{"id":875,"date":"2017-12-04T09:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmpgr\/?page_id=875"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T10:55:05","slug":"university-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmpgr\/university-it\/","title":{"rendered":"University IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Newcastle e-mail<\/h3>\n<p>All official correspondence about postgraduate studies will be to your Newcastle University student e-mail address.\u00a0We can&#8217;t make exceptions to this rule. Your ePortfolio registration is tied to your student account, and the mails are sent directly to that account by the ePortfolio software.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware that staff and honorary members often have a preferred personal or work account, and would rather not add another account to their e-mail clutter. You can use message forwarding if you want to read your email from a different account.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re e-mailing the University about something important, do please use your Newcastle University e-mail address. Things can go astray; possibly spam filtered, we&#8217;ll never know. If you sent them from gmail or hotmail or whatever, there is no evidence that they were ever sent.<\/p>\n<h3>Library help<\/h3>\n<p>If you experience any difficulties you can seek help from the library via the <a href=\"mailto:medliaison@ncl.ac.uk\">medliaison@ncl.ac.uk<\/a> email address. The library are also the source of wisdom on Endnote reference manager. An online tutorial on Endnote can be found at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/endnote\">http:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/endnote<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Other good stuff<\/h3>\n<p>Here are three things I find very useful in making best use of Newcastle University I.T. facilities:<\/p>\n<h3>Thing 1: RAS<\/h3>\n<p>The Remote Application Service lets you use the University computing facilities from home. I find myself using the e-journals, but you can also run a lot of software over the link. It is occasionally useful to access websites from work that the NHS block.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/ras\/\">http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/ras\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thing 2: Web folders<\/h3>\n<p>If you use RAS, it&#8217;s a nuisance transferring files back and forth. &#8216;WebFolders&#8217; is a way to access your University account as if it was just a folder on your home computer. When you&#8217;ve set it up (once only), your University account appears in Windows Explorer like any other folder, and you can drag and drop just like normal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/filestore\/remoteaccess\/webfolders\/\">http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/filestore\/remoteaccess\/webfolders\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Thing 3: Personal software licenses<\/h3>\n<p>For a lot of software you can obtain a personal license through the University for the duration of your project. If nothing else, you should get a copy of your preferred statistical analysis package (SPSS, MINITAB, Prism, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/licences\/\">http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/software\/licences\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>IT support service<\/h3>\n<p>If you have any IT related problems, then please get in touch with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/itservice\/support\/\">IT support services<\/a> and put in a request. 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