspaper images can be magnified for easier reading or reduced for on screen navigation. You can save and print article images, create persistent links and email them to others. When trying to print entire newspaper pages, you will need to tile them to make them legible given the differing paper size between newsprint and common office paper sizes.
NewsFilm Online is a service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives – some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories.
Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students.
A link to the site can be founded on the Library homepage, on the Multimedia resources page.
The Library can now offer access to a new database of full-text journals. This agreement is a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from the Periodicals Archive Online collection. Dating from 1891 to 2000, content included in this agreement is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates. Please note that the coverage of this database does not extend to the most recent issues. A link has been set up from the Databases page of the Library website.
Athens is the passwording system for validating your access to the huge range of electronic resources we subscribe to. The publishers need to know that you are from an institution that pays them for the data, and they have been using Athens to do that for several years. Over the summer, the arrangement by which all universities got access to Athens for free was discontinued. Most, including Winchester, have subscribed to a new version of the Athens system. Some have chosen to go with alternative arrangements.
Your access to Athens validated resources should remain unchanged. The main thing to remember is that you should access Library resources through the Portal. Make sure the Portal page says ‘Welcome’ and your name at the top. This means the system know who you are, and that you are a registered Winchester student. Then go to the Library home page to link to the resource you need. Either the system will automatically recognise your access rights and take you straight into the resource or you may have to click on an Athens Log-in button. Different database suppliers put these in different places on their pages! But don’t give up. If you need any further help, contact the Library Enquiries Desk on 01962 827306 or libenquiries@winchester.ac.uk.
Over the summer, we have subscribed to two major new resources for our Business students. Business Source Premier gives full-text access to all the major journals in the subject area. FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) provides company financial information. Both are linked from the Database section of the Library homepage.
