Category: Digital resources

Kanopy – streaming Film resource accessible worldwide

Kanopy Home page (screengrab)

  Kanopy is our latest streaming  film resource, (acquired in 2022)  and can be accessed from anywhere in the world, with a University of Dundee log in. It’s searchable, browsable by category (British /World cinema/ LGBTQ / Race ethnicity  & Identity/ Gender/ Human rights/Art & Architecture  and more) and  includes documentaries as well as film.  …Continue Reading Kanopy – streaming Film resource accessible worldwide

 Getting Started Resources: Resources for new students (undergraduate or postgraduate)

A few resources to get you started…. 1. The Library homepage –  www.dundee.ac.uk/library 2. People 3. Guides 4. Library Search 5. The Library App 6. Your online reading/resource list (for taught modules) 7. Referencing 8. Linkedinlearning…Continue Reading  Getting Started Resources: Resources for new students (undergraduate or postgraduate)

Resource lists & ordering – we’re back

Photo of 'Penguin Classic' on Perth Road -part of the Maggies Penguin trail 2018

Just in time to say Happy New Year ! We’re back & ordering has restarted. We order as much material as possible as ebooks, but some subject  areas may  still have more print than online material.  Resource lists in draft  are due to be published this week, before the start of Semester on the 17th…Continue Reading Resource lists & ordering – we’re back

It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new UoD Open Access journal in this guest blog from Professor Divya Jindal-Snape

IJELT logo

Launch of the open access International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions (IJELT) Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) research centre is an international, interdisciplinary centre. TCELT’s vision is to have an impact on international research, policy and practice in the context of educational and life transitions, and their implications for well-being through an…Continue Reading It’s International Open Access Week – find out about the new UoD Open Access journal in this guest blog from Professor Divya Jindal-Snape

It’s Open Access Week – find out about a new UoD Open initiative in this guest blog from Dr Mei Lan Fang

Introducing the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Toolkit   International Open Access Week (October 25-31, 2021) is here, providing a great opportunity to highlight our Open Access initiatives at the University of Dundee.   Globally, in the last 20 years, great efforts have been made to ensure that people who can benefit from new knowledge (e.g.,…Continue Reading It’s Open Access Week – find out about a new UoD Open initiative in this guest blog from Dr Mei Lan Fang

How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.

Map of the world with 64 countries highlighted to show reach of theses downloads

Happy New Year from LLC Research Services! Those of you with an eye on Twitter will have noticed that at the end of 2020 @UoDOpenResearch put out a series of tweets highlighting our most downloaded theses. The information was taken from IRUS, a service which allows us to track downloads from the Discovery Research Portal…Continue Reading How far did they travel? Post-graduate research theses, 2020.

Resource Lists

Support for Resource Lists The LLC are keen to support everyone currently preparing, sharing, or linking Resource Lists for the coming academic year. This is intended to signpost the help available and provide information for common tasks. Reading Lists have been renamed as Resources Lists to better reflect the diverse and online content on lists…Continue Reading Resource Lists

LLC&CI Scholarly Resources for 20/21

iPad screen and books

The Library & Learning Centre and Culture & Information are working to increase the provision of online resources for blended module delivery and to create new routes to physical resources in the run up to 20/21. This is a complex mix including system updates, national procurement frameworks, reviews of existing provision, return to campus processes,…Continue Reading LLC&CI Scholarly Resources for 20/21

Introduction to Research & Resources

Books, notepads and laptop

The Library & Learning Centre and Culture & Information directorate supports learning, teaching, and research activities across the University of Dundee’s ten Schools and all their diverse disciplines. Within our LLC&CI directorate, the Research and Resources Division contributes by managing a complex array of licenses, software, services, physical and electronic resources. This work is reliant…Continue Reading Introduction to Research & Resources