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Learb how to find, access and use digital texts.

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Welcome to the UWS Library: COVID-19 Update

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Welcome to the UWS Library: COVID-19 Update

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When the University permits reopening, the Library team are looking forward to welcoming you into a safe study space. Some changes to our service and space have been introduced to help us to do this.

Visit Welcome to the Library LibGuide to help you understand all the new measures in place for your next/first visit to the Library.

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Students and staff can contact a member of the Library Team by:

When the library reopens, if you are on-campus the Library Info Point will be open during staffed hours, where screens have been fitted.

UWS Library (2020) UWS Library supporting you remotely. Available at: https://www.powtoon.com/s/g9huwhAhDxW/1/m (Accessed: 18 Sept 2020).

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LibGuides: Welcome to the Library: Introduction

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Students and staff can contact a member of the Library Team by: When the library reopens, if you are on-campus the Library Info Point will be open during staffed hours, where screens have been fitted. UWS Library (2020) UWS Library supporting you remotely. Available at: https://www.powtoon.com/s/g9huwhAhDxW/1/m (Accessed: 18 Sept 2020).

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We have additional selection of materials available on the UWS SlideShare.

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We support and respond to the learning, teaching and research needs of the University and help its members dream, believe and achieve their academic goals through the provision of high quality, innovative and user-focused library services informed by policies that are clear, fair and transparent.

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Explore #uwslibTalks. Work your way through selection of LibGuides, documents, videos, websites and more... Enhance your learning and teaching.

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Lost in resources? Find them right -- books, journals, websites, maps, reports, images, videos and others! Try different logical operators to fix your ways of searching.

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Discover how to make best use of the library discovery platform and how to manage your library account from our presentation - 'Introduction to One Search at UWS'.

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What You and Other Students Think about the UWS Library

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What You and Other Students Think about the UWS Library

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Get your feet around a maze of possibilities – hands on books, printers, PCs and study spaces at your campus library.

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Up your game with top tips - Mastering the Masters and improve your academic writing with the best tool on the web - Academic Phrasebank.

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Advance yourself in books searching and be clear about viewing levels.

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Search

Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.

Visit Google Books

Browse books online

If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

Learn more about the different views

Buy books or borrow from the library

If you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow the print book. You can now also buy the ebook from the Google Play Store.

Shop for books

Learn more fast

We've created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more.

See an example

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Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.

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Google it with scholarly precision.

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How to use Google Scholar to find journal articles | Essay Tips

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Meet the big three – Open Science, Open Access and Open Data. Have look at this guide from Jisc - An Introduction to Open Access.

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Explore options for accessing and using other libraries.

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SCONUL Access is a scheme which allows many university library users to use study spaces or books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme. Some library users may be able to borrow print books from other libraries too.

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Explore options for accessing materials beyond our collection (e.g. Interlibrary Loan Service).

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| UWS | University of the West of Scotland

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Interlibrary loan service

UWS Library delivers an interlibrary loan service giving UWS staff and students access to material that is not usually held in our collections.

Requests can be submitted to any Library Info Point or by email to ills@uws.ac.uk.

A request form must be submitted for each item.

Obtaining interlibrary loans from other Libraries involve costs, which UWS Library covers. These costs necessitate the limits as follows:

Undergraduate (levels 7-10): 5 interlibrary loan requests per academic year for undergraduate students to support their dissertation only. Students who require more than 5 interlibrary loans must pay in full for the additional requests before the requests are processed. Undergraduate students who require interlibrary loans for reasons other than to support their dissertation must pay in full for the requests.

Postgraduate: 10 interlibrary loan requests per academic year for postgraduate students. Students who require more than 10 interlibrary loans must pay in full for the additional requests before the requests are processed.

Staff and Research students: The Library will satisfy all interlibrary loans requests by staff and research students within the constraints of the current year's budget.

The full cost of an interlibrary loan request is £15.00.

From the 1st of May 2018, requestors who receive copies of articles or chapters from the British Library will need to register and log in to the British Library's request system, BL On Demand, to access the copies.

