e-resources

“You said, we did” – eBook Week Feedback

Posted on 21 May 2014 by Rob

In March this year, the University Library Service held an eBook Week event to raise awareness of, and invite feedback about, eBooks. During eBook Week, we heard views from more […]

Additional journal titles now available!

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Lynn Goodhew

The Library has recently invested in a range of new journal packages to help support the work of the University’s students, staff and researchers. Alongside the University of Chicago Press […]

eBook Week

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Matt Harvey

Cardiff University Libraries are celebrating eBook Week, from World Book Day on Thursday 6th March, until Wednesday 12th March. eBook Week coincides with the launch of our new eBooks on […]

EBooks on Demand

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Matt Harvey

What is it? EBooks on Demand is a Cardiff University trial of Patron Driven Acquisition or PDA which will run from Thursday 6th March for a limited period.  This is […]

Trial access to the Research Methods database from Sage until March 16

Posted on 11 February 2014 by Lynn Goodhew

The University is currently undertaking a trial of the database Research Methods from Sage until March 16, 2014. Research Methods: includes over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference […]

Seven Elsevier Journals Moved From Subscription Access to Open Access

Posted on 17 January 2014 by Lynn Goodhew

From January 1st 2014 the STM publisher Elsevier has moved seven of its established journal titles to the gold Open Access (OA) publishing model. The titles are: Physics Letters B Nuclear […]

Wiley Online Library unavailable on Saturday afternoon (28th Sept)

Posted on 27 September 2013 by Rob

The Wiley Online Library and The Cochrane Library are making updates this weekend which will result in the service being unavailable from 14:00-19:00 on Saturday, 28th September 2013. There will […]

ScienceDirect / Scopus – Scheduled maintenance this weekend

Posted on 19 July 2013 by Rob

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from Sat/Sun, 20th July at 00:00 midnight until Sun, 21st July at 00:30 am (BST). It is also possible that […]

Free access to additional resources on the Web of Knowledge Service until August 31

Posted on 25 June 2013 by Lindsay Roberts

Thomson Reuters is currently offering the University free access to all the resources on the Web of Knowledge Service until August 31, 2013. In addition to our normal subscriptions we […]

SCOLAR materials available by prior appointment this summer

Posted on 13 June 2013 by Matt Harvey

Special Collections & Archives (SCOLAR), will be available by prior appointment only, while undergoing refurbishment during Summer 2013.  Contact keelanP@Cardiff.ac.uk. From Monday 10th June, SCOLAR materials will be available by […]