Hull Needs Your Help

The University of Hull Library need your help! They are currently looking at improving their website. If you have used the library website at Hull and thought it could be improved, well, speak now or forever hold your peace! It took us about 8 minutes to complete at: bit.ly/2iQEFd3. Go on, be part of the solution!

We know surveys aren’t that fun (according to most people we surveyed in the office this morning) so we thought we’d point out something a little more interesting too. BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast two episodes looking at the NHS; the first looks at how the NHS is responding to increased demand and decreased resources - the second, explores recruitment in the NHS and the role that overseas trained professionals play in the NHS. Both episodes are very pertinent and well worth a listen. They are available from BBC iplayer or you can download the BBC radio app, if you are so inclined.

Key Resources for HYMS students

Get your head around key resources available to you at HYMS. Whether you just need a reminder of what’s available or you’re  unsure what we have, the best place to start is the library website. The finding resources tab has all the usual suspects here: Medline from Ovid which is  pretty much the Grandmaster Flash of medical databases (if medicine was hip hop). We’ve also got the Cochrane Library and while we’re bragging Embase too. But we’ve got so many great resources it would just be too cluttered to have them all there on the website. So, you need to use the cross search to get to the other good stuff like Acland’s Anatomy, New England Journal of Medicine or BMJ Journals. Remember that at HYMS you benefit from the resources of both the University of York and the University of Hull so make sure you are checking both catalogues with cross search.  If there’s something that you think we should have but can’t find, let us know about it by emailing library@hyms.ac.uk  

New Web Page for HYMS Researchers

We know that the research landscape can seem like an over complicated place. As if just doing the research and writing up isn’t hard enough, there’s: RDM, OA, ORCID, REF and no doubt a whole host more acronyms out there, and they are important! But getting your head around what they all mean, what’s best for your publication, or just getting to grips with how an ORCID can help you, or how to make your research REF-ready is not always easy. We also appreciate that our parent institutions use different pieces of kit to help manage the scholarly communication process, does PURE or Hydra mean anything to you? With all that in mind, and from some of our conversations with you, we thought we would set up a page that contains key guidance on the entire research process, linking out to relevant training, guidance, or contacts from either York or Hull as relevant. We hope you find this page useful, let us know if you love it, or would like to suggest how we can improve it by emailing library@hyms.ac.uk.  

In the meantime best of luck with your research!

Happy New Year

We hope you have all had a good break over the Christmas and New Year period. If you want to brush up on your search skills after all that festive downtime, don’t forget that you can access HYMS Library training materials from the library webpages including our handy guide to systematic reviews.

If that’s a bit too much for the first week in January see our last post to get in on Hull’s City of Culture Lines of Thought  Exhibition which lasts until the end of February.  

Best of luck with your studies and research over the coming year.

If you need to get in touch with us you contact the HYMS Library Team by emailing library@hyms.ac.uk.

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo"

Wrote TS Eliot in the Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. Next year you could well encounter similar snatches of conversation from people visiting the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull, which throughout January and February, is hosting  Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now. The exhibition will feature works from some of the greatest artists, from Dürer to Degas, Michelangelo to Matisse and Rembrandt to Riley. The exhibition is free to attend during January and February at the University, as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. So if you need to top up on your culture then get yourself to The University of Hull Library. See the website for booking information.   

Christmas is nearly upon us...

...and with that comes Christmas Opening Hours:

Hull:

The Brynmor Jones Library closes at 5pm on Christmas Eve and will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 27th December. The library will close again on Saturday 31 December at 5pm, will remain closed on 1 January, opening again at 8:30am on Monday  2 January. More information about Hull’s opening hours can be found on their website.  

York:

The University Library will be closed from 4pm on Christmas Eve to 8am on Tuesday 27th December, and from 4pm on New Year's Eve to 8am on Monday 2nd January.

All loaned items from York are subject to recall throughout the Christmas vacation, but you'll have a whole week to get them back. Nothing will be due back between 22nd December and 5th January inclusive. More information about York's loans and hours can be found on their website.

Online Materials & SCONUL access:

It's worth remembering that most of the books we buy for HYMS are available electronically, so you should be able to access them wherever you are this Christmas. The same goes for our other e-resources. If you prefer something physical, you're in the UK or Ireland, and there's another university library nearby, you can always sign up to the SCONUL Access scheme which can get you into a large number of university libraries across the country. More details are available from the links below:

• Quick guide to signing up to the SCONUL scheme (by the University of York)
• SCONUL Access information from Hull
• SCONUL Access information from York

We hope you have a great Christmas break and enjoy your holidays.

Best wishes, HYMS Library Team

Nailing Stats and Data

If you are in your final year undergraduate or a postgraduate student and you want to know more about statistical analysis or using data then you need to check out That Figures, a week long programme of useful workshops at York in the new year. Whether it's something specific like linear modelling or an overview of data sources at York from Monday 6 February there's a week of workshops to get you on the numbers! There's more information on how to book and what's on offer available from the training page for  That Figures.

Don't forget that HYMS students based at Hull can take advantage of this training too. If you don't fancy the trip don't worry the good people at Hull have loads of juicy stats training too, check out the Hull site to see what's currently on offer.

If that's not enough to whet your data appetite York have made Qualtrics even more useful by giving you access to the Qualtrics Offline App.If you already use the Qualtrics survey tool, you'll know that it makes it quick and easy for you to design your own surveys, whether for research or more general purpose surveys.

Now they have a licence allowing all members of the University to use the Qualtrics Offline App. It's available for both iOS and Android, and allows you to administer surveys on your mobile device even when you don't have internet access. The app lets you collect responses on your mobile device, and then upload them to Qualtrics when you're back online.

Find out how to install and use the app at:

Qualtrics Offline App

Learn more about Qualtrics at:

Qualtrics survey tool