UWS also supplies interlibrary loans to other non-commercial libraries. To submit a request, please contact ills@uws.ac.uk and include the following details:

details of the request

your request reference

your BL customer-code OR your NULJ code

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UWS Library delivers an interlibrary loan service giving UWS staff and students access to material that is not usually held in our collections. Requests can be submitted to any Library Info Point or by email to ills@uws.ac.uk. A request form must be submitted for each item.

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Is the bad reputation unfair? Is it possible to learn and research with Wkipedia?
Check this article from Wikipedia itself - Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia to find out.

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Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's guidelines, facts must be backed up by reliable sources that reflect the full spectrum of views on the topic. Although citations lie at the heart of Wikipedia, little is known about how users interact with them. To close this gap, we built client-side instrumentation for logging all interactions with links leading from English Wikipedia articles to cited references during one month, and conducted the first analysis of readers' interactions with citations. We find that overall engagement with citations is low: about one in 300 page views results in a reference click (0.29% overall; 0.56% on desktop; 0.13% on mobile). Matched observational studies of the factors associated with reference clicking reveal that clicks occur more frequently on shorter pages and on pages of lower quality, suggesting that references are consulted more commonly when Wikipedia itself does not contain the information sought by the user. Moreover, we observe that recent content, open access sources, and references about life events (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) are particularly popular. Taken together, our findings deepen our understanding of Wikipedia's role in a global information economy where reliability is ever less certain, and source attribution ever more vital.

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Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's guidelines, facts must be backed up by reliable sources that reflect the full spectrum of views on the topic.

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Check with library@uws.ac.uk for sharing your outputs and activities using PURE.
Confused about REF 2021? Look at the FAQs.

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The UWS academic portal features the research and enterprise activities within the University of the West of Scotland and highlights the particular teaching interests and skills of our academics and postgraduate research students.

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Click dots and donuts to bring up details.

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The UWS academic portal features the research and enterprise activities within the University of the West of Scotland and highlights the particular teaching interests and skills of our academics and postgraduate research students. Click dots and donuts to bring up details.

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Explore best practice with library@uws.ac.uk, consult terminology in the Copyright Glossary and share legally resources with your students on a VLE.

Have a look at the CLA User Guidelines, check permissons visit the CopyrightUse.org to learn more or check a quick introduction to Creative Commons licenses.

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Shopping for Books, Journals and Databases

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Shopping for Books, Journals and Databases

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Contact library@uws.ac.uk  about ordering resources required for your programme, course, module etc.

Do you consider a reading list as a learning tool? How can you maximise the impact
of reading lists and increase library use?

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Taylor, Allie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-1314 (2019) Engaging Academic Staff With Reading Lists: The Worcester Story. Journal of Information Literacy, 13 (2). ISSN 1750-5968 (In Press)

Abstract

Following the implementation of online reading list software, Library Services at the University of Worcester (UW) encouraged academic staff to consider the reading list as a learning tool. Using an interactive teaching session timetabled as part of the Post-graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, lecturers are asked to consider how they can maximise the impact of their reading lists and increase library use. The pedagogy of reading lists and student engagement with reading are examined. Participants also discuss the type of content reading lists typically contain and question whether this accurately reflects what the students should be reading. It draws on best practice from academic colleagues at UW, examining (among other things) the effect of list length, structure and lecturer voice and presence.

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Engaging Academic Staff With Reading Lists: The Worcester Story

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Taylor, Allie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-1314 (2019) Engaging Academic Staff With Reading Lists: The Worcester Story. Journal of Information Literacy, 13 (2). ISSN 1750-5968 (In Press) Following the implementation of online reading list software, Library Services at the University of Worcester (UW) encouraged academic staff to consider the reading list as a learning tool.

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Place your work in the context of current research with your own literature review,

Have a look for ideas how to write it in the  Academic Phrasebank from the University of Manchester.

Watch a short video from the Western University - Literature Review.

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This tutorial will help get you started on planning and writing the literature review section of your thesis or dissertation. Please contact Research Help http://www.lib.uwo.ca/services/research.html for more assistance. Email wlwtsc@uwo.ca or Comment with questions or suggestions on more Videos & How-Tos Uploaded by Western Libraries -- Taylor Library Literature Review video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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Reference Management Software (e.g. EndNote)

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Reference Management Software (e.g. EndNote)

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Collect information about everything you have read in one place.

