User guides
General guides
- Bibliographic Citations: using the APA 6th Harvard system
- Bibliographic Citations: using the APA Harvard system - Quick Referencing Guide
- Bibliometrics
- Borrowing books and other resources
- Class numbers - how to decipher them
- Copying - Follow You
- Copyright - the effects upon you
- Document Delivery
- Document Delivery for off campus learners/Distance Learners
- EndNote Web - suitable for undergraduates and taught postgraduates
- EndNote Web - importing records from databases
- EndNote X4 - suitable for postgraduate researchers and staff
- Also available: EndNote X4 workbooks, including importing database records
- Examination papers on the Web
- Follow You - Copying
- Google Scholar and Find It
- Images - finding the right image
- IT Facilities
- Journal articles - how to find them
- LaSU - see Reading lists
- for Library Catalogue - see SOLAR
- Local libraries
- Off campus learners services
- Plagiarism: An interactive guide on plagiarism & how to avoid it
- Reading lists at Salford - LaSU - for students
- Reading lists at Salford - LaSU - for staff only
- Search strategies - planning your search strategy
- SOLAR - Searching Our Library's Academic Resources
- Theses - how to find them
- Turnitin via Blackboard: A Guide for Students
- Turnitin: How to interpret a Turnitin originality report
- Turnitin: How to view marks and grades
- Users with disabilities and dyslexia - access to Library facilities
- Users with disabilities and dyslexia - access to Library facilities (large print)
- Users with disabilities and dyslexia - Library services
- Users with disabilities and dyslexia - Library services (large print)
- USIR - depositing research material (USIR - University of Salford Institutional Repository)
Computing
- Athens explained
- CD writers - saving files using Ahead Nero
- CD writers - saving files using CDBurnerXP
- Connecting a laptop to an external monitor
- Email - General - email etiquette - using email effectively
- Email - General - filtering spam out of your email
- Email - Outlook - email management
- Email - Outlook - using Outlook Web Access (remote access for staff)
- Email - Outlook - using the Address book
- Email - Student Email
- Email - Staff Email: remote access RPC over HTTPS
- F:drive - accessing your personal Salford filestore from off campus
- File management (for students)
- Filestore Management (for staff)
- Follow You - Printing, Copying, Scan-to-email
- Internet guide (using MS Internet Explorer 7)
- iPhone devices: Android & Exchange Set up Guide
- iPhone devices: iPhone & Exchange Set up Guide
- iPhone devices: Nokia E71 & Exchange Set up Guide
- IT facilities
- Language support - enabling language support in Library PC suites
- Microsoft Office 2007 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Microsoft Update service
- Passwords and their uses
- Printing - Follow You
- Printing - direct
- Printing A3 size colour documents
- Printing - Electronic Payment for Printing: Frequently Asked Questions FAQ
- Remote Management - configuring your PC and FAQ
- Scanners (HP Scanjet 3770)
- Spyware - removing spyware from your PC using Spybot
- Training - online ICT courseware
- Virus protection software - how to install it and become PC virus savvy
- Web authentication - access to restricted Web pages from off campus
- Windows Update service - see Microsoft Update service
- WinZip: compressing files
- Wireless network services: a connection guide for Macs OS
- Wireless network services: a connection guide for Windows OS
- Wireless network services: a troubleshooting guide
Databases
The Help sections of our databases are very good. Listed below are a number of guides where extra help is provided.
Subjects
- Acoustics, Audio and Video
- Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering
- Art and Design
- Biosciences
- Built Environment
- Built Environment - Distance Learners
- Built Environment - Distance Learners - Overseas
- Built Environment - Doctorate
- Built Environment - EndNote Web for Distance Learners
- Business and Management
- Civil, Gas and Transport Engineering
- Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications
- Criminology
- Economics
- English language
- English literature
- Environmental Health
- Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
- Finance and Accounting
- Geography and Environment
- Health and Social Care
- Housing and Regeneration
- Information Systems
- Languages
- Languages - useful resources for EFL students
- Law
- Leisure Industries
- Media, Music and Performance
- Physics
- Politics and Contemporary history
- Sociology
- Wildlife and Zoo Biology