Photo Book Collection on display in Bute Library

We are currently displaying our collection of photo books sourced from our special collections, our main collection and external stores. They can be found on the display shelves by the pharmacy journals, just past the lounge area in Bute Library.

A special place just for books on photography, by photographers, about photographs - for all to browse!

Photograph © Daniel Meadows, JOMEC

Register and Read - expanding access to JSTOR

Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. Users with partial or no current access to JSTOR may create a MyJSTOR account and add up to three items to a reading shelf for free.

How will it work?

• Find an article that’s part of Register & Read, click on a “Get Access” option. 
   


• Register for a free MyJSTOR account, or log into your account if you already have one.


• Add the content to your shelf to read the full-text online. After 14 days, you may remove it and add new items to your shelf.


• PDF versions of some articles will also be available for purchase and download. If you purchase articles from your shelf, the PDF versions may be stored and accessed in your MyJSTOR account at any time.

At launch, Register & Read will include approximately 70 journals from more than 30 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. This includes content from the first volume and issue published for these journals through a recent year (generally 3-5 years ago). It is planned to add more titles at a later date. See a list of the titles and publishers. Register & Read is a beta program, and it is expected that aspects of the program will be adjusted as needed. This may include both functionality and the available content.

Discover the new Library Portal

Have you discovered the new Library Portal?

You can now select the Library tab within the Cardiff Portal to gain access to all of your important links and electronic resources on one page. 

The Library Portal brings together a widget for searching the Voyager library catalogue, our Ask a Librarian live chat service, the library blog and Twitter feed, and the Find a PC service. You can also quickly check your myPrint account balance from here, and access the link to top-up online.

Westlaw's new Jurisdictional View

Westlaw UK has reorgansied it Legislation database by the addition of a 'Jurisdictional View' feature which means that the Browse section of the Legislation database is now arranged by jurisdiction - UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (fully consolidated Northern Irish legislation has been added to Westlaw UK) and then broken down into the type of legislation available in those jurisdictions.

Furthermore, when looking at a piece of legislation, where a provision varies between jurisdictions in the UK, an information message is displayed at the top of the provision/document indicating the presence of different versions for different jurisdictions. The parrallel provisions are seperated on the page by tabs labelling each accordingly.

Where there is a difference in a provision between jurisdictions status icons will indicate a difference in law between jurisdictions. If a law is in force in one jurisdiction and repealed in another, you will see the 'partially in force' icon.

For an example of a piece of legislation which is different in England and Wales and therefore displays the new functionality, see the Town and Country Planning (Applications) Regulations 1988, SI 1988/1812 reg 3. 

Group Study Rooms in the Bute and Architecture Library

Calling all Bute and Architecture Library users!

BioOne Mobile

BioOne is pleased to announce the official launch of BioOne Mobile, an optimized website now available to smartphone users at www.bioone.org. With this new mobile interface, all content from BioOne’s 167 journals and book series is available for easy access to faculty, students, and researchers via their iPhones, Androids, and Blackberry smartphones.

Because BioOne’s optimization is site-wide, there is no app to download or keep updated. Instead, users will be automatically directed to BioOne’s mobile site whenever they access the site from a compatible mobile device. Users accessing the site from an iPad or tablet are shown the full site for optimal viewing, but can select the mobile site if they prefer.

Just as on the full BioOne site, users are able to access abstracts and the full text of open access articles without a subscription. Users can also access their account profiles; execute complex searches, sorting by most-recent, most-downloaded, or most-cited articles; and save PDFs for future access.

Users associated with an institutional subscription can easily pair their device with their university’s access privileges, giving them access all subscribed content, whether they are in the library or on-the-go.

BioOne has created a number of resources to assist libraries and researchers using BioOne Mobile. Please visit http://www.bioone.org/page/resources/mobile for more information.

Extended opening hours from 14 November

Not enough hours to study in the day? From Monday 14 November, there will be extended opening hours in some of our libraries. Here's where and when it is happening...

• Trevithick Library - open until midnight Monday to Friday and to 9.30pm on Sundays


• ASSL/Law Library - open for study-only access from 9.30pm-midnight Monday to Thursday and 5.00pm - 9.30pm on Sundays


• Aberconway Library - open until 9.30pm on Sundays


• Bute Library - open from 10am - 7.30pm on Sundays

So come along and burn the midnight oil in Trevithick, ASSL and Law. Or enjoy some Sunday studying in Bute-iful surroundings or Aberconway!

De Gruyter Online launch Beta version

The publisher Walter de Gruyter will be launching a new site in December to supercede the current platform Reference Global.  The Beta version is currently available - http://beta.degruyter.com/ - and you are encouraged to try it out and give some feeback before the launch.

If you have a current user account with Reference Global this will not be transferred to De Gruyter Online, so you will have to re-register with them in December to activate your user account and subscribe to alerts.

All users who participate in the online survey to provide feedback will be entered into a draw to win an iPad2.

Bx Recommender service now available on ScienceDirect and Scopus

Following an agreement between Ex Libris (suppliers of Voyager, Metalib, SFX etc) and Elsevier (providers of ScienceDirect, Scopus and SciVerse) users of ScienceDirect and Scopus will now see the bx Recommender service along with the articles they find themselves.  Bx gives suggestions for further reading, generated by researchers' usage data, in a similar way to that which is commonly found on sites such as Amazon. 

