Doing your MA/MSc dissertation over the summer?

Remember that you can ask your Academic Liaison Librarian for help

For example we can show you how to improve your search techniques; advanced searching on Discover and other databases; how to source relevant articles and papers not held at York St John; advice on referencing.

Contact details for the Academic Liaison Librarians are as follows:

Faculty of Arts

Lottie Alexander
Tutorial booker: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=l.alexander

Faculty of Education & Theology

Clare McCluskey
Tutorial booker: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=c.mccluskey

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences (Health & Social Care, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy)

Victoria Watt
Tutorial booker: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=v.watt

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences (Counselling, Psychology, Sport)

Jane Munks
Tutorial booker: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=j.munks

YSJ Business School

Jane Munks
Tutorial booker: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorialbooker/ViewTutorSchedule.aspx?ID=j.munks

Final year students - access to Information Learning Services

Did you know you can continue your access to Information Learning Services when your course finishes?

As soon as your course finishes you can apply for an alumni library card for £10.  The card expires after 18 months and allows you to borrow up to 15 items from the library collections.

If you want to apply for an alumni card just pop in to see the staff at Question Point with 2 passport photos and some ID.

Get more content from Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a web search engine that allows you to search for scholarly literature across a broad range of subjects and sources.  It doesn't index everything as not all publishers have agreed access to their content.  A great deal of content is still only available through the electronic publications and databases to which Information Learning Services subscribes - all of these can be found through the Discover search tool on the Information Learning Services website. 

Linking Google Scholar and Discover

Google Scholar can be linked to Discover which allows seamless full text access to online journal articles subscribed to by Information Learning Services.  This means that you will have access to far more full text content than you would normally.  Just follow these steps:

•  Go to GoogleScholar and click on the settings link
• Look for and click on the Library Links option
• Type YSJ into the search box, select York St John University – Get it @YSJ and click on Save

Now carry out a search as normal on Google Scholar and look for the Get it @ YSJ links.  Get it @ YSJ will take you to the full text of the article through Discover.  You may need to log on to Discover the first time you click on a Get it @ YSJ link.  

Get ahead.....

....and get ready for the next academic year

Take 20 minutes to prepare at one of our Discover bite-size sessions:

20 May at 11 am in DG127

23 May at 2.30pm in DG121

28 May at 3.30pm in DG120

30 May at 10am in DG120

Help printing and copying e-books

If you need help with printing or copying e-books then you may find one of the following videos useful:

• How do I print from an ebook? http://youtu.be/RjMvrEknQ2o
• How do I copy from an ebook? http://youtu.be/m41-nbUOCCM

If you need further assistance please contact your Academic Liaison Librarian:

Faculty of Arts
Lottie Alexander e: l.alexander@yorksj.ac.uk

Faculty of Education & Theology
Clare McCluskey e: c.mccluskey@yorksj.ac.uk

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences (Health & Social Care, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy)
Victoria Watt e: v.watt@yorksj.ac.uk

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences ( Counselling, Psychology, Sport)
Jane Munks e: j.munks@yorksj.ac.uk

YSJ Business School
Jane Munks e: j.munks@yorksj.ac.uk

Reading e-books

You may have noticed that the web pages for some of our e-books look a little different.  If you want to read the full text of the e-book you need click on:

Summer Term 2013 Opening Hours

The ground floor of the Fountains Learning Centre is open 24/7.  For the opening times of floors 1 and 2 please see http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/information-learning-services/library/help-and-information/using-the-library/opening-times.aspx.