Christmas Opening Hours

24-hour opening in the Harold Cohen Library and Sydney Jones Library continues up to Friday December 22nd ; on Friday December 22nd the libraries will close at 13.00.

The Harold Cohen Library reopens at 09.00 on Wednesday December 27th and is open:

• 09.00 - 17.00 on Wednesday December 27th
• 09.00 - 17.00 on Thursday December 28th
• 09.00 - 17.00 on Friday December 29th
• 09.00 - 17.00 on Saturday December 30th

The Sydney Jones Library is closed after 13.00 on December 22nd throughout the holiday period until 09.00 on January 2nd.

Both the Harold Cohen Library and the Sydney Jones Library will reopen at 09.00 on Tuesday January 2nd. From January 2nd normal opening resumes, including 24-hour and weekend opening. See Library Opening Hours page for full details.

Bring your books back on time - My Record Feeds

My Record Feeds allows you to subscribe to RSS news feeds from your Library record in the Library catalogue in the same way that you subscribe to feeds from the BBC or journals.

The feeds will tell you about:

• Books you have reserved that are ready for you to collect
• Books due to be returned soon
• Books due back today
• Books that are overdue (hopefully you won't need this)
• Books that have been recalled
• Any fines or fees incurred in the last 24 hours (we hope there won't be any)

Subscribe to My Record Feeds by clicking on the link in Your Library Record. If your browser does not support Live Bookmarks, copy the URL from the link in your record (right-click > copy shortcut) and paste it into a feed reader. You can find our more about subscribing to feeds and feed readers on the library RSS Feeds page.

Once you have subscribed, your feed will appear as Your Library Record News in your browser or feed reader. Your news feed will then be updated as soon as any of the above events occur in your record. The feed contains a title and a link, eg. Materials ready for pickup on hold shelf. The link takes you directly to the relevant section of Your Library Record to see the full details. You will need to log in to Your Library Record with your MWS username and password at this point, if you have not already done so.

If you want to find out more about My Record Feeds or RSS feeds in general and how they can help you keep up to date please talk to your Subject Librarian.

Google Patent Search

Google Patent Search is a new BETA service that searches the full text of the collection of patents made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), covering the years from the 1790s to the middle of 2006. It doesn't include patent applications, patents issued outside the US, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but they are "looking forward to expanding our coverage in the future".

Its easy to use but if you're looking for international coverage of patents and you want to be able to track the links between patents and published research and patents you should search Scopus.

If you want more information about searching for patents contact your Subject Librarian.

Take part in the RIN & CURL research survey. Prizes to be won!

Are you satisfied with the services provided by the University of Liverpool Library? Is there anything you wish we would do better or differently? What should the research library of the future look like?

The Research Information Network (RIN) and the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) have put together a survey designed to gain a clearer understanding of UK researchers' use of library services. The information from the survey will be used to help set the context of strategies pursued by all UK research libraries.

If you are a researcher and would like to take this opportunity to give your opinion on current and future provision of library services then complete the RIN & CURL survey.

Your name and the name of your institution are not required and all responses will be anonymous. If you wish you can enter the prize draw where there are 35 £30 Amazon.co.uk vouchers to be won.

EndNote Web now available!

EndNote Web is a web-based reference management and citation tool available for use by all staff and students, both on and off campus, via the ISI Web of Knowledge service.

EndNote Web enables you to:

• Import references from online bibliographic databases
• Store up to 10,000 bibliographic records
• Use over 2,300 publishing styles to format your citations and bibliographies
• Cite While You Write™ in Microsoft Word (requires plug-in)
• Format papers in other word processors using RTF (rich text format) files
• Collaborate with your colleagues using share EndNote Web folders
• Use EndNote Web toolbars in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla^® to access your reference library in one click, and capture citation data easily (requires plug-in)
• Transfer references between EndNote Web and EndNote X (desktop to Web or Web to desktop)

You will need to register for a free ISI account in order to use EndNote Web.

If you want to know more about EndNote Web read the factsheet.

If you'd like to find out how to use EndNote Web ISI have produced some tutorials and other training resources to help you.

If you have any questions about EndNote Web please contact your Subject Librarian.

Harold Cohen Library closure this weekend

The Harold Cohen Library will close at 8am on Saturday 16th December and remain closed until Monday 18th December at 8.30am. This is to allow the water supply to be chlorinated.

The Sydney Jones Library will remain open as usual.

Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right podcast

Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London, gave a public lecture entitled "Why creationism is wrong and evolution is right" at the University of Bath recently.

A podcast of this lecture is available to download from the University of Bath Public Lecture Podcasts.

New features in Web of Knowledge

New features implemented in the recent Web of Knowledge upgrade include:

• Citation Report : this function will enable you to create reports for up to 10,000 records; view citation information including number of citations, average citations per item and year, and the h index. You can remove self-citations, examine the data in more detail using the using the Analyze Tool, produce graphical summaries and export the data to file.
  
  
• Full Author Names : for records added from 2006 on full author names and not surname, initial will be added to the database. In the future, this should make it easier to distinguish between different authors.
  
  
• Distinct Author Identification System : this feature uses citation data to create clusters of articles by a particular author. You can can access this feature by selecting an author name from the Web of Science record. If the author name has been processed throughthis system, the cluster of articles will be presented.

You can find out more about these new features and other aspects of Web of Knowledge by going to the Thomson ISI training pages and viewing the appropriate screencast .

If you'd like to find out more about these new features or have other questions about web of Knowledge please contact your Subject Librarian.

Google Scholar and BibTex, EndNote, Reference Manager and RefWorks

If you use Google Scholar and want to export articles to BibTex, EndNote, Reference Manager or RefWorks its very simple.

Simply go to the Google Scholar Preferences page, find the bibliography manager section, choose "Show links to import citations into" and then select either BibTex, EndNote, RefMan or RefWorks from the pull down menu. When you have finished, save your preferences.

Now, whenever you do a search using Google Scholar an additional link will appear next to each search result which will allow you to export the citation.

Scopus PatentCites and WebCites

The Patent Cites and Web Cites features recently introduced in Scopus help researchers track the influence of research beyond journal articles into patents, theses and the grey literature.

PatentCites allows researchers to view citations from patents that cite Scopus articles. Where an article on Scopus has been cited in a patent a PatentCites link will appear on the abstract and references page. If you click on the patent cites link you will see all of the patents that cite this article and from here you can go to the source patent item.

The patent sources covered are the US Patent Office, the European Patent Office and WIPO.

WebCites shows how many times an article has been cited in selected web sources indexed by Scirus. Where an article on Scopus has been cited in a selected web source a WebCites link will appear on the abstract and references page. If you click on the WebCites link you will see all of the web sources that cite this article and from here you can go directly to that item on the web.

The selected web sources indexed includes MIT Open Courseware, NDLTD, DIVA, the University of Toronto Repository and the CalTech repository .

If you would like more information about Scopus please contact your Subject Librarian.