Science Fiction exhibition awarded Special Commendation by BSFA

The British Library’s Out of This World exhibition, curated by SC&A's Andy Sawyer, has received a Special Commendation in the British Science Fiction Association's 2011 Awards.

The new category was created in recognition of the support the exhibition has received and its success in encouraging people to explore and enjoy science fiction.

New donation to Cunard collections

SC&A’s latest donation is a 400-piece wooden jigsaw of the Cunard ship the Lancastria made in 1936.

The new item has been added to the Finding Aid for Cunard Associated Deposits.

London Review of Books now online

We now subscribe to the London Review of Books online and have access to every single issue ever published - that's back to 1979. We no longer take LRB in print.

You'll find link to the London Review of Books in the library catalogue.

We also have the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2006.

Depositing your thesis in the University Research Archive: Training Workshop

Did you register as a research postgraduate after 1st August 2008? If so, you need to know about submitting your thesis electronically.

Training event: Monday 6th February, 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Wolfson Suite, Harold Cohen Library.

All research postgraduates who registered for an MPhil, PhD or MD since 1st August 2008 are required to deposit an electronic version of their thesis in the University repository, the University of Liverpool Research Archive (Ultra). Research postgraduates who registered before this date may also choose to deposit their thesis in the Ultra.

This hands-on workshop examines the process for depositing an electronic copy of your thesis in the Ultra and provides guidance about issues that students should consider during the preparation and deposit of their thesis, including information on copyright.

Places on this workshop are limited and must be booked in advance. Please REGISTER to book a place.

Noise Awareness in the Libraries - response to your feedback

We've been keen to hear your comments on the current Noise Awareness campaign in the libraries - find out what we're doing in the Harold Cohen Library and Sydney Jones Library in response to your feedback.

Be Noise Aware – Know Your Zone!

Recent Acquisition on Etruscan Vases

SC&A's latest acquisition is a famous auctioneer's study of the mysteries of Etruscan vase paintings, and their connection with Chinese mythology. More...

New online listing: Papers of Professor Frank Walbank, Classicist

An extensive collection of papers of Frank W. Walbank largely covering his academic career as a classical history professor and as an author.

Papers of Professor Frank Walbank, Classicist

HCL Computer Rooms re-zoned for exam period

Following student feedback we are making changes to the zoning of some of our computer centres in the HCL commencing Monday 16th January until Friday 24th February.

HCC1 and HCC2 to remain social.
HCC3 and HCC4 to remain quiet
HCC5 and HCC6 to become silent
HCC7 and HCC8 to become quiet.

We will continue to monitor feedback with a view to keeping or amending the designated zones once this trial period is over.

Getting published in the Social Sciences: SAGE researchers seminar

Are you a social scientist looking for advice on how to get published?

Researchers seminar: Tuesday 24th January 2012, 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Taylor Room, Sydney Jones Library.

The Library is delighted to welcome Katie Metzler, Commissioning Editor for Research Methods at SAGE, to talk to Liverpool researchers and provide an insight into SAGE's commissioning strategy. What kind of books are SAGE looking to publish? How do you find the right publisher for your work? How is the process of publishing in journals different to that of publishing a book?

In addition to giving advice on writing a book proposal and submitting articles, Katie will be on hand to give feedback on your specific projects and proposals. This is a great opportunity to find out more about the world of social science academic publishing and pick up tips on how to make your work attractive to publishers.

Places are limited and must be booked in advance. Please REGISTER to book your place.

Noise Awareness in the Libraries

The libraries will be running a “Noise Awareness” campaign from Monday 9th January – Friday 20th January.

Be Noise Aware – Know Your Zone!

New subscription to JISC MediaHub

We now subscribe to JISC MediaHub a single point of access to three major multimedia archives purchased on behalf of JISC Collections. Access is from http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/ which will prompt for institutional login, and it is listed in our catalogue and (soon) our A-Z list of databases powered by LibGuides. Content in JISC MediaHub cannot be found via Discover.

JISC MediaHubenables cross-searching and exploration of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music from the following archives:

Digital Images for Education
The result of a significant procurement during 2009-10, this archive comprises over 56,000 images and 600 hours of film selected by the education community to capture world, UK and local events during the last 25 years. Sources include the AP Archive, Getty Images, ITN, Design Council Archives, Imperial War Museum, Royal Geographical Society, and PYMCA.

