The last post!

The Rewley House Continuing Education Library has a new blog, keep up to date with library news at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/conted

We also have a new website http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/conted

Thank you for following this blog, we hope you will like the new one

Library closed week

The Rewley House Continuing Education Library will be closed the week beginning 25th August. We reopen on Monday 1st September at 9.00.

The reading room will be available as usual, from 08.00 - 22.00. Books can be returned to the secure book box in the reading room.

Email will be monitored.

New website!

Over the summer the library staff are working hard to completely redesign the library website. The new website will be launched in September.

For the rest of the summer, we shall not be updating the current site apart from adding news messages like this. We are also aware there are some display issues such as non display of images following some changes made by OUDCE to the main Department website.

Watch this space for more information on the new site!

Summer vacation

Summer vacation hours start on Monday 23rd June, all dates inclusive:

Monday 23rd June - Friday 11th July
Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00

Saturday 12th July - Friday 8th August  (OUSSA)
Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 17.30
Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Saturday & Sunday 14.00 - 17.00

Saturday 9th August - Friday 22nd August
Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00

Saturday 23rd August - Sunday 31st August
CLOSED

Monday 1st September - Friday 26th September
Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00

Term time opening resumes on Saturday 27th September

Disruption to Library access week beginning 9th June

The corridor outside the Library is being re-painted during the week beginning 9^th June

Access to the Library and Reading Room will be available for the same hours as normal, but there is likely to be more noise in the area of the Library than usual.

For part of the week, all access to the Library will be through the Reading Room door. This will mean:

• Disruption in the Reading Room as there will be more through traffic
• Access to the library desk will involve the use of stairs. If you are planning to visit the Library during this week and this will be a problem for you, please contact the Library so that we can discuss how best we can help you.

Please follow directional signs when visiting the Library

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this work which is part of the OUDCE refurbishment programme.

Research Data Management training opportunities

IT Services are running a programme of short courses on aspects of research data management linked to both Humanities and Social Science. For more information see http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/acit-rs-team/events/rdmcourses/

 

Access to Oxford University Press Publications

Bodleian Libraries have signed a new agreement with OUP to increase access to online material published by OUP and partner presses. An additional 20,000 e-books are now available, also extra databases. One significant gain for Continuing Education students is the addition of Archaelogy titles in the Oxford Handbooks series.

For more information see the Bodleian Libraries website

New additions to the Library

A list of items added to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library, both purchased and donated, during January 2014 is now available on the Library website .

Bodleian Libraries workshops - Coming up

WISER: Protecting your work - what you need to know about copyright (Tue 17 Jun 11.00 - 12.30)

Intellectual property and copyright are key concerns for today's researchers. This event will raise your awareness of issues to look out for, both in using other people's work and in publishing your own work.

Who is this session for?  Postgraduate students, researchers, academics and staff

Presenters: Tim Padfield
Venue: Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building  Book your place

 

Open Access: Monographs and Open Access - join the HEFCE debate (Wed 18 Jun 2.00 - 5.30)
An opportunity for Oxford academics and researchers to debate the issues around scholarly monographs and open access with publishers and funders, and feed into HEFCE's Expert Reference Group project.

Programme of speakers:

•  Introduction: Catriona Cannon (Interim Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries)
• Cecy Marden (Wellcome Trust, HEFCE Expert Reference Group)
•  Frances Pinter (Knowledge Unlatched, HEFCE Expert Reference Group)
• Rhodri Jackson (OUP and OAPEN-UK JISC-funded project on open access monographs)
• Geoffrey Crossick (HEFCE Expert Reference Group, Chair)
• QandA. Panel joined by Sally Rumsey (Oxford Research Archive)

Who is this session for? Academics and researchers, especially Humanities and Social Sciences.
Venue: Lecture Room, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter  Book your place
Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow join our mailing list by sending an empty email to wiser-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oxwiser or visit the BodWiser blog at http://bodwiser.wordpress.com

Questions? - Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk  

Bodleian Open Access Programme

Coming up

Why is Oxford driving Open Access in Drug Discovery? (Tues 28 Jan 15.00 - 16.00) –

The pharmaceutical industry is downsizing in Europe, including the UK, because of poor returns on investment. With ageing societies and diseases of modern living, many more patients are in desperate need of many more new medicines. To this end, several scientists in Oxford are working together to create a new ecosystem for drug discovery: one which pools the considerable strengths in industry, with the resources and expertise of academia, patient organisations and  regulatory agencies, in an “open” way.   Prof Chas Bountra of the Nuffield Department of Medicine discusses this “pre-competitive effort”  which is unrivalled by any other academic institute.

Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, South Parks Road.

Please book your place online.

If you have any queries please contact angela.carritt@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Change to SOLO sign in

Signing into SOLO has changed slightly:

1. Click 'Sign in' at the top right of the screen. 
2. If you have a full University card and an Oxford Single Sign On, click on the 'Oxford Single Sign On' link
3. If you have any other type of card, including a Rewley House Continuing Education Library card, click on the 'Other Bodleian card holders' link.

New additions to the Library

A list of items added to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library, both purchased and donated, during October 2013 is now available on the Library website .The list also includes e-books purchased by the Library

Rycote rediscovered

An exciting project involving Bodleian Libraries has pieced togther the story of Rycote, an important Oxfordshire Tudor mansion. A website has been launched Rediscovering Rycote

For the full story see the Bodleian Libraries website

For research students

Are you a D.Phil student? These workshops are for you!

Research Skills Toolkit: IT & library skills and services for your research
A free hands-on workshop for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources. Topics covered in this subject-focu 2 hour session include:

• ·         Reference management software
• ·         Literature searching and advanced search techniques
• ·         Keeping up to date with emerging research
• ·         Managing your thesis with Word
• ·         Analysing data with Excel pivot tables
• ·         Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn
• ·         Free software for image manipulation
• ·         Measuring research impact
• ·         Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 8 of Michaelmas and week 1 of Hilary Term.

Read more and book your place - http://tinyurl.com/c6qyxgx.

Happy New (academic) Year!

Welcome to a new term and a new year.

Term time opening hours have now started:
Monday - Thursday 9.00am - 8.30pm
Friday - 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday - 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday - 1.30pm - 4.30pm

You can find more information about the Library on our website http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/library You can find guides to getting started in various subjects on our LibGuides page http://ox.libguides.com/conted

SOLO upgrade

SOLO, the library catalogue, has been upgraded and some new features added:

Browse search

• Browse A-Z lists of authors. titles and subjects
• NB, does not include OxLIP+ databases or ORA theses or articles

Date range search

• Limit your search by specifying a publication date range

Improved export options

• Export directly from individual records to a variety of online and desktop reference managers such as Endnote or RefWorks

Refine your search using multiple options

• Refine your results using more than one option (topic, creator, language, library etc), or by excluding options
• NB, we strongly advise against excluding libraries. If an item is held in a number of libraries and you exclude one of them, you will not see the item at all, even if it is in a library you have included.

For more information, see the SOLO guide: http://libguides.ox.ac.uk/solo  

New additions to the Library

A list of items added to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library, both purchased and donated, during May and June 2013 is now available on the Library website

New guide for Historians

Are you an Historian? Are you unsure where to find History in the Bodleian Library? This guide is for you!

History Collections in the old Bodleian and Radcliffe Camera,  
http://ox.libguides.com/history-collections-in-bodleian

E-book collection trials

Over 100,000 extra e-books will be available during Trinity Term

EBSCO's Academic Collection is on trial now until 18th May. It covers a variety of publishers and subjects. The books can be accessed via SOLo for the duration of the trial, or browsed at http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profile=ehost&defaultdb=e000tww&custid=s8580219

From 18th May until 28th June there will be a trial of Ebrary's Academic Complete

For full information, please see the Bodleian Libraries website

new additions to the Library

A list of items added to the Rewley House Continuing Education Library, both purchased and donated, during April 2013 is now available on the Library website

The list is in a new format this month, which we hope you will find more user-friendly than the previous version