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Trial access Artstor

Consortium Luxembourg is offering a trial access to the Artstor Digital Library until 6 October 2021.

The Artstor Digital Library is an image database of 2 million images from 300 of the world’s leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.

Users can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.

Artstor also supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and modern history from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for your whole institution.

The Artstor Digital Library provides straightforward access to curated images from reliable sources that have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

Access is possible for every user with a valid library card of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST or LIH.

Please check the Artstor LibGuides to get more insights in how to use Artstor as a student or as an instructor: https://artstor.libguides.com/

Trial access ‘Science’ (AAAS) journals

Consortium Luxembourg is happy to offer a trial access to the famous journal ‘Science‘ and the Science family of journals. Trial access will expire end of November 2021.

Science is the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Science Online provides digital access to all Science content from 1997 to the current issue, including prepublication content.

Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.

A trailblazer in online publishing as well, the Science family of publications has grown to include online journals Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Immunology, Science Robotics and the open access journal Science Advances.

Science Translational Medicine, is an essential platform for peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary research driving the latest medical advances. Science Signaling offers original review articles, protocols and teaching resources for the growing field of cellular signal transduction. Science Immunology publishes basic, translational and clinical research specifically about immunology across all organisms and model systems, including humans. Science Robotics covers new developments in robotics and related fields, with a dual focus on the science of robotics as well as introducing researchers more broadly to how robots can be used to accelerate scientific study. Science Advances represents the next generation of online publishing, with rapid publication of significant, full-length research that is available free to readers.

The Science family of journals is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s oldest and largest general science organization.

Access is possible for every user with a valid library card of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST or LIH.

Trial Policy Commons

We’re happy to announce that from today until 20th May 2021 we’re having a trial in place for the platform “Policy Commons”.

Launched in November 2020, Policy Commons is the first platform that brings together and organises the reports, papers and other research outputs published, often informally, by the world’s IGOs, NGOs, and third-sector organisations. It currently comprises 2.2 million items and a directory of 21,000 policy organizations, the largest ever compiled. Last month, 145,000 new items were added, as was a special collection of 45,000 items from African NGOs and 10,000 more ‘orphaned’ reports from inactive NGOs. Besides, Policy Commons meanwhile includes the complete catalog of publications from the Council of Europe, the Continent’s leading human rights organization. Policy Commons also enables members of the policy community to upload and share their own publications with the international policy community.

Content that matters
Policy Commons covers many disciplines—agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, diversity, crime, librarianship, and much more. Content is thoroughly vetted by the organizations that produce it, and it’s curated by editors. It’s highly current, with 34,000 items from 2020, including 8,000 items on COVID-19, and 9,400 on Black Lives Matter.

Access is possible for every user with a valid library card of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST or LIH.
Click here to access via a-z.lu.

Open Access Publishing: National Library of Luxembourg signs transformative agreement with Taylor & Francis Group

The National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) and Taylor & Francis Group have signed a new three-year “read and publish deal” which offers access to journals content as well as open access publishing for researchers at participating institutions (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Institute of Health).

This agreement gives academics from the participating institutions the option to publish their work in Open Select (hybrid) and full open access journals without paying publishing charges and covers all articles up to an agreed cap. The deal also provides researchers with continued access to Taylor & Francis Group journals and articles.

“We are thrilled to be working with the National Library of Luxembourg to facilitate researchers making their work open, maximising both its reach and impact.” says Carolyn Kirby, OA Business Development Director, Taylor & Francis Group. “The agreement aligns with the Open Access mandate from the Luxembourg Research Fund (FNR), enabling authors to choose open access publishing with us.”

Patrick Peiffer of BnL says: “We are proud to partner with Taylor & Francis Group on this transformative agreement, helping our members to both share their work as widely as possible and to control costs through this landmark consortial agreement.”

Taylor & Francis Group is committed to open access, offering a variety of open access publishing options to meet the needs of each author, with rapid online publication, high visibility and discoverability for published research.

Contact:
Patrick Peiffer: consortium@bnl.etat.lu
Jennifer McMillan:  jennifer.mcmillan@tandf.co.uk or communications@tandf.co.uk

About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works, its content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
From its network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Boston, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, and New Delhi, Taylor & Francis staff provide support to editors, societies and authors as well as tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues.

