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Springer e-Books

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Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2010 inclusive.  The books cover a variety of subjects including:

  • Behavioral Science;
  • Biomedical and Life Science;
  • Business and Economics;
  • Chemistry and Materials Science;
  • Computer Science;
  • Earth and Environmental Science;
  • Engineering;
  • Humanities, Social Science and Law,
  • Mathematics and Statistics;
  • Medicine;
  • Physics and Astronomy; and
  • Professional and Applied Computing.

Topics covered in the German collection include:

  • Medizin;
  • Technik & Informatik;
  • Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
  • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:

1.  If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.

2.  Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.

 

Turning on Full Text links in Scirus

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Scirus is sci-tech search engine from Elsevier. Scirus returns results from the whole Web, including access-controlled sites that other search engines don’t index.

  • Then click “Save preferences”.

When you do this, a cookie is saved on your computer that tells Scirus to display the “SFX” or “Full Text” button for journal article citations. If you clear your cookies, or access Scirus from a different computer, you will need to set your preferences again.
 

New Emerald Journals Added to the Portal

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Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of two sets of Emerald journals to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal:

  • Emerald Accounting and Finance Journals – A collection covering quantitative and qualitative research across the field, including in sustainability, financial regulation, accounting education and Islamic finance.  For details on the journals included in this collection, click here.
  • Emerald Information and Knowledge Management Journals – A collection representing important perspectives within today’s knowledge economy, with over a quarter of its titles indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI).  Foro details on the journals included in this collection, click here.

These journals are available via the “Find e-journal” (or “Périodiques”) option in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.
 

Oxford Art Online / Grove Art Online

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Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Oxford Art Online to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.

With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Oxford Art Online can be found under the letter “G” (for Grove) in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.
 

Proxy Server Changes Complete

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The changes announced to the proxy server for this morning, Thu, 16 Dec, have been successfully completed.

Please note that your firewall should now allow access for *.proxy.bnl.lu to ports 80 and 443 (see 101216 Proxy v6).

The problem below has been resolved.

For certain products, a certificate error is received (ex: Dalloz).  This problem will be resolved in the coming weeks but in the meantime, in order to access sites which use secure connections (Https) you must accept the certificate exception.  In order to do this, please follow the instructions below depending on your browser.

Internet Explorer

In Internet Explorer, you will receive a message stating that Internet Explorer has blocked a security certificate error.  Simply click on the error message and then click on “Display Blocked Content”.

Firefox

In Firefox, you will receive a screen entitled “This Connection is Untrusted”.

Click on the arrow next to “I Understand the Risks”.

Click on “Add Exception”.

If you select “Permanently store this exception” then you only need to perform this procedure once. Click on “Confirm Security Exception”.

Google Chrome

Please use another browser as Google Chrome does not provide an option to accept the certificate security exception.
 

L’offre du Consortium Luxembourg disponible via Google Scholar

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Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que les produits offert par le portail du Consortium Luxembourg peuvent être retrouvés au sein de Google Scholar.

Quand vous êtes à la BnL, sur un des campus de l’Université au CRP Henri Tudor ou bien au CRP Gabriel Lippmann, vous recevez automatiquement des liens vers les articles dans Google Scholar. Dans les résultats de votre recherche vous trouverez le lien « find it ! @ bnu ».

Pour accéder aux ressources du portail à l’extérieur de ces réseaux, n’hésitez pas à faire votre configuration manuelle :

1. Rendez vous sur le site de Google Scholar : http://scholar.google.com

2. Cliquez sur « Préférences Scholar ».

3. Dans le champ « Liens vers des bibliothèques », saisissez « Luxembourg » et cliquez sur « Trouver la bibliothèque ».  Google Scholar affichera une liste correspondant à votre recherche.


4. Choisissez « Consortium Luxembourg  – find it ! @ bnu » et cliquez sur le bouton « Enregistrer les préférences ».

Après cette configuration, des liens vers les articles auxquels vous avez accès seront affichés directement par Google Scholar.

En cas de questions, n’hésitez pas à contacter votre bibliothèque !
 

Euromonitor – Passport GMID – Trial

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Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce a trial for Euromonitor’s Passport GMID database.

Euromonitor International offers quality international market intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. Euromonitor International has more than 30 years of experience publishing market reports, business reference books, online information systems and bespoke consulting projects.

* Passport is Euromonitor International’s premium industry online information system. It contains the full depth of research on consumer goods industries, plus intelligence on countries and consumers. It gives companies a detailed understanding of their industry/industries and their business operating environment, including global consumer trends.

* The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is Euromonitor International’s flagship information system for the library and information services community. It offers research across a wide variety of industries, from accounting and bookkeeping to travel and tourism. Like Passport, GMID integrates industry research with intelligence on countries and consumers.

Access to the database is available via the Consortium Luxembourg Portal under “Find Database” and the letter “E”, or by clicking here.

Maintenance: Wiley Online Library – Saturday 27 Nov 12h30-14h30

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Due to essential site maintenance, the Wiley Online Library may be offline on Saturday 27 November 2010 from 12h30 to 14h30.

Samedi, le 27 novembre 2010 entre 12h30 et 14h30, Wiley Online Library va procéder à un entretien essentiel de leur site. Le site sera peut-être inaccessible pendant cette période.

Discover Strad@

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Université du Luxembourg Campus Limpertsberg

8 décembre 2010 / Salle BC 011 (rez-de-chaussée du Bâtiment central) / 09h30

(Sans inscription)

Présentatrice: M. Maxime MANCHEL (Strada)

BASE DE DONNÉES BELGE : ACCÈS À LA LÉGISLATION, LA JURISPRUDENCE ET LA DOCTRINE DANS TOUTES LES BRANCHES DU DROIT

Sources privées, telles que la législation Larcier (codes), les revues juridiques (Larcier, Bruylant,…).

Sources publiques belges, européennes et internationales.

Plus de 20 sources publiques disponibles en législation (Moniteur belge, Journal officiel de l’Union européenne,…) et en jurisprudence belge et internationale (Cours constitutionnelle, de cassation, d’appel, Conseil d’État).

Un évènement organisé par le Consortium Luxembourg en collaboration avec la Bibliothèque de l’Université du Luxembourg.