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Trial: Sage Knowledge eBooks

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce that you now have free access to almost 5 000 eBooks from SAGE Knowledge during a trial period until 31st January 2024.
SAGE Knowledge contains information suited to all levels of researchers in the social sciences.

You can explore research monographs and professional development titles in the Academic Books collection, resources in American government, politics and history in the CQ Press collection, and access encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioural sciences through the Reference collection.

You can also browse content by subject and topic within a variety of social science disciplines:

  • Business & Management
  • Counseling & Psychotherapy
  • Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • Education
  • Geography, Earth & Environmental Science
  • Health & Social Care
  • Leadership
  • Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
  • Nursing
  • Politics & International Relations
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Student Skills

Start exploring here

This trial access is available until the 31st January 2024 for all users with a library card of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST, and LIH.

Découvrez les Publications Romanes et Françaises de l’éditeur DROZ

Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que la Bibliothèque nationale vous offre l’accès à l’essai jusqu’au le 15 Novembre 2023 à une nouvelle ressource numérique : « Publications Romanes et Françaises » de l’éditeur DROZ. Cette collection contient plus de 190 volumes d’éditions critiques, d’études et de glossaires sur la littérature et la culture française médiévale et moderne (« Frühe Neuzeit »).

La collection « Publications Romanes et Françaises » a été fondée en 1928 par le philologue suisse Gustave Lanson. Depuis lors, la série a été poursuivie par d’éminents chercheurs tels que Mario Roques, Jean Frappier, Alexandre Micha et Gaston Zink. La série couvre un large éventail de sujets et de genres, de la poésie épique et du roman à la satire et à l’hagiographie, du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance.

La ressource fournit du matériel académique de haute qualité pour les chercheurs, les étudiants et les enseignants qui s’intéressent à la littérature et à la culture françaises. Vous pouvez accéder aux textes intégraux de tous les volumes, ainsi que de les rechercher, parcourir et télécharger. Vous pouvez également consulter les manuscrits originaux et les illustrations qui accompagnent certaines éditions.

Vous pouvez accéder à cette ressource via a-z.lu

ou directement via ce lien

Vous devez disposer d’une carte de lecteur valable de la Bibliothèque nationale pour pouvoir accéder au contenu.

Voici quelques exemples d’ouvrages remarquables de la collection :

« La Chanson de geste : essai sur l’art épique des jongleurs » de Jean Rychner. Il s’agit d’une étude classique sur la poésie du Moyen Âge, qui explore ses origines, ses formes, ses thèmes et ses techniques. (1)

Le Dossier d’ « Alcools » : édition annotée des préoriginales avec une introduction et des documents par Michel Décaudin. Il s’agit d’une édition critique des brouillons et manuscrits d’Alcools, le célèbre recueil de poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire. (2)

 « La Veuve en majesté : deuil et savoir au féminin dans la littérature médiévale » par Yasmina Foehr-Janssens. Il s’agit d’une étude fascinante sur la figure de la veuve dans la littérature médiévale, en tant que symbole de l’autorité, de la sagesse et de la spiritualité féminines. Elle analyse comment le deuil de la veuve était à la fois une contrainte sociale et une source d’autonomisation pour les femmes écrivains et lectrices. (3)

New subscription: New Left Review

The National library is pleased to announce the availability of New Left Review. This journal is published every two months from London. If you are interested in world politics, social theory, or contemporary art, New Left Review is a great resource to explore. It carries articles, interviews, topical comments, and runs a regular book review section.

The journal has been published since 1960 and cardholders of the National Library (BnL) have access to all articles published from the very first to the current issue.

Link to New Left Review on a-z.lu

Direct link to the New Left Review

Two examples from the New Left Review: A great portrait of Jean-Claude Juncker “Homo Europus” from issue 120 or Wolfgang Streek’s account of the financial crisis of 2008 which was called “the most powerful description of what has gone wrong in western societies” in the Financial Times.

