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Guides & Helpsheets

 

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• Getting Started
  
  
  • - Athens:  Accessing Electronic Resources
  • - Borrowing Entitlements
  • - Borrowing Entitlement (Cat Hill specific)
  • - Electronic Resources
  • - Guide to Middlesex University Library Catalogue
  • - Journals and Magazines
  • - Library Fines and Charges for Lost Items
  • - Middlesex Accounts: User Names and Passwords
  • - Managing Your Library Account
  • - Renewing Library Materials
  • - Requesting Library Materials
  • - Searching for Journal Articles
• Online Demos
  
  
  
  •  Logging in to Athens
     Logging in to MISIS
     Using your library account
    
    


• Computer Network and Software
  
  
  • - Booking a Computer
  • - Introduction to SkyDrive
  • - Logging into the Network
  • - Middlesex Accounts: User Names and Passwords
  • - Remote Network Access using VPN
  • - Student Email
  • - Student Email - Transfer emails to Middlesex Live
  • - Wireless Network Access
  • - Wireless Network Access: iPhone setup
  • - Virus Protection
  • - Writing CDs
    
    Windows Documents
  • - Publish Web Pages on the Alphas with Vista Exceed
  • - AutoCAD - Please access Lynda.com for tuotials. See information below.
  • - Microfit - Please access Lynda.com for tutoials. See information below.
    
    
    Apple Macintosh Documents
  • - Burning CD Roms on a Macintosh Computer
  • - Font Book: Managing your fonts
  • - Microsoft Word Mac: Footnotes / Endnotes
  • - Microsoft Word Mac: Page Numbers
  • - Microsoft Word Mac: Table and Lists
  • - Photoshop CS: Printing Oversized Documents
  • - Photoshop CS: Using Contact Sheets (thumbnails)
    
    Disability Support The following copyright documents are provided by kind permission of Leeds Metropolitan University Learning and Information Services:
    
    
  • - TextHELP Read and Write Gold Tutorial Guide
  • - TextHELP Read and Write Gold: Scanning and Speechmaker
  • - TextHELP Read and Write Gold: Speech Input
  • - TextHELP Read and Write Gold: Fact folder and Fact finder
  • TextHELP Read and Write Gold files to download:
    spellings.doc
    homophones.doc
    
    Lynda.com
  • Lynda.com is an online training library providing a wide range of tutorials. You need to login to Athens in order to use Lynda.com. If you are already logged in to Athens you can use the link below:
  • www.lynda.com
    Here is a sample from the Lynda.com library:
    
  • Effective Presentations Using PowerPoint
    
    
    
• Study Skills
  
  
  • - Copyright
  • - Essay Writing
  • - Evaluating your Search Results
  • - Preparing for Exams
  • - Reading for Academic Purposes
  • - Referencing and Citation Style: Arts & Humanities
  • - Referencing and Citation Style: Engineering & Information Sciences - Short Guide
  • - Referencing and Citation Style: Engineering & Information Sciences - Extended Guide
  • - Referencing and Citation Style: Health and Social Sciences
  • - Taking Notes
  • - Theses and Dissertations
  • Intute Virtual Training Suite
    http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
    
    Intute is a free online service giving access to online resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the Intute database and write descriptions of the resources. The database contains over 113340 records.  The Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials to help you learn how to get the best from the Web for your education and research.  Tutorials are written and updated by a national team of subject specialists based in universities and colleges across the UK.
    
    
    
• Special Collections
  
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    - Bernie Grant Archive
  • - Future Histories Archives
  • - Hornsey College of Art Archive
  • - Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive
  • - Library of Historic Advertising
  • - MoDA (Museum of Domestic Architecture) - a Student Guide
  • - Runnymede Collection at Middlesex University
  • - Special Collections in Art & Design
  • - The Slide Library Collection


• Subject Guides
  
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    Subject Guides may now be found at http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk


• Databases
  
  
  • - ACM Portal
  • - Art Full Text : How to Search
  • - ARTbibliographies Modern: How to search
  • - Arts & Humanities Citation Index:  How to Search
  • - British Nursing Index
  • - Cinahl Guide
  • - Columbia International Affairs Online: How to use
  • - Computer Source: How to use
  • - ENDS Report
  • - Film Index International: How to search
  • - Geobase
  • - IEEE Xplore® Digital Library: How to Use
  • - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
  • - International FilmArchive Database: How to Search
  • - Medline
  • - Newspaper Database Proquest': How to search
  • - PsycARTICLES
  • - PsycINFO
  • - RefWorks: Bibliographic Management
  • - RefWorks: Write-N-Cite
  • - Sage Journals Online Guide
  • - Social Sciences Citation Index
  • - SPORTDiscus
  • - Zetoc Alert: How to subscribe
• Equipment
  
  • - Data Projector (generic): Use with a Laptop
  • - Data Projector Ampro LCD-160
  • - Overhead Projector