Library Matters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The username and password for off campus access to OGEL has been updated by the company.

If you use OGEL off campus then please contact the library for the new details.

Please not that the library no longer uses Athens authentication to access any electronic books or journals.

Current instructions for accessing our resources can be found on the following pages:

Databases can be found here
Electronic books can be found here

 
This is part of our regular series of spotlights on journals available from the RGU library service.

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Its also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

Some recent items have been:

Engineering the third wave of biocatalysis
Written by U. T. Bornscheuer, et al. Published in 2012, volume 485, issue 7397.

Allergic host defences
Written by Noah W. Palm, Rachel K. Rosenstein & Ruslan Medzhitov. Published in 2012, volume 484, issue 7395.

The case for open computer programs
Written by Darrel C. Ince, Leslie Hatton & John Graham-Cumming. Published in 2012, volume 482, issue 7386.

RGU library service provides access to this journal online for the last four years and has it in print from 1939 to the present day.

To take a look at the online journal you can always get access to it from the library catalogue which includes log in information in the full record section.

Alternatively you can follow this link and see what Nature has to offer*.

*When you follow this link you will need to log in using your RGU username and password. If you get an error message after logging in, simply try again and you should be logged in the second time.

Colour Printing is currently unavailable in the Library.

The RGU IT Services department are investigating the problem and we will inform you of the outcome when we have an update from them.
In the meantime, there are colour printers in Room 221 and Room 204 in the Aberdeen Business School.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

On the 21st May 2012 an 11 week programme of construction work will start in the Garthdee library.

The work is to prepare the library space for its full refurbishment in 2013 after the library moves to the new building.

The contractors will be working through the night and, if necessary, at weekend to reduce the amount of daytime disruption for library users but additional study space outwith the library will be provided as required.

More information will be made available on the blog as the project progresses and details are finalised.

We are pleased to announce that the off campus access problems for the Springer database and journals have now been resolved and the resources can now be accessed as normal. We apologise for the incovenience this caused.