The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes some 57,000 biographies of people who have been of great influence on Great Britain's history, excluding the living. One-fifth of these biographies comes with a portrait. Further reading recommendations are added to each entry. The reference period reaches back to the fourth century B.C.
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SourceOECD represents the electronic publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
This database provides full text access to the a huge amount of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) publications - namely some 2 mill. documents: about 219 IEEE journals, magazines, transactions; more than 600 IEEE conference proceedings (about 10,000 individual works); abpur 1,600 current IEEE codes / standards. Included are as well publications by IEE / IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology): about 24 IET journals; some IET conference proceedings, colloquium and seminar digests.
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This dynamic webversion of the printed definitive book comprises of more than 2,000 encyclopedic articles regarding all fields of Philosophy of all continents and times.
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The series "Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft" published by de Gruyter opens up an area of knowledge, which includes Linguistics in general as well as the specific philologically oriented Linguistics and the fields which have evolved in recent decades from the ever growing research on the multifaceted phenomenons of communicative action. By now it has become an irreplaceable milestone in philological teaching and research.
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In line with the closure of the university during this year's Christmas break, the library will be closed from 23 December 2009, 18:00 hrs until 04 January 2010, 06:00 hrs.
The public access areas (departmental libraries, Reference Department, Central Loan Department) will be open until Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 18:00 hrs. and will reopen on Monday, 04 January 2010, 08:00 hrs.
The library wants to support and accommodate researchers, students and examinees as much as possible. For this reason we agreed on exceptional rules for borrowing non-circulating books during the Christmas break. Details of the agreement are as follows:
Trial access for Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection until November 28, 2009.
Additional trial access for PsycInfo until October 28, 2009 via EBSCOhost
The university
library celebrates the 40th anniversary of Bielefeld University with a duplex exhibition in cooperation with
the university archive.
Under the title "Wie gründet man Universitäten?" (How to found a university?) the university archive outlines Helmut Schelsky's founding concept of the "Reformuniversität" Bielefeld which proved to become a successful model although the general conditions worsened. The second part of the exhibition is titled "Innovation ist unsere Tradition" (innovation is our tradition) and highlights forty years of digital innovation performed by the university library - before and after the emergence of the internet and Google.
Original documents, accessible exhibits and multimedia presentations will bring past and present of the university and the library to life. Both exhibitions can be visited from October 21 to November 25, 2009 in area C1. Come on in!
You are invited to the vernissage which takes place on October 21, 18:00 hrs. in area C1 as well. The opening address will be held by Dr Irmgard Siebert, Director of the University and Regional Library, Düsseldorf.
Further information about the exhibitions:
Celebratory Calendar of the University's 40th Anniversary
The library's new acquisitions (purchase, exchange, gift) of the last four weeks can now be browsed again. We provide a list arranged by discipline.
New Acquisitions of the Last Four Weeks
The repository BiPrints (http://repositories.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/biprints/) stores permanently quality assessed
full texts of scholarly works and assures visibility and ease of access on the internet.
At the moment is comprises some 2500 publications from Bielefeld scholars of all faculties.
Recently, an interface between BiPrints and the university's research database FoDa has been realized.
This new connection enables the additional upload of publications for existing or new FoDa entries.
Users may add descriptive bibliographic data or can have the library do it.
The full text will be uploaded and indexed automatically while a persistent address assigned
to the full text will be inserted in the research database entry.
When a BiPrints record exists, it will improve the visibility of the text on the web and thus promote the citation frequency.
On top of that longterm availability is guaranteed by the library.
Contact: Susanne Riedel, susanne.riedel@uni-bielefeld.de
BioOne is a non-commercial publishing house which offers a platform for bioscience journals. It comprises of two collections, BioOne 1 und BioOne 2, and hosts all in all about 145 journals. On top of that, the platform includes an open access section with currently more than ten journals (information as of 27 February 2009).
For libraries, museums and archives, the publishing houses C.H. Beck, Vahlen and Nomos intend to publish more than 350 textbooks and commentaries as "Beck-eBibliothek". Starting in 2009, recent (published in 2006-2008) books in the field of law and economics will be available. The demonstration version which is currently available includes two commentaries and 24 textbooks by C.H. Beck (information as of 20 April 2009).
On May 27, 2009 in the morning, the library will be partly closed because of a staff meeting. Affected areas are the northern wing (entrances C and E), the Central Loan Department, and the ZiF-Library, which then will exceptionally open not until 10.00 hrs. We kindly apologize for the inconvenience caused.
The "Kindler" represents the most comprehensive encyclopedia in literary history in all Europe. It includes 18,000 entries describing the most significant works of world literature, among those are about 16,000 works of some 8,000 important authors from all over the wolrd plus about 2,000 anonymous works. Moreover you can find comprehensive, cross-epochal descriptions of literary matters and more than 120 essays dealing with the literatures of the world.
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Due to universitywide IT management adoptions which affect the library systems, too, we unfortunately have to announce disturbances probably until Tuesday, 19 May 2009. In detail:
We will keep you informed and publish news on the issue in good time.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Comprehensive reference work on the origins and development of the Bible in its Jewish and Christian canonical forms. The work will consist of thirty volumes appearing over a projected ten-year period (2008 - 2018) and accompanied by a parallel online version. The project is divided into five areas: the formation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, the Bible in the Judaic and Christian traditions respectively, and biblical reception and influence in literature, art, music, and film, as well as in Islam and in other religions that do not ascribe exclusive authority to the Bible but in some way draw upon its traditions.
