News

The Lib4RI team wishes everyone a wonderful Christmas, relaxing holidays, and a good start into the new year!

Your library Lib4RI is happy to introduce a new internal book delivery service for all users at Empa-Eawag Dübendorf, PSI Villigen and WSL Birrmensdorf.

Until now, all full texts were marked with two symbols: an open-green locker in case the full text was available to read and a closed-grey locker if not. We have now improved these symbols by using the open-green locker only for open access articles, an open-yellow locker for full texts that are only internally available, and the closed-grey locker for full texts unavailable to our users.

Join our team! We have currently two vacancies in our library team: The project manager will conduct and support projects of the library in the area of scientific information and literature management. Further duties will be reporting and monitoring, communications and the preparation of information materials for the users.

Lib4RI has invited Dr. Alexandra Schweikart for a talk and a slide show in the framework of the festival «Berge lesen» organized by the international Alpine Convention. Being one of Germany’s top female alpine climbers she is no stranger to hard big-walls on El Capitan in Yosemite and the Alps.

By pledging for the Knowledge Unlatched (KU) STEM e-Book Collection 2018, Lib4RI funds open access and helps to make 100 e-books open access. Lib4RI is in very good company, there are already more than 100 libraries worldwide participating this year. The number of libraries taking part is quite important, as KU works basically like crowdfunding. So, the more libraries take part, the more likely it is that all books on the list will be transferred to open access.

This year’s topic for the Open Access Week is all about “open” being the standard and not the exception anymore. Many European funding agencies have recently joined the cOAlition S and are part of the initiative Plan S.

Another big thank you for the lively interest in our upcoming autumn training series, with currently more than 120 registrations and still a couple of weeks to go until the first sessions head off.

In autumn 2017 Lib4RI conducted a survey among the library‘s users for the first time since it was established. The aim was to determine how users perceive the quality of our services. In order to compare the results with those of other libraries, we chose the LibQUAL+® questionnaire of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

Autumn is at our doorsteps and so is our biannual introductory course «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 federal research institutes. In October and November 2018, we offer six individually bookable modules.

The library Lib4RI invites interested Eawag / Empa researchers to join this free workshop held by Dr Philippe Kamalaprija, a representative for CAS and ACS International.

Did you know that Lib4RI Eawag-Empa Dübendorf offers a quiet and cool study environment, particularly during the hot summer months?

As of June 2018 Lib4RI is a member of the Islandora Foundation. This foundation is a non-profit organisation serving the Islandora Community, which incorporates developers, users, implementers and service companies of the Islandora open-source software.

Actually, there is much more to know about soccer than it appears from the quotes of famous players, managers and coaches. We have collected some links from the internet, articles and e-books from our portfolio to provide you with some information that covers all aspects of football and the World Cup 2018. Enjoy reading!

In 2013, Lib4RI initiated the training series Searching & Managing Scientific Information offered biannually, in spring and autumn, to all members of Eawag, Empa, PSI and WSL.

During the weekend of 26/27 May 2018, NEBIS recherche received a new user interface.

Citation counts and other metrics related to individual publications are now available in DORA.

DORA, the institutional repository of Eawag, Empa and WSL, is live since more than a year now and we are happy to announce that DORA PSI will join the family in mid-2019! Last autumn, the PSI directorate decided that DORA shall serve as the platform for publications of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and shall replace the publication database of the Digital User Office (DUO), which has been used so far by most divisions at PSI.

We have recently licensed the LexisNexis database due to a user request. It is now available to all Lib4RI users. LexisNexis Academic comprises a wide range of different sources such as legal material, newspaper articles, websites, economic and biographical information and journals.

As DORA has evolved into a fully operational institutional repository, we have now also formulated our content policy. This includes, but is not limited to, the document types and formats accepted for inclusion in DORA.

Our Newsletter «Lib4RI-Update #14» is now available! Get a print copy at the library or read the online version below.

Again we are very happy about the lively interest in our spring training series, with a record 170 registrations so far, and take this opportunity to say a very big thank you.

We are happy to announce that you can now inform us about your publications through our newly designed and easy-to-use webform.

On Lib4RI’s website the searchbox provides a quick entry to multiple bibliographic catalogues and databases. For article search, Web of Science has now been set as the new default search engine

By converting our e-book acquisition even stronger in the direction of demand-driven models such as «EBA» and «PDA», we were able to improve our offerings for 2018 even further.

Spring is coming soon and so is our biannual introductory course «Searching & Managing Scientific Information» for PhD students and other affiliates of the 4 federal research institutes. In April and May 2018, we offer six individually bookable modules.

To meet our user’s demands even better, we have licensed some new e-journal packages for 2018. However, we have also cancelled some journals and journal packages due to low usage, high price increases or a combination of both.