Watch the following video How to Use EndNote in 6 Minutes to learn more.

Check our  EndNote: Referenc Management LibGuide to get started.

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MacOS versions 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), and 10.15 (Catalina) contain features to save the contents of the Documents folder in iCloud and to "optimize" storage by storing less-used files only in iCloud online. EndNote libraries stored in iCloud, even when stored on both the hard drive and online, are subject to corruption over time. If you choose to store your documents in iCloud, we suggest creating a separate folder in your home folder and saving your EndNote libraries there. Do not store EndNote libraries in iCloud or any other cloud-syncing folder, and do not store EndNote libraries in the Documents folder if you have selected the option to store documents in iCloud.

You can find more information on these features on the Apple support site at these locations.
General Safety Notes

EndNote libraries are made up of two parts: the .enl file and the .Data folder. These two parts must be kept together; both are needed for the library to work correctly.

Keep EndNote libraries on your computer's local hard drive. Storing and editing libraries on a network drive can lead to corruption and performance issues.

EndNote libraries should never be stored in cloud-syncing folders such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, SugarSync, etc. Syncing folders corrupt EndNote libraries over time.

Uninstall your previous version of EndNote before installing a new version.

Synchronize references in EndNote libraries between desktop and laptop computers, the online library, and an iPhone or iPad using EndNote Sync.

Complete EndNote libraries can be shared with other EndNote X8 or X9 users through EndNote Sync and Library Sharing.

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MacOS versions 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), and 10.15 (Catalina) contain features to save the contents of the Documents folder in iCloud and to "optimize" storage by storing less-used files only in iCloud online. EndNote libraries stored in iCloud, even when stored on both the hard drive and online, are subject to corruption over time.

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Learn the tricks of the trade!
Have you heard about 'The Filter Bubble' by Eli Pariser? Watch his TED talk.

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イーライ・パリザー：危険なインターネット上の「フィルターに囲まれた世界」

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インターネット企業が私たちの好みに合わせてサービス（ニュースや検索など）をカスタマイズしようと努めるにしたがい、思いもよらぬ害が出てきています。私たちは「フィルターに囲まれた世界」に閉じ込められ、自己の世界観に疑問を投げかけたり視野を広める情報に触れる機会を失っているのです。結果的に私たちのためにならず、民主主義にも悪影響を及ぼすことになるとイーライ・パリザーが強く訴えます。

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Minimise the stress of referencing - get organised! Have a look at Referencing at UWS LibGuide.

Check your references against examples from 'Cite Them Right' eBook.

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Anxious? Make sure you know what an academic library is about!
Watch Welcome to UWS Library video to learn about us.
Check our website and tips for avoiding fines.

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Take advantage of using images and source them legally.

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Join a global community working to strengthen the Commons

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Learn how to evaluate your sources from Evaluating Sources LibGuide and select the best method for yourself (e.g. CRAAP Test, 5Ws, Prompt).

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Develop your  potential with your academic librarian and/or make use of the PhD on Track.

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Do you understand the do's and don'ts of referencing and plagiarism?

Quiz yourself or watch a 2-minute video from Bainbridge State College called Plagiarism: How to Avoid It.

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Test your knowledge of academic integrity with this quick quiz.

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Database of Your Choice (e.g. EBSCO, CINHAL)

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Database of Your Choice (e.g. EBSCO, CINHAL)

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Contact library@uws.ac.uk for tips on using a specific database from our A-Z List.

Dive in databases relevant to your subject and recommended by librarians on subject support pages.

Check out our trials and temporary resources on the One Serch page.

Having problem with accessing resources, look at Login for Getting Full Text Articles flowchart.

Try the latest:
GALE Reference Complete - a selection of databases (Academic OneFile, Scribner Writer Series, Twayne's Authors Series, Gale Virtual Library, General OneFile and InfoTrac Newsstand) and a collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers and reference content.

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Welcome to support.gale.com. Get the most from your investment with no-cost support. Hundreds of choices include everything from widgets and posters to training and your own personalized website.

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Find out what journals are and how they can help you.
Watch a video - What s a Scholarly Journal? (produced by Library La Trobe University in Australia) to gain a better understanding of scholarly journals.