Free webinars for PhD students
Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...
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Ebook error on Library Catalogue – what does it mean?
The Library have received some reports from students about an error message when accessing ebooks on the Library Catalogue. Unfortunately you may see this error message when accessing a book on our Catalogue if...
Box of Broadcast – 2 minute video tutorials
Box of Broadcasts is an amazing resource! It is often referred to as ‘BoB’ and is an on-demand television and radio service that the University Library subscribes to – if you haven’t looked at...
Academic writing – phrases you can use in your dissertations
If you’re working on your dissertation and you’re looking for some academic phrases that you can use when writing up your research you will find the University of Manchester Academic Phrasebank very useful. About...
Virtual reality – BBC3 Free thinking podcast
Have you come across the BBC3 Free Thinking podcast? The BBC describe it as “Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.” Virtual...
How to keep up-to-date with new blog posts
Our team of Academic Liaison Librarians are doing a excellent job of keeping you up-to-date with resources and services relevant to you. One of the ways we do this is by posting to the...
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) now available in Europe
Good news. If you’re a European student who has returned home during the corona virus pandemic you will still be able to access Box of Broadcasts (BOB) until the end of July. BBC News...
Why Amazon Know So Much About You
Interesting article from the BBC looking at Amazon and big data – raising lots of questions about the ethical use of the data Amazon collects about their customers and how they use it to...
Study Skills: Citation Trails
Found a really relevant article on a topic you’re writing about? Want a quick way to find more? Citation trails is a way of finding articles related to your relevant article. Citation trails work...
Newsstream – a new way to look for news content
From 1 March 2020, you will be able to search across over 600 newspaper titles and news broadcast outlets at the same time by using Newsstream via your library’s subscriptions. Newsstream will be replacing...
Developing Technology: Toyota Woven City
“On this 175-acre site in Higashi-Fuji, Japan, we have decided to build a prototype town of the future, where people live, work, play, and participate in a living laboratory. Imagine a fully-controlled site that...
Startup Mojo Vision unveils working prototypes of AR contact lenses
Mojo Vision has announced that it has put 14K pixels-per-inch microdisplays, wireless radios, image sensors, and motion sensors into contact lenses that fit comfortably in the eyes. You can read more about this exciting...