How to save your MyiLibrary ebook notes before the migration to Ebook Central in April 2018

How to preserve your MyiLibrary notes

ProQuest, the new owner of MyiLibrary is about to migrate the ebooks to their Ebook Central platform, but if you used the bookmarking and highlighting features on MyiLibrary, you will lose those indications in your ebooks after the upgrade. However, your notes can be preserved in books you’ve read online (not in books you’ve downloaded).

Here’s how to preserve notes before your library upgrades to Ebook Central
(instructions from ProQuest) available at:
https://www.keele.ac.uk/media/keeleuniversity/academicservices/library/pdfs/saving-myilibrary-notes-before-upgrade.pdf

Step 1: Log in to MyiLibrary.

Step 2: Select “My Account” at the top of the home page, then “Notes” from the drop-down menu. You will see the list of books that have annotated notes.

Step 3: Select the titles from which you want to preserve your notes.

Step 4: Choose to either print your notes or email them to yourself. If you choose to email your notes, you will receive an HTML-based message from notes@ingramdigital.com that includes the book titles, the page numbers associated with your notes, and the note titles. Also included will be a link to each note page in MyiLibrary, although these links will not be valid once the Ebook Central upgrade is complete.

Sample Notes Email:

Problems accessing Wiley Online off-campus

We have been made aware that accessing Wiley Online ejournals from off-campus is currently bringing up an error page. We have notified Wiley Online technical support and hope that the problem will be fixed soon.
Access is working on-campus but please let us know if you are having trouble getting hold of an article.

Tom's Archive Work Placement Blog

My name is Tom Williams, I’m a second year History student here at Keele, and currently undertaking a work placement in the University’s Special Collections and Archives. Just recently, a Second World War-era NAAFI cup was received by the Archives, having been discovered beneath Keele campus in the midst of works to install district heating pipework along Central Drive. I’ve been researching this remnant of Keele’s history and learning more about Keele’s wartime past.

Keele Hall and the surrounding estate were requisitioned by the military during World War II, with a temporary camp being built for British (and sometimes American) troops, notably those recently evacuated from Dunkirk. According to one Philip Higson, a man who spent much of his childhood in Keele, war had never seemed such a genuine reality until the arrival of a host of ‘gum-chewing’ and ‘cigar-smoking’ American soldiers into the Keele area in 1944.

During the war, the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) provided canteens, shops and other facilities for the British Armed Forces on military bases across the country, including the camp at Keele. NAAFI crockery was mass produced during wartime and this cup was possibly manufactured by local company ‘Wood & Sons’ of Burslem.

When the Stoke-on-Trent Corporation purchased Keele Hall and its surrounding estate in 1948, it was faced with the task of finding uses for the multitude of buildings and huts left by its wartime occupants. With the establishment of the University College, many of the huts were converted into student accommodation, whilst other buildings were repurposed as the Students’ Union, Refectory and Chapel. The superior American barracks huts remained in active use on campus for four decades.

It is amazing to see reminders of our unique history still being discovered around campus to this day, who knows what else could be hidden!

Repo the Rewards of Open Access

You can search for over 4000 open access journal articles through Keele's Research Repository that have been submitted by researchers here at Keele.  And there are more articles being submitted all the time in preparation for the next Research Excellence Framework.

Making your research open access allows more people to view, access, share and build on your work, so if you've made a discovery like Frederick here and it's going to be published in a journal, please make sure you also self-archive it to the Publications Database as soon as you've had the article accepted (or at least within 12 weeks after!) and it will be part of the next REF.

Compounded!

Continuing our celebration of British Science Week, we're looking at Reaxys, which is a great resource for putting together your own chemical reactions.

You can retrieve precise and accurate property, reaction and synthesis data from a collection of peer-reviewed literature, patents and substance databases.

Take a look at the video tutorials or the Quick Start Guide to help you get started in creating chemical compounds.

It's British Science Week!

British Science Week is underway and between Friday 9th and Sunday 18th March, we'll be showcasing some of the great science resources available from the Library. Starting today with GeoBase. 

This is an ideal resource if you're studying the Earth Sciences and is a multidisciplinary database providing journal articles on areas such as: human and physical geography, geology, environmental sciences, ecology, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.

Take a look at our Quick Guide to GeoBase to get you started with searching.