Elsevier available again

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For reasons which are still being investigated, our Elsevier access was cut, impacting the ScienceDirect, Sciverse and Scopus products. Access has been restored as of 14h today.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

Elsevier available again

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For reasons which are still being investigated, our Elsevier access was cut, impacting the ScienceDirect, Sciverse and Scopus products. Access has been restored as of 14h today.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

Mendeley training sessions @uni.lu

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Mendeley is a free desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.

 

 

Mendeley’s aim is no less than change how research is done!
In the training sessions you will discover how…
… to create your personal bibliographic database by automatically extracting citation details
… to read, search the full-text, annotate and highlight PDF papers in Mendeley
… to synchronize your bibliography across multiple machines, including iPhone and iPad
… to cite papers in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice
… to capture citations from websites using the Web Importer
… to create groups to share and collaboratively annotate research papers

Speaker: Christophe Trefois (University of Luxembourg – LCSB)
5th March 2012 / Campus KIRCHBERG – Room A.11 – 16h00
6th March 2012 / Campus LIMPERTSBERG – Room BS 012 – 16h00
13th March 2012 / Campus WALFERDANGE – Room Tic 2 – 16h00

(All three sessions are identical, no need to attend all three)

Please confirm your participation via email: bibliotheque@uni.lu

An event organised by the Library of the University of Luxembourg, in collaboration with  Consortium Luxembourg.

If you can’t make it to the training sessions, check out the Mendeley video tutorials.

You can automatically search articles available from findit.lu from inside Mendeley. Go to your Mendeley Web Account, choose Account details and there Sharing / Importing. Then add a new library access link by copy/pasting this link http://sfx.etat.lu:9003/sfx_local/

 

NZZ Online: Wie Wissenschaftsverlage den freien Zugang zu Informationen zu blockieren versuchen

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Der ETH-Bibliothek soll per Klage verboten werden, Dokumente in elektronischer Form an ihre Nutzer zu verschicken, Nutzer sollen die Artikel für 30 EUR (!) direkt beim Verlag kaufen.

Wissenschaftsverlag Elsevier unterstützt US Gesetzesvorschlag der die Open Access Plattform “Pub Med Central” mittelfristig den Garaus machen soll.

Mehr: Ein Bärendienst an der Forschung – Hintergrund, Wissenschaft, NZZ Online, 02.02.2012

Ausserdem: Petition by researchers against Elsevier: http://thecostofknowledge.com/

(Pub Med auf findit.lu)

Open Access statistics and Luxembourg

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Lots of statistics about Repositories, updated live at OpenDOAR – Open Access Repositories.

Some examples: Most used software by far is Dspace and repositories hold on average 1433 journal articles.

Nothing from Luxembourg either in ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) which also provides interesting statistics on the repositories’ activity levels.

On to the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) which manages a curated list of quality controlled open access journals, also showing massive growth. And there is one registered journal from Luxembourg, called Articulo (published via the French open access platform revues.org)!

The same astounding growth of Open Access publishing can be seen in BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

All of this is made possible through open access policies and lots of open source software under the hood, such as the metadata exchange protocol OAI from Open Archives.

The big questions: Is Luxembourg missing a megatrend, or is there simply no awareness to register open access publications and repositories?

 

EBSCOhost now available as Android application

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Ebscohost has just announced the launch of an Android application, in addition to its iPad/iPhone application.  To install, please follow the steps outlined below, they are identical for Android and the previously announced iPhone/iPad application (see post from May 2011).  Both Sections A and B below must be completed.

A. From a web browser on your computer or on your Android phone or tablet:

  1. Connect to the Ebscohost Mobile interface by clicking here : Ebscohost Mobile.
  2. Click the “Select/Deselect All” check box and click on “Continue”.
  3. Click the link “New: EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Applications”.
  4. Enter your e-mail address.  This must be the e-mail that you have configured in your device. In order for the Ebscohost authentication to work correctly, you must be able to click the links they provide in an e-mail from an eMail application on your device.  It will not work if you open your e-mail in a web browser!

B. From your Android phone or tablet:

  1. Open the e-mail sent to you by Ebscohost using your eMail application on your device and click the first link to install the application.
  2. Once the application is installed, click the second link in the e-mail. This will authenticate your installation with Ebscohost and allow you to have the same access as if you had connected to Ebscohost via the findit.lu portal.

If you have any questions, contact us at help [at] consortium [dot] lu.