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Introduction to the EUI Library
for Historians
Wednesday 4 September 2019
9.15 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.
Theater, Badia Fiesolana
by
Serge Noiret, History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.)
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1.Your EUI Library
2. Loans and Services
3.Searching our collections: the catalogue
4.Discovering digital publications
5.eJournals & eBooks @EUILibrary
6. Creating Subject Bibliographies
7.E-Resources
8.History Guide and Services
9. Open Access at the EUI
10.Information Literacy courses
11.EUI Library Communication tools
INDEX
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My Fields of expertise:
• Information Literacy
• Digital Humanities
• Digital (Public) History
• (International) Public
History
• Contemporary Italian
History
Role of Information Specialists at the EUI Library
Personal blog: http://dph.hypotheses.org
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Interviewer: Have you worked with any of the librarians on
campus?
Historian: Oh yes. Because they are trained as librarians they
can think of search terms, or ways of searching. I am not
trained as a librarian, so I don’t. So yes, definitely the
librarians are crucial in the whole research process—both at
[my institution] and wherever I go.
Interviewer: At what point do you talk to the librarians?
Historian: Dead ends.
Interviewer: At dead ends?
Historian: Yes, I share my frustrations with them and ask
them to help me get out of the cul-de-sac.
Don’t wait the last moment:
ask librarians !
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Collections
• 93,040 e-journals
• 474,031 e-books
• 1,024 current print journals and serials
• 581,563 print books
• 53 databases
• 22,500 items listed in Cadmus, EUI Research
Repository (Thesis 13 % & Open Access items
29%)
Usage of resources
• 138 users entering the Library per day
• 89.663 volumes loaned or consulted
• 1,509 volumes delivered from storage
• 488,209 full-text documents downloaded
• 295,988 visits on the Library website
• 6,093 Visits on the Library Blog
• 324,576 visits on Cadmus
Services provided
• 4.709 purchased printed books in 2018
• 9.011 eBook purchased in Collections and
664 individuals
• 18,4% of purchased books are based on user
requests
• 55 computers available for EUI members
• 2,098 interlibrary loans provided to EUI
members
• 62 training session hours for 539
participants
What do users think and say? (2016 Survey)
• 82% of the Library users express that "the
Library collection fits my research needs"
• 89% of the Library users express that "the
Library provides a good service to me"
• 69% of the researchers access the library
every day or every week
EUI Library 2017 Statistics
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• "The EUI library has all the resources you need for your research ‐ and if you're
missing something, the librarians will make sure you get it!“ (2016)
• "Some staff are amazing in terms of dealing with researchers and doing their
jobs.“ (2016)
• “Library is a stimulating working environment for all EUI researchers“ (2016)
• “By far the best book collection I have seen in a university library.“ (2014)
• “A brilliant library with highly qualified and responsive staff.” (2014)
• “Having a meeting with the archivist and librarian is really fantastic, because
they help you understand what is in the archive, and what you might be able to
use.” (2013)
• “I talk to the librarians when I’m looking for something outside my comfort
zone.” (2013)
• “The way I frame my questions… there’s no question that will be answered by a
single collection.” (2013)
• “A huge problem has been organizing the material I’ve found. I’ve accumulated
a huge amount of information.” (2013)
• “I should learn how to [use management tools]. It’s lazy, really. Maybe later. It’s
a waste of time to re-write these references over and over. ….” (2013)
EUI Library User Surveys
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My Account at the EUI Library
Information on My
account also
accessible at the
Top of the
Library Home page
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Article+, EUI
Library
discovery: added
contents to our
collections at the
level of single
article/chapter
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5. EBSCO Publication Finder:
Which eJournals & eBooks
publications belong to the EUI
Library collections ?
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• Journal articles are not
indexed in the
Catalogue but they are
in Articles+.
• The EUI Library subscribes
to a wide range of
bibliographic citation
databases which index
journal articles (and other
documents) in various
subject areas, languages and
years of publication.
Finding Articles & Creating subject bibliographies
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Tracking Journal’s TOCs at EUI
• Your personalised
version of
JournalTOCs,
alongside the
31,763 journals
covered by
JournalTOCs,
[2018]
includes 2,843
journals subscribed
by EUI for which
you have full-text
access.
• Create your own list
of journals
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• On Campus through the EUI
Library catalogue and using a
browser from your device or
from stand-alone computers
• Off Campus connecting to the
EUI Library catalogue as a
valid EUI member: you’ll have
to login with your EUI Library
card Barcode Number and
Password
Accessing E-Resources
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• The European University Institute
became institutional supporting
member of ORCID in November
2017. In August 2018 the EUI
Library integrated ORCID with
Cadmus, the EUI Research
Repository.
• ORCID iD, the Open Researcher
and Contributor ID, is an
alphanumeric number which
uniquely identifies authors in the
academic and scientific publishing
world.
ORCID: your identity within a global academic community
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Illegal Open Access: Alexandra Elbakyan, “Robin Hood of Open Access”
From en.Wikipedia.org (Sept.4, 2017)
“Sci-Hub was founded by Kazakh graduate
student Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, as a reaction to
the high cost of research papers behind paywalls …
In 2015 academic publisher Elsevier filed a legal
complaint in New York City against Sci-Hub
alleging copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, and the
subsequent lawsuit led to a loss of the original sci-
hub.org domain. … Sci-Hub has been controversial,
lauded by parts of the scientific and academic
communities and condemned by a number of
publishers.”
They say:
“the first pirate website in the world to provide
mass and public access to tens of millions of
research papers. More than 64,500,000 papers
in SCI-HUB. The Sci-Hub project, running
from 5th September 2011, is challenging the
status quo. At the moment, Sci-Hub provides
access to hundreds of thousands research
papers every day, effectively bypassing any
pay walls and restrictions.”
Addresses
• sci-hub.io
• sci-hub.bz
• sci-hub.cc
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EUI Library Youtube Channel with short intro video
• Setting up remote access
• Find content
• Use Library equipment
• Manage your books
• Economic and Data Information
Services
• History & Civilization
• Political & Social Sciences
• Law
• ORCID @EUI
• Open Access @EUI
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