Category: Collections and Eresources
Focus on: PubMed
PubMed is a database that contains over 30 million citations of biomedical and life science literature. It also includes links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites, where freely available. Because...
Mental health data available from the WHO #WMHD
Today, 10th October, is World Mental Health Day. The focus this year is on Suicide prevention. The World Health Organisation (WHO) gathers statistics and information on mental health and suicide, as well as many...
Focus on : Key resources for Medicine
We have pulled together some the most useful and relevant resources for medicine in the Key Resources for Medicine page, so it’s great for finding resources that focus more on the health and life...
Longer loan times on our books – no more one day loan!
We’ve removed the one day loan category on our books – thanks to popular demand! All 1375 one day loan items have now been changed to four week loan instead and additional print and...
Promoting our special collections at The Yesterday Belongs to You History Fair 2019
University of Sunderland library staff attended the Yesterday Belongs to You history fair at Beamish Museum on the 21st of September to promote our NEEMARC Collection. The North East England Mining Archive and Research...
Kate Adie’s book collection donated to the University of Sunderland library
Kate Adie, celebrated journalist, has many connections to her home town of Sunderland and to our university. Her notebooks and personal papers were donated to the university’s special collections (and would be a fabulous...
New open access journal: ‘Computational Communication Research’
We in the library are always excited about open access journals, and the newly launched Computation Communication Research – at the junction of computing and communications – looks very promising. It uses the green...
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Just came across a film that explores the current model of academic publishing from the perspective of authors and librarians. It is rather partisan, but quite honestly it’s difficult to remain impartial when faced...
Demystify your journal universe
Did you know that using academic journals helps you get higher assignment marks? And that books don’t always offer the most up to date research? Watch our short video that shares what you need...
An Open Access Reminder
Open Access (OA) research is free to read, with none of the paywall barriers often associated with traditional publishers using a subscription publishing model. By making research OA , authors can also choose to...
Drew Dalton: Cutting the Ribbon?
Drew Dalton Cutting the Ribbon? The Current Health of UK Based HIV/AIDS Organisations and the Effects of Austerity (2016) I’d like to highlight something new on SURE. Drew Dalton’s Cutting the Ribbon is a fantastic...
Jordan Publishing: Family law resources available through LexisLibrary
Good news! Family law resources from Jordan Publishing are now available to University of Sunderland students through the legal database LexisLibrary. These resources include highly-regarded journals and commentary titles covering all areas of family...
LexisNexis access issues? – Here is a temporary work around for accessing LexisNexis online services
You may be experiencing some problems logging into LexisNexis from our library A-Z page today- it was updated last night which has affected the direct link from our A-Z pages. This is a temporary...