Library hours November-December 2009
November:
December:
The following databases will form part of the UJ Library resources in 2010. Those databases in ‘blue“ already are available.
Electronic Databases: Journals/Proceeding/ Theses & Dissertations
Full-text access to:
Electronic Databases: E-Books
Full-text access to:
For more information, contact me: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
PROMOTING OPEN ACCESS TO THE UJ SCIENCES COMMUNITY
19 – 23 October is the Open Access (OA) week. The library is taking an initiative to promote OA awareness to all University of Johannesburg users. Below you can see the planned activities on each of the Campus Libraries. Please, attend these lectures in the Library and learn how OA can benefit your teaching, research and learning needs. Ask your students also to participate and learn about OA and Institutional Repository.
What is Open Access? What initiatives are available for OA? What resources I can use, which are Open Access (OA)?
Visit the UJ Sciences Librarian “Open Access Portal” to have your questions answered and much more…. I have created one step to most of the resources relevant to you. Comment on this post, how do you feel about the OA initiative.
OA fact:
Astronomy researchers who made their Astrophysical Journal article open access using the arXiv.org e-print server doubled the citation rate of their articles. (Source: Stevens-Rayburn, Sarah. Account of 2003 AAS Publication Board meeting email to PAM electronic discussion list, November 13, 2003.
http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311&L=pamnet&D=1&O=D&P=1632)
I’m highlighting some of the Top Open Access resources. Full list is available on the Open Access Portal:
Visit the official Open Access web.
Open Access initiative is a movement towards opening opportunities for developing countries to have access and to publish their research. Thanks to eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) and especially Irina Kuchma, who is visiting many countries, institutions and libraries to promote and train on the usefulness of Open Access and implementation of institutional repositories.
The Library programme for the Open Access week:
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APK: Library, 3rd floor Auditorium |
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| Date | Time | Activities |
| 19 October 2009 | 10:00 | Welcome/Exhibition |
| 10:20 | Guest Speaker: Ms Madelein van Heerden, CSIR“Making you famous” | |
| 11:00 | Open Discussion | |
| 11:15 | Demonstration of UJDigispace | |
| 11:30 | Closing | |
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APB: Library Training Room |
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| 20 October 2009 | 10:00 | Welcome/Exhibition |
| 10:15 | Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access | |
| 11:00 | Open Discussion | |
| 11:15 | Demonstration of UJDigispace | |
| 11:30 | Closing | |
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DFC: Library Training Room |
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| 21 October 2009 | 10:00 | Welcome/Exhibition |
| 10:15 | Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access | |
| 11:00 | Open Discussion | |
| 11:15 | Demonstration of UJDigispace | |
| 11:30 | Closing | |
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SWC: Conference Hall |
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| 22 October 2009 | 10:00 | Welcome/Exhibition |
| 10:15 | Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access | |
| 11:00 | Open Discussion | |
| 11:15 | Demonstration of UJDigispace | |
| 11:30 | Closing | |
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APK: Library, 3rd floor Auditorium |
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| 23 October 2009 | 10:00 | Review and Closing |
Trial until 31 October 2009
Political Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for over 400 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals). PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features more than 165 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000 full text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association
The University of Johannesburg Library & Information Centre has embark on a various projects this year: One Book One Library (read now, discuss in September), organizing a Conference in 2010 – “The Future is NOW: New Roles and relationships for Academic Libraries“, etc.
One of them involve providing more sitting space for students in the Library. At Kingsway Library the first 30 new tables were added (25/8/09) on Level 2, next to the Sciences, Health Sciences & Engineering Book Collections. Students have now 81 sitting tables on that floor.
More sitting spaces will be available in 2010.
Also coming in early 2010 is the new Library Computer Training room, with 50 seats and 26 computers (currently we have 13 computers). Will keep you posted….
Ovid Regional Sales Manager for Southern Africa, Connie Munsters has visited the University of Johannesburg Library & Information Centre on the 24th of August 2009. Some of the topics discussed were: E-books; Ovid Universal Search and Ovid Journals platform- the searching strategies.
The meeting was attended by the UJ Information Librarians and representative from the Collection Development.
The UJ Library subscribes to the following databases, available on the OVID Platform:
Some of these databases are Bibliographic, but Ovid provides links to the full-text articles if available through Subscription or Open access. Direct link to the UJ Library is also available (Currently there are some problems with the linking) .
Please leave a comment if you have any queries or experience a problem. E-mail me on: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
The University of Johannesburg Library collection of Electronic Books grow each year. Most of the databases are purchased by the Engineering Faculty, but many of these titles are relevant to the Sciences.