About the National Library of Luxembourg
The National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) is the largest scientific library in Luxembourg holding more than 1.8 million physical documents as well as a growing number of online resources.
As a heritage library, the BnL hosts an essential part of the nation’s memory as all publications published in or about Luxembourg are collected through legal deposit. The printed Luxemburgensia collection is further complemented by both digital-born publications and by documents digitised by the BnL. The BnL is also a research library and offers its users access to international works in all areas of knowledge.

Server updates: no access to electronic content on 23/11/2020 between 8h-12h

Due to server updates on Monday, 23 November 2020 between 8.00 and 12.00h access to e-journals, ebooks and databases won’t be possible.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Veuillez noter qu’en raison de la mise à jour des serveurs, l’accèss aux revues en ligne, ebooks et bases de données ne sera pas possible le lundi, 23 novembre 2020 entre 8h et 12h.

Nous nous excusons pour tout désagrément.

findit.lu has been retired as of 30th September 2020

Trouvez la version française ci-dessous

As of 30th Sep 2020 findit.lu has been retired. Please go to a-z.lu to perform your search.

findit.lu, the initial platform for accessing electronic subscriptions for members of Consortium Luxembourg has been retired as of 30th September 2020. All functionalities from findit.lu (except Metasearch with QuickSets) are available in a-z.lu, which replaces findit.lu, please see below.

Why did we retire findit.lu? The software running findit.lu has not been under development for several years (“Metalib” from ExLibris) and may become a potential security risk for us. The software has been running since 2005 and served us well during this time. We have replaced findit.lu with a new generation of software (Primo by ExLibris) at the URL a-z.lu.

a-z.lu, the collective search engine of the bibnet.lu library network, continues to give access to all electronic subscriptions. The links and content that have been available on findit.lu are exactly the same as in a-z.lu. Access from a-z.lu continues to work remotely, by logging in with your library card, in the same way as for findit.lu.

a-z.lu helps you searching online content (scientific articles, databases, ejournals, ebooks), your library’s print holdings, but also digitised material from eluxemburgensia.lu as well as records from the University’s repository orbi.lu.
If you would like to search all available electronic content (scientific articles, databases, ejournals, ebooks, orbi.lu), we recommend typing in a keyword and selecting “Bibliothèque numérique” in the popup menu.

If you prefer to limit your results to a specific type of content, please use the other filters on the top and right side.

Alphabetic lists

You will find the alphabetic lists of journals and databases on a-z.lu under “Recherche avancée” on the right side of the search bar. Please choose “Bibliothèque numérique” and the buttons for the alphabetic list of databases and e-journals will be displayed.

Search by category / subject

Under “Recherche avancée” you also have the possibility to search for databases or ejournals by subjects. After having chosen “Bibliothèque numériqe”, you may filter for “domaine de recherche” and choose either databases or ejournals. Below, a new menu with the different categories will popup. Please choose a category and click the search button (magnifying glass). Please remember that subject search is only possible for ejournals and databases.

Favourites

You may also save search results (articles, journals, databases) in your personal favorites.

Simply click on the pin next to the result to save it to “My Favourites”.
Please sign in to ensure that you do not lose your favourites at the end of your session (when you close your browser window)!
By clicking on the result numbers on the left, you may also save several results at once and add labels.

You are able to consult and manage the resources you have saved by clicking on your name at the top right of the screen and choosing “Saved items”.

Save searches and notifications

To save a complete search query, simply click on “Save query” button on the top of your results.

The system will automatically ask you to turn on notifications for this query. To activate e-mail notifications, please click “turn on notification for this query” in the yellow bar and insert your e-mail address.

Note: this option is only available when you have signed in. You are able to consult and manage saved searches and notifications by clicking on your name at the top right of the screen and choosing “Saved items” – “Saved searches”.

User Guides

To learn more, please visit the Help section on our blog or a-z.lu (Help in the top menu).

Did you know? Library Access

As a supplement to a-z.lu you may install the Library Access extension in your browser. It helps you access digital content offered by your digital library, while browsing and searching the internet as you normally do. Whenever you want to access or search the internet for articles, journals, ebooks or databases, the Library Access browser extension checks library availability in the background and will log you in automatically, if available.

