COVID-19 and Newman University Library Services: COVID-19 and Newman University Library Services

We are changing some of our services to help you work from home without needing to visit the campus and to adjust the availability of some of our services which depend on other institutions outside the university. So from Friday 20th March 2020 we will:

• renew all books and other library items you have on loan to Friday 2nd October 2020

• increase the loan limit for all students to 30 items

• stop adding to fines for books and other library items which are already overdue

• stop sending overdue emails

• cancel all existing reservations on books and other library items

• withdraw the option to reserve books

• stop supplying print books on the inter-library loan service

• stop processing SCONUL Access applications as the SCONUL Access scheme is currently suspended

• Ebooks – you can search and access them using the library catalogue. During COVID-19 we’ve been able to provide access to hundreds of thousands of additional e-books. However this means you will need to search for them in three different ways:

  • Search the library catalogue using the ‘Newman Catalogue’ drop-down option. On the search results page, limit your search to just ebooks by clicking on ‘Internet’ under the Library Location section on the search results page. This short video tutorial shows you how to search for ebooks
  • Search the library catalogue using the ‘E-journals’ drop-down option. On the search results page, limit your search to just ebooks by clicking on ‘ebooks’ under the Source Type section on the search results page.
  • Some of our additional COVID-19 books can’t be made available on the library catalogue. Visit the Online library A-Z of resources and you will see a number of resources which you can search directly under the Extra resources during COVID-19 library closure section.

• Ejournals - you can search and access them using the ‘ejournals’ drop-down option on the library catalogue or explore individual databases and journal collections through the Online Library.

• You will need to logon using OpenAthens to access eresources – visit our OpenAthens webpage to find out more, or to watch a short video tutorial which shows you how to do this.

• Our referencing page is your complete guide to referencing, which explains everything you need to know to correctly reference in-text and create your bibliography, including examples of most source types.

• with referencing queries or advice about finding and using library resources

• with individual advice or support from an Academic Service Librarian: contact our ASLs on Library Chat, or email them at library-enquiries@newman.ac.uk, or give them a call 0121 476 1181 ext 1413

• search our thousands of ebooks, millions of online journal articles and all our other eresources

• if you’re having problems or not sure how to access our e-resources

• answer questions about your loans, fines, renewals and anything else you need to know…

• buy new books and make them available to you as quickly as possible

• source scans for your lecturers to add to Moodle

• check that you can access our e-resources

• make inter-library loan requests for both electronic format journal articles and book chapters, and print articles and chapters (if available from the British Library) for items we don’t own

• answer your questions about inter-library loans you currently have on loan

• accept eligible research outputs for deposit from staff researchers

• answer staff researcher queries about depositing research in the repository at repository@newman.ac.uk

• let you know if e-resources or Library systems aren’t working and work with our suppliers to get them back up and running as soon as we can

• post regular updates on the Newman Library Facebook and Newman Library Twitter accounts about the resources, services and support that we have put in place for you