Oxford Medical Handbooks Online: new titles and editions

We are pleased to announce that we have new editions - and a number of new titles - from the popular series of Oxford Medical Handbook online.

For easy access, a list of the titles that are currently available has been compiled: view it here.

Wi-Fi improvements at the Campus Library

Over the summer IT Services will be making major improvements to wireless networking across campus. Work on the Library is due to start next Monday (10th June 2013) and should take about 2 weeks to complete.During this period there may be some minor disruption from drilling or ladders, but we'll try to minimise this as much as possible. If you have any problems accessing books or journals please let the Info-Point staff know and we'll fetch them for you.

Library Vacation opening

Summer Vacation officially starts this week-end so the Library cease the provision of 24 Hour opening on Friday 7 June at 18.30 hrs and will re-commence on Monday 30 September 2013.

Summer Opening - 8 June to 29 September - will be as follows
Monday to Thursday 08.50 to 22.00 hrs
Friday 08.50 to 18.30 hrs
Saturday and Sunday - 11.00 to 1700 hrs

Compared to previous years, this represents extended opening into the evenings on Monday to Thursday - we hope it will meet the needs of our customers.

New Guinness World Record set at Keele University Library

A massive well done to Matthew Carr and Fraser Greenroyd who have secured the new Guinness World Record for the longest chess tournament at around 8am this morning.

The previous record of 40 hours and 20 minutes has been exceeded by some distance as Matthew and Fraser managed 44 hours and 02 minutes.

They are now taking a well earned rest - I'm sure you will join me in congratulating them for a job well done!

Guinness World Record attempt

At Midday today in the main entrance of Keele Campus Library, Matthew Carr and Fraser Greenroyd, both Computer Science students at Keele, began a world record attempt to play the longest Chess Tournament.

The current record stands at 40 hours and 20 minutes so the guys expect to break that record on Wednesday morning!  They are raising money for a local children's charity whilst doing this so please come along and give them your support and help them help others whilst they make a bid for a Guinness World Record.

Extended Summer Opening

We are pleased to announce that the Campus Library will be opening until 10pm Monday to Thursday throughout Summer vacation.  There will be a limited counter service available from 5pm onwards but we are sure this extension in opening times will be a popular move.

Also to note, the Info Point enquiries service will be available again throughout Summer vacation, (9-5pm, Monday to Friday).  If you need advice on using databases or Library's software including RefWorks and Encore Synergy, or want any help getting your hands on relevant reading material, please pop along and see the Info Point team.

Springer Protocols

A new resource to Keele Unviersity library users, to access go to http://www.springerprotocols.com/index.vm


Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories.  These documents provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment.

SpringerProtocols combines the world’s largest collection of protocols with advanced search functionality.  Each protocol is in four sections—Introduction, Materials, Methods, Notes—so that information will always be exactly where you expect to find it.

SpringerProtocols contains more than 28,000 protocols, most of which come from the classic book series Methods in Molecular Biology.  Each protocol is a chapter of a book, and each book is a collection of protocols on a given research topic.