Introduction to the EUI Library

for Historians

Wednesday 4 September 2019

9.15 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.

Theater, Badia Fiesolana

by

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

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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 at the EUI

10.Information Literacy courses

11.EUI Library Communication tools

INDEX

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My Fields of expertise:

• Information Literacy

• Digital Humanities

• Digital (Public) History

• (International) Public

History

• Contemporary Italian

History

Role of Information Specialists at the EUI Library

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

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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 !

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1.Your EUI Library

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Collections

• 93,040 e-journals

• 474,031 e-books

• 1,024 current print journals and serials

• 581,563 print books

• 53 databases

• 22,500 items listed in Cadmus, EUI Research

Repository (Thesis 13 % & Open Access items

29%)

Usage of resources

• 138 users entering the Library per day

• 89.663 volumes loaned or consulted

• 1,509 volumes delivered from storage

• 488,209 full-text documents downloaded

• 295,988 visits on the Library website

• 6,093 Visits on the Library Blog

• 324,576 visits on Cadmus

Services provided

• 4.709 purchased printed books in 2018

• 9.011 eBook purchased in Collections and

664 individuals

• 18,4% of purchased books are based on user

requests

• 55 computers available for EUI members

• 2,098 interlibrary loans provided to EUI

members

• 62 training session hours for 539

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

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Collections 2015-2018

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• "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

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EUI Library

Home Page2019

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Librarians

&

Trainees

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2. Loans and Services

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My Account at the EUI Library

Information on My

account also

accessible at the

Top of the

Library Home page

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Services

• Borrowing

books

• Renewals &

Fines

• ILL

• On Campus

Book

Delivery13

3.Searching our

collections in the

catalogue (OPAC)

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

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Searching in All fields for an Author

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Viewing details of a bibliographic record and its shelf number

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Connecting with EUI Links and Full-text to full contents

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4.Discovering digital

publications with Article+,

EUI Library Ebsco Discovery

tool

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Article+, EUI

Library

discovery: added

contents to our

collections at the

level of single

article/chapter

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5. EBSCO Publication Finder:

Which eJournals & eBooks

publications belong to the EUI

Library collections ?

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EBSCO Publication Finder: EUI

Library eJournals & eBooks

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Browsing by Discipline: History

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The OA eJournal “Arcadia” in EUI library

OPAC, Article+ & in Ebsco Publication Finder

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Publication Finder for eJournals and eBooks

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6. Subject Bibliographies

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• 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

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Virtual Journal Display History selection

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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

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7.E-Resources at EUI Library

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EUI Library E-Resources

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A-Z List of all databases at the EUI Library

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

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eBook Collection by publishers

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Online Newspapers and News

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• 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

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Virtual Personal Network at the EUI (from ICT Service)

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Google Scholar & EUI Library Resources------Watch EuiLibrary YouTubeVideo

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8.History Guide and Services

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History &

Civilization

EUI Library

Guide

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CFP & CFA Distribution’s List

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EHPS –

European

History

Primary

Sources:

Open Access

Primary

Sources for

the History of

Europe

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EU Information Guide

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EUI Library data portal & services

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9. Open Access at the EUI

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Open Access atthe EUI

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Open Access list of Resources(eJournalsand eBooks)

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n.1 in Italy: Cadmus EUI Research Repository

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• 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

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ORCID at the EUI

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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

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10. Information Literacy

courses (2019-2020)

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Information

Literacy and

Research

skills

courses,

2019-2020

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Access to PPT and

PDF contents of

Research Skills

Sessions in past

years

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Managing

Biblio

with

EndNote

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Managing Web

Contents and

Bibliographical

citations with

Zotero

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11.EUI Library

Communication Tools

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EUI Library Youtube Channel with short intro video

• Setting up remote access

• Find content

• Use Library equipment

• Manage your books

• Economic and Data Information

Services

• History & Civilization

• Political & Social Sciences

• Law

• ORCID @EUI

• Open Access @EUI

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EUI Library Twitter Account (1829 followers in September2019)

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EUI Library Facebook Account(810 in September 2019)

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EUI Library Instagram Account

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EUI Library Blog

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Thank you &

Remember to

register for a Library

Guided Tour!

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