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Construction Information Service (CIS)

Construction Information Service (CIS)   The Construction Information Service (CIS) is a major database for anyone working in architecture, civil and structural engineering, building control, mechanical and electrical engineering, surveying, building contracting and other areas within the construction industry. The CIS database is updated daily and covers every phase of the construction process. It is […]

Clocks go back

Clocks go back   I dread this weekend all year: the weekend the clocks go back to Greenwich Mean Time. In case you’ve forgotten, time will move back by one hour at 2am on Sunday 27th October. In this way, we “rob” an hour of daylight from the morning and add it to the end […]

Black History Month: Joseph Knight

Black History Month: Joseph Knight This October we’re celebrating Black History Month at Edinburgh Napier. And as part of this, we’d like to take a quick look at the case of Joseph Knight  v. John Wedderburn,  a historic legal case from the 1770s that saw the Scottish Court of Session officially declare that slavery laws […]

Introducing CINAHL (With Full Text)

Introducing CINAHL (With Full Text)   CINAHL, standing for Cumulated Index in Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is one of our most popular databases used widely among school of health and social care students within our student community at Napier. It covers literature on various areas of healthcare including nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, nutrition […]

Returning borrowed items

Returning borrowed items It’s almost the end of term and time to take a break from studies and relax. You may be planning to return home, go on holiday or do some work experience, but before you go-just a quick reminder to return the books, laptops and ergonomic equipment which you might not need to […]

Co-Working Collective

Co-Working Collective   Well done on reaching week 7. By now you’re no doubt up to your neck in work: all those pesky assignments, all that reading and note-taking, the class discussions, the late nighters. It can be hard to stay organised and keep on top of it all. The Library is here to help […]

Laptop Loans

Laptop Loan Continuing with our induction, we are going to look at laptop loans. If you don’t have access to a laptop for your studies here at Edinburgh Napier there are laptops which can be borrowed from our lapsafe lockers. Lapsafe lockers exist in all 3 campus libraries, in the JKCC and at Bainfield student […]

World Mental Health Day 2024

World Mental Health Day 2024 It’s World Mental Health Day 2024.  Celebrated every October 10th. Everyone is encouraged to come together and talk, showing that mental health matters. Check in on the people in your family and how they are doing. Mental Health Support at the Library “Here in the Library, we believe that looking […]

A Quick Guide to Finding a Book with LibrarySearch

Finding a book with LibrarySearch Are deadlines coming up? Assignments due? And Google just won’t do. Our quick guide to finding a book with LibrarySearch that will save the day! There are books, journals, peer-reviewed articles and much more. We have over 225 databases, 33 000 journals, 100 000 books and well over 300 000 […]

Finding your book with Dewey Decimal Shelf Marks

Finding your book with Dewey Decimal Shelf Marks HELP! How do I find my book? Finding your book with Dewey Decimal Shelf Marks may seem confusing at first but really it is very straightforward. First off, make sure you have checked your book is available by looking it up on our Library Catalogue: LibrarySearch For […]

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