Spotlight on accessing resources
*New* Postal Loan Service
Good News! The Library is offering a postal loan and returns service for TU Students and Staff. Library books that are available for loan will be posted out to a chosen UK address using the postal loan request form.
The service is free, there is a limit of 3 requests per day, up to the usual loan limits. Free postal returns too!
Full details of the service are available on the Library website at https://libguides.tees.ac.uk/borrowreturnrenew/postalloans.
Digitisation
The Digitisation Service can help you by providing high quality, copyright compliant, scanned documents such as journal articles and book chapters for use in your teaching.
The links provided can be used in Blackboard, and any other teaching materials. Whilst many courses remain being taught online, and while there is limited access to the Library, you can ensure your students still have access to critical extracts.
For more information on what can be digitised and how to request an item to be digitised please see our guide.
Inter Library Loan Service
The Inter Library Loan Service continues to support your research by sourcing materials not held by Teesside University Library through our network of libraries, both in the UK and overseas. We can supply electronic copies of journal articles and book chapters directly to your mailbox.
For more information please see our guide.
Chapters To You Service
The Chapters To You Service allows you to request scans of book chapters or journal articles from print materials that are not available while access to the Library shelves is restricted due to Covid-19.
Once the request is placed, Library staff scan the required journal article or book chapter and email a pdf of the document to you for personal use. If you need an item to be to be made available for teaching please use the Digitisation Service.
For more information please see our guide.
What is Open Access? Why does it matter?
Open Access (OA) is making research freely available so that anyone can benefit from reading and using research. The concept of OA has been around for 20 years but the push towards fully OA publications has recently accelerated. This is due to PlanS launched in September 2018 by a coalition of European funders (cOAlition S). From 2021 all scholarly publications resulting from research funded by signatories (including the European Research Council, UKRI, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), must be Open Access immediately on publication.
What this means for us is that we are now signing up to publishing deals which allows for immediate OA in many journals. These deals are called ‘Transitional Agreements’. They are ‘transitional’ because they are transitioning from the traditional type of subscription ‘read only’ package to a ‘read and publish’ package. Our subscription to a publisher’s journal package not only allows us to read all of the journals in that package, but it also allows us to publish research or review articles in many journals included in the package free of charge.
Please check out our Open Access page on the Research Support LibGuide. This has all the information about the OA publishing deals we have in place at the moment.
PressReader
You have access to many online resources via Student and Library Services. This month we focus on PressReader.
What is it?
A digital newsagent containing over 7000 newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 different languages that are freely available for you to read. UK Broadsheet and Tabloid newspapers including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Daily Mail plus many more. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print as soon as they are published.
Benefits to you:
- Keep up-to-date with the news.
- Add titles or specific articles to your Reading Lists Online.
- Set up a personal account which allows you to save favourite publications and set up email alerts when a new issue of your favourite publication has been released.
- Read for pleasure which can help reduce stress.
- Help the environment by becoming paperless.
For more information see our guide.
Succeed@Tees workshops this month
Please promote these workshops to your students. More information and links to the online sessions can be found on the Succeed@Tees webpage.
Next month: Celebrating 10 years of Succeed@Tees workshops and much more.
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