Until 17 July 2020, holders of an Oxford SSO will be able to read books on the Perlego platform Despite what the name might suggest to some of us, Perlego is a multidisciplinary library of some 300, 000 titles. The website owners have collected the law titles together so that you can browse the 4,000 or… Read More »
All the Bodleian Libraries are currently closed (to both readers and staff) until further notice, following the guidance from the UK Government and Public Health England. We are very grateful that a number of publishers have given current UK university members temporary access to additional online resources to help us all keep studying! (For Oxford… Read More »
During February, the Bodleian has arranged for trials of the three eResource packages below. OU members of all disciplines are invited to see if they could help their research or study, and send any feedback to their subject librarians. Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Gale Cengage. Until 04/03/2020. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/LGDBaz/32674793 This resource spans the sixteenth to… Read More »
Nights are drawing in and that usually means one thing – the start of a brand new academic year. Welcome back to all returning students and a warm hello to all new students embarking on your Oxford adventure! We have been busy over the Summer and so we thought we would run through some Library… Read More »
In the interest of ‘research’ for this blog post I thought I better look back and browse through some Christmas TV Specials. For this I turned to a very useful tool called ‘Box of Broadcasts’ affectionately known as ‘BoB’. The official description of this service is as follows: Box of Broadcasts is an on demand TV… Read More »
It is hard now to imagine quite how special it was for those sitting close to their family wireless back in 1932 when they heard a voice from over 10,000 miles saying “I speak now from my home [Sandringham] and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the… Read More »
‘Cluedo’, (or ‘Clue’ as it is known North America), is an all-time classic favourite board game in the murder mystery genre. Originally manufactured in 1949 by Waddington’s, it is now owned by the American giant Hasbro. It has had many reissues and updating of characters, most recently with the tragic death of Mrs White –… Read More »
Balderdash In this word game players have to write a plausible definition of a real but obscure word. Points are awarded for the correct definition. All the definitions are then read out and further points awarded to players who identify the correct definition and also to the writers of false definitions erroneously selected as the correct definition… Read More »
As an addition to the Christmas blog series, we would just like to remind those leaving Oxford in the vacation to make sure you know how to access materials from outside the Oxford network. We know that you are most likely going to be busy with festivities but if you do decide to take a… Read More »
Back in the early days of the internet, when those of us working occasionally from home, or different locations, and/or on different browsers, needed some way of storing bookmarks in a shared space (well before the cloud existed), Delicious came along,(see Wikipedia entry for history) allowing anyone to set up a free account, put their… Read More »
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