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New content: PressDisplay, your online newspaper portal

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Findit.lu is pleased to announce the addition of PressDisplay, an online newspaper portal which offers more than 2.200 international newspapers and supplements in more than 54 languages. All titles are published in their original format and layout, including full text search and images.
The newspaper portfolio covers more than 90 countries including Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Portugal and Germany.  PressDisplay provides access to newspapers on their publication day.
You would like to read last weekend’s issue? Don’t worry – our readers have access to up to 90 days (depending on title) of full back issues including job vacancies and property market.
Do you look for a specific article? Simply use the keyword full-text at the top of the website for performing a search based on issue, newspaper title, country or language. Articles, pages or custom areas within a page can be printed for private purposes.

A few examples of newspapers available on PressDisplay:

  • Luxembourg: Luxemburger Wort
  • France: Le Figaro, Le Monde, …
  • Belgium: Het Laatste Nieuws, De Morgen, De Standaard, …
  • Portugal: Diário de Noticias, Publico, …
  • Germany :  Der Tagesspiegel, Rheinische Post, Handelsblatt, …
  • United Kingdom: The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Observer, …
  • International: International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, …

Please note that PressDisplay can only be accessed inside the buildings of  the National Library and the University of Luxembourg.

All titles can be found in our eJournal search on findit.lu. PressDisplay can also be found by selecting the letter “P” via the “Find databases” tab. There is also a direct link: http://library.pressdisplay.com.proxy.bnl.lu

If you have any questions please check findit.lu/start and findit.lu/faq or send us en email at help@findit.lu . We look forward to hearing from you!

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Nouveau dans findit.lu : PressDisplay, un portail d’accès à la presse quotidienne du monde entier

À partir du portail findit.lu vous avez maintenant accès à PressDisplay, offrant l’accès aux versions électroniques de plus de 2.200 quotidiens et suppléments du monde entier dans plus de 54 langues, dès le jour de leur parution, dans leur langue et leur format d’origine.
Une sélection de titres publiés dans plus de 94 pays sont disponibles, le Luxembourg, la France, la Belgique, le Portugal , l’Italie et l’Allemagne inclus. Leur lecture est facilitée par les outils de navigation et d’une interface simple à utiliser avec découpage par article.
Vous avez manqué le numéro du dernier week-end ? Pas de souci ! Les lecteurs de la Bibliothèque nationale et de l’Université du Luxembourg ont l’accès jusqu’à 90 jours (variable selon titre) d’archives complètes y inclus les petites annonces, le marché de l’emploi et le marché de l’immobilier inclus.
Vous cherchez un article spécifique? Vous pouvez rechercher dans le contenu en haut de l’écran pour effectuer une recherche basé sur numéro, titre du quotidien, pays ou langue. Des articles, pages ou sections individuels peuvent être imprimés ou téléchargés pour des raisons privées.

Quelques exemples qui sont disponibles sur PressDisplay :

  • Luxembourg : Luxemburger Wort
  • France : Le Figaro, Le Monde, …
  • Belgique : Het Laatste Nieuws, De Morgen, De Standaard, …
  • Portugal: Diário de Noticias, Publico, …
  • Allemagne : Der Tagesspiegel, Rheinische Post, Handelsblatt, …
  • Royaume-Uni: The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Observer, …
  • International : International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, …

Veuillez noter que PressDisplay est seulement accessible à l’intérieur des bâtiments de la Bibliothèque Nationale et de l’Université du Luxembourg.

Vous pouvez accéder aux titres soit en cliquant sur “PressDisplay” dans la liste de bases de données sous la lettre “P”, soit en cherchant les titres dans la liste de périodiques dans le portail findit.lu. Un accès direct est possible avec ce lien : http://library.pressdisplay.com.proxy.bnl.lu
Si vous avez des questions veuillez voir ici findit.lu/start et findit.lu/faq ou envoyez-nous un email: help@findit.lu.

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New content: MIT Press eBooks Library—Computing & Engineering Collection

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Shortly before Christmas, Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of “The MIT Press eBooks Library – Computing and Engineering Collection”. This special collection features over 500 eBooks within the fields of computer science and engineering technologies, with approximately 40 new titles to be introduced each year. The collection features numerous titles that have won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE). Each eBook meets The MIT Press rigorous review processes and the collection covers a wide range of technology disciplines including:

  • Bioengineering
  • Communication, networking, and broadcasting
  • Components, circuits, devices, and systems
  • Computing and processing
  • Engineered materials, dielectrics, and plasmas
  • Engineering profession
  • Fields, waves, and electromagnetics
  • Geoscience
  • Power, energy, and industry applications
  • Robotics and control systems
  • Signal processing
  • Transportation

An advanced search engine will allow you to find and download specific chapters within eBooks that will be discoverable on the IEEE Xplore platform.

