Category: Resources

Trial resource – Jus Mundi

Jus Mundi – the search engine for International law and arbitration, produced by Brill – is out latest resource on trial, at the request of Dundee Law School. Staff in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral law and Policy may find it useful as well. Jus Mundi allows you to search Treaties, Cases, Rules and…Continue Reading Trial resource – Jus Mundi

Resources for academic writing

Essays, lab & project reports, presentations, posters, dissertation, thesis , research… – there’s a lot of writing at University.  Here  are some  resources to  help you with writing. Help is available  from  Academic skills  ( asc@dundee.ac.uk) who  offer sessions on academic writing – they do drop-ins and one to one sessions.   The Academic Librarian team …Continue Reading Resources for academic writing

💖 We love data – Happy Anniversary Safepod 💖 #LoveDataWeek 💖

It is hard to believe it is already one year since the University of Dundee SafePod opened for use. Located on the top floor of the Main Library, the SafePod is a small standardised safe setting that provides the physical security and controls for a researcher to access sensitive datasets. Approved researchers with a project…Continue Reading 💖 We love data – Happy Anniversary Safepod 💖 #LoveDataWeek 💖

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

Supporting the  Inclusive Curriculum

As reported in the Staff Newsletter of 26/1/2022, the LLC has set aside £5,000 which can be used to purchase books/resources to support the  Inclusive Curriculum,  equality & diversity as it relates to modules in your discipline – as well as the usual method of adding titles to your online module reading list.  The fund…Continue Reading Supporting the  Inclusive Curriculum

Elsevier and the University of Dundee: agreement reached

After extensive negotiations between the UK Universities and Elsevier, facilitated by JISC, a three year (2022-24) open access transitional agreement has been achieved which will maintain read access and allows for unlimited publishing in core hybrid Science Direct, Cell Press and Lancet titles. Elsevier is the largest academic publisher, and is the one with whom…Continue Reading Elsevier and the University of Dundee: agreement reached

Elsevier and the University of Dundee

The University of Dundee’s current subscription to Elsevier journals is our largest, both in terms of volume and cost. We currently subscribe to 1865 journals, representing almost 20% of our expenditure on scholarly materials. As well as being widely read, researchers at Dundee publish extensively in Elsevier journals. Our current subscription agreement with Elsevier officially…Continue Reading Elsevier and the University of Dundee

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