Workshops and online learning materials including:-
Finding Research for Assignments
(introductory information including a section on evaluating sources)
Videos
How your Library team can help
What’s available from the Library?
Finding library resources (demo)
Finding resources from off-campus
Books and journals (demos books / journals)
Discovery – finding ebooks off-campus
Discovery - finding journal articles off campus
Introduction to building a search strategy
Using truncation and wildcards
Applying limits to your search
Discovery demo- searching on your essay topic
Discovery demo- finding known items on your reading list
Getting the full text via library links
Safari (Macs, including iPhones/iPads)
Safari blocks "cross site tracking" by default, but this feature is used to give you access to the videos hosted on Microsoft Stream, so you will see a "it looks like a there's a problem" message.
On the error message there is a link to "open in new window", which should open the video. (If you wish to permit cross site tracking you can change this in your Safari settings.)
All browsers (including Safari, Chrome, Edge, etc.)
These videos are only visible to Heriot-Watt staff and students. If you are getting an error saying that the video can't be found, or any other errors, check whether you are logged into your Heriot-Watt account (and not an account for another university/your employer) by going to https://portal.office.com/ .
What's available from the Library
Why use library resources?
Searching Discovery on your essay topic
Finding items on your essay reading list using Discovery