User guides
New guides: Inter-site loans
General guides
- Access guide to library facilities
- Accessible library services
- Athens explained
- Bibliographic Citations: using the APA 6th Harvard system
- Bibliographic Citations: using the APA Harvard system - Quick Referencing Guide
- Bibliographic Citations: referencing images
- Bibliometrics
- 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
- Inter-site loans
- IT Facilities
- Journal articles - how to find them
- LaSU - see Reading lists
- for Library Catalogue - see SOLAR
- Local libraries
- Reading lists at Salford - LaSU - for students
- Reading lists at Salford - LaSU - for staff only
- Referencing images
- Search strategies - planning your search strategy
- SOLAR - Searching Our Library's Academic Resources
- Theses - how to find them
- Turnitin: How to interpret a Turnitin originality report
- USIR - depositing research material (USIR - University of Salford Institutional Repository)
Computing
- Athens explained
- CD writers - saving files using CDBurnerXP
- Changing colour background on your computer (a Disability Service guide)
- Connecting a laptop to an external monitor
- Email - General - email etiquette - using email effectively
- 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
- Laptop loans
- Microsoft Office 2007 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Microsoft Update service
- Microsoft Word 2010: Changing page orientation
- Microsoft Word 2010: Multi level numbering
- Microsoft Word 2010: Page numbering in long documents
- Microsoft Word 2010: Tables of contents
- Passwords and their uses
- Printing - Follow You
- Printing - direct
- Printing - Electronic Payment for Printing: Frequently Asked Questions 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
- What's New in Windows 7 & Office 2010
- 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, Mechanical and Gas
- Art and Design
- Biosciences
- Built Environment
- Business and Management
- Civil, Structural, Gas and Petroleum
- Computer Science
- Criminology
- Economics
- English language
- English literature
- Environmental Health
- 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 - Animation, Computer and Video Games
- Media, Music and Performance - Creative Media / and Scriptwriting
- Media, Music and Performance - Journalism
- Media, Music and Performance - Media
- Media, Music and Performance - Music
- Media, Music and Performance - Performance / Scriptwriting
- Physics
- Politics and Contemporary history
- Sociology
- Wildlife and Zoo Biology