NewsFilm Online
Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives, comprising some 60,000 stories. The sources include the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, from 1910 and 1934 respectively. Previously unbroadcast and unseen material, such as rushes and programme scripts, are also included.

Film & Sound Online
Over 2,000 items, comprising 17 separate collections of digitised film and sound, including Imperial War Museum film footage, and scientific content from the Wellcome Library and the Biochemical Society. The archive also includes over 50 hours of classical music recording from the Culverhouse collection.

JISC MediaHub also enables users to search and link out to external media collections such as the Open Video Project, Wellcome Images, ADS, ARKive and the First World War Poetry Archive.

Rock's Backpages - full-text music magazines now available

We now subscribe to Rock's Backpages - the biggest online database of rock music writing in the world. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a massive library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s up to the present day. There are nearly 20,000 articles on the site and around 300 audio interviews. They feature over 2,500 artists and range from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features. The articles are full text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword etc.). They are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the US and UK including Rolling Stone, NME, Melody Maker and MOJO. The library includes previously unpublished pieces about The Beatles (by Michael Lydon in 1966), The Doors (by Lester Bangs in 1975), and seminal interviews with major artists from Bob Dylan to Radiohead. The library is currently increasing in size by approximately 50 new articles a week.

We have sacrificed Music Index to fund the subscription to Rock's Backpages. Academic music journals are better covered by RILM, and while Music Index indexed lots of popular music magazines we decided it was better to pay for full-text access to them in Rock's Backpages.

Struggling to get hold of textbooks?

Introducing Reference Tree - a service that lets students rent e-book chapters or whole e-books.

The Library strives to make sure that we have at least one copy of every item on a reading list, and multiple copies of core texts. Furthermore we monitor borrowing statistics and buy additional copies to meet demand.

However, we recognize that at times of peak demand it can be hard to obtain the textbooks you need. It can also be hard for us to provide key texts as e-books:

• Sometimes publishers will only sell e-textbooks to students, not to libraries

• Sometimes e-textbooks are only sold to libraries at prices that we can’t afford (on the assumption that sales of print copies to students will diminish)

• Sometimes the e-textbooks that are sold to libraries have limits on the number of students who can use them at one, so they are not available just when you need them most

• Sometimes all the print copies are out on loan and your need is too urgent to wait for a copy to be returned

You now have the option of renting chapters or whole books, for 6 or 12 months, at your own expense through Reference Tree. There is no obligation or expectation on you to do so, but we think you might find it a useful option.

To rent chapters or books from Reference Tree you need to:

• Go to Reference Tree http://www.reference-tree.com/ (opens in a new window)

• Register, and identify yourself as a member of the University of Liverpool during the registration process

• Before renting any content we strongly advise you to click the University of Liverpool icon on Reference Tree pages which will link you to a title search on the library catalogue. Check thoroughly to see if there is a no-cost option that meets your needs. The Library cannot be held responsible for costs you incur if you choose to licence content from Reference Tree.

These details appear at http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/e-library/referencetree.html, linked from the bottom of our e-books page.

New Wiley-Blackwell journal agreement

The Library has signed up to the new JISC Collections NESLi2 'Big Deal' journal agreement with Wiley-Blackwell.

Under the new agreement, which runs for 3 years from 2012 to 2014, we have decided to cancel a few low-use (but usually high-price) titles and we have been able to fund a subscription to Geography Compass which was requested in this year's journals review.

The previous agreement started in 2009 and the collection of titles that it included had been static sincethen. This new agreement includes over 130 additional titles which will be available to us from the start of 2012 (including History Compass which was also request in the journals review, and Literature Compass):

