Join the space race!

Fed up emailing yourself files from home to college? Try saving files to the cloud.
 
www.dropbox.com/spacerace

CCN is taking part in the "Dropbox space race" - sign up to get free online storage space for you and for CCN, it's free!

I followed their instructions and now have about 30GB of free storage!!

NB  Other cloud storage companies are available...

Sign up for access to The Times 100 Business Case Studies!

Sign up for access to The Times 100 Business Case Studies!


Business case studies give unprecedented insight into well known organisations and highlight how they deal with real business issues.

To sign up for free access either ask at the Information Store or e-mail tis@ccn.ac.uk

Help available

Looking for help with searching for information resources for your assignments? Please note that the HE Zone reception area is now reserved every day just for this purpose between 11am-2pm.

Help available:

• Catalogue searching
• Online research
• Database searching
• E-books
• And lots more…

We are looking forward seeing you in the Information Store.

Lost without Wikipedia?

Lost without Wikipedia today?

Follow these links to go to online resources for your subject area:

> Blackboard homepage 
> Information Store 
> Subject Resources 
> Select your subject on the right 
> Scroll down for e-journals and recommended websites.

Or pop in and ask us!

Studying from home this week?

Don't struggle on alone!

Don't forget, we are open this week, from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Alternatively, ring us on 01603 773114, or email us at tis@ccn.ac.uk for help.

We have lots of online resources that you can use from home, available via Blackboard. Go to the Blackboard homepage, and select "Information Store" from underneath "Useful links".

If you are at all stuck or unsure, or need an Athens password to access resources, please contact us - we're here to help.

Accessing online articles via Infotrac

Need instant access to over 80,000 online articles, across all subject areas?

Infotrac contains over 11,500 journal titles, and over 6,500 are full text (i.e. you can read the whole article instantly).

It is easy to search, try it for yourself, or come to the Enquiry Desk for a demonstration.



(You'll need an Athens password to use Infotrac from home, we can quickly set this up for you, or look at yesterday's blogpost on how to create your own).

To access Infotrac, click this link, or

1. Go to Blackboard
2. Go to the Information Store link on the left (not the catalogue)
3. Click on the grey e-resources button
4. Scroll down to Infotrac, and click on the title 
5. Enter your Athens username and password (if off campus)
5. Select General One File to access articles

Tips on searching:

• Try changing the "keyword" dropdown to "abstract" if you want to narrow your search results ("abstract" is the paragraph about the article).
• Select from the AND, OR, NOT dropdowns to broaden or narrow your results. (AND narrows, OR broadens, NOT narrows).
• Consider changing the publication dates.
• Results - look under the "academic journals" tab for peer-reviewed (and therefore trustworthy) articles.

Please come to the Enquiry Desk in the Information Store if you would like help with any of this, we are more than happy to help!

Emerald Insight update

Good news - Emerald Insight is back up and running!

Emerald Insight maintenance

Emerald Insight is temporarily unavailable due to essential maintenance.  We’ll let you know as soon as it is available once more.