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Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar (CRECS) – Fight Club!

Posted on 5 February 2015 by Matt Harvey

The first rule of Eighteenth Century Romantic Writer Fight Club is, you don't talk about Eighteenth Century Romantic Writer Fight Club... This week saw six English Literature lecturers gather in […]

#ShareMyThesis competition launched by the British Library

Posted on 26 January 2015 by Lynn Goodhew

The British Library has launched a new competition called #ShareMyThesis. The competition challenges both current and past PhD students to create a tweet summarising in 140 characters or less why […]

Cambridge Books Online – What it is and how to set it up at home

Posted on 21 January 2015 by Stephen Ratcliffe

Cambridge Books Online is a great new service from Cardiff University libraries which offers you access to just over 27,000 ebooks with many new features: Access ebooks as many times as […]

Requesting an item from the Store just got easier!

Posted on 15 January 2015 by Haley Cheek

  Tired of filling in forms in your Library to request an item from the Library Store?  Those days are long gone! Now you can use the 'Store request' link […]

We’re changing the way you book group study rooms

Posted on 14 January 2015 by Jacqueline Roach

We're changing the way group study rooms are booked.  All bookings will soon be moved to an online system. Watch this space!  

Cambridge Books Online – access off-campus fixed

Posted on 13 January 2015 by Stephen Ratcliffe

The library has now fixed a problem with accessing our new Cambridge ebooks collection off-campus. The problem was limited to linking to the collection from individual eBook titles on LibrarySearch. […]

New RLUK agreement extends library access for staff and researchers

Posted on 6 January 2015 by Lynn Goodhew

Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has made it even easier for Cardiff University staff and researchers to use other libraries in the UK and Ireland. RLUK has developed a new Access […]

Success at the Celebrating Excellence Awards 2014

Posted on 11 December 2014 by Lynn Goodhew

Congratulations to the ORCA and Open Access team from the University Library Service and IT who won an award at this year’s Celebrating Excellence Awards. The Celebrating Excellence Awards are […]

Doctoral student Open Days at the British Library

Posted on 4 December 2014 by Lynn Goodhew

The British Library will be holding a series of Open Days for doctoral students in January and February 2015. The Open Days aim to introduce new PhD students to the […]

Good news for researchers from RLUK!

Posted on 2 December 2014 by Haley Cheek

RLUK makes it even easier for Cardiff University researchers to use other libraries: and vice-versa! Cardiff University, as a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), is one of 34 UK […]