Join our team ! Metadata and statistics manager – Open Access Transition

The National Library of Luxembourg (bnl.lu) is looking for a metadata and statistics management Service Provider in the context of the Open Access transition for its digital library department “Consortium Luxembourg pour l’acquisition et la gestion de publications électroniques”: www.consortium.lu/about

Contract type

  • 2-3 year contract, expected workload 20-30 hrs/week (negotiable)
  • Status “Independent Service Provider” (not an employee position, see “Further information” below)
  • Available: immediately
  • Deadline: All applications received until 28th June 2020 included will be considered

Job description

Consortium Luxembourg is a department of the National Library of Luxembourg founded in 2006. It is the managing entity behind the digital libraries of the University of Luxembourg, public research centres such as LIST and LIH, ministries, public libraries and secondary schools. The National Library’s digital offer itself is available, including remote access, for free for the general public.

Consortium Luxembourg is uniquely placed in the national context to enable the transition to Open Access in cooperation with its consortial partners. The Service Provider’s task will be to define, adapt, test and deploy new workflows within the existing administrative framework to ensure a smooth integration of Open Access publishing into the consortial service offer.

The Service Provider’s person of contact will be the head of consortial services and its mission will notably entail to collaborate with the existing consortium team of four people (3.18 FTE), especially the current Metadata and statistics manager.

All tasks are remotely workable. Depending on the evolution of the pandemic and provision of service, the Service Provider’s mission may require to work from the National library’s brand-new building in Luxembourg city.

The Service Provider will need to demonstrate an ability to work in perfect coordination with our teams and be self-motivated while working in a multicultural and multilingual environment, most of the people the Service Provider will be working with in the course of its assignment being at least quadrilingual.

Main tasks

Context: In 2017 we started preparing for Open Access in the Consortium department. We added tools and processes to make the transition as data driven and automated as possible. Today, we are entering a new phase (2021-2023), as many consortial processes are affected by the new realities during the transition years. This affects financial, data, statistics and communication processes. The Service Provider will use existing data and statistics tools but also adapt these tools and take part in the implementation of new tools, pilot projects and integrations.

  • Integration of workflows related to Open Access publications with the current (subscription) licence lifecycle. The context of this task are the existing administrative interfaces of the publishers and their future Open Access dashboards. The current consortial software tools are ConsortiaManager ERM; ExLibris Primo Central Index, SFX; OCLC EZProxy; Ebook Metadata Manager tool (local development) and Lean Library. 
  • Developing workflows to monitor transformational agreements efficiently with a focus on flexible cost allocation models between consortial partners (“Read” vs “Publish” costs). The context of this task are the existing processes of gathering, analysing and reporting of statistics about the national scientific publication output and its shift towards Open Access. The relationships between “Read” and “Publish” statistics such as cost, usage and citations will need to be defined. The current toolkit is: ezPAARSE software for article level usage statistics, Counter 4&5 reports, internal usage data and Kibana for analysis & visualisation. Current pilot projects are ChronosHub (with FNR.lu) and ConsortiaManager ROM (Research Output Manager).

Other tasks

  • Active participation in consortial planning for staying on top of the Open Access transition relevant to the main responsibilities above.
  • Continuous documentation of internal transformation processes.
  • Communication and training tasks, both internal and external.

Requirements

  • Fluently bilingual: English a must, plus French, German or Luxembourgish
  • Please use the categories of the Common European Framework for language skills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages 
  • University diploma (preferably in library or information science, digital publishing or similar)
  • Basic IT skills, capable understanding complex configurations, very good Excel skills

Note: The Service Provider is not required to do tasks such as server maintenance and updates or system configuration, those are handled by the IT Division of the BnL. You are required to be able to work closely with IT though.

Advantages

  • Additional languages, especially French, German and Luxembourgish. 
  • Professional experience in a comparable job or specialist studies in the field.
  • Knowledge of statistical models and projections.

