It’s now easier than ever to check if the articles you’ve found on PubMed are available in full-text via CityLibrary. Use the direct link to PubMed on the Databases A-Z and each time you search and select an article, look for the ‘isit@citylibrary’ link on the top right-hand side of the screen. This link will then: display a pdf. if available take you to a log-in screen, or show information on how to use the Inter-Library Loan service to obtain a copy. If you have registered for an account with PubMed you can also change your settings by logging-in to…
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Find your Library Guide
Posted in Cass Business School, City Law School, Library Essentials, Library Loves, Online Resources, Recommended by our library staff, Research, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
City Library Guides bring together the essential resources in your subject area and connect you quickly and easily to information about Library Services. From the Library Guides homepage select your school to see the Subject Guides relevant to you. In each of these guides your Librarians have gathered together the most important resources for you to use in your assignments and research. You’ll also find other helpful information such as details of library workshops or contact information for your Librarian. As well as Subject Guides you’ll also find links to Help Guides and Library Service Guides which cover topics such…
March has seen a buzz of activity in CRO, with 190 new research publications being uploaded from across the university. These new additions bring the total number of City’s research outputs available for download or request to nearly 14,000. The infographic below details a breakdown of upload and download figures for the month. Over 20,000 visitors from 168 countries have visited CRO this month, highlighting the global appeal of research published by our academics, and resulting in over 73,000 items from across the schools being downloaded. For the second month this year, the most accessed paper was Sociology lecturer Dr…
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More Books: You choose, we’re all ears
Posted in Cass Business School, City Law School, Library Loves, More books, New titles, Read For Research, Research, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
Since 2013, CityLibrary has given students the chance to help choose the books we have through the More Books scheme. So far, just over 2000 books have been bought. You can find a selection of these on display on Levels 4 and 5 of the Northampton Square Library, as well as below in our virtual display. Books on all kinds of subjects have been bought covering many courses taught at City. From health sciences to law to engineering, psychology, history, English, maths, computing and beyond, there is something for everyone. You can get in on the act by filling out…
CRSP: Center for Research in Security Prices Survivor Bias Free US Mutual Database
Posted in Cass Business School, Online Resources, and Research
Do you want a large amount of historical time series data covering security prices, returns and volume data for stock exchanges in the US like the NYSE, AMEX, ARCA and NASDAQ? CRSP is the dataset for you. It is usually pronounced ‘crisp’ and is hosted on WRDS (pronounced like ‘words’), along with research datasets like Compustat, Audit Analytics, IBES and more. Use the ‘Register’ button and your City email address to create an account. WRDS is a serious research tool for data and gives you access to a range of powerful analytics tools. Additional files in CRSP provide stock indices, beta- and…
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