When you finish your thesis it will be available in the Kent Academic Repository (KAR). KAR is Kent’s Open Access institutional archive, through which your … Read more
Kent wins Outstanding Library Team in THE Awards 2019
The University has won the Outstanding Library Team category of the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2019. This award ‘recognises outstanding work in library and information-services … Read more
Building the KMMS Library – my first weeks
As a health and medical librarian, the opportunity to build a new medical library doesn’t come up that often, and I consider myself very lucky … Read more
Templeman Library: 2020 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist!
The Templeman Library has been selected as a 2020 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist! The Templeman Library has been coined the heart of the Canterbury … Read more
Open access gift from SAGE
SAGE are offering to publish hybrid open access articles for free within the Library subscription for the remainder of 2019. This applies to research articles … Read more
Emails from suppliers and known contacts – be wary
Staff: if you get an email from a University of Kent supplier, external agent or a named contact that you usually work with, always follow … Read more
Mendeley & OSX Mojave Users (Mac)
Apple Mac users who have upgraded to OSX Mojave, have been experiencing problems using the Mendeley Reference Management Tool. Elsiever have reported that the Mendeley … Read more
Expanding diversity in our library collections
Following on from the award winning Diversity Mark pilots at the University of Kent, the library have developed a range of tools to help academics include … Read more
ScienceDirect Freedom Collection: you read, we buy!
The Library now offers students and staff free online access to the Freedom Collection, which has over 14,000 ebook titles over a range of subjects … Read more
Introduction to the library for new academic staff
Are you academic staff and have joined Kent recently? If so, don’t miss the opportunity to find out all about the support for your teaching … Read more









