Welcome back to the 2012 Academic Year.
The UJ Library Opening hours (Kingsway Campus) during January 2012 are:
From the week of 30 January 2012 the opening hours will be as follows:
To view the other Campus Libraries opening hours, please go to the main UJ Library website
Extended Library Hours (Saturdays)
Please note that UJ library hours will be extended from 8am to 7pm for the following Saturdays:
The extended hours will only be applicable for the APK and DFC libraries, as there was no request for the other libraries.
Note that Protection Services and Bytes (printing + photocopying) have been informed accordingly.
The Sage journals content is in the: Social Sciences & Humanities; Health Sciences; Life & Biomedical Sciences; Materials Science & Engineering.
The journals relevant to Sciences are from: Geography, Urban Studies & Planning, Research Methods & Evaluation, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Cell Biology, Life Sciences, Engineering, Computing, Materials Science.
Informit service is the leading source of online full text, multimedia and index databases that deliver the most authoritative research from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Access is to articles, Conference papers, working papers, grey literature, etc.
The UJ Library subscribes to the:
For more information visit: http://www.informit.com.au/
The Thieme Teaching Assistant is a state-of-the-art presentation tool featuring thousands of stunning illustrations and clinical images from Gilroy et al.
The UJ Library subscribes to the:
Atlas of Anatomy & Fundamentals of Medical Physiology
Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry workflow solution which supports research and fuels discovery by integrating searches for reaction and substance data with synthesis planning and chemical sourcing.
The McGregor BFA range of research products caters to the needs of the local and international research community. The depth and breadth of company research data available in the research products are unparalleled. Access with PASSWORD!
The World Bank eLibrary provides access to a growing collection of more than 6,000 ebooks, journal articles, and working papers from the world’s most authoritative source on international development as they are published
Topics covered are: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Macroeconomics & Economics, Poverty reduction, Rural development, Transport, Urban Development, and much more….
OECD iLibrary is Online Library for Books, Papers, Factbooks and Glossaries and the gateway to OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) analysis and data.
Topics: Agriculture and Food; Economics; Development; Education; Energy; Environment; Nuclear Energy; Science & Technology; Social issues/Migration/Health; Transport; Urban/Rural/ Regional Development. Worldwide Countries – incl. South Africa.
Access is available either through the UJ Sciences Portal or the UJ Library website.
The University of Johannesburg Senate adopted an Open Access mandate (2010) that states that:
The university encourages the publication of research articles in accredited open access journals.
Sourse: eIFL Newsletter, March/April 2011
For more information on UJ Open Access & Institutional Repository initiatives visit:
Please note that the University of Johannesburg Libraries will be closed between 22 April and 2 May.
Enjoy your Easter weekend, 27 April – Freedom Day & 1 May – Workers day
If you are still going to work on your research projects or assignments, visit the UJ Sciences Librarian Portal for subject related information.
“How to Find Print & Online Book at UJ Library” (for Sciences users)
Have a look at this interactive poster to find direct links to the:
Visit the UJ Sciences Librarian Portal for more resources
Have problem getting started with your Research Project? Check this interactive “fun” poster, which I created for the UJ Sciences students:
Ho do you feel about it? Don’t forget to visit the UJ Sciences Librarian Portal for any additional information.
Please note that the APK Library started with phase 2 (vertical move of the books) from 1 April.
Once phase two is completed the ‘new’ levels will look as follows:
Level 1: DDC# 000 – 226 (Computer Science – 003-006)
Level 2: DDC# 227 – 354 (Env Management & Energy – 333.3 & 333.7)
Level 3: DDC# 355 – 621 (Natural Sciences – 500)
Level 4: DDC# 400, 700 & 800
Level 5: DDC# 622 – 999.9999999999 (Geography – 910)
Hi all. It has been a while since mine last blog post. Life has been hectic and to tell you the truth, Twitter and Facebook just took over my Social Networking time. Why? Because it is easy to post short comments and links. To do a blog post it takes a lot of my time, which is already 24/7 at work.
So I will try to be short and productive at blogging.
What’s NEW at the University of Johannesburg Kingsway Campus:
Sciences related links:
Have a question? Just ask!
Pavlinka Kovatcheva, UJ Sciences Librarian at Kingsway Campus (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)
University of Johannesburg Library acknowledges the OA week with a number of events
Visit the Sciences Librarian Open Access portal to learn more about OA and to access journals
19 October 2010 workshop Programme
The LibQual Survey was extended until 8 October 2010
You are invited to complete the survey when you have a spare time. You have a chance to WIN a cash price of a R1000, if you complete the survey and “remember” to write your e-mail. Please let your students know about it and participate.
Links to the survey are available through the Library website and the Sciences Librarian Portal.
African Journal Archive project: launch of its website!The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa. Journal articles hosted on the Archive extend back to the first issue (if available) and end with the last pre-current issue (determined by the publisher).
The website currently comprises 700 issues and 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa. Online access to the archive is free of charge to Africa and the world.
The Archive is an integrated full-text electronic journal repository providing:
The journals are digitised at no charge to the publisher. Participating publishers also receive a preservation copy of their archived journal volumes. The African Journal Archive is a Sabinet Gateway project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Custodianship of the Archive will reside with Sabinet Gateway. Management, creation and maintenance will be contracted to Sabinet Online.
Commenting on the project, Sabinet Online’s Managing Director, Rosalind Hattingh says “the project will create for the first time a central full-text repository of retrospective journal content of unique value, providing not only the vital groundwork for further or related research but assisting to preserve the heritage of the African continent.
We welcome your comments and feedback. Please contact us should you have any difficulties in finding information on the website. Publishers and scholarly societies in Africa are encouraged to contact us with their requests to be considered for participation. Sabinet News
Exhibition: Johannesburg Architecture and History April – June 2010
One more month for viewing this colection
Where: Foyer of the Archives, Institutional Repository and Special Collections Department, Level 6, Library and Information Centre, APK
Buildings are not just examples of architecture to be judged from an aesthetic and structural perspective. They are places in and around which history occurs – the large, significant and earth-shattering as well as the small, mundane and insignificant events.
Students needing information on Johannesburg’s history and architecture can come and see the many resources available to them on display. The G-M van der Waal Collection of Johannesburg postcards, photographs etc., some of which are also on display, is an essential resource for anyone needing authoritative information on Johannesburg’s historical buildings.
For more information, visit the Archiving, Institutional Repositories & Special Collections portal
It seems that this year number of Databases providers are upgrading their databases to correspond to the new needs of users.
CRCnetBASE (Online Books) and the additional Collections. See Online Books Portal
IOP Science (Physics, Arxiv e-prints also searchable)
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry)
RefWorks 2.0 is available. The Library will change to this version in due time. Visit the RefWorks Portal
SpringerLink (official new interface from August 2010)
If you have any queries or you need training, please contact me: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