How to apply

  • Please send your application by email, including a CV and motivation letter (not handwritten!) and any references you consider relevant to the head of personnel management (marc.birsens@bnl.etat.lu) and in copy, the head of consortial services (patrick.peiffer@bnl.etat.lu). Subject: “Candidature Consortium Luxembourg”.
  • All applications received until 28th June 2020 included will be considered.

Further information (without guarantee as to the accuracy of the information)

Update on access to digital library

We are busy enabling remote access for all products that were limited to in-house access, so that you can continue working now that all libraries have closed. Publishers are extremely helpful but this will take another few days. If you urgently need access to a product, please get in touch via help@findit.lu.

Update: If you are a registered user of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST or LIH you may now access the following databases from home and don’t need to be physically at the library. Please note remote access will only be available as long as the National Library and University library (LLC) are closed!

More content updates: https://www.consortium.lu/?p=8082

Any support questions can be sent as usual to help@findit.lu.

All our products can be found via the National Library’s main search engine a-z.lu. There is online help available at the top of the page in English, French and German. To limit your search to digital material, select “Digital Library” and then refine further in the second drop down:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Help with downloading and reading eBooks is available on the ebooks.lu site, again in English, French and German.

Finally, we strongly recommend that you install our Library Access Browser extension. It automatically redirects you to licensed content from the library, while you normally browse the internet. With over 700.000 eBooks and 80.000 eJournals and almost 400 databases and reference platforms, this may happen more often than you think. The Library Access Browser extension saves you time, as you do not need to search manually in a-z.lu.

Again, if you need help, do not hesitate to get in touch via help@findit.lu!

 

More information about services of the National Library during the next time: https://bnl.public.lu/fr/actualites/communiques/2020/mars2020/covid19_ressourcesenligne.html

Das neue Juris.de – jetzt noch einfacher suchen

Juris.de hat seine Rechercheoberfläche weiter für Sie verbessert. Seit kurzem können Sie die neuen Funktionen des Rechtsportals für Ihre tägliche Arbeit nutzen. Die neue Recherche zeichnet sich durch ein völlig neues Design und eine hoch intuitive Bedienbarkeit aus.

Verbesserte Such- und Filterfunktionen ermöglichen ein noch schnelleres Auffinden relevanter Inhalte. Damit ist und bleibt juris Ihr zuverlässiger Navigator durch die Flut an Rechtsinformationen.

Wir haben für Sie eine Kurzanleitung erstellt. Sie zeigt, wie Sie effektiv und schnell die von Ihnen benötigten Informationen auffinden und für Ihre Zwecke weiterverwenden können. Laden Sie die Anleitung am besten direkt hier herunter.

Neue Recherche visuell: Verbesserte Darstellung von Inhalten

Auf den ersten Blick fällt das veränderte Design der Rechercheoberfläche auf. Um eine noch zielgerichtetere und effizientere Recherche zu ermöglichen, haben wir den Navigationsbereich modernen Nutzergewohnheiten angepasst. Hierzu haben wir die Inhalte neu kategorisiert und die Darstellung bereits abonnierter Werke verbessert. Dies erleichtert den Überblick über sämtliche verfügbare Informationen. Zudem ermöglicht die optimierte Typographie ein deutlich entspannteres Lesen.

Neue Recherche funktionell: Schnellere Auffindbarkeit von Rechtsinformationen

Die neue Suchoberfläche verfügt über verbesserte Such- und Filterfunktionen. Diese vereinfachen die Recherche in vielen Rechtsgebieten, Regionen bzw. Gerichts- barkeiten und führen Sie dadurch noch schneller zu relevanten Ergebnissen. Der integrierte Expertenmodus ermöglicht zudem eine noch zielgenauere Suche.

Die Rechtsdatenbank juris.de ist aus Lizenzgründen leider nur innerhalb der Räume der Nationalbibliothek sowie auf dem Campus der Universität Luxembourg erreichbar.

