Introduction to the EUI Library

for Historians

Wednesday 5 September 2018

9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.

Theater, Badia Fiesolana

by

Serge Noiret, History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.)

1.Your EUI Library

2. Loans and Services

3.Searching our collections: the catalogue

4.Discovering digital publications

5.eJournals & eBooks @EUILibrary

6. Creating Subject Bibliographies

7.E-Resources

8.History Guide and Services

9. Open Access and Cadmus

10.Information Literacy courses

11.EUI Library Communication

INDEX

My Fields of expertise:

• Information Literacy

• Digital Humanities

• Digital (Public) History

• (International) Public

History

• Contemporary Italian

History

Role of Information Specialistsat the EUI Library

Personal blog: http://dph.hypotheses.org

Interviewer: Have you worked with any of the librarians on

campus?

Historian: Oh yes. Because they are trained as librarians they

can think of search terms, or ways of searching. I am not

trained as a librarian, so I don’t. So yes, definitely the

librarians are crucial in the whole research process—both at

[my institution] and wherever I go.

Interviewer: At what point do you talk to the librarians?

Historian: Dead ends.

Interviewer: At dead ends?

Historian: Yes, I share my frustrations with them and ask

them to help me get out of the cul-de-sac.

Don’t wait the last moment:

ask librarians !

1.Your EUI Library

Collections

• 92,152 e-journals

• 505,895 e-books

• 1,076 current print journals and serials

• 575,096 print books

• 190 databases

• 20,996 items listed in Cadmus, EUI Research

Repository

Usage of resources

• 130 users entering the Library per day

• 104,346 volumes loaned or consulted

• 1,512 volumes delivered from storage

• 261,800 full-text documents downloaded

• 146,933 visits on the Library website

• 324,576 visits on Cadmus, EUI Research

Repository

Services provided

• 5,854 purchased books per year

• 17,35% of purchased books are based on user

requests

• 55 computers available for EUI members

• 3,147 interlibrary loans provided to EUI

members

• 35 training session hours for 562 participants

What do users think and say? (2016 Survey)

• 82% of the Library users express that "the

Library collection fits my research needs"

• 89% of the Library users express that "the

Library provides a good service to me"

• 69% of the researchers access the library

every day or every week

EUI Library 2017 Statistics

• "The EUI library has all the resources you need for your research ‐ and if you're

missing something, the librarians will make sure you get it!“ (2016)

• "Some staff are amazing in terms of dealing with researchers and doing their

jobs.“ (2016)

• “Library is a stimulating working environment for all EUI researchers“ (2016)

• “By far the best book collection I have seen in a university library.“ (2014)

• “A brilliant library with highly qualified and responsive staff.” (2014)

• “Having a meeting with the archivist and librarian is really fantastic, because

they help you understand what is in the archive, and what you might be able to

use.” (2013)

• “I talk to the librarians when I’m looking for something outside my comfort

zone.” (2013)

• “The way I frame my questions… there’s no question that will be answered by a

single collection.” (2013)

• “A huge problem has been organizing the material I’ve found. I’ve accumulated

a huge amount of information.” (2013)

• “I should learn how to [use management tools]. It’s lazy, really. Maybe later. It’s

a waste of time to re-write these references over and over. ….” (2013)

EUI Library User Surveys

EUI Library

Home Page2018

Librarians

&

Trainees

2. Loans and Services

My Account at the EUI Library

Information on My

account also

accessible at the

Bottom of the

Library Home page

Services

• Borrowing

books

• Renewals &

Fines

• ILL

• On Campus

Book

Delivery

3.Searching our

collections with the

catalogue (OPAC)

OPAC Direct URL - https://opac.eui.eu

Searching in All fields for an Author

Viewing details of a bibliographic record

Connecting with EUI Links to full text contents

4.Discovering digital

publications with Article+, EUI

Library Ebsco database

Article+, EUI

Library

discovery: added

contents to our

collections at the

level of single

article/chapter

5.Searching the title of

eJournals and eBooks

publications of the EUI Library

EUI Library collection of eJournals

& eBooks

The OA eJournal “Arcadia” in OPAC, Article+

& in eJournals/eBooks in the EUI library

collection

Example of search for eJournals and eBooks

6. Creating Subject

Bibliographies

• Journal articles are not

indexed in the

Catalogue but they are

in Articles+.

• The EUI Library subscribes

to a wide range of

bibliographic citation

databases which index

journal articles (and other

documents) in various

subject areas, languages and

years of publication.

Finding Articles & Creating subject bibliographies

Tracking Journal’s TOCs at EUI

• Your personalised version of JournalTOCs, alongside the

31,763 journals covered by JournalTOCs, [2018]

includes 2,843 journals subscribed by EUI for which you

have full-text access.

• Create your own list of journals

Virtual Journal Display History selection

7.E-Resources at EUI Library

EUI Library E-Resources

A-Z List of all E-Resources at the EUI Library

A-Z list of E-Resources for Historians at the EUI Library

• On Campus through the EUI

Library catalogue and using a

browser from your device or

from stand-alone computers

• Off Campus connecting to the

EUI Library catalogue as a

valid EUI member: you’ll have

to login with your EUI Library

card Barcode Number and

Password

Accessing E-Resources

Virtual Personal Network at the EUI (from ICT Service)

Google Scholar & EUI Library Resources

8.History Guide and Services

History &

Civilization

EUI Library

Guide

CFP & CFA Distribution’s List

EHPS –

European

History

Primary

Sources:

Open Access

Primary

Sources for

the History of

Europe

EU Information Guide

EUI Library data portal & services

9. Open Access and

Cadmus, EUI Academic

Repository

What is Open Access?

n.1 in Italy: Cadmus EUI Research repository

Open Access Resources at EUI Library

• The European University Institute

became institutional supporting

member of ORCID in November

2017. In August 2018 the EUI

Library integrated ORCID with

Cadmus, the EUI Research

Repository.

• ORCID iD, the Open Researcher

and Contributor ID, is an

alphanumeric number which

uniquely identifies authors in the

academic and scientific publishing

world.

ORCiD: your identity within a global academic community

Illegal Open Access: Alexandra Elbakyan, “Robin Hood of Open Access”

From en.Wikipedia.org (Sept.4, 2017)

“Sci-Hub was founded by Kazakh graduate

student Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, as a reaction to

the high cost of research papers behind paywalls …

In 2015 academic publisher Elsevier filed a legal

complaint in New York City against Sci-Hub

alleging copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, and the

subsequent lawsuit led to a loss of the original sci-

hub.org domain. … Sci-Hub has been controversial,

lauded by parts of the scientific and academic

communities and condemned by a number of

publishers.”

They say:

“the first pirate website in the world to provide

mass and public access to tens of millions of

research papers. More than 64,500,000 papers

in SCI-HUB. The Sci-Hub project, running

from 5th September 2011, is challenging the

status quo. At the moment, Sci-Hub provides

access to hundreds of thousands research

papers every day, effectively bypassing any

pay walls and restrictions.”

Addresses

• sci-hub.io

• sci-hub.bz

• sci-hub.cc

10. Information Literacy

courses (2018-2019)

Information

Literacy and

Research

skills

trainings,

2018-2019

Managing

Biblio

with

EndNote

Managing Web

Contents and

Bibliographical

citations with

Zotero

11.EUI Library

Communication

EUI Library Twitter Account

EUI Library Facebook Account

EUI Library Youtube Channel

EUI Library Instagram Account

EUI Library Blog

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