The cost of colour photocopying / printing on all Library operated machines has dropped.
From 24/05/2008 the charge for A4 colour dropped from 15p to 12p, and A3 from 30p to 24p.
Further Printing & Photocopying Price Changes May 27, 2008
Spiral Celebrates its 1000th Submission May 27, 2008
We are pleased to announce that Spiral, Imperial College’s digital repository, has reached its 1000th entry. Spiral went live in September 2007 and was officially launched in March 2008. It contains full-text of journals, conference papers and books chapters published by Imperial academics and researchers. The 1000th item can be viewed here
Spiral is designed to make its content highly accessible by search engines, increasing the likelihood of the papers appearing at the top of results lists in Google and other services.
Spiral is fully integrated with Symplectic Publications and electronic copies of papers can be uploaded via Symplectic Publications. All publications in Spiral have a link in Professional Web Pages.
View Spiral’s content
Independent Local Radio Programme Sharing Database May 20, 2008
The Library has subscribed to a new database. This is a three part collection, appearing as an inter-related online audio archive of nearly 12000 hours of UK commercial radio, over a period of three years.
The ILR Programme Sharing Scheme was organised initially by the IBA, and encompassed a concept which enabled features, drama, music and news producers working in commercial radio around Britain to offer material – including a significant body of speech-based programming produced locally – to other stations.
The database is accessible via Athens access
New Haldane Collection Material for May May 20, 2008
A selection of new CDs, DVDs, fiction and course related material from the Haldane collection.
Visual Arts Data Service: relaunch May 8, 2008
The Visual Arts Data Service has been relaunched giving the education community access to 100,000 online images including:
- East End archival project containing photos
- Spanish Civil War Posters
- Posters of Conflict
- National Inventory of Continental European Painting
Intute Limelight page: endangered languages May 6, 2008
The latest Intute limilight page focuses on endangered languages. The page provides links to background guides, specific languages and geographical regions and journals and conferences.
Printing and Photocopying Price Change May 2, 2008
The photocopying prices for Black and White printing and copying from Imperial Library machines will be dropping by 1p from 03/05/2008.
A4 will now cost 3p and A3 6p.
Translation Search Engine May 1, 2008
The Humanities Library team have created a Translation focused search engine, which we hope will be of use to staff and students.
This engine uses selected sites of particular relevance to the study of translation, and will only search across these specific sites.
At launch there are 37 sites covered, and this list will be expanded over time.