Permalink zum Zugriff via a-z.lu: http://a-z.lu/BIBNET:Databases:BNL_MLBNL02668

 

 

Springer Link eBooks works correctly again

UPDATE: The problem is solved

Springer has updated their ebook pages and linking scheme.

Currently the links from a-z.lu to the different Springer ebooks are not working.

Please go directly to Springer Link  and search for your ebook until the problem is solved.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

Trial: Encyclopedia of Private International Law

Consortium Luxembourg is happy to announce that a trial for “Encyclopedia of Private International Law” (Edited by Jürgen Basedow, Giesela Rühl, Franco Ferrari and Pedro de Miguel Asensio) is available until 1st October 2017.

The role and character of Private International Law has changed tremendously over the past decades. With the steady increase of global and regional inter-connectedness the practical significance of the discipline has grown. Equally, so has the number of legislative activities on the national, international and, most importantly, the European level. With a world-class editor team, 500 content items and authorship from almost 200 of the world’s foremost scholars, the Encyclopedia of Private International Law is the definitive reference work in the field. 57 different countries are represented by authors who shed light on the current state of Private International Law around the globe, providing unique insights into the discipline and how it is affected by globalization and increased regional integration.

The Encyclopedia consists of three inter-linked pillars, enhanced by sophisticated search and cross-linking functionality. The first pillar consists of A-Z coverage of the scope and substance of Private International Law in the form of 247 entries. The second pillar comprises detailed overviews of the Private International Law regimes of 80 countries. The third pillar presents valuable, and often unique, English language translations of the national codifications and Private International Law provisions of those countries. This invaluable combination represents a powerful research tool and an indispensable reference resource.

The Encyclopedia is accessible inside the buildings of the University of Luxembourg and the National Library.

Direct link: Encyclopedia of Private International Law

Neu: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online // Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online

Ab sofort bietet das Consortium Luxembourg allen Inhabern einer Leserkarte der Nationalbibliothek Luxembourg, der Universität Luxembourg oder einem der Centres de Recherche LIH oder LIST Zugriff auf ein weiteres Nachschlagewerk: Die „Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online“.

Eine englische Übersetzung ist unter folgendem Link verfügbar: Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online (English version)

Die Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit bietet 400 Jahre Geschichte in einem Werk. Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt führen die Erkenntnisse über das bedeutsame Zeitalter von der Mitte des 15. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts zusammen. Die Perspektive ist europäisch. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass die Sicht auf den Rest der Welt versperrt ist. Im Gegenteil, die facettenreiche Wechselbeziehung von europäischen und anderen Kulturen wurde ausführlich betrachtet.

Die Enzyklopädie liefert aktuelle Antworten auf die Kernfragen:

  • Welche Ideen, Erfindungen und Ereignisse veränderten das Leben der Menschen?
  • In welcher Weise veränderten sich die Lebensbedingungen?
  • Wie greifen politische, gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Entwicklungen ineinander?
  • Welche großen kulturellen Strömungen kristallisieren sich heraus?
  • Wie wandelte sich die Deutung historischer Ereignisse?

Wie in einem Netz von roten Fäden werden die einzelnen Artikel miteinander verbunden. Der Leser, der den Fäden folgt, wird immer wieder auf neue und unerwartete Zusammenhänge und Verknüpfungen stoßen.

Die Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online basiert auf der gedruckten Ausgabe Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit (J.B. Metzler Verlag Stuttgart, 2005-2012).

Seit 2017 wird die Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online regelmäßig erweitert. Neue Artikel kommen hinzu und bestehende Artikel werden um neue Abschnitte und zusätzliche Literatur ergänzt. In Erweiterung des ursprünglichen Konzeptes sind neue Artikel auch einzelnen Räumen und Regionen gewidmet oder reflektieren aktuelle Trends der historischen Neuzeit-Forschung.

Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit (deutsche Version)
Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online (English version)