Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak we have been working tirelessly at the Library to make sure that we can provide our students with as much support as we possibly can do remotely. It has been vital to ensure that support sessions and contact has remained accessible while our doors are closed. We have moved workshops online, developed e-mail appointments, made use of new website features and much more to ensure that students at DMU can still feel assisted in their studies.
As well as ensuring that our support services are still up and running, we have worked to expand our already vast range of e-resources so that students can still conduct research, complete assignments and prepare for exams. The global academic community has been quick to react throughout this time with a broad range of institutions opening up their online archives for wider access to students around the world, allowing for education to continue and for vital research to still be conducted in spite of current circumstances. As well as this, staff at DMU have worked hard to identify potentially useful new resources to which we can give access to DMU students, investing in a range of new archives, collections, journals and other resources.
One such new resource is that of the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) online database, which provides a huge amount of analyses, cost indices, and more for buildings all around the UK. This particular resource is likely to be of particular interest to our architecture students, but can be accessed by anyone here at DMU.
In order to get access to this resource yourself, due to provider restrictions, we have to host the temporary login on a secure site that only students/staff can access. In light of this, the temporary u/p have been added to the eJournals requiring passwords page here. Library users have to click on the SAML link first and then log in with their Single Sign On account. This will then allow them to see the secure page with passwords.
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