Have a look and make use of these collections. Why not recommend some of these books as an additional reading material to your students?
Direct links to the Online Books are available on the Sciences Librarian Portal and the individual Subject Portals.
AccessEngineering (Remote Access – YES)
> CRCnetBase Online Books (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
The books in these collections cover a wide subject spectrum of interest to Scientists: Energy; Environmental & Ecological; Computing; Remote sensing; Chemistry and many more. The number of books grow each year with new publications.
MechanicalEngineeringNetBase (233 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
TellecomunicationsNetBase (205 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
EngnetBase (1288 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
ElectricalEngineeringnetBase (404 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
ENVIROnetBASE (572 e-books) NEW! Currently full-text only ON CAMPUS
MATERIALSnetBASE (333 books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)
> ICE Virtual Library (Conference Proceeding, 1836-2002)
> Referex (via Engineering Village 2/ EV2) (Remote Access – YES)
The Library subscribes to 2 collections Electronic & Electrical Books (411) and Materials & Mechanical Books (521). These are some of the subject collections:
> SAFARI (IT books; 5 Simultaneous users) (Remote Access – YES)
> Science Dissemination Using Open Access (Free access, Web 2.0; Open Access)
Enjoy your reading. If you have any comments, please let me know.
The University of Johannesburg Library has arranged a TRIAL to Project Muse. Direct link to the Project Muse journals is available on the Sciences Librarian Portal.
View additional TRIALS.
Trial ends: 2 September 2009
Full-text access to the journals is available only ON CAMPUS.
Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious Humanities and Social Sciences journals. MUSE is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world’s leading University presses and Scholarly societies, Journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected Scholars in their fields. Read MORE about Project Muse.
The following Subjects can be of interest to the Sciences users:
If you need help, please let me know (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za) or leave a comment.
University of Johannesburg Library has arranged a TRIAL to the Springer Books Online. View more TRIALS.
Access is available from the SpringerLink Database. Just login with your Surname/Student or Staff number/Library PIN. Need help? (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)
Trial ends: 5 October 2009
Full-text access to the journals is available REMOTELY.
TIPS for searching:
Book Series:
Books:
Springer books are for the Science & Engineering Departments. Let us know if you find the trial useful. leave a comment.
University of Johannesburg Library has organised a TRIAL to Cambridge Journals Online. Direct link to the Cambridge Journals is available on the Sciences Librarian Portal. View more TRIAL Databases.
Trial ends: 20 August 2009
Full-text access to the journals is available only ON CAMPUS.
Subjects & Journals of interest to the Sciences Departments:
For any comments or queries, please contact me (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za) or leave a comment
Reaxys Online: Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases is on TRIAL until 30/9/2009.
The Library subscribes to CrossFire & Reactions: Beilstein & Gmelin in CD-Rom format. Now this product is made available online, and the Library has recently a presentation by Elsevier on its functionality.
Click here to Access Reaxys . Read more about this product.
Features:
Access is available through the Sciences Librarian Portal and Chemistry Subject Portal. View more TRIAL Databases.
Dr. Jörg Hellwig, Sales Manager Elsevier Science & Technology visited the UJ Library to present the new Reaxys Online, during his May-June SA tour.
Please contact me for more information or if you experience any difficulty in accessing or using the list. pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za, 011 559-2621.
MyiLibrary is an Online Books Database and a TRIAL has been arranged for UJ users until 30/9/2009. More TRIALS…
Reasons to consider MyiLibrary include:
The Library and Information Centre announces the upgrading of the A-Z List, which provides access to the full-text electronic journals. Improvements include:
CASE: A-to-Z Journals features:
Other features of CASE include:
Please note: If you want the journal to open in a new window, right click on the title.
The CASE: A-to-Z Journals list is available on the UJ Sciences Librarian Portal and all individual Sciences Subject Portals.
The UJLink: Library Catalogue, also provides direct link to CASE: A-to-Z Journal.
NEW features in the UJLink: Library Catalogue:
Please contact me for more information or if you experience any difficulty in accessing or using the list. pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za, 011 559-2621.
Due to a major server upgrade, the Integrated Library System (Millennium-Innopac) will be inaccessible from 16h00 on Thursday 9th July 2009 until 18h00 on Friday 10th July 2009.
Please note that the system may be available sooner.
Services affected are:
The Library apologises for any inconvenience
JSTOR is an important full-text database for the Sciences researchers. You can find journals dated back to the 19h Century. The Moving wall is between 3-5 years (no full-text). Click HEREfor direct access to JSTOR.
If you have any queries with searching JSTOR and journals accessibility, please let me know: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