Accounting Perspectives
Addiction Biology
Adultspan Journal
Agricultural Economics
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly
Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
American Journal on Addictions
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
Arthritis Care and Research
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Asian Economic Policy Review
Asian Social Work and Policy Review
Australian Accounting Review
Australian Journal of Anthropology
Australian Journal of Psychology
Australian Psychologist
Biology of the Cell
Board and Administrator for Administrators Only
Brown University Child and Adolescent  Behavior Letter
Brown University Child and Adolescent  Psychopharmacology Update
Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
Campus Legal Advisor
Campus Security Report
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
Canadian Journal of Statistics
Career Development Quarterly
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Respiratory Journal
College Athletics and the Law
Contemporary Accounting Research
Corporate Philanthropy Report
Counseling and Values
Counselor Education and Supervision
Crosscurrents
Curator the Museum Journal
Dean and Provost
Design Management Journal
Design Management Review
Digest of Middle East Studies
Disability Compliance for Higher Education
Economic Papers: a Journal of Applied Economics and Policy
Enrollment Management Report
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
European Journal of Political Research Political
European Management Review
European Transactions on Telecommunications
F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal
Federal Grants and Contracts
Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies an Evidence-Based Approach
Focus on Geography
Geographical Review
Geomechanics and Tunnelling
Geotechnik
Higher Education Abstracts
History Compass
HPB
Hypatia
IDS Bulletin
Infancy
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Integrative Zoology
International Dental Journal
International Journal of Applied Glass Science
International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
International Journal of Older People Nursing
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
International Journal of Stroke
International Review of Finance
Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Journal for Healthcare Quality
Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling
Journal of Business Logistics
Journal of College Counseling
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
Journal of Counseling and Development
Journal of Creative Behavior
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Journal of Employment Counseling
Journal of Finance
Journal of Forensic Nursing
Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
Journal of Humanistic Counseling
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Journal of Interior Design
Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
Journal of Neuroimaging
Journal of Policy and Practice In Intellectual Disabilities
Journal of Psychological Issues In Organizational Culture
Journal of Renal Care
Journal of the Historical Society
Juvenile and Family Court Journal
Latin American Policy
Latin Americanist
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Leviathan
Literature Compass
Lubrication Science
Management and Organization Review
Mark Twain Annual
Maternal and Child Nutrition
Mental Health Weekly
Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Microbiology and Immunology
Microcirculation
Natural Resource Modeling
Nonprofit Business Advisor
North American Dialogue
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Oral Surgery
Pediatric Obesity
Poe Studies
Production and Operations Management
Project Management Journal
Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners
Regional Science Policy and Practice
Regulation and Governance
Resource Geology
School Science and Mathematics
Steel Construction - Design and Research
Steinbeck Review
Structural Concrete
Student Affairs Today
Successful Registrar
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Swiss Political Science Review
Veterinary and Comparative Oncology
Wilmott Magazine
World Views on Evidence-Based Nursing

New Elsevier journal agreement

The Library has signed up to the new JISC Collections NESLi2 'Big Deal' journal agreement with Elsevier.

Under the new agreement, which runs for 5 years from 2012 to 2016, we have decided to cancel a few low-use (but usually high-price) titles:

Advances in Mathematics
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Information and Computation
International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Journal of Algebra
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Mathematical Economics
Journal of Number Theory
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Nuclear Data Sheets
Physics Reports
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics

Nevertheless we will continue to have on-going access to these titles as long as they remain in Elsevier's "Freedom Collection".
 
Instead we will start subscriptions to several more journals in 2012:
 
Academic Radiology
Advances in Anesthesia
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Advances in Pediatrics
Advances in Surgery
Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Annals of Tourism Research
Annals of Vascular Surgery
AORN Journal
Arthroscopy: the Journal of Arthroscopy and Related Surgery
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Body Image
Brachytherapy
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly
British Accounting Review
Business Horizons
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
European Management Journal
Healthcare Management Forum
Heart Rhythm
Human Resource Management Review
Information & Management
International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
International Journal of Production Economics
Journal of AAPOS
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume)
Journal of Hand Therapy
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of International Management
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Renal Nutrition
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists
Journal of the American College of Radiology
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of Veterinary Cardiology
JVIR: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Leadership Quarterly
Medical Dosimetry
Organizational Dynamics
Practical Radiation Oncology
Pregnancy Hypertension: an International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Reproductive Biomedicine Online
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Tourism Management
Urological Science
Vaccine

Some of these have not been available to us before because they are not included in the Freedom Collection, and others are our best-used, non-subscribed titles in the collection. By subscribing to these titles we will earn permanent access to the content published during our subscription. We are only subscribing to new titles where usage statistics show that a reasonable number of abstracts have been viewed, suggesting that there is demand for these titles.