Overview of the services offered by the VUB University Library

1. Overview of the services offered by the VUB University Library Patricia Hellriegel University Library - Vrije Universiteit Brussel Patricia.Hellriegel@vub.ac.be

2. This presentation on the Internet • Webpages of the University Library:http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ • Switch to version in English • Say what we do, do what we say • PowerPoint presentations of information sessions • Information sessions 2003 http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/ubwebsite_presentations.html

3. Overview of this presentation • Overview of the library services • Webpages • Library Catalogues • Databases available through the VUB network • Practical use of databases • Electronic journals

4. Library Catalogues (listed on the UL website) • How to get books • VUB-catalogue • ULB-catalogue • Royal Library Catalogue • Other Belgian catalogues • International catalogues • Electronic book collections

5. ADB (Article Database) facts • Produced by the University Library of the VUB. • Uses data from our subscription agent Swets. ADB contains descriptions of articles published in more than 14.000 important periodicals. • When available, abstract and/or full text is shown via the V-link dialogue box. • Coverage: 1993-present.

6. Start ADB via UL website (1/3)

7. Start ADB via UL website (2/3)

8. Start ADB via UL website (3/3) Demo

9. ADB - Start Screen

10. ADB - Search Result

11. ADB - Full description

12. ADB - Full-text article via Vlink (1/5)

13. ADB - Full-text article via Vlink (2/5) • Several providers are possible… • difference in availability! • Blackwell Synergy & SwetsWise • EBSCO

14. ADB - Full-text article via Vlink (3/5)

15. ADB - Full-text article via Vlink (4/5)

16. ADB - Full-text article via Vlink (5/5) Save by printing 2 pages per sheet!

17. Which journals are electronically available? • Journals to which the VUB has a print subscription + a free or paid electronic subscription • E-only subscriptions • E-journals in package deals: Wiley, Synergy, ScienceDirect… • Wherever possible the VUB switches from print to electronic • Only journals with access based on IP-recognition

18. Looking for more with electronic databases • ADB allows to search in article titles only • Use bibliographic databases to search: • in specialized databases • in abstracts and descriptors • A collection of databases can be accessed free of charge • Other databases can be used with the help of an information specialist

19. General search principles • Use of database interfaces is always, in one way or another, based on the use of a command language • Important principles: • Search terms can be truncated with wild cards • Search terms can be combined

20. Truncation of search termswith wild cards • Truncation can be used in most database queries • Wild cards differ from database to database • Often: color* to find color, colors and coloring color? to find both color as colors colo!r (or colo?r) to find both color and colour

21. Boolean logic • AND = obtain records that contain both search terms • OR = obtain records that contain one or both search terms • NOT = exclude records that contain a search term

22. Save your work • After searching comes saving • The way and options to save results is often displayed on the results screen • Very often you can: e-mail the results save the results to hard or floppy disk print results

23. Bitte, parlez-vous English? • Most databases must be queried in English • Several dictionaries are available free of charge on the Internet • A valuable “scientific” dictionary is the EuroDicAutom of the European Union • Access via http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/login.jsp Demo

24. EuroDicAutom – example (1/3)

25. EuroDicAutom – example (2/3)

26. EuroDicAutom – example (3/3)

27. Databases available through the VUB network

28. Alphabetical overview

29. List with overview by subject

30. Overview by subject Web of Knowledge Demo

31. ISI Web of Knowledge • Web of Science • Current Contents Connect • Journal Citation Report • INSPEC

32. ISI Web of Science

33. WoS: ISI Citation Databases • ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by • Subject • Author • Journal • and/or author address • Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

34. Cited reference searching • Cited Reference Searching, unique to ISI, lets you use a given work as if it were a subject term to identify more recent articles on the same topic. • For example, you can find all works that reference articles published by A. Williamson in 1995 in the Journal of Neurophysiology. This type of searching often locates relevant articles that cannot be retrieved through traditional subject-author searching.

35. WoS feiten • VUB access contains (1972-present): • Science Citation Index Expanded Social • Sciences Citation Index • Arts & Humanities • Citation Index SCI Expanded: > 5,700 journals • SSCI: > 1,725 journals (+ items from 3,300) • A&HCI: 1,144 journals (+ items from 6,800))

36. EZ Proxy Login When working from home, you will first meet the EZ Proxy Login Screen, permitting you to login with your VUB network identification (NetID) and password (the same identification that you use to read your VUB e-mail).

37. WoS Welcome screen

38. Wos Full Search options

39. WoS Search Terms (Developping OR (Third AND World) AND Countr*) AND democracy

40. WoS First Results

41. WoS Example of a Record

42. WoS Back to the future Citaties Citaties Key paper Citing literature Cited literature

43. Get the paper – ADB (1/3) No e-version available? Antilope !

44. Get the paper – Antilope (2/3) If not available at the VUB: use the ILL-option !

45. Key paper: the other way around, from ADB to WoS Demo

46. Web of Science – cited reference search (1/2) Cited reference searching enables you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent, or another article. Through a cited reference search, you can discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected.

47. Web of Science – cited reference search (2/2) • Sometimes it is desirable to eliminate self-citations from the results of a cited reference search. This can be done by combining a cited reference search with a search by source author: • Perform a cited reference search on cited references for a given cited author. • Click the General Search button on the toolbar. Enter the name of the same author in the Author field. Click Search. • Click Combine Searches button on the toolbar. Combine the two searches you just completed in a Boolean NOT expression (e.g., #1 NOT #2). The results of the General Search should be the set on the right-hand side of the operator. Demo

48. Current Contents facts • Current Contents (CC) is a multidisciplinary current awareness resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 7,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals, in six disciplines: • Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences • Clinical Medicine • Engineering • Computing & Technology • Life Sciences • Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences • Social & Behavioral Sciences

49. Current Contents Connect

50. CC – Table of Contents (1/2)