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Information @ Oxford for undergraduates in Earth
Sciences
Sue BirdBodleian Subject Specialist for
Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Elizabeth CrowleyEarth Sciences Departmental Librarian
October 2013
WHY AM I HERE?
YOU ARE HERE, IN OXFORD, TO READ
YOU ARE HERE TODAY TO LEARN HOW
…EFFICIENTLY
THERE USED TO BE…
The three R’s
NOW THERE ARE
The three B’sBEDBEERBLUFF
Online resources, available 24/7 = you can look at them from your bedroom
Saving time in the library by knowing how to find things = more drinking/sleeping time
Having the information you need, when you want it and where you want it = ability to bluff your way through your degree
Helping you excel in the 3 B’s
We are here to help
There are 500 staff in Oxford’s libraries
There is a budget of £30million+
10 million volumes
40 library sites
And, yes, there are a few electronic items…
BIG
ELECTRONIC
160,000+ resources
e-bookse-journals
databases
Books and pizza No home delivery service for books (yet!)
You have to go to the library
Departmental library:- just for you
College library:– just for college members
Radcliffe Science Library (RSL):- reference and lending for all
You will also find maps at the Bodleian (Duke Humfrey’s, Old Library Building)
1: Earth Sciences
2: RSL3: Bod
Map Room
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3
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Your University Card is your library card – you need it for borrowing
It is pre-registered in RSL
You can borrow up to 15 items from the RSL for 7 days orovernight, if they are in demand
You can renew items online before they are overdue
Fines charged for late return (20p standard loan, 50p/hour overnight)
RSL Registration & borrowing
Your University Card is also needed for borrowing
You can borrow 6 items and you can have them for a month
You can renew online before they become overdue
There are no fines as yet, but this depends on everybody’s co-operation and consideration.
Let’s not change that!
Earth Sciences borrowing
Inter-library loans cost £5.00
It is a subsidised service – true cost £15+
Periodical articles can be delivered by e-mail
You can also recommend printed and electronic resources
If we haven’t got it
Get it. Copy it Watch it! --- Must be observed!
Applies to printed & electronic materials including maps
Copyright regulations◦70 years after author’s death
Legal limits:- You can only copy or permanently download: One article per periodical issue 5% of total work, or 1 chapter Policed by Copyright Licensing Agency
Regulations relating to the use of the facilities of the Oxford University Library Services
Made by the Curators of the University Libraries on 12 June 2006. Approved by Council on10 July 2006.
Explanatory note:
These regulations embody the Bodleian Library declaration, to which all readers admitted to Oxford University Library Services’ libraries and facilities are deemed to have subscribed, and to which they must adhere. The declaration reads:
“I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.”
Application 1. These regulations shall apply to all facilities within the Oxford University Library Services.
2. In these regulations “material” means any material, including electronic material, owned by or in the possession or custody of a library or library service and “issued” means legitimately in a reader’s possession either as a loan, an intended loan or for consultation or use within a library, and including material and equipment legitimately taken directly by a reader without the intermediation of library staff.
Admission 3. A person may use a library only after being formally registered as a reader in it. With the exception of short-term readers admitted on day passes, all readers must have a valid University or Library Card.
4. Readers may bring visitors into a library only with the express permission of library staff.
5. The only animals which readers may bring into a library are guide dogs.
6. Readers are responsible for keeping libraries informed of changes in the personal data kept by the libraries, including their address and email address.
Use of Libraries and Library Material 7. Readers are responsible for material or equipment issued to them until they have returned it in accordance with library procedures, and must at all times protect material or equipment issued to them and must not damage it or expose it to hazardous conditions.
8. Readers must not write in, mark, or otherwise deface or damage library material or equipment in any way.
9. Readers must use only library-approved facilities to photocopy, photograph, or scan material in the library.
10. Readers must not eat or chew anything (including sweets or gum) or drink anything (including water) in any part of a library, unless allowed by a local library regulation.
11. Readers may use portable computers or other electrical equipment of their own only in accordance with the instructions of library staff.
12. Readers may take material from the shelves, call it up from bookstacks, or borrow it only in accordance with library procedures.
13. Readers must observe all regulations and instructions relating to the introduction, deposit, and inspection of bags and cases.
