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