ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 03:30AM to 12:00PM GMT on Sunday 14, March (10:30PM EST on Saturday 13, March to 08:00AM EDT Sunday 14, March).
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thousands more books have been released from storage and a new, well appointed, quiet study facility opened in the St Andrew Street building at the weekend.
This major reconfiguration has been completed in response to both staff and student feedback about the St Andrew Street Library. The main issues centred firstly around access to printed book stock since the majority of it was kept in storage, from where it had to be retrieved by library staff. Second, the study facility, although modernised, was smaller than had been available before and the environment was not so conducive to silent study.
As a result of the changes a further 9,000 books are available in the Library for browsing and borrowing and there is now a much larger study area which includes an extra 26% of quiet study spaces. You can have a look at http://tinyurl.com/ydx3z3v
We would really like to hear what you think of the new facility – you can e-mail your comments to library@rgu.ac.uk
The prize for the most popular ebook in the Robert Gordon University Library Service ebooks collection for 2009 goes to the 8th edition of E.J. McLaney’s book “Business finance: theory and practice” published in 2009 by Financial Times Prentice Hall.
After a major server rehaul, we are pleased to announce that the Art and Heritage Collections Online system now available once more, at http://collections.rgu.ac.uk/ This new server will offer superior performance with increased storage for more image content. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Under the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library initiative, journal content from Berg, Edinburgh University Press and Oxford University Press is now available to all staff and students in Scottish Universities. These are three year deals and the content has been acquired with no additional expense to individual university libraries.
This deal provides access to around 280 additional e journal resources covering social sciences, humanities, science, design and culture.
You can access the collections from the A-Z journals list, library catalogue or from the library’s database web page.
Please contact the library (library@rgu.ac.uk) if you need more information
The library has purchased a new inter-library loan system, Clio Advanced, which will allow us to go paperless.
There will be no need to fill in forms or get the gold authorisation vouchers.
All staff and students can register online for the service. Requests will be made online and copyright as well as authorisation will be dealt with electronically.
The new system goes live on 15th February. For more information please contact ill@rgu.ac.uk