14. Readers must familiarise themselves with and observe the regulations and procedures of each library they use, and must leave the library immediately in the event of a fire alarm or if instructed to do so in any other emergency.
15. Readers must leave library premises by the stated closing time unless permission for after-hours access has been granted.
16. Readers must carry their Readers’ or University Cards with them at all times in a library and show their cards if a member of staff requests them to do so.
17. Readers must follow all other reasonable requests of library staff.
18. Readers must return promptly any library material or equipment issued to them if they are requested to do so.
19. Readers must treat as confidential any information which may become available to them through the use of library facilities which is not clearly intended for unrestricted dissemination (such as information about other readers); such information must not be copied, modified, disseminated, or used either in whole or in part without the permission of the library or other person or body entitled to give it.
20. Readers may make copies from library material only as allowed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended by subsequent legislation.
21. Readers must not engage in conduct which infringes in any way the regulations of the University governing the use of the property of or in the possession or custody of the University, or the facilities and services provided by or on behalf of the University, including the Regulations relating to the Use of Information Technology Facilities.
22. Readers must not pass their Readers' or University Cards, , or passwords for accessing electronic resources, or other items issued to them by a library, to another person for library use, or use them for the benefit of another person.
23. Readers must not hold conversations or engage in other conduct in a library which causes or is likely to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or offence to other readers or members of staff.
24. When using a computer or other equipment readers must do so as quietly as possible so as to avoid causing disturbance to others.
25. Readers must not use mobile telephones, radios, cassette recorders, cameras, or similar equipment in a library, even with headphones, unless specific provision has been made for such use.
26. Readers must not engage in the harassment of any other reader or member of library staff.
27. Readers must not smoke in any part of a library.
28. Readers must not prejudice the safety or well-being of any other reader or member of library staff by engaging in disorderly, threatening or offensive behaviour.
29. Readers must show due regard for their own safety and that of other readers and staff.
Discipline
30. Where breach or attempted breach of Regulations 7-12 above results in the late return of material borrowed, readers will be liable to pay fines in accordance with a tariff to be published by the Curators of the University Libraries from time to time.
31. Where breach or attempted breach of Regulations 7-12 above results in damage to or loss of materials issued to them, readers will be liable for the costs of making good the damage or loss, including administrative and replacement costs.
32. Unless otherwise dealt with by these or by local regulations, infringement or attempted infringement of these Regulations by members of the University as defined in Statute II Section 1 will be dealt with under the disciplinary procedures of the University as set out in Statute XI and associated Regulations.
33. Unless otherwise dealt with by these or by local regulations, infringement or attempted infringement of these Regulations by persons who are not members of the University will be dealt with under the Section 42(7) of Statute XI and associated Regulations.
[Note: Statutes and Regulations may be consulted at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/. Amendments may be published in Oxford University Gazette (http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/) from time to time.]
[From Oxford University Gazette, 27 July 2006: University Acts, http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/weekly/270706/acts.htm]
Other regulations
You know where the library is… You know you can borrow books… You know there are electronic resources…
But what do you do then?
First tutorial, you’re given a reading list…
SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Onlinehttp://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Electronic journals and databases: OxLIP+http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Main tools
No, it’s a periodical article…
Or a book… Or a chapter in a book… Or a map… Or a DVD Or even a video (we still have them)…
Is it a bird?Is it a plane?
Nesse, W.D. (1999) Introduction to Mineralogy, OUP
Blundell & Blundell Concepts in thermal physics. Second edition Oxford University Press.
Read the reading list!
Read the reading list!
Nesse, W.D. (1999) Introduction to Mineralogy, OUP
Blundell & Blundell Concepts in thermal physics. Second edition Oxford University Press.
Read the reading list!
Nesse, W.D. (1999) Introduction to Mineralogy, OUP
Blundell & Blundell Concepts in thermal physics. Second edition Oxford University Press.
Read the reading list! Druitt, T.H. (1998) ‘Pyroclastic density
currents’ in J. Gilbert (eds) Physics of explosive volcanic eruptions, London: Geological Society
Jutras, Pierre et al (2011) “Reinterpretation of James Hutton's historic discovery on the Isle of Arran as a double unconformity masked by a phreatic calcrete hardpan”, Geology, Boulder. 39; 2, 147-150.
