24/7 Opening Extended Until May 27th

23rd May 2012 - Due to very high demand 24/7 opening will have a short extension that means as opposed to closing at midnight on Friday 25th May we will now close at midnight on Sunday 27th May.

In response to user requests for longer opening times during the exam period The University Library, IS Open Access Suite and Postgraduate Suite are open 24hrs from 8am 30th April to midnight 27th May 2012.

However, the no card no entry rule will not be extended so Visitors and Reference card holders will  be admitted from midnight Friday 25th May.

 Opening hours Summer 2012  02/06/12 – 16/09/12

May 18th 2012 - Advance notice that the opening hours this summer will be as follows:

 LIBRARY BUILDING

Monday – Friday         0900 – 2000

Saturday                      1000 – 1600

Sunday                         CLOSED

 ISSUE DESK & INFORMATION DESK

Monday – Friday         0900 – 1700

Saturday                      1100 – 1500

Sunday                         CLOSED

 OPEN ACCESS

Monday – Friday         0900 – 1730

Saturday                      1000 – 1600

Sunday                         CLOSED

The Library will be closed every Sunday and on the public holidays:

Diamond Jubilee Holiday Monday 4 June

Diamond Jubilee Holiday Tuesday 5 June

Bank Holiday Monday 27 August

Extended opening hours will resume on

Monday 17 September

 In response to demand from our postgraduate users, we will be opening longer during the summer vacation weekdays. The postgraduate study area will close at 19:45 Mondays – Fridays

 Reservations will be held for collection for the usual 7 days: you will be sent notification to your UoP email account.

 Short loan items will continue to be issued for 24 hours during the vacation; there is a limit of 6 unseen renewals on short loans.

 Enquiries: 023 9284 3228

Renewals: 023 9284 3249

Open Access: If you need to speak to someone about IT issues before we re-open, please ring our out-of-hours service on 023 9284 7777.

Library: If you need to speak to someone before we re-open, please ring our out-of-hours service on 023 9284 7777.

Coffee Shop Easter Opening

2nd Apr. 2012 - during the Easter vacation (April 2nd - April 23rd) the Library Coffee Shop opening hours will be 08:30 - 14:30

Thomson Reuters Maintenance

April 26^th 2012 - Please be advised that Thomson Reuters will be performing maintenance to
Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and ResearcherID this Sunday, April 29,
2012 beginning at 12.00 BST (11.00 GMT). This maintenance is expected to
last approximately 12 hours.

During this time, there may be disruption of service and product access,
including Web of Knowledge Personalisation. Apologies for any
inconvenience this may cause.

ProQuest Downtime

15^th Mar. 2012 - information from ProQuest:

• Products on the new ProQuest platform will be unavailable. Access to products from any of our legacy platforms will not be impacted. Click here if you are unsure of what platform you are accessing.

Thank you for continuing to support ProQuest and the products we provide."

2012 Global Student E-book Survey

13^th Mar. 2012 - ebrary Wants Your View on E-books! 

To help us better understand your e‐book needs, we would like to request that you participate in a brief ebrary survey.   The survey should take less than 20 minutes to complete, and almost all the questions are optional.

The survey runs until April 2nd, and can be accessed at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GWP55FB

3rd Space Closure

 9^th Mar. 2012 - 3rd Space will be closed from 12 noon on 14 March and for the whole of 15 and 16 March for the UCAS Fair.  Alternative meeting and study areas, such as the Library group study rooms and group study zone, are still available on these days.  

Trial access to the BioOne Database

9^th Mar. 2012 - Trial access to the BioOne Database is available until May 31st. 

http://www.bioone.org

BioOne is home to 126 not-for-profit society and institutional publishers from around the world. A truly international community, 31 BioOne participating publications are based outside of the United States, including China, South Africa, Japan, Switzerland, Finland, Poland, and Brazil. 36% of BioOne publishers include their publications’ current content exclusively on BioOne. 94% offer individual article sales on BioOne for users at non-subscribing institutions or for those in the private sector, and 31% offer their individual society members free access to their publications on BioOne.    

Access is authenticated by IP address, so is available only for users on-campus and off-campus users using the University Web Proxy

Trial Access to 19^th Century US Newspapers

14th Feb. 2012 - Portsmouth students have a one month free trial access to Gale's 19th Century US Newspapers database.

Access requires a username and password, and these will be found on our Passwords Page

This trial expires on March 13th 2012.

Trial Access to NewsBank's InfoWeb

14^th Feb. 2012 - We have a one month trial of the NewsBank Infoweb databases 'Access Latin America' and 'FBIS-Latin America'.

E-petition about VAT on Electronic Publications

7^th Feb 2012 - Unlike printed media, electronic books, journals, newspapers and magazines are subject to VAT at the full standard rate of 20%.

It has been brought to our attention that there is an e-petition requesting that the government introduce zero-rated VAT on electronic publications. We think some of our staff and students may be interested in supporting this.

For more details, or to sign the petition, go to http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28226

Problems Accessing Science Direct from Off-Campus

Feb 1st 2012- the problems experienced accessing Science Direct from off-campus have been resolved. 

New Computer Room in Library

Feb 1^st 2012 - In response to student feedback in the NSS and through the Library suggestions box we have installed a new computer room, with 13 PCs, in the Library. This room can be found behind the Issue Desk in the former Photocopier room. The photocopiers have been moved around the building with one on each floor of the Library so that they are closer to the books and journals you want to copy. We will also be updating and increasing the number of PCs in the remainder of the Library in the near future.

Cengage Survey

18^th Jan. 2012- At Cengage, we strive to improve the quality of our online products by making them as useful and easy to use as possible. We provide help guides and online demos to show users how our products work and the best way to use them so that you can get the most out of them. 

 In order to assist us in continuing to develop our support material, we have created a short survey to measure user preferences for online support, accessible through the link below.

Survey Link: https://cengage.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1FB9p1r3MIotnVy

Everyone who completes the survey and enters their details will be entered into a prize draw to win £200 (or equivalent currency) of Cengage Learning textbooks or £100 (or equivalent currency) of Amazon vouchers. The survey can be translated into several languages, and should take no longer than 5 minutes. Contact details will only be used to notify the winner of the prize draw and never for any marketing purposes.