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In addition to a comprehensive collection of books and journals, the Library has a variety of authoritative electronic books and resources that you can use for as long as you need at home or anywhere else that you have internet access.

Many of these resources require an Athens username and password.

How to register for Athens

Ask at the Library desk for an Athens copyright form. Please read this carefully and complete the information requested, then return this to a member of Library staff.

You will then receive an information leaflet explaining how to complete registration on the Athens website. This requires a valid email address.

Please note that although you need to register on a library PC, you can use Athens on any other PC - on or off campus - after the registration process is complete.

Self-registration

Select the link Login to MyAthens from the options shown, and on the next page, enter the printed username and password from your information leaflet.

After this, you will be prompted to complete the self-registration form and choose your own unique username and password. Click on 'submit' when you have entered all of the information.

Your username must be between 6 & 20 characters long
It will automatically begin with the prefix mea and a number denoting the current academic year, so for the session 2012/2013, the prefix will be mea12
Your password must also be between 6 & 20 characters long
Please choose a memorable username and password!

Athens Resources

Adept Scientific - Adept4Education

Offers a range of software for students, lecturers and staff in education, including tools for reference management, engineering mathematics, mathematical problem solving, statistics and much more.

Clinical Evidence

An international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions.

ebrary

A collection of around 2000 electronic books in full text. Allows copying and pasting and provides the full citation for you. Includes many set texts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

A fully searchable database of over 100,000 articles and related web links, including audio and video clips, maps, graphs and illustrations.

Gale Databases

An extensive collection of electronic books and databases including The Times Digital Archive.

IngentaConnect

Academic and professional publications available for online delivery (be aware that much of this content is not free of charge for students to use).

My iLibrary

Electronic books from library supplier Coutts.

Radio at BUFVC

A project bringing together the archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 - 1996.

Sage Journals Online

Journal content - some full text - for Business, Humanities, Social Science, and Science & Technology students.

Scran

Provides educational access to digital material representing Scotland's history and culture. Contains 360,000 images, movies and sounds.

TVTimes Project 1955-1985

A fully searchable database of the programmes listed in the TV Times from September 1955 to March 1985.

Other useful electronic resources

Business@The Mitchell

A collection of business-related electronic resources that can be used by students as well as those working in the field. Many of the databases are available online, though some require a visit to a public library. Resource titles include Credo Reference, Key Note, Factiva, Mint UK and Global, Proquest Central, Which?, British Standards Online and more.

Please ask at the Library for further information. If you don't have a public library card login, you can use ours.

Intute

A helpful site that finds the best web resources for your subject area and also includes tutorials on effective internet searching.

Scottish Screen Archive

Scotland's national moving images collections where you can watch over 1000 film clips and full films.

Further information

If you require further information or assistance when using Athens or other electronic resources, please contact a member of Library staff.

library@anniesland.ac.uk