Bx is already available on the elibrary, and is proving very useful in presenting users with highly relevant material  beyond what they find through their own searches.  The article recommendations are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of usage logs contributed by worldwide users of the SFX ejournals link resolver system.

Adding bx to ScienceDirect and Scopus will bring added value to these systems too.  Bx allows users to find scholarly articles by tapping into the collective wisdom of researchers across the globe.

New equipment for Bute and Architecture libraries

We now have a new black & white A3 printer in the Architecture library. A more cost efficient way to get your A3 prints (8p per page, or 15p for double-sided).

We also now have an A3 scanner in our Glamorgan open access IT room 0.02. All scanning facilities are free to use!

Westlaw UK Appeal Status Tracker

Westlaw UK has added an Appeal Status Tracker which enables users to track cases on appeal to the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) or the Supreme Court.

With the Appeal Status Tracker comes a new "Appeal Outstanding" status icon which will appear next to search results and at the top of Cases Analysis Documents so that you can instantly tell if a case has an appeal in progress. The icon will sit alongside any exisitng status icon, but will be removed once there is an outcome to the appeal.

Within the Case Analysis Document there will be a new "Appellate History & Status" section, within which you can find the direct, reported progress of the decision through to appeal, with cases displayed in chronological order.

Once the appeal judgment has been received it will be published on Westlaw UK with the citations replacing the appeal status entry. You will also see the information appear in the "Graphical History" chart of a Case Analysis Document.

For an example of a case which has Appeal Status Tracker information, see X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau [2011] EWCA Civ 28   

myPrint is here!

myPrint, the new charged network printing and photocopying system, is now up and running in the Libraries.

myPrint offers more flexibility and options for completing print jobs, and enables you to monitor your environmental impact too. You can log in to your myPrint account online to check your balance, add credit, change your myPrint PIN and see your transaction history. Log in to myPrint at https://myprint.cf.ac.uk:9192/user 

If you prefer to add credit using cash, there are new Pay Stations in the following locations:

• Arts and Social Studies Library


• Bute Library


• Science Library


• Julian Hodge Study Centre


• Trevithick Building, Reception


• Duthie Library

There are plans for future developments with myPrint, including wireless printing - watch this space for further details!

Legal Practice Library (LPL) opening hours 8/8/11 - 26/8/11

Please note that between Monday 8th August and Friday 26th August the Legal Practice Library (LPL) will be open between 9am - 1pm Monday to Friday.

New database available - 'Art & Architecture Complete'

We have a new subscription to a new architecture database called Art & Architecture Complete.

Music Library TRUE STORIES No.3

According to my hayfever, summer is well and truly upon us. In the Library, summers are periods of transition and frenzied projects, desperately juggling the end-of-year tasks with preparations for the year ahead. To help grapple with our overbooked diaries, we here at the Music Library love to play host to library student interns. It’s a great arrangement where we get a free extra pair of skilled hands while the students gain practical and diverse experience.

One of the many projects our student interns will be working on this summer is the continuation of our efforts to catalogue all 2,200 LPs in our collection. They’re currently logged on an old-fashioned card catalogue, which is great if you specifically want to listen to LPs, but not-so-great if you’re just looking on Voyager for a much-needed recording. The project to get the LP information uploaded onto Voyager began in January with another library student intern, Martin Bauschmann.

I remember the first day I took Martin over to the Music Building to view our LP collection and card catalogue. Just as I was getting ready to go down the hallway, I was stopped by one of the Music Porters:

“Oh, are you going to be going through those boxes in the Photocopy Room?”

“What boxes?” I asked, bewildered and with just the faint hint of burgeoning panic.

“You know, all those boxes of magazines on the 2^nd floor.” At my blank look of fear, the porter continued, “Here, let me take you both there.”

Numbly, I nodded and motioned for Martin to follow along in our trek upstairs. I was in a state of shock. Hadn’t I—finally—seen the last of the boxes (see True Stories No. 2)? How was it possible that the seemingly never-ending task of relocating the library was truly becoming an endless endeavour? Focusing on deep-breathing and reminding myself that at this point, a couple more boxes wasn’t exactly the end of the world, I joined the porter and Martin in cautiously opening the door…

…and that was where I finally met my breaking point. Boxes upon boxes upon boxes, all clearly labelled as property of the Music Library. I took one look at the towering mess in front of me and promptly sat right down on the ground in despair and protest. The porter, realising that I was something of a lost cause at that particular moment in time turned to Martin and said, “Well, I’ll just leave you to it, then,” and high-tailed it out of there. Martin chuckled nervously.

In the end—after several more trips made by me, Martin, and others to sort through the scores, books, and (ironically) old 78rpm records in ‘The Box Room of DOOM’—it was finally determined that the boxes were not, in fact, the Library’s, but that we had simply donated empty boxes which had previously housed the BBC Collection (See True Stories No. 2).

So, the moral to the story is, if you give someone your empty boxes, make sure you CROSS OUT YOUR NAME, first. Oh, and if you happen to be inspired to sit on the ground in protest and despair, it’s always a good idea to first check that a) the floor has been recently swept, and b) you’re not wearing your good black trousers.

As for our LP collection, well Martin did an incredible job, not only cataloguing the first 70 or so LPs, but also putting together a detailed step-by-step guide to which our interns will no doubt gratefully refer many times this July. To follow our progress on the LP cataloguing project, just go to http://library.cf.ac.uk and do a Classmark Browse for “LP”, then browse through the results pages. With luck, we’ll be on our third page of results by the end of the summer.