You can browse and search the eBooks by choosing “MIT Press” in the vendor section in our eBook search. Jump to eBook search.

For a full list of the eBooks available in this collection, click here.

Alternatively, you can select the “MIT Press eBooks Library-Computing & Engineering Collection” entry via the “Find Databases” tab under the letter “M” for accessing the platform.

New content: International Financial Reporting Standards

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The eIFRS is the standard setting body responsible for the development of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), permitted or required by over 100 countries across the world.

Library members will now have immediate online access to all the most up to date material issued by the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board).

eIFRS comes with a powerful ‘Search Standards’ function and the standards are fully hyperlinked with cross references, searchable by issue date and much more.

You have exclusive online access to:

  • The full text, the online equivalent of the printed bound volume, of the most up to date versions of all the current IFRSs, IASs and Interpretations
  • Any post bound volume pronouncements, so that you know that you are always completely up to date
  • IASC Foundation education material including summaries and user guides on the official text of each IFRS and IAS, with extensive hyperlinked cross-references and annotations, including relevant IFRIC agenda decisions
  • The latest version of translated IFRSs/IASs
  • The full text of the IASC Foundation Constitution, the IASB Framework, a glossary and index.
  • etc.

You can access the eIFRS database by clicking here.

“eIFRS – International Financial Reporting Standards” can also be found by selecting the letter “E” via the “Find databases” tab.

New content: ebooks of European Mathematical Society

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Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of ebooks of the European Mathematical Society to findit.lu.

This ebook collection of the European Mathematical society includes more than 100 works, all published between 2004 and the present. You will find, among others, Zurich Lectures in Advanced Mathematics, EMS Textbooks or IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. All books can be downloaded as pdf.

For a full list of the ebooks available in this collection, click here.

These ebooks can be found in our ebook search as well. Alternatively, you can select the “EMS eBooks – European Mathematical Society” entry via the “Find Databases” tab under the letter “E”.

New tutorials online!

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Frequent users of findit.lu and our blog may know our How to guides-series / Guides d’utilisation.

Since findit.lu evolved a lot during last year, we decided to revise these guides. Now we are proud to announce our new new tutorials for using findit.lu! We updated all the old How-to-guides and added new ones.

We changed the structure of our tutorials. As you can see in our blog’s navigation the old How-to-Guides tab disappeared, but the Help menu has 3 new sub-menus:

Get started, Basics and Advanced.

 

 

Under blog.findit.lu/start you will find out how to get your free library card and access to findit.lu.

In the Basics menu (blog.findit.lu/basics) you can explore the basic services findit.lu has to offer: Our episodes start with practical information: from how to search up to finding databases, journals or e-books,  information on Interlibrary Loan and much more.

If you want to get the most out of searching with findit.lu, please visit the Advanced menu (blog.findit.lu/advanced). You will find several episodes about creating personal lists and saving searches which will make it easier to stay up-to-date and make your searches easier and more efficient.

All episodes are available in English and French. A German version will follow.

You can either read one episode after another, but since they are all linked to each other you can also simply explore them by topic.

Clicking on the help tab or going to blog.findit.lu/help itself will give you an overview of all episodes.

If you need further assistance such as lost passwords etc., please check our new FAQ tab or go to blog.findit.lu/faq.

 

New feature: e-book search

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After a successful trial of a new e-book search during the last weeks, Consortium Luxembourg is today releasing a new e-book search, giving visibility to the 80.000 e-books on findit.lu.

We are still working on further integration of e-books into findit.lu, alongside databases and e-journals. That’s why the current release is “beta”.

ebook-search findit.luSimply click on the “ebooks”-tab which you will find at the top of findit.lu and check it out!

For a long time you only could search for e-books by using the “e-books” QuickSet on our main page. It could take some time to get back results and it was impossible to get an overview of all e-books available. This update gives you a new way to search for more than 80.000 current scientific and scholarly e-books by title, author, ISBN or publisher. Provided that the cover of the book is available, it will also be displayed in your search results.
The number of e-books will increase dramatically as we will be adding older, public domain books, including novels, which have been digitised by libraries around the world.

