Support for staff and researchers

Your Academic Liaison Librarians offer a range of services to support your teaching and research activities. Please contact us if you'd like help / further information abut the following services:

Training

• Information skills training – e.g. Harvard Cite Them Right referencing
• Subject specific resources
• Searching DISCOVER
• Using electronic resources - e.g. e-journals, e-books
• Finding quality subject information on the web
• Dissertation preparation

Teaching Support

Resources

• Ordering resources – by request and selection (e.g. books, journals, digital resources)
• Adequate set texts – on varying loan periods
• Updates – new resources added to the library, and updates on new electronic resources
• Guides - print and online guides, e.g. guides to subject resources
• Digital book chapters and journal articles - request digital copies of chapters and / or journal articles to add to your Breo units
• Reading list training - training in the use of our reading list software

Other

• Aproval and development of new courses – support, resources suggestions
• Committee attendance - e.g. SSECs, FABs, FTQSCs, Staff/Student Consultative Committees
• Copyright & plagiarism - advice, e.g. course pack creation, assistance in identifying plagiarised texts
• Reading lists - help with finding resources for course reading lists including Open Education Resources (OERs)

Research Support

• Current awareness – set up alerts from databases, publishers and RSS feeds, to keep up to date on new publications in your field
• Document supply - sourcing items external to UoB libraries
• Off-campus access to electronic resources - advice on access