We welcome our new University Librarian

We look forward to welcoming Anne Horn who will be joining us as the new Director of Library Services & University Librarian.
She will be taking over from Martin Lewis when he retires in March.
Anne will be our ninth University Librarian and the first woman to hold the role.


For more information, please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/staff/news/anne-horn-university-librarian-1.413913

International Open Access Week 20-24 October

Our Open Access Team have organised some events to celebrate International Open Access Week. If you are interested in open access, and want to know more about funders such as RCUK research councils and the Charity Open Access Fund, please come along to one of the events:

General Sessions:
Open Access Coordinator Carmen O'Dell will give two sessions on Tuesday (1-2pm, Firth Court FC02) and Wednesday (1.15-2.15pm, Arts Tower LT09). These will consist of a short presentation covering the basic concepts of open access, funder requirements, and the implications for researchers. There will also be time available for discussion and questions.

Drop-in sessions:
Thursday (10am-12pm, White Rose Room, ScHARR, Regent Court)
Friday (10am-12pm, David Ryan Room, Medical School Library, Royal Hallamshire Hospital)
Our OA Team would be delighted to answer your questions on compliance with funders' mandates, the University Publication Fund, green open access for non-funded research, the HEFCE open access policy, our institutional repository (White Rose Research Online), and anything else you'd like to know about the open access landscape.

If you're interested in coming to one of the general sessions, please register through Eventbrite (Tuesday 21st or Wednesday 22nd). (There is no need to book for the drop-in sessions)

Nature Publishing Group

In November last year, The University Library conducted a survey for staff and students.  Many of our customers commented that although we had access to some Nature journals, we did not subscribe to some important titles.
After negotiations with the publisher we now have a subscription to the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) complete collection. This includes all ejournals published by NPG.
For a full list of etitles and access to the Nature website, please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/nature

To access individual titles, please search for them on StarPlus.

For more details of the Library Survey, please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libnews/libsurvey2013

Marvelosa: Art inspired by the National Fairground Archive

Come and see the latest exhibition in Western Bank Library including new works of art specially commissioned to celebrate 20 years of the National Fairground Archive.  In addition to the new commissions, we have acquired the work of internationally renowned artist Zoe Beloff.

10 September 2014 – 8 January 2015

For more details, please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/exhibition