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The Latinum Electronicum is an interactive Latin course. It imparts the basics of the Latin language in 23 learning units and leads to a Latin certificate.
This database provides full text access to the articles which appeared in 151 journals in the era of expressionism. It covers about 40,000 articles by more than 5,000 authors. All in all the database consists of more than 79,000 digitized pages.
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The online version of the International Encyclopedia of Communication provides more than 1,350 articles concerning all subsections of media and communication science and related fields such as law, psychology, and economics. This interdisciplinaryly arranged reference work covers the whole range of communication sciences starting from methodology to concrete research. Treated issues are: communication theory, communication philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, media law, PR etc.
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American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is a current project which aims to digitize and comprehensively index about 1,000 motion picture scripts. It will not only give access to many yet unpublished scripts but also promote the acceptance of scripts as a literary genre.
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This database includes sources on mediaeval and ancient history of Great Britain. For further information refer to the British History Online Brochure
Bielefeld University Library is happy to present its restructured and enhanced information services range:
The most obvious alteration concerns our website: we adopted the corporate design of Bielefeld University with its versatile system of colours, planes and pictures. As the range of services is growing continously, we realized the necessity to improve the transparency and user friendliness of our website and modernize it at the same time. The new corporate design which was introduced for the university as a whole offered a number of chances.
The right column presenting a context related support and information area on almost every page is an absolutely new concept. Here you will find tips, further information or reference to contentwise related pages.
But, the implementation of some database and search engine supported services with new functions - partially related to the Web 2.0 concept - has been a major challenge. Examples of what we have successfully carried out are the new library catalogue, the new publication server BiPrints and the search engine BASE.
According to the BITV guidelines (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung) we have optimized our pages with regard to accessibility.
Almost all existing web addresses will stay in further use, so you don't have to worry about changing bookmarks.
Tell us what you think about the new web pages!
The library catalogue is the most important tool for searching and finding items in the collection of Bielefeld University Library. The new website design was adopted to the appearance of the catalogue. Moreover, it underwent a complete Restructuring based on a new innovative technology. This new technology enables several new functions:
The catalogue can be searched from each library web page. Use the search field which is located in the top right position. Of course an advanced search form with detailed search options is provided, too. With the new catalogue we now hope to optimize the search options even more and better meet your search needs. We appreciate your comments!
In the course of the redesigning activities of the university library's website, the "Bielefeld Academic Search Engine" has undergone some changes in design, too. In addition we used the opportunity to add some new features to it. BASE is an international search engine which is operated by Bielefeld University Library since 2004. Metadata of freely accessible scientific documents (open access publications) stored on more than 1,050 different servers are collected, indexed and made available for searching. Among these servers are all major publication servers such as the famous arXiv and PubMed as well as servers of scientific instituitions such as the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft oder CERN. Of course the servers located in Bielefeld, BiPrints and the electronic journal Documenta Mathematica for example, are included.
Along with Google Scholar and OAIster, BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines of this kind and promotes concurrently the visibility of the open access publications created in Bielefeld. One of the highlights of BASE's features is a multilingual search option. On the basis of a language thesauraus it permits to search in one language and retrieve results in up to 20 other languages.
Frantext: Voluminous collection of more than 3,700 essential texts on French literature from the 16th to the 20th century. Any genre of fiction is incorporated (80%) as well as essays, treatices and correspondency in the fields of philosophy, science and art (20%).
The KLfG presents the life and work of prominent contemporary writers of world literature, who have influenced the literature of their language and cultural areas and still do. The database includes more than 600 author entries.
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StatistikNetz.de combines leading national and international official statistical sources to a webbased, centralized database: Eurostat: complete EU foreign trade, Eurostat: "Regio" (regional statistic of the EU), Eurostat: major fields of economy and social statistic from "NewCronos", OECD: "SourceOECD" statistic databases, IWF: International Financial Statistics, UNIDO: Industrial Statistics, Statistisches Bundesamt: Statis Bund (Genesis), Deutsche Bundesbank: Statistiken der Monatsberichte und Statistischen Beihefte.
Süddeutsche Zeitung Archiv contains the national edition, Bavaria edition and Munich edition including the county editions since 1992, the SZ-Magazin since 1999, SZ-Extra and SZ Prime Time. Since the publication year 1998 the articles can be viewed as newspaper pages in PDF format. The current national edition issue is already available at 22:00 hrs of the previous day. Both current Bavaria and Munich edition issues are available at 07:00 hrs of the same day.
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From Tuesday, 13 Jan. 2009 until Monday, 19 Jan. 2009 (expectedly), the library will have to conduct inevitable systems maintenance work in order to adjust to the North Rhine-Westphalian library network. The disturbances for the users will be kept at a minimum level.
The library will be open at usual hours.
From 14 Jan., 19:00 hrs until 19. Jan. 2009 access to "My Loan Account" is not possible which means, that renewals via internet, reservations and the display of the loan status of library media is not possible.
The circulation desks, however, are in full service and conduct loans, returns, renewals and reservations as usual.
Exceptions:
At that time we will have to work offline. Loans and returns can be made, interlibrary loans unfortunately not.
But: from 14 Jan. until 19 Jan. you can call us on the phone (0521/106-67788) for renewals or contact the circulation desk staff personally.