University of York Library Survey



The University of York is running its 2015 survey. It's an opportunity to provide feedback on York's Library services and resources, and to have your say on what changes you'd like to see there. The survey can be found at https://www.york.ac.uk/library/news/2015/survey15/

 

HYMS students are members of the University of York Library irrespective of what site you're at. So if you're at Hull, you'll still be making use of York's e-resources, and there are plenty of questions about the online provision -- you can always choose "N/A" for anything that's not relevant to you. Plus there's the chance to win a Kindle Fire as an incentive to take part. 

 

While we're on the subject of feedback, if you ever have any feedback for the University of Hull Library you can always make use of their feedback form.

 

And remember, if you have any comments or questions for the HYMS Library team, do feel free to get in touch with us at library@hyms.ac.uk.

EndNote Online workshops

 

The University of York are running EndNote Online workshops. Steph Jesper from HYMS Library will be one of the tutors involved, so this is an ideal opportunity for HYMS students to learn a bit about how to get the most out of reference management software.

The workshops will be taking place on:

• Monday 16 November 15:00-17:00 LFA/015
• Tuesday 24 November 14:00-16:00 LFA/015
• Wednesday 2 December 14:00-16:00 LFA/015

You can book onto any of these sessions via the calendar at the bottom of our Research page:

http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/research

 

There's more information about the workshops at the York IT Services website.

If you're at Hull, don't worry: there are EndNote sessions happening there too. Take a look at their Bibliographic software pages for more details.

For online information about using EndNote, you can also check out York's Reference Management site.

Read-cycle, it's a great way to buy and sell books

Have you got unwanted books that you never read cluttering up your shelves?

Looking for a copy of Kumar and Clark, or Donaldson's, and don't want to have to pay the RRP?

Read-cycle is the way HYMS students can buy and sell secondhand books in an easy, stress-free way! Books are categorised into general medical textbooks, Phase I, Phase II and III, and miscellaneous and are easy to advertise. Inquiring about purchase is just as easy and you know that it's coming from HYMS staff or students.

So don't delay, use Read-cycle today!

MoreBooks

Are you a student? Do you want us to buy some more books?

The University of York is again giving students (and that includes all HYMS students) the opportunity to tell them what books to buy, whether it's a title the Library doesn’t have or an additional copy of a book you’re finding it hard to get your hands on. We aim to buy e-books through the scheme where possible, so even if you're based at Hull, there's absolutely no reason not to make use of your York credentials and take part.

A MoreBooks button (above) will appear alongside book titles in YorSearch and all you need to do is click it and enter your details in the form. To suggest an item that York doesn’t currently have, go to the New titles through MoreBooks form. The Library will then purchase a copy of the book you want, so please let us know what you'd like to see on the shelves and e-shelves!

 

For further information see: http://www.york.ac.uk/library/borrowing/morebooks/.

 

BMJ Best Practice app

BMJ Best Practice (available via your University of Hull login) is a decision-support tool designed for use at the point of care. There's fully referenced information on thousands of diagnoses and diagnostic tests, links to drug formularies, over 4,000 treatment guidelines, and hundreds of plain-language patient information leaflets. See our previous post on BMJ Best Practice for more information on getting set up with it.

There's also a BMJ Best Practice app which you can download and use. It's a bit tricky to set up, so here are a few instructions we've pulled together:

1. Download the app, but don't log in yet
2. Open the web-browser on your device and go to bestpractice.bmj.com
3. From the Sign In menu, go to the Shibboleth users go here option
4. Choose UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (UK)
5. Select University of Hull (Shibboleth) and enter your Hull login details if prompted
6. Once signed in, "Subscription provided by University of Hull" should appear at the top of the homepage (web view) or the bottom of the homepage (mobile view)
7. Click the My BMJ Best Practice button and create an account or log in
8. Once logged in, via this method, open the app and enter your BMJ login details (leave the institutional number field blank)
9. Once at the subscriptions page, a message should appear saying that you have institutional access via Hull (this message may take a few moments to come up)

You should then have access via the app to all the content you can get online through our subscription.

Developing Researcher Skills at York

The University of York Library's Research Support Team deliver workshops on Managing Your Research Data, Searching the Literature and Know your (Copy)Rights this term.

Managing Your Research Data

This workshop is an introduction to research data management, covering best practice for the successful organisation, storage, documentation and archiving/sharing of research data. The workshops include opportunities for participants to start to plan and record their data management and to start a data management action checklist.

This term's workshops will be held on:

• Monday 19 Oct, 09:30 - 12:00
• Monday 16 Nov, 10:00 - 12:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff

Searching the Literature

This workshop is designed to help PhD students and research staff to search for scholarly literature. It is particularly relevant to PhD students working on their literature review but the skills covered can be applied in a range of contexts. The workshops include opportunities for practical work using attendees own topics.

Forthcoming sessions will be held on:

• Tuesday 3 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 10 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Wednesday 25 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 8 Dec, 10:00 - 12:00

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.


Know your (Copy)Rights: protecting your own work and re-using other people’s
This workshop is aimed at PhD students and research staff from any discipline who are preparing material for a thesis or scholarly publication. Participants in this session will explore the legal terms and licences which permit the re-use of third party materials, consider strategies for requesting additional permissions and review the licences available for releasing their own material.

This term's workshop will be held on:

• Monday 30 Nov, 13:30 - 15:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.

Postgraduates: are you ready to learn some new skills?

Postgraduate study is a step up from undergraduate study and requires more in depth skills. The Universities of York and Hull provide a suite of workshops and courses designed to help taught and research postgraduates develop skills that will help them meet the challenges of research at this level.

University of York:
Bookable training courses at http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/hr/researcher-development/students/
We particularly recommend Searching the Literature which is RDT201421 on skillsforge for research students, and RD0173 on the LMS for research staff.

University of Hull:
Bookable skills workshops at http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/skillsworkshops/postgraduateworkshops
Enhanced Information and Research Skills Module at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/skills-team/supportingresearch/workshopseirs.aspx
A Research Data Management module will also be running from early November.