ICE Virtual Library
ICE? That’s the Institution of Civil Engineers. The college now has access to the following ICE publications. Direct access from any PC on the college network.
Should be of interest to engineers, construction people & historians.
BMJ Clinical Evidence
BMJ Clinical Evidence has been added to the our growing portfolio of electronic resources. This service has been provided by the good people at NHS Scotland and NHS Wales for all Athens accounts within Scotland and Wales.
If you don’t already know this publication:
Clinical Evidence is a database of the very best evidence for effective health care, put together by the BMJ – one of the world’s most trusted and authoritative medical sources.
Clinical Evidence summarises the current state of knowledge and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions, based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. It is neither a textbook of medicine nor a set of guidelines. It describes the best available evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs and observational studies where appropriate, and if there is no good evidence it says so.
Best accessed through MyAthens.
Oxford Journals @ RKC
The following Oxford Journals have been added to the library catalogue for ease of access. More to follow.
- Age & Ageing
- American Literary History
- Annals of Occupational Hygiene
- British Journal of Social Work
- The Cambridge Journal of Economics
- The Community Development Journal
- The Computer Journal
- The English Historical Review
- The ELT Journal
- European Sociological Review
- Health Education Research
- Health Promotion International
- History Workshop Journal
- Journal of Islamic Studies
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology
- Mind
- Music and Letters
- Notes and Queries
- Parliamentary Affairs
- Past and Present
- Twentieth Century British History
- The World Bank Economic Review
Full details of each journal & availability included.
JISC Resources for Further Education
JISC negotiates for and provides a vast range of online resources that can enrich education and research. But how can practitioners make the most of these resources? And how can they be used to support classroom learning and home study?
JISC has commissioned a series of five exemplars which demonstrate how FE practitioners can use content found in online resources to support their teaching.
There are five Exemplars covering the following subjects. (Please note that you will need to be using a computer in college in order to access them online):
CD-ROM versions should be in every department & there’s still a few left in the library.
Internet Detective
Internet Detective is a free online tutorial designed to help students develop their Internet research skills. The tutorial looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.
The tutorial is specifically designed to help university and college students to develop skills that will help them use the Internet more effectively to support their research for coursework and assignments.
It takes around an hour to complete the tutorial, though the advantage of an online tutorial is that students can go over the material as often as they wish, practice their skills and test their understanding. It can easily be embedded into taught courses, Web pages and VLEs and is freely available in two formats; a Web version and a downloadable version for use in Virtual learning Environments (VLEs).
MyIntute
MyIntute is a new service which exploits Web 2.0 technology – users can register for their own personal account where previously made searches and selected records can be saved and weekly email alerts are received which match specific interests. A Quick Guide to MyIntute is located here (Word .doc). Please note that this requires Javascript so there might be some accessibility issues.
Intute
The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) which consisted of a number of JISC-funded subject gateways has become Intute.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 113377 records, covering Science & Technology, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Health & Life Sciences. There’s also a dedicated FE section.
Full documentation of this excellent service is available here.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Athens Toolbar
The MyAthens IE toolbar is an Internet Explorer add-on designed to assist existing Athens users manage their accounts and navigate between Athens resources. The toolbar should have been installed on most, if not all, college PCs over the summer.
It should be visible below the address bar of Internet Explorer. If it is not, go to the menu View/Toolbars/Athens Toolbar to turn the toolbar on. Athens Options now allows you to log directly on to Athens. When you’ve done so you’ll get a list of options including a pull-down menu which takes you directly to your available resources.
New MyAthens service
Over the summer Eduserv launched the new MyAthens service. MyAthens has been redesigned and there are several new and innovative features.
These include:
- a MyAthens homepage with an account summary and list of ‘favourite’ resources;
- an improved Resources list:- allows the selection of ‘favourite’ resources to display on the homepage;
- a keyword search that dynamically displays a subset of your resources (this searches the resource title and URL);
- a ‘Recent’ tab showing the resources used in the previous two weeks;
- the Account Details page now shows the organisational contact details;
- a comments form allowing users to e-mail their Athens administrator if they need support.
Hopefully this service will make all our lives much more simple.
New Oxford Reference Titles
Titles added over the past few months to the Core & Premium collections include:
- The Oxford Companion to the Garden
- The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- The Oxford Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
- The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
- The Oxford Dictionary of Space Exploration
- The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
- The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names
- Science, Technology, and Society
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind
- The Oxford Companion to Medicine
These are freely available within the college but require an Athens log-in from outside.
JISC RSC News- RKC Library news blog
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