More information: https://www.consortium.lu/leanlibrary

If you have any further questions, please send us an email to help@findit.lu.

Fin de service pour le portail findit.lu : effectuez toutes vos recherches sur www.a-z.lu

findit.lu, la plateforme initiale d’accès aux abonnements électroniques pour les utilisateurs de la BnL, n’est plus en service depuis 30 septembre 2020. Toutes les fonctionnalités de findit.lu (sauf Metasearch avec QuickSets) sont, d’ores et déjà, accessibles via a-z.lu. La Bibliothèque nationale prie les utilisateurs de findit.lu de migrer leurs recherches, alertes et favoris sauvegardés et d’utiliser dorénavant www.a-z.lu.

La BnL a décidé de renoncer à findit.lu car le logiciel exécutant n’est plus en développement («Metalib» d’ExLibris) et ne correspond pas aux standards de sécurité actuels. findit.lu est remplacé par une nouvelle génération de logiciel dont l’interface d’accès est www.a-z.lu.


a-z.lu est le moteur de recherche collectif du réseau de bibliothèques bibnet.lu et donne accès à tous les abonnements électroniques achetés par la BnL. Les liens et contenus disponibles sur a-z.lu sont identiques à ceux initialement accessibles via findit.lu. a-z.lu vous aide à rechercher des contenus en ligne (articles scientifiques, bases de données, journaux électroniques, livres électroniques), les fonds imprimés de votre bibliothèque bibnet.lu, mais aussi les documents patrimoniaux, numérisés par la BnL ainsi que les documents du répertoire de l’Université orbi.lu.

Recherche

Si vous souhaitez rechercher tous les contenus électroniques (articles scientifiques, bases de données, journaux électroniques, livres électroniques, orbi.lu), nous vous recommandons de saisir un mot-clé et de sélectionner «Bibliothèque numérique» dans le menu.

Si vous préférez limiter les résultats à un type de contenu spécifique, utilisez les filtres sur le côté droit de la page.

Listes alphabétiques

Vous pouvez consulter des listes alphabétiques de tous les ejournals et bases de données disponibles en ligne via www.a-z.lu. Pour utiliser cette fonctionnalité qui se trouve dans le module « Recherche avancée », il suffit de cocher la case « Bibliothèque numérique » et d’opter soit pour les bases de données, soit pour les revues en ligne.

Recherche par catégorie et sujet

Dans le module “Recherche avancée”, vous pouvez aussi rechercher des bases de données et ejournals par sujet. Après avoir coché la case « Bibliothèque numérique », vous filtrez par « domaine de recherche ». Un nouveau menu avec différentes catégories apparaît. Maintenant, vous pouvez choisir une catégorie et lancer la recherche en cliquant sur l’icône de la loupe.
Il est à noter que cette option de recherche n’est disponible que pour les revues en ligne et les bases de données.

Favoris

Vous pouvez également enregistrer les résultats de la recherche (articles, revues, bases de données) dans vos favoris personnels.
Cliquez simplement sur l’épingle à côté du résultat pour l’enregistrer dans «Mes favoris».
Veuillez-vous connecter pour vous assurer de ne pas perdre vos favoris à la fin de votre session (lorsque vous fermez la fenêtre de votre navigateur)!
En cochant les cases numérotées des résultats à gauche, vous pouvez également enregistrer plusieurs notices à la fois et les classifier.

Vous pouvez consulter et gérer les notices sauvegardées dans votre compte lecteur. Pour l’accéder, il suffit de cliquer sur votre nom dans le coin droit de la page web. Les notices sauvegardées se trouvent dans la rubrique « Notices enregistrées ».

Enregistrer les recherches et notifications

Pour enregistrer vos recherches, cliquez sur « Enregistrer recherche » en haut de votre liste de résultats.

Le logiciel vous proposera automatiquement d’activer les notifications pour cette recherche. Pour activer les notifications par courriel, il suffit de cliquer « activer les notifications pour cette requête ».

Note: vous devez être authentifié avant de pouvoir utiliser cette option.

