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  1. The Encyclopedia of Life is a free online portal documenting the 1.9 million living species of plant and animal... eol.org
  2. Offical campus opening at Riverside Friday 27th Jan. Library will be closed from 1-3pm to allow staff to attend. Apologies for inconvenience
  3. Remember you can ask for help via our Library Chat service! Between 9 and 5...Click the Library Chat icon sac.ac.uk/library
  4. Designing a survey? Not sure what questions to ask? The Survey Databank has lots of top tips! surveynet.ac.uk/sqb/qb/
  5. Writing your dissertation? Here's a useful website from University of Manchester phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk
  6. Directory of Open Access Journals has links to FREE, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals! doaj.org
  7. Visualising Urban Geographies is a fascinating project using digitized, geo-referenced maps along with historical info bit.ly/f181Di
  8. Look & Like! SAC Library Facebook page keeps you up to date with library news and useful resources! facebook.com/librarySAC
  9. Digimap has a new data downloader, improved search and data selection interface, and new home page coming soon! edina.ac.uk/digimap/
  10. Early journal content from JSTOR now freely available! Almost 500,000 pre 1870 articles freely available here:bit.ly/uJDCUg
  11. SAC Ayr Riverside will close @ 1pm on Friday 23rd Dec and reopen on Wed 4th Jan. Merry Christmas& Happy New Year to all our readers.
  12. SAC Edinburgh library will close at 1pm on Fri 23rd Dec and re-open on Wed 4th Jan - wishing you a Merry Xmas & Happy New Year!
  13. Riverside campus library will open Mon-Thurs next week 8.45- 5pm. We will close for Christmas @ noon on Fri 23rd and reopen on 4th Jan
  14. SAC Edinburgh library closing at 3pm today (Thurs 8th) due to weather conditions.
  15. SAC Riverside library, Ayr will be closing at noon (Thurs 8th) due to the worsening weather conditions
  16. Six of the best – Ebooks available to you 24/7, on/off campus. Access through library catalogue with Athens account bit.ly/taEJMk
  17. The Skills4Study site will be unavailable on Saturday 26th November due to a network upgrade.
  18. Cambridge Journals Online -due to technical problems Athens access is unavailable. Apologies! we'll let you know when issue is resolved.
  19. Six of the best – Digimap & Go-Geo! Portal Need mapping or geo-spatial info? Try Digimap bit.ly/uJDCUg & Go-Geo! bit.ly/lHFYFg
  20. Six of the best – ScienceDirect bit.ly/GZaqm Full-text journals on Physical, Life and Social sciences, also includes 230+ ebooks!