eResources Annual Review 2013 finishes

The University Library annual subscriptions review ended yesterday with a flurry of late entries.  In total we had 66 unique entries and these are distributed as follows:

• All schools (multidisciplinary)  5
• Arts&Sci  8
• Bus  8
• Education  2
• Health Sci 23
• Law  3 
• Med  9
• Nursing  0
• P&T  8
• Physio 1

The Library thanks all staff and students who took the time to participate.  We will now review the recommendations as part of our planning for 2014.  Any new subscriptions we are able to initiate are announced on this service once they are available to access.

Recommend a subscription to the Library

Throughout the month of April the University Library is seeking subscription recommendations from staff and students.*

Recommendations have begun to flow in via the 'web form' we created for the review and the suggestions made to date can now be seen on the right hand side of the 'web form' (click here ).  By clicking on the title which interests you it is possible to add comments in support of these existing suggestions.

If you can't see the subscription you want to access listed here then please take a little time to tell us what you want us to subscribe to and why we should subscribe.

The review will finish at the end of April 2013.  The results of the review will help us to improve support for the University's teaching and research activities.

*If you want to recommend a book, eBook or DVD you can do this at any time of the year here.  You might want to recommend a book that is held by the Library but at your campus. We would love to hear from you.

Annual eResources Review

Each year the University Library conducts a review of the entire suite of our subscription resources –databases, e-book collections, research portals and individual journal subscriptions (both print and electronic) – to determine what resources we should be adding to the collections in order to better support our teaching and research activities. As a result of last year’s review a significant number of new resources were added to the collections.

During the month of April the Library is inviting all staff and students to contribute to be involved in the review by suggesting resources they want to access from their local library or from the shared eResource collections. 

How do I make a recommendation ?

You can make recommendations online using a ‘webform’ located here.  From this page you can also see a list of the resources which have been recommended by others and comment on them. 

What happens to the recommendations ?

All suggestions received by the end of the review will be considered by the Library's E-Resource Management Working Group who will make a recommendation to the Library Management Committee about which resources we will be seeking to add in 2014. Final decisions depend on the availability of funds to support the subscriptions we wish to make available.

How do I find out what resources the Library already provides access to ?

You can see all of the existing eResources here and you can see whether we hold a journal by searching for this journal by title in the Library catalogue.