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5 accessibility tips, tools and resources to boost your home study
May 21, 2020
jessica
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5 accessibility tips, tools and resources to boost your home study

Posted in Accessibility

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Library Services are dedicated to working towards making our physical and digital spaces inclusive. Here we share 5 tips, tools and resources for accessible remote learning for everyone. 1. The Immersive Reader Now that we are working remotely we’ve all become a lot more familiar with Microsoft Office applications. Did you know that In most Microsoft Office products you will find a little tool called the Immersive Reader. Use this tool to hear text spoken aloud. Using text-to-speech can be useful for a range of people and situations – whether you are tired…

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New e-books to help you study at home
April 29, 2020
jessica and Chris
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New e-books to help you study at home

Posted in New Resource, New titles, and Online Resources

We’re constantly updating our collections so that you can access the best resources possible. Over the last few weeks we have been busy adding new e-books to CityLibrary Search: some of these are brand new titles, including those chosen by you through one of our Recommend a book for purchase schemes; others are digital versions of print books which are inaccessible because of the lockdown. Here, our Subject Librarians have picked out some highlights from the new items in our collections to help you while you are studying at home. The title links will take you through to the e-book…

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Access to Morningstar Direct off campus
April 23, 2020
Samantha
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Access to Morningstar Direct off campus

Posted in Cass, Cass Business School, and Online Resources

We are pleased to announce that Library Services are now able to offer remote access to Morningstar Direct during the current closure period. Morningstar Direct is usually only available from dedicated terminals on site. It is an investment analysis platform, providing access to investments in Indexes, Equities, Hedge Funds, Segregated Accounts, Open-End Funds, Closed-End Funds, Insurance/Pension/Life and Exchange Traded Funds. Please note that Morningstar can only be used on a Windows PC/laptop. Instructions for downloading Morningstar, the Excel Add-in, how to use the web version and the current password (which will change each week) can be obtained via the Cass Library Services Moodle Module.  If you don’t…

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Extra online resources – temporary access
April 22, 2020
Chris
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Extra online resources – temporary access

Posted in Library Guides, and Online Resources

In order to support students, academics and researchers during the coronavirus pandemic, a number of academic publishers are choosing to make some of their content temporarily free to access online. We’ve created a special Library Guide to highlight the resources which are now available to you, with instructions on how to access them if a separate log-in or other method is needed. The guide includes some sources specifically related to the coronavirus pandemic itself, plus there are links to Senate House Library which is also providing special online access to students. We are updating our guide all the time, so…

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Keep calm and carry on recommending digital books for us to purchase
April 16, 2020
Chris
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Keep calm and carry on recommending digital books for us to purchase

Posted in Liberating CityLibrary, More books, and Read For Research

Our More Books, Read for Research and Liberating CityLibrary schemes are open for business. If there’s a title we don’t have in the collection which you think we should, tell us. Each scheme is different, so chose the option which best meets your needs: More Books (students only) Tell us what’s missing from the collections, whether it’s a classic text you think every library should have, or a title that just never seems to be on the shelf when you need it. If it costs less than £100 to buy a digital copy we’ll purchase it straight away. Read for…

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