Welcome at TUHH library - A library in transition!

Welcome at
TUHH library

A library in transition!
Thomas Hapke
University Library
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Photos: R. Jupitz

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Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg TUHH Library
www.tub.tu-harburg.de Thomas Hapke - December 2012

A library in transition
– the TUHH library

• Declining reference requests and loans
of printed books
• Increasing access rates to e-ressources
• Increasing gate counts
• Reducing shelfs for printed books in the
reading rooms
• Improving learning and working spaces
in the library
• Developing new services
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The thread ...

• Finding holdings
• Thinking about
information
• Journals‘ crisis and
Open Access
• Reference management

… in the TUHH library

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New to the library?

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/service/
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The TUHH Library
The catalog – the
heart of the library!
Access to complete
holdings!
Picture: D. Bieler

Readings rooms
• Reference works and
Encyclopedias
• Journals
• Subject groups
• Textbook collection
Digital Library
• E-Books Closed Stacks
• E-Journals
• Databases

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Please rate!
How much of its budget for media did the
TUHH library spent for digital rersources in
2011?

a) 20 to 40 %

b) 40 to 60 %

c) 60 to 80 %

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/find/

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Catalog interfaces
TUBfind,
the discovery system Classical catalog

• Search engine for TUHH
library holdings
• Only TUHH library holdings
• Including journal articles
• No journal articles
• Including TUB web pages and
• Searching for resources of
blog posts
GBV Common Library Network
• Searching for all resources of in other database interface
• Search philosophy:
possible
Exact match, Boolean
• Search philosophy: combination of search
Best match, relevance ranking terms

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Finding eJournals and eBooks!

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Finding full texts through linking
services!

Example: Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

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Linking service of a journals‘ publisher

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Looking for books

Local library catalog,
e.g. from the TUHH library
https://katalog.tub.tu-harburg.de/?mylang=en

Regional Catalogue of Hamburg
http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.91/LNG=EN/

GVK - GBV Union Catalogue
http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/LNG=EN/

http://www.worldcat.org/

http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html http://books.google.com

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Search for journal articles in
subject-specific databases
• Web of Science with Science Citation Index
- interdisciplinary! Who cited a specific document?
How much is a document cited?
• INSPEC (Information Service in Physics, Electronics,
Computer and Control)
- interdisciplinary, because IT plays a considerable
role in all areas of engineering today
• TEMA (Technology and Management),
wti Frankfurt, formerly Fachinformationszentrum
(FIZ) Technik
• RSWB plus – references on planning and building

(Access to these reference databases only in TUHH
intranet)
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Journal articles via databases:
Diversity and outcome
Database GVK-Plus INSPEC, Publishers‘ Google
(GBV) TEMA, Web of portals: IET, Scholar, BASE
Science SpringerLink
Contents articles, books, Articles, articles, books, articles, books,
and more (conference book chapters files, and more
papers)
Searchable bibliographical bibliographical bibliographical full text
contents description description, description,
abstracts abstracts, full
text
Contents printed and diverse only publisher, who knows? 8-)
from electronic publishers here e.g.
holdings of Springer
libraries
Access to directly, through other directly, in case directly, access
full text through library databases or access is part maybe
in print or interlibrary of subscription restricted
ordering via loan
interlibary loan

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Database of databases DBIS

Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) and national licenses:
www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/

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Search for journal articles in
subject-specific databases

How to get the fulltext?

Locate the journal in your
local library
(print or e-version)!

Interlibrary loan for material
not owned by the TUHH library!
Use the databases of the
to locate material!
Fee 1,50 € for one article (copy)
or book.

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Look at your own
information behavior!

Sharpen your awareness for:

Doubt!
Curiosity!

• Information sources “beyond
Google and Wikipedia”
• Critical use of electronic
databases

Graphics: D. Bieler

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Reflect about information

How to cite? What can I
copy? Thinking about
intellectual property!

What is not included in
Google? Danger of monopoly
of information access?

Costs of scholarly journals?

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Journals’ Crisis

Authors want to
publish more,
readers want to
read less.
(Hans E. Roosendaal, University
of Twente)

http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/engr/about/StickerShock.cfm
http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/engr/about/StickerShock2.cfm

Duration of publication process, problems in
intellectual property => Open Access (OA)
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What does Open Access mean?

• Free access to scholarly information
• Worldwide availability without restrictions
• Maximal circulation
• Originated in the beginnings of the 90s in
physics
• Benefited from journals‘ crisis

• TUB HH:
http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/openaccess/
• German portal: http://open-access.net
• http://www.openaccessweek.org

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Two ways to Open Access (OA)
• The golden way to OA:
Publication in OA journals
Directory of Open Access Journals –
www.doaj.org

• The green way to OA:
Self-archiving of documents
=> “Institutional Repository” e.g.
TUBdok as document server of the TUHH:
http://doku.b.tu-harburg.de

Normally allowed by publishers:
http://romeo.eprints.org!
Journal Policies - Self-Archiving Policy By Journal

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Reference management
is no art!

Matej Krén, Idiom, Town Library Prague (1998), Photo 2009

Not searching and finding of information
is the central challenge today but coping
with information!

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Reference management at TUB HH

http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/publishing/reference-
management/
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A library in transition
– the TUHH library
Developing new services - to be where
the users are

• Offering new Google-like discovery
tools
• Offering linking services
• Using blogs, Twitter and Facebook
• Offering support for handling
information: Reference management,
publishing, Open Access
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Ads

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Informationen on
Information – our tutorials!

On searching: On research methods and
DISCUS (Developing writing scholarly papers:
Information Skills & VISION (VIrtual Services for
Competence for Information ONline).
University Students). Take a pebble!
Grab the thread!

www.vision.tu-harburg.de/index.php?la=en
discus.tu-harburg.de

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News from the TUHH library!
RSS-Feed!
Weblog: www.tub.tu-harburg.de/blog
Only in German! Examples of Blog-Postings

• International Open Access Week 2012
• Again writing kick-off days at TUHH
• ASME Journals licensed
• Taking, reading, freeing: Bookcrossing at
TUHH library
• Scholarly research methