3 mill. articles originating from the 400 journals which are included in the electronic journal
archive JSTOR are now incorporated in the Journal Articles DatabasE JADE.
The core fields are humanities, social science and economics but you will
also find quite an important variety of journals on mathematics and general
science. The addition of this notable amount of articles means that JADE now is double in size.
The articles are only accessible on campus:
For further information about and separate access to JSTOR please refer to our electronic journals entry page:
From November 2, 2004 until the end of the month a new carpet will be laid in Area C1. Library use will then be limited or at times not possible at all. For more information please contact the library personnel (phone: 106-5232 or 106-3414)
The exhiition area will not be affected though.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
Apart from the database Entomology Abstracts we present trial access to four different databases. The host is CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet Database Service) and the trial period ends on December 31, 2004:
In order to help you keep track of your loan account and to make the renewal options more transparent, we have simplified the procedure. That's why we merged the six different existing loan conditions (loan periods) into three.
The third character of the bar code (e.g. 158/4127305+01) represents the loan condition.
Effective from October 18, 2004 the following three loan conditions apply:
All circulating items now can be renewed five times, provided that in the meantime it has not been reserved by somebody else. In this case it is inevitable to return the item in time.
Whether an item is circulating or not can be recognised by the colour of the call number label on the spine.
The equivalent of the conditions in plain text can be found in the library catalogue on clicking the button "Ausleihstatus" and in your loan account in the column "Medientyp".
A label exchange would mean an extensive work and require a considerable amount of money. Moreover, it would have been necessary to withdraw the media from circulation. That's why we decided to keep the now outdated ciphers 6,7, and 9 on the bar code labels, only the meaning has changed as explained above.
How to borrow, return, reserve and renew media
The MLA International Bibliography includes some 1.5. mill. records originating from more than 4,400 published journals and books worldwide. At present the library has licenced this database via Ovid.
Now we are pleased to provide additionally a temporary trial access via EBSCO until Nov. 30th.
Further information about the access options.
On the 15th of October (Friday) the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) and its library will be closed for annual works outing.
We apologize for any inconveniance.
In the course of the library information days on Oct. 19 and 21, 2004 from von 10.00 to 15.00 hrs the Reference Department will present its wide range of services. This semester's event is themed "We get you fit for information". Every half hour you will see a presentation on how to search and get literature. Moreover you can participate in a library quiz and win attractive books. Our traditional and always well-attended book flea market will be available for intensive and successful browsing.
On top of that the Reference Department offers a very special service: If you deliver a title list of needed study literature you will get the readily assorted material back.
Welcome to the Reference Department (B1-100, Entrance Area C).
Reference Department: Contact, Opening Hours, Siteplan
The library in the Oberstufenkolleg (OS) will be refurnished. For that reason users will have to face restricted access from Sept. 20 to Sept. 24, 2004.
On Sept. 23 the library will be closed. Book returns, renewals and reservations can then be made in all other departmental libraries.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
On Sept. 21, 2004 in the morning the library will partly be closed because of a staff meeting. Affected areas are the northern wing (entrances C and E) and the Central Loan Department, which will exceptionally open at 10.00 hrs.
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, an other uninterruptable power supply will be installed in the machine room of the Hochschulrechenzentrum. Due to these works the power supply for the library's servers may suffer and the library services can be affected in terms of shut downs. The works are scheduled for 7.00 hrs. to 10.00 hrs.
However, most of the services will be maintained by provisional power supply but it can not be excluded that some of the services (e.g. CD-ROM databases) will not operate.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Our Journal Articles DatabasE JADE has been expanded with articles published in open access journals by Biomed Central. Some 10,000 articles mainly about medicine or biology topics can now be searched and read directly on the screen.
Please note that access to the articles is only possible on campus:
For more detailed information about Biomed Central as provider and information concerning scholarly open access e-publishing options please visit our web pages:
Alternative Publishing Options for Authors at Bielefeld University
(in German)
LexisNexis Professional is best-known as first class research tool in the field of national and international economics and law. More than 35,000 current press and other media articles including archived material can be searched conveniently via a German language search interface.
Access information
Unfortunately it occured that today several modules of the circulation system need mending. As a result the following options are not available:
The borrowing and return of library items will remain unaffected.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
The maintenance and updating workings have been successfully completed. The circulation and interlibrary loan systems are in service again.
On July 16, 2004 the library will partly be closed because of a staff meeting. Affected areas are the northern wing (entrances C and E) and the Central Loan Department, which will exceptionally open at 10.00 hrs.
In order to provide a timely circulation system for our users we have now reached the point where it is compulsory to implement an extensive software update.
As a result the circulation service will be reduced from July 1 to July 4, 2004. During this time access to the loan accounts via internet ("My Loan Account") and the interlibrary loan options will not be possible. After that at the beginning of next week cuts may still occur.
From July 1 to July 4 no loan period endings are scheduled. The library hours remain unchanged except for the Central Loan Department which will be accessible on July 1 and July 2 from 10.00 to 15.00 hrs.
From July 1 to July 4 the following transactions are possible:
Not possible will be:
We apologize for any inconvenience.
BASE is a project at Bielefeld University Library. BASE offers an integrated search in heterogeneous scientific resources worldwide.
More information and access to a first prototype
The Journal Articles DatabasE JADE has recently been enhanced by some 60.000 records. The data have been compiled by Bielefeld University Library. The majority of the records originates from 45 scientific review organs and literary magazines of the 18th and 19th century
which have been published in the German-speaking area. The library had organized and overseen the digitization of the journals within the scope of a project financed by the German Research Council ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft"). For further details on the project please refer to:
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/aufklaerung/
The other part of the database enhancement presents recent volumes of several journals covering the subject history with predominantly regional reference, which have only been partly included in JADE:
JADE is accessible at:
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/english/databases/jade/
The second lecture in a row of discussions concerning "Scholarly e-Publishing" will be held on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 15.00 hrs c.t., Room A3 - 137.
The longtime editor of the international scientific journal "Documenta Mathematica", Prof. Dr. Ulf Rehmann (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld), will speak about "A community driven scholarly journal".
Further details on the activities of Bielefeld University on these topics are documented at
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ub/wp/
The ZiF Library will be closed on Friday, May 21.
For security reasons the library doesn't permit to carry bags into the reading rooms (see below). This regulation applies for laptop bags likewise.
In order to facilitate the transportation of your laptop including its accessories without your personal bag we provide free transparent, reusable carrier bags for the use within the reading rooms. A further benefit of this new service is that you don't have to line up at the loan desk and present the content of your laptop bag anymore.
However, books, folders, briefcases etc. will have to be presented before leaving the library.
Bielefeld University Library
The Director
May 17, 2004
Extract from the "Regulations of Usage" of Bielefeld University Library as of February 11, 1999:
§ 5 Rights and Duties
4) Bags, coats, umbrellas, pieces of luggage, animals, edibles, drinks etc. may not be taken into the library. Smoking, eating and drinking within the reading rooms is not permitted.
We are increasingly confronted with e-mails which are supposedly sent from the library but are contaminated with computer viruses. The library addresses are manipulated and often don't even exist, e.g. "Register".
The text in these mails reads as follows: "Ihre Benutzernamen und Passwörter befinden sich im Anhang dieser E-Mail" and a file with the file extension ".pif" or ".zip" is attached.
These e-mails are not sent by the library and it is strongly recommended not and by no means to open them!
By the way: The library would certainly never send user names or passwords by mail.
Further information on faked e-mails at:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/www/software/show.shtml?virus/soberf
If you already have opened an attachment by mistake you will there find ways and means to eliminate the virus from your computer.
Well meant advice: do not open attachments which you do not have explicitly requested. Be always sure to have a virus scanner installed and keep it updated.
On April, 29 another information day themed "Fit for information" is going to take place. You are cordially invited to the library's presentation stand in the hall in front of the UniQ stage from 10 to 15 hrs. The library staff will be ready to demonstrate new library services and of course will show the well proven ones as well.
It goes without saying that we have prepared our traditional well-assorted book flea market - a chance to browse and get a bargain.