Read the reading list! Druitt, T.H. (1998) ‘Pyroclastic density
currents’ in J. Gilbert (eds) Physics of explosive volcanic eruptions, London: Geological Society
Jutras, Pierre et al (2011) “Reinterpretation of James Hutton's historic discovery on the Isle of Arran as a double unconformity masked by a phreatic calcrete hardpan”, Geology, Boulder. 39; 2, 147-150.
Read the reading list! Druitt, T.H. (1998) ‘Pyroclastic density currents’
in J. Gilbert (eds) Physics of explosive volcanic eruptions, London: Geological Society
Jutras, Pierre et al (2011) “Reinterpretation of James Hutton's historic discovery on the Isle of Arran as a double unconformity masked by a phreatic calcrete hardpan”, Geology, 39; 2, 147-150.
Le Grand, H.E. (2002) ‘Plate tectonics, terranes and continental geology Geol. Soc. Special Publication no. 192 p. 199-214
Read the reading list!
Le Grand, H.E. (2002) ‘Plate tectonics, terranes and continental geology Geol. Soc. Special Publication no. 192 p. 199-214
Read the reading list!
Using the above tips you should be able to find everything on your reading lists
BUT please don’t put the title of an article into SOLO because you won’t find it. You need the title of the journal.
Also DO NOT assume everything is available electronically – it isn’t!!
Tutors are not infallible…
“I couldn't find it using SOLO”
So now I know where the book/journal is…
If it’s at the RSL, how do I order it? If it’s at the RSL, how do I know it’s arrived? If it’s in Earth Sciences, how do I find it?
Once I’ve got it, how do I renew it?
MY ACCOUNT
Please make sure you sign out from SOLO and close down the browser when you have finished.
If you don’t do this, your account will be available to anyone who uses the computer after you.
The truth isn’t out there
Is it just a search engine? Is it a publisher? Or merely a platform, an intermediary?
A content kleptomaniac and parasite (in Rupert Murdoch's famous characterisation)
Or a stunning, hydra-headed incarnation of the zeitgeist?
Is it a stunningly resourceful and ingenious servant?
Or is it on the way to becoming our master?
Popham, P. (29/09/2012) The Independent, p. 20
What is Google?
Image © Google
Think about it! We just don’t know…
What happens when you press return?
Words matter
Especially when you’re searching for academic information
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What’s this?
Flash drive Pen drive Memory stick USB stick Dumb drive & an infinite variety of
combinations of the above
USB flash drives are also known as "pen drives", "flash drives",
"USB drives", "USB sticks" and a wide variety of other names.
They are also sometimes incorrectly called memory sticks,
which is a Sony trademark describing their type of memory
card.
A USB flash drive is essentially NAND-type flash memory integrated with a USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface used
as a small, lightweight, removable data storage device currently
available in sizes: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB & 8GB
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Control your language
Be aware what is indexed and what isn’t
If it’s not there, you won’t find it!
First: decide what it is you’re looking for
Context and definition
GUIDE to RESOURCEShttp://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/earth-sciences
GeoRef
Scopus
Web of Science
GEOLOGY DIGIMAP
ArcGIS
OXAMOxford Examination Papers Onlinehttps://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/oxam
The digital architecture facilitating research & study
Oxford Libraries Information Platform
Literature & Data Search Enginese-Journals
e-Books
On-line data bases
Subscription Dbases
Data Portals(expanding)
Course Information Management
Research Skills Tool Kits
Science Blogs
Science & Ideas Media
PodOxford
Networking, Communication & Living
Data Visualisation Tools
You & Your Devices (and WiFi connection –
Eduroam, OWL)
Cloud computing
Note: commercial products citied merely represent commonly used services rather than endorsements
Data Mining & workflow tools
Policies & GuidelinesSoGE Intranet
Cloud computing
OUCS Personal
Page
Data & File SharingOxFile
Oxford iTunes U
Reference Management Tools
Information @ Oxford for undergraduates in the Earth Sciences
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The LibrarianKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 18 April 1775 )
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