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Got Citation?

(Almost) Everything you thought

you knew about basic library

services…

Tips and tricks for quickly getting

needed resources

Facilitated by MBLWHOI Librarians: Nancy Stafford and Matt Person

Thursday March 13th, 2014

12:15 pm, Grass Reading Room


Visual

Representation

of the “subject

headings”

associated with

all the titles in

the MBLWHOI

Library

journals

collection


• From the Annual Report,

Biological Bulletin, v.85 (1943):

• “The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution appropriated $800

to the (MBL) Library for 1942 and a balance of $154.65 remained

from the 1941 budget. In 1942 the Library received 637 current

publications (1 ,297 in 1941) : 227 in subscription to the Marine

Biological Laboratory, 18 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution; 209 exchanges, 192 with the Biological Bulletin and

17 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

publications; 178 gifts to the former and 5 to the latter.”

A cooperative library


2013-14 numbers of journal titles • 842 paid for titles:

• (522 via Harrassowitz, 122 via Elsevier, 16 via

Nature, 179 via BioOne, 3 misc...)

About 200,000 print volumes in

the Lillie stacks…currently

undergoing an assessment

project to pare down our eclectic

collection.


FREELY ACCESSIBLE TITLES(estimates)

• BioMed Central…336

• “free ejournals, like DOAJ”…3,499

• Hindawi…319

• JSTAGE…1,564

• JSTOR…276

• BHL MBL…210

• Biodiversity Heritage Library…73,000


HOW DO YOU FIND ALL OF

THIS CONTENT THROUGH

MBLWHOILIBRARY.ORG ?


There are different “access points”

to the collection

• Search the “find a journal A-Z list”

search engine

• Search the library catalog search (for

journals and monographs)

• Databases

• Google and other search engines

• Paper card catalog


“A-Z list” search

engine


Current access

Archival access

Archival access with

added functionality

Link to MBLWHOI library

catalog


Biological

Bulletin

website


JSTOR archive

website


Biological

Bulletin in

Biodiversity

Heritage

Library


Dave

Remsen

developed

uBio software

employed in

extracting

scientific

names from

text


Button click

creates

bibliography

for organism

in BHL


MBLWHOI Library

search for a journal title

in the library catalog


Searching the library catalog

Search terms Select

search

parameteradvanced

search


Advanced search


DON’T BE TRICKED!

These results are

not the record for

the resource you are

looking for. It’s a

possible list of hits.

It is necessary to

click into an

individual record to

see all the

information and

links related to the

title.


This is the catalog record for “Oceanus”

One e-access record

another e-access

record

record for the print version

located in Bay Reading Room,

below left beginning for WHOI

DLA shelving location


• Looking for a book in the catalog

• TIP : Always drop the “the” or “a” article

from the start of the title

The Dingle Commercial Fishermanx


Note location

Note call number

Volume should be on shelf


Note

location;

Offsite

location

means item

must be

requested

through

“get this

item link”


“offsite library service center” + “on shelf” = click “get this item”


You can

also search

for articles

and books

through

databases-

But what if

you can’t

find what

you are

looking

for?

A-Z list of

databases


Other Library Services

Bibapp

Citation Management

Course Reserves

Data Management

Institutional Repository Services

Publishing Assistance

Remote Access


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