Help with your subject
We’re delighted that you find our My Subject pages helpful – they give lots of great guidance on where you can find both resources and help. We’ve just had figures for September to (nearly all of) April and this is …
Category: Subjects: Technology
Book of the Week 19/1/15
We kick off the new year with a book that should appeal to everyone and will be useful in a wide variety of situations from university assignments to work environments. All too often we jump into the tasks and issues …
Knovel database trial
A trial of Knovel is available until Tuesday, 17 February. Knovel is a search platform for engineers. It features interactive search results which can be customised and integrated into teaching programmes, student coursework or research. Trial link: http://app.knovel.com/web/
Top 10 Myilibrary books in Technology
Yesterday we posted the top ten Ebrary ebooks for the Technology Faculty. Myilibrary isn’t used quite as well – “only” a million downloads in 2014, but here are the top ten Technology subject related ebook section request downloads from that …
Top 10 Ebrary books in Technology
Ebrary continues to be a well loved and well used ebook provider for the University of Portsmouth with over 3,000,000 section downloads in 2014. Here are the top ten titles and number of downloads for Technology Faculty subject areas:
Focus on clinical medicine: The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a comprehensive collection of systematic reviews, clinical trials, treatment outcome evaluations and cost-benefit analyses for medical treatments. Useful for health students and professionals, it is a clinically focussed resource supporting treatment choice and evaluation decisions that …
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Web of Science upgrade (13 December)
Improvements to the search options within Web of Science is scheduled for to take place on Saturday, 13 December. Thomson Reuters, the supplier of Web of Science, have warned the service might be unavailable at times during the day and …
Nexis UK is changing
Our premium news service, Nexis UK, covering worldwide newspaper and other media from 1980s to the present is getting better. An upgrade tomorrow will see a new streamlined search and discovery interface, and more powerful export options for your search …
A mathemagical delight
Work on your mathematical skills in a new and novel way, learn to manipulate algebra faster and better and learn cool tricks to impress your friends at parties. A fun workshop for beginner apprentice mathemagicians: no previous mathemagical knowledge required. …
Focus on: ScienceDirect
Covering a range of science and technology disciplines, ScienceDirect offers full text access to authoritative titles from the core scientific literature published by one of the largest scientific publishers, Elsevier. ScienceDirect includes more than 2,500 journals and more than 12.6 …
