Would you like to become WISER? Are you ever in Oxford with an hour to spare at lunchtime?
WISER (Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources) is an initiative of Oxford university Library Services. Free sessions are held from 12.30-1.30 at Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) in Banbury Road.
There are separate programmes for Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science. This term, all programmes cover the new SOLO and OxLIP+ services together with sessions on e-books, keeping up to date with the literature of your subject, effective searching of the internet etc.
To find out more, check the WISER website or see posters in the Library.
Monday 20 October 2008
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a joint project between the Faculty of English and Oxford University Computing Services. It aims to digitize primary source material (manuscripts, letters, diaries, etc) of some of the key British poets of WW1 (Thomas, Graves, Rosenberg, Brittain, Leighton to begin with), to add to the existing collection of material on Wilfred Owen, and to make these freely available on the Web alongside educational material.
All are welcome to a presentation on this project on Wednesday November 5th from 4.00-5.00pm in Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building (On the corner of St Cross Road and Manor Road)
You can find out more about the project at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
All are welcome to a presentation on this project on Wednesday November 5th from 4.00-5.00pm in Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building (On the corner of St Cross Road and Manor Road)
You can find out more about the project at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Recent additions to the Library
A list of all additions to the Library, whether purchased or donated, during September is now available on the Library website
Friday 3 October 2008
New E-book collection for Historians (and others)
New on OxLIP+ - ACLS Humanities eBooks
This resource contains a collection of over 1,700 full-text scholarly monographs in largely history encompassing the history of Britain, Europe, America, Africa and Asia, but it also contains titles for history of science, women's studies, archaeology and history of art. The project is managed by American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
This resource contains a collection of over 1,700 full-text scholarly monographs in largely history encompassing the history of Britain, Europe, America, Africa and Asia, but it also contains titles for history of science, women's studies, archaeology and history of art. The project is managed by American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Wednesday 1 October 2008
Search Oxford Libraries Online (SOLO) - a new way to search Oxford library catalogues
An announcement from OULS:
Today, 1st October, Oxford University Library Services is introducing new search tools that provide enhanced and easy access to its many resources.
SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
OLIS, the library catalogue, still exists but is now overlaid with powerful search software, SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). SOLO will search across OLIS, as well as the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) and other catalogues and e-resources collections so that your search results will be more comprehensive. Facets provide many additional links and there are options to email results, save results for bibliographic management packages, save searches and create search alerts. SOLO search results link to OLIS so that when you find the item you want, you will be able to place a stack request or a reservation. Using SOLO, it is easy to limit your search to items held in the Continuing Education Library. SOLO also allows for seamless linking to full-text journal articles.
An "Articles and Databases" tab gives you a quick overview (no more than 30 results per database searched) of journal articles, abstracts or bibliographic references in many subjects. Use this if you just want a sample of search results but go to OxLIP+ if you want to do detailed searching of the 800+ e-resources and databases.
OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
From OxLIP+ you can look for a resource by title or by subject, as before, but you can also search for a database by a word in its title or description. Selective databases can be cross-searched, thus allowing you to pick and choose databases from Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Medicine for truly interdisciplinary searching. Ask the Library staff for assistance with the many new options on offer.
OU E-journals http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
OU E-Journals, already familiar to most of you, is still available as a separate search service and is your easiest way into a full-text ejournal. Oxford now has over 28,000 titles!
Use Single-Sign-On (SSO) to have access to the personalised features of these services, and to access resource content from outside the Oxford University network. No more need for VPN or Athens - just logon using your SSO account (which is the same as your Herald email userid & password)! Note that SSO is only available if you are on an award-bearing course and have a full University card.
Please use the TELL US WHAT YOU THINK screen on SOLO to tell us your views and send in suggestions.
SOLO is now the default on reader machines in the Library
Today, 1st October, Oxford University Library Services is introducing new search tools that provide enhanced and easy access to its many resources.
SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
OLIS, the library catalogue, still exists but is now overlaid with powerful search software, SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). SOLO will search across OLIS, as well as the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) and other catalogues and e-resources collections so that your search results will be more comprehensive. Facets provide many additional links and there are options to email results, save results for bibliographic management packages, save searches and create search alerts. SOLO search results link to OLIS so that when you find the item you want, you will be able to place a stack request or a reservation. Using SOLO, it is easy to limit your search to items held in the Continuing Education Library. SOLO also allows for seamless linking to full-text journal articles.
An "Articles and Databases" tab gives you a quick overview (no more than 30 results per database searched) of journal articles, abstracts or bibliographic references in many subjects. Use this if you just want a sample of search results but go to OxLIP+ if you want to do detailed searching of the 800+ e-resources and databases.
OxLIP+ http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
From OxLIP+ you can look for a resource by title or by subject, as before, but you can also search for a database by a word in its title or description. Selective databases can be cross-searched, thus allowing you to pick and choose databases from Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Medicine for truly interdisciplinary searching. Ask the Library staff for assistance with the many new options on offer.
OU E-journals http://ejournals.ouls.ox.ac.uk/
OU E-Journals, already familiar to most of you, is still available as a separate search service and is your easiest way into a full-text ejournal. Oxford now has over 28,000 titles!
Use Single-Sign-On (SSO) to have access to the personalised features of these services, and to access resource content from outside the Oxford University network. No more need for VPN or Athens - just logon using your SSO account (which is the same as your Herald email userid & password)! Note that SSO is only available if you are on an award-bearing course and have a full University card.
Please use the TELL US WHAT YOU THINK screen on SOLO to tell us your views and send in suggestions.
SOLO is now the default on reader machines in the Library
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