4. TU Delft Library as a vital link: innovative products and services to support needs of education & research Focus today on Research Support
5. Publishing services and advices Impact analyses journals Expert finding, skills & resources Open Access stimulation, increase visibility Funding resources, library as partner METIS, research information Datalab, virtual research environment
6. “ Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society.“ Berlin Declaration. Conference on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 20 - 22 Oct 2003, Berlin. Executive board Delft University of Technology, 2005
Start new building. 1998. Library Learning Centre is the sustainable stable factor for the user. It is the ‘Centre of belonging’ in the lifecycle of the TU Delft alumnus. From pupil, to undergraduate, young professional and senior member in the commercial market to retired person: all keep coming back to this central meeting place. This ambition statement and the keywords required new concepts and way of thinking for our building. This is probably what you know (how many people have been here?). We now also organize, outside the 16 exam weeks, workshops on brain training, or presentation skills, exhibitions and have more and more related events taking place in our LLC. Also Architecture and map room.
42 km storage capacity, 92 fte working, thousands and thousands of books, more and more e-journals, over 30 k e-Books and a similar growing number of repository publications. Multimedia datasets cultural heritage maps i-Tunes ..
Stakeholders in and outside of university. 40% of income is via national task to safeguard technical & scientific information in the Netherlands.
JISC Research cycle, new project to integrate our research support services, starting with the library, expanding hopefully to other supporting services.
Open Access Principles
Open Access tools TU Delft. Open Course Ware. Funding. Tool 2: Biomed Central, licensing with publishers, list of DOAJ. Tool 3: National level, over 250000; worldwide over 25 million records. Google Scholar.
Store. Show. Share. Wind and solar data collection; atmospheric observation; heavy particles in turbulent flows; traffic flow …
To be expected … new employee’s pages, not just telephone, email and room number, but also linked to Coursebase and METIS.
To be expected … new employee’s pages, not just telephone, email and room number, but also linked to Coursebase and METIS.