Please find a detailed tutorial for using the e-book search here.

If you have any questions or would like to provide us with feedback, please feel free to post your comments on this blog. We look forward to hearing from you!

Ovid releases OvidOpenAcess

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Ovid has just announced the launch of OvidOpenAcess with immediate and unrestricted access to thousands of full-text resources from peer-reviewed and scholarly international journals.

OvidOpenAcess includes:

  • A growing list of over 70,000 journal articles and abstracts from more than 200-peer reviewed and highly cited clinical and research journals published by Medknow Publications, one of the world’s largest Open Access publishers and affiliated with more than 160 professional medical societies and associations
  • Bibliographic citations of articles published in more than 1,000 unembargoed journals accessible through PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), a critical digital source of biomedical literature—much of it hard-to-find archival material—from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • A wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines, including nursing, general medicine, pharmacology, and alternative medicine, as well as evidence-based medicine and research

Finding the OpenAcess-content is quite easy: Within a single search you will find freely available content displayed in a separate search results set.

Search results with OpenAccess-Teaser
By clicking “View All Open Access Results” the full result list is displayed. Additionally, you can save and export your OvidOpenAccess search results into a project or folder in My Projects.

 

Results list for OvidOpenAccess

New Mega Index available: Primo Central

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Try out the “Primo Central” Mega Index, select it and execute a query:

Primo Central is the next step in scholarly discovery tools: A single index which includes several hundred million references, abstracts and article full-text from a very large selection of publishers. Previously, only federated search allowed a simultaneous search of publications from different publishers. This functionality is called “Metasearch” in findit.lu (a guide is available). Additionally, you can save such a selection of resources for future searches in a “Quickset” (guide) and, building on that, even have findit.lu execute specific queries in these Quicksets as repeated “alerts” (guide).

While we will not abandon these features, there are some limitations in the concept of “Metasearch”. The most obvious is speed: the results can only be displayed once the slowest publisher has delivered. The second limitation is managing the result list, which can easily contain thousands of hits from different publishers. It is impossible, again for speed reasons, to download them all into findit.lu and then index them locally to allow for easy browsing, for instance by author, publication year, etc. Currently, findit.lu supports 30 to 50 results from each publisher, additional results are loaded on demand.

The new “Primo Central” mega index is a big step to solve these problems. It is an index that is pre-compiled fromreferences, abstracts and article full-text from a very large selection of publishers, overall it indexes sveral hundred million articles. This index is searchable in just one query, lightning fast and offers pre-compiled browsing of the results with facets, such as in the example screenshot below, a search for “service innovation”.

The current release is out of beta, fully functional, but not integrated yet with our subscriptions or print holdings. Stay tuned!

OECD iLibrary Youtube channel launched

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The OECD iLibrary has launched a YouTube channel with several thematic videos, highlighting key reports from each OECD iLibrary theme. Below is a short video on the “Employment” theme:

The whole playlist contains seven videos on different themes.

The OECD iLibrary is groundbreaking in its inclusion of interactive statistics modules and data downloads straight from its reports, in various formats. Please check their english quick guide (pdf) or have a look at all the available user guides, including many different languages.

The OECD iLibrary is available via Consortium Luxembourg’s findit.lu portal. It is one of 38 databases available under the letter “O” in the databases list.

Connect directly via this link: OECD iLibrary. (Valid library card from the National library or University of Luxembourg required, more info under Help)

 

Nouveau dans le portail: Sign@l

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Sign@l

Librement accessible, la base de données Sign@l référence maintenant les articles et les sommaires de 200 revues francophones en sciences humaines et sociales.

Grâce à un lien avec les principaux portails de revues francophones, dans la moitié des cas les sommaires de Sign@l vous permettent de rebondir directement sur l’article en texte intégral en ligne.

Portée par Sciences Po Lyon, cette base est alimentée par onze centres de documentation et bibliothèques ainsi que par le moissonnage de portails de revues.

N’hésitez pas à découvrir en profondeur les fonctionnalités de recherche avancée de Sign@l.

Sign@l est disponible dans l’onglet “Base de données” sous la lettre “S” ou en cliquant ici.  Vous trouverez également Sign@l dans la liste de bases de données par catégorie sous les catégories en Sciences Sociales.