Life and Health Sciences Research Support: Staff Resources

Detailed guidance and advice is provided by the Subject Librarians. New members of staff should meet with their Campus Subject Librarian as early as possible to discuss our full range of services and how we can fulfil your teaching or research requirements.

We can also:

• Offer expert advice and guidance about our resources
• Teach information skills to all levels of users
• Source quality information for individual research interests and projects
• Manage the development of book collections, journal subscriptions and electronic resources
• Provide advice on citing references and the use of RefWorks bibliographical management software
• Provide citation tracking and analysis support (bibliometrics)
• Support course evaluation and revalidation

 Getting students to go beyond Google ...

	Help them to make the most of their Library with classes: Library Inductions for new students Subject-specific searching in databases Critical Appraisal Systematic Review searching Referencing and plagiarism classes RefWorks classes

Contact the Subject Librarians to arrange classes

The Library offers a centralised Scanning Service for copyright material which is made accessible through the module reading lists.

For any given module, under the terms of the Copyright Licencing Agency's Higher Education Licence, we are limited to scanning one chapter (or 10%) from a book or one article (or 10%) from a journal issue.

Please note that not all publications are covered by the Licence. To check if a title is covered, click here.(select Higher Education as licence type.)

For Fully Online courses only, the Library may use the Second Extract Service to purchase access to a further 10% of a publication.

Please give the Library advance notice if you require a scan.

For material not covered by the CLA Permissions Search, please contact your Subject Librarian.

The Library maintains a database of module reading lists which provides active links to catalogue entries for books and journals as well as full-text sources such as articles, book chapters, scanned items and to useful websites. Academic staff who wish to submit a reading list should send it electronically to their Subject Librarian.

The campus subject librarians have produced a range of guides to help students find subject-specific information.

View the list of Life and Health Sciences Library Subject Guides here

View the full list of all faculty Library Subject Guides here