Use the Cambridge Core guide to ebooks and journals to find out how to save searches, register for an individual account and using the Core Reader HTML functionality.
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How to get Published with IEEE 14 March 2019
Are you thinking of publishing your research? New/relatively new to publishing your work? University of Greenwich staff and student researchers are invited to come to our session in Stockwell Street Library on Thursday 14th March at 11.00 am to find out how to get published. Sign up at Eventbrite.
Techniques for Effective Researching with IEEE Xplore Training 14 March 2019
University of Greenwich staff and students are invited to come to our training session in Stockwell Street Library on Thursday 14th March at 10.00 am to find out how to make the best use of IEEE Xplore.
Get an overview of best practices for maximizing features of the platform, covering advanced search techniques, setting up alerts, downloading equations, finding patent citations, and much more. Sign up at Eventbrite.
Accessing ProQuest Resources Off Campus
The slides below show you how to access ProQuest resources from the Online databases and academic journals link in the portal when you are off campus/outside the university. You will need to follow these steps if connecting from your own laptop/mobile device on campus as well.
Accessing Mintel
These slides show you how to log into Mintel via the portal on and off campus. You should contact the Helpdesk if you are still unable to login after following the steps below:
- Clear your web browser history, cookies and cache
- Close and reopen your browser
- Login again to the portal.
Logging in and using ScienceDirect
View these slides to find out how to log in and use ScienceDirect on and off campus via the university portal.
Borrowing books
Have you borrowed any books yet? When you’re ready to borrow books for your studies, come and see us at one of our Welcome Desks. We can show you how to use the self-service machines. You can borrow multiple items by placing them together in the slot and then scanning your student ID card. The machine will issue the items to your library account. Any items in red or items not issued can be dealt with by us at the Welcome Desk. You can choose to print out a receipt of the transaction. At Avery Hill and the Drill Hall Library the self-service machines are used to borrow and return your loaned items.
Renting eBooks via Dawsonera
You can rent eBooks needed for your course work or dissertations via Dawsonera in the portal.
Start from the University portal by navigating to Online databases and academic journals from the Search the Library portlet in the My Learning page.
Scroll down the list and select Dawsonera from the A-Z list of e-resources.
Rentals are granted for books NOT OWNED by the library so check LibrarySearch : https://librarysearch.gre.ac.uk/ first before making a rental request.
On the dawsonera rental request form you need to enter your university user ID in the username field e.g. za001 and your university email address in the email address field e.g za001@gre.ac.uk
Note: rentals will be declined if you make requests using a personal email address and you will have to re-submit the request with the details correctly completed.
Science Direct login change
Elsevier has changed the authentication process for Science Direct and Scopus. All users are now required to login via the UK Federation option and select ‘University of Greenwich‘ from a list of institutions.
Access via the university portal on and off campus is unchanged
Select the My Learning link
Select the Online databases and academic journals link in the Search the Library portlet
On the next page select ‘S’ from the alphabet or scroll down the A-Z list and select Science Direct to be transferred to the resource.
You should see your name at the top right of the screen above the Brought to you by: University of Greenwich box. This indicates you are logged in and authenticated.
Logging in to eresources
Students and staff have access to thousands of electronic resources including journal articles, electronic books, reports, conference proceedings, reviews, datasets, maps and audio visual material across a wide range of academic disciplines to support learning, teaching and research in the University.
Find out more on our LibGuides page.
Note that some resources require you to additionally register a name, email and password as an individual user, the first time you use the resource as a member of the University. This separate registration allows you to use personalised features such as saved searches and creating search alerts, journals alerts and more.