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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, UKCoRR members' meeting, University of Portsmouth, 27 Jan 2012, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:26:41 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, UKCoRR members' meeting, University of Portsmouth, 27 Jan 2012, on the site Paul Stainthorp Here are some notes on the first event held for UKCoRR members this year:

As you probably know, UKCoRR is an entirely unfunded organisation which relies heavily on the time and energy of its members, and on the […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Setting the time (some CLOCK project admin), on the site Paul Stainthorp

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:42:47 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Setting the time (some CLOCK project admin), on the site Paul Stainthorp Some notes from a phone chat with Andy McGregor (JISC Discovery programme manager) about CLOCK:

Just as we did for Jerome, we'll be using the CLOCK project blog for all reporting to JISC (as well as for blog […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Discovery phase two: programme launch (slides), on the site Paul Stainthorp

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:29:28 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Discovery phase two: programme launch (slides), on the site Paul Stainthorp JISC formally launched phase two of the Information and library infrastructure: Resource discovery programme on 11 January 2012 in Birmingham. CLOCK weren't able to attend in person, but we sent these slides in […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, HeinOnline law journals and English Reports - normal service!, on the site Library News

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:26:08 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, HeinOnline law journals and English Reports - normal service!, on the site Library News The login problems affecting the HeinOnline legal databases have been fixed, and you should now be able to log in as usual.

HeinOnline provides access to the following:

The Law Journal Library, a collection […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, E-resources team priorities Feb-Apr 2012, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:14:52 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, E-resources team priorities Feb-Apr 2012, on the site Paul Stainthorp Here's what the (small but perfectly formed*) Library e-resources team are concentrating on in this first quarter of 2012:

Usage data, statistics reporting and JUSP;
The Knowledge Base+ (KB+) […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, KB+ project Technical Advisory Group (TAG), on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:23:46 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, KB+ project Technical Advisory Group (TAG), on the site Paul Stainthorp ……aaand just as an adjunct to my last blog post, it's worth mentioning that I'm currently serving [time] on the TAG (Technical Advisory Group) for the JISC Knowledge Base+ (KB+) project. We had our first meeting on […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, A pain in the midlands: JISC/SCONUL future of library systems workshop, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:12 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, A pain in the midlands: JISC/SCONUL future of library systems workshop, on the site Paul Stainthorp

In January I made the long train journey over to the University of Warwick, to attend and speak at the first day of a two-day JISC/SCONUL workshop exploring the future of library systems, under the banner of […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, LNCD funding available: Technology for Education , on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:27:52 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, LNCD funding available: Technology for Education , on the site Paul Stainthorp From today's internal communications email to University of Lincoln staff:

Small grants and student bursaries are available to [University of Lincoln] staff and students to support research, teaching and learning […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, What could you do in the Library with an extra 6½ hours?, on the site Library News

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:15:06 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, What could you do in the Library with an extra 6½ hours?, on the site Library News Now's your chance to find out: we're extending the term-time opening hours of the GCW University Library by an extra 6½ hours per week. (This applies to the times when we're not open 24 hours a day, of cour […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, What could you get done in the Library with an extra 6½ hours?, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:13:19 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, What could you get done in the Library with an extra 6½ hours?, on the site Paul Stainthorp Now's your chance to find out: we're extending the term-time opening hours of the GCW University Library by an extra 6½ hours per week. (This applies to the times when we're not open 24 hours a day, of cour […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, List of UK university libraries on Twitter, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:46:47 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, List of UK university libraries on Twitter, on the site Paul Stainthorp I couldn't find an up-to-date list of dedicated UK academic library Twitter accounts, so I created one. It's openly-editable in Google Docs, so if I've missed off a UK university library, please feel free to add […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, CLOCKmakers wanted: Lincoln needs web developers!, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:54 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, CLOCKmakers wanted: Lincoln needs web developers!, on the site Paul Stainthorp (I promised you an awful clock-related pun in every CLOCK blog post title, and by crikey I'll deliver one.)

Lincoln needs web developers! As well as the full-time developer we're recruiting to the Orbital […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Print posters on our plotter: prices positively paltry, on the site Library News

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:11:28 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Print posters on our plotter: prices positively paltry, on the site Library News The new plotter (large-format printer) on the first floor of the GCW University Library is now available for all students and staff. (If you're at all interested, it's an Océ ColorWave 600!)

It prints up to <a h […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, British Education Index, AEI and ERIC – now on ProQuest platform, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:48:07 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, British Education Index, AEI and ERIC – now on ProQuest platform, on the site Paul Stainthorp The trio of education abstract/index databases, BEI (British Education Index), AEI (Australian Education Index) and ERIC, have moved from the Dialog Datastar search platform to a new home provided by <s […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, First RefWorks, now Write-N-Cite, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:52:17 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, First RefWorks, now Write-N-Cite, on the site Paul Stainthorp Following on from the final push to get everyone* using the new version of RefWorks, the people at RefWorks-COS are now working on upgrading the associated desktop/word processor application, […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, E-journals A-to-Z access problems - update, on the site Library News

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:32:08 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, E-journals A-to-Z access problems - update, on the site Library News ~~We are still working to address the problems with access to the e-journals A-to-Z.~~

~~Links to the service from the library catalogue, Blackboard, Portal, etc. have been switched to "no login", so you will be able […]~~

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, 2011 in pictures, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:19:08 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, 2011 in pictures, on the site Paul Stainthorp This isn't really a work/library-related blog post.

The past year, for me, has been framed—literally—by a friend's giving me—on long-term loan—his old digital SLR camera (a Nikon D70s). I've now had the camera f […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, SpringerLINK journals, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:54:20 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, SpringerLINK journals, on the site Paul Stainthorp This blog post is prompted by a couple of recent enquiries about the University of Lincoln's access to e-journals on the SpringerLINK platform (http://www.springerlink.com). Basically, we don't currently have […]

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Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Art Full Text is now an EBSCOhost database, on the site Paul Stainthorp

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:20:43 +0000

Paul Stainthorp wrote a new post, Art Full Text is now an EBSCOhost database, on the site Paul Stainthorp The Art Full Text database, which until now has been available on its own search platform from the H.W. Wilson company, is now available to search on the EBSCOhost platform, alongside other familiar databases such […]

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