Aide en ligne

Pour en savoir plus, nous vous conseillons de consulter la rubrique « Aide » et/ou celle du portail a-z.lu.

Library Access – un outil performant et utile

Library Access est une extension de navigateur qui vous donne accès aux contenus numériques offerts par votre bibliothèque, pendant que vous naviguez et effectuez des recherches sur le web. L’extension fonctionne en coulisse pour intégrer votre bibliothèque de manière transparente à votre expérience de navigation.
En suivant le lien www.leanlibrary.com/download, vous pouvez télécharger l’extension et l’installer dans votre navigateur en sélectionnant votre établissement (Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Université du Luxembourg, LIST.lu ou LIH.lu).
Plus d’infos : https://www.consortium.lu/leanlibrary

En cas de questions, vous pouvez envoyer un courriel à help@findit.lu.

Server updates a-z.lu 20/07/2020

Due to server updates on Monday, 20 July between 7.00 and 10.00h access to a-z.lu, licensed electronic resources and your user account won’t be possible.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

New: The Literary Encyclopedia

Consortium Luxembourg is happy to announce that we’re now subscribing to “The Literary Encyclopedia”.

The Literary Encyclopedia publishes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, including those often neglected; and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters, which provide a finer understanding of the social contexts in which this writing was produced.

The Literary Encyclopedia seeks to cover all of world literature and endeavor to commission and publish articles on the widest variety of quality writing that has been produced around the world. The encyclopedia is covering English, American, German, Russian, Italian, French and Classical literatures, as well as substantial and increasing coverage of Hispanic, Japanese, Canadian, East European and various postcolonial literatures. So far 8721 completed articles have been published.

The Literary Encyclopedia currently publishes the following kinds of content:

  • About People
    • Biographical profiles
    • Lifelines – day-by-day chronologies of an author’s life
  • About Works
    • Profiles – descriptive-critical analyses
    • Primary bibliography of all major works by all writers listed (List of works)
  • About Literary Context
    • Essays on genres, concepts, movements, theories; comparative and reception essays
    • Short notes on genres, concepts, issues
  • About Political and Cultural Context
    • Essays on important historical events, movements and issues
    • Short notes on important events, movements and issues
  • Secondary Bibliography
    • Annotated or unannotated recommended critical reading for any of the above (recommended readings)

Access is available for all users with a library card of the National Library or University of Luxembourg.

Testzugang Beck “Strafrecht Optimum”

Ab sofort bietet das Consortium Luxembourg einen Testzugang zum Beck Online Modul “Strafrecht Optimum” an.

Strafrecht Optimum bietet rechtsübergreifendes Fachwissen für alle, die alles im Blick behalten und optimal beraten sein wollen. Die ausgewählten Inhalte zum Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, zum Wirtschaftsrecht sowie steuer- und bilanzrechtliche Titel unterstützen Sie bei der fachübergreifenden Recherche in Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafsachen.

Als Highlight bietet das Modul unter anderem Zugriff auf:

  • Schwark/​Zimmer, Kapitalmarktrechts-Kommentar
  • Joecks/​Jäger/​Randt, Steuerstrafrecht
  • Kommentare und Handbücher zum StGB: u.a. BeckOK StGB, v. Heintschel-Heinegg und Schönke/​Schröder, Strafgesetzbuch
  • Kommentare zur StPO: u.a. BeckOK StPO mit RiStBV und MiStra, Graf und Münchener Kommentar zur StPO
  • Karlsruher Kommentar zum OwiG

Klicken Sie hier, um Beck Online “Strafrecht Optimum” zu testen.

Der Testzugang besteht bis 30.07.2020 für Nutzerinnen und Nutzer mit einer gültigen Bibliothekskarte der Nationalbibliothek, der Universität, des LIH und des LIST.

Trial CINAHL Complete

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce that we are now offering a trial access to CINAHL Complete until 30 September 2020.

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) provided by Ebsco is a research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. With CINAHL Complete, users get fast and easy full-text access to top journals, evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and more.

CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more. CINAHL Subject Headings help users effectively search and retrieve information and follows the structure of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine.

Access is possible for all users with a library card of the National Library, University of Luxembourg, LIST or LIH.

Direct link to CINAHL Complete