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Curious about UM Library's 2017 highlights on services and support for researchers, teachers and students? Take a look at this 5 minute video where we give the floor to some of our users within Maastricht University ... Keep reading

The University Library offers several skills training sessions in January 2018 for master students SBE. ... Keep reading

Need help finding Supreme Court and Court of Appeal cases, government codes and regulations, or law journal articles? Come to our workshop and learn how to use our WestlawNext and Westlaw UK legal databases ... Keep reading

Not just numbers, but that’s how many workshops the skills & support team of the UM Library delivered and the number of participants in January 2017 ... Keep reading

The University Library offers several skills training sessions in January 2017 for master students SBE. ... Keep reading

On 1 June 2016 EndNote X7.3 will be upgraded to EndNote version X7.5 ... Keep reading

For master students SBE the University Library offers several skills training sessions in June 2016 ... Keep reading

When you quickly want to find e-journals in LibSearch, i.e. “Nature of Science”, use the advanced search option below the search box. Select the filter “title phrase”. Fill in “Nature” and click on the search button. The first result is the one you are looking for ... Keep reading

The University Library offers a dedicated collaboration tool, that not only facilitates communication and information sharing, but explicitly offers the possibility to work together in a safe environment: the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) based on Sharepoint (MicroSoft) ... Keep reading

Publishing Open Access as a result of the agreement between Dutch universities and publisher Wiley is possible starting 4 March 2016. With the accepted article corresponding authors of universities must indicate themselves that the article should be published in Open Access. No extra costs are charged for them ... Keep reading

As from Monday 1 February the University Library offers you LibSearch, an improved library search engine for all students and employees of Maastricht University and external library members. It has a new interface and offers extra search options. You might run into some questions during your first usages. We are ready to help you. ... Keep reading

The University Library offers you more than just a collection of books: aside from its outstanding collection, it is also a place for students to come together and make use of all our state-of-the-art facilities.The Online Library is available 24/7. We offer a range of services that may be of interest to you ... Keep reading

We are looking for a communicative, experienced and flexible colleague for functional support to educational staff at Maastricht University when using the UM Learning Management System (currently Blackboard) and the associated tools and applications such as video applications. And the online work-, teaching- and examination-places for students (the Student desktop) ... Keep reading

The University Sports Centre in Randwyck is the brand new indoor sports accommodation of Maastricht University. It is a multifunctional accommodation where Learning Spaces are at your disposal. You do not need a UM sports card to use the Learning Spaces; but you must have a valid UM card ... Keep reading

Announcement: As from 1 February 2016, the University Library offers you LibSearch, an improved library search engine for all students and employees of Maastricht University. LibSearch is the successor to the formerly used search engine Quick Search and the UM catalogue. It has a new interface and offers extra search options ... Keep reading

Do you have books or other materials from the University Library that you are no longer using? Then you can do us a big favour by returning them before 29 January to the inner city or Randwyck locations. That way, you will help us facilitate the switch to a new library system. ... Keep reading

Research has become more and more interdisciplinary and goes beyond the boundaries of one’s institute. To be successful, for most researchers collaboration is essential ... Keep reading

Medical students are consumers of research output, but are also under increased requirements to become producers of research content. Open Access has clear advantages from both perspectives. It allows medical students, whether in Maastricht or in Sydney, to draw on a wider array of research output than would otherwise be possible ... Keep reading

Open Access is entering steadily into the Humanities and Social Sciences, and is now considered as an alternative to the traditional way of publishing monographs and scientific books. It is also worth noting that the submission of manuscripts of monographs to OA publishers is no different to that of ‘normal’, ‘traditional’ publishing house ... Keep reading

The University Library offers a dedicated collaboration tool, that not only facilitates communication and information sharing, but explicitly offers the possibility to work together: the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) based on Sharepoint (MicroSoft) ... Keep reading