Last but not least get yourself a glas of milk to energize your working day! Look and see: What do milk and the library have in common? They both get you going!
Due to an interruption of circuit in the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (HBZ) in Cologne our online interlibrary loan facility and some of our databases will not be available. The union catalogue will be concerned as well so that the availability determination within the metasearch may not work properly.
The cutoff will probably affect our services from Friday 26th, 20 hrs until Sunday 28th, evening.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
In case of questions or problems you can now use our Chat (Mo-Fr, 9-16 hrs).
The online journal archive JSTOR includes 400 full text journals which have been digitized almost completely, going back as far as the 17th century and starting off with the very first volumes. These resources are available now and can be searched under a single common search surface!
(Not available are the most recent three to five volumes each. For further details refer to the so-called "moving wall information").
In addition a search within the full texts is possible and several data formats for downloading (TIFF, PDF, PostScript) are supported.
The core fields are Humanities, Social Science and Economics but you will also find quite an important variety of journals on Mathematics and General Science.
All journals are included in the EZB as well.
JSTOR is a nonprofit enterprise which started in 1994 and has its origin in a former project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of Michigan Library.
Collections:
LexisNexis Professional represents a powerful and comprehensive search tool, which gives access to more than 35,000 German and international press resources including archives in the economics and law field.
LexisNexis Professional is provided on trial until April 30, 2004 (access confined to Bielefeld University campus).
Due to an interruption of circuit in the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (HBZ) in Cologne our online interlibrary loan facility and some of our databases will not be available. The union catalogue will be concerned as well so that the availability determination within the metasearch may not work properly.
The cutoff will probably affect our services from Friday 27th, 17 hrs until Sunday 29th, 13 hrs.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
Today Bielefeld University Library presents a newly designed website in a revised structure and with extented information services. A lot has changed but the address:
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
Our intention was to simplify the handling and to optimize the clarity of arrangement. We have changed to a left navigation which has in the meantime achieved common acceptance on the web. There you find the four main access points into our site. Besides we present important library services already on the homepage grouped together as "Short Cuts" or the "News". "My Library" summarizes the personalized services like the loan account and the individual settings of the metasearch. In addition to the already familiar navigation tool A-Z you will shortly be offered a site search option across the new web pages.
From the numerous services we have to offer, we want to emphasize three of them explicitly: The subject portals (can be accessed via the link: Digital Library), the completely new category Scholarly e-Publishing (access via: User Information & Services) and our new Help- and Info-System including the interactive tutorial about online searching and the virtual tour through the library (Link "Help" located in the upper navigation bar).
The value of the subject portals has increased significantly. All information, resources and services related to the scientific disciplines which are being taught at the university and the departmental libraries which mirror the study fields are now conveniently accessible in one spot. Contact persons, opening hours and service units are listed as well as information on the subjects, subject related databases and other ressources and links to the various faculties in Bielefeld.
The category "Scholarly e-Publishing" is still in the process of composition. The dicussion about the reorientation of scholarly publishing but constitutes an important topic which will concern academic libraries, scientists and the universities altogether. The library will work on this far-reaching and large scale issue jointly with the university and its members and successively produce and incorporate content for the pages.
The newly created help system which includes e.g. an interactive tutorial about online searching, several info clips, a virtual tour through the library and a dictionary of technical terms will give you comprehensive guidance and tips on how to use both the real and the digital library. A live chat option will be installed in the near future and will round the whole area off. The help system is located in the upper navigation bar and thus at hand on every page.
We appreciate your feedback. Please contact Barbara Knorn (knorn)
In addition to the standard copy machines, printing and export devices the library now provides flatbed scanners for public use.
All departmental libraries are now equipped with computers on which the following programs for text scanning and editing are installed:
Beyond that the word processing programs StarOffice 6.0 and the Microsoft Office Package including Photo Editor are available. Edited files can be printed out on the printers provided by TDM or stored on disks.
In case of questions or problems the library staff will be pleased to help.
The library will present completely new, updated and revised web pages. We have extended the functionality and incorporated some new features, e.g. a multimedia help system and newly structured subject information portals. The relaunch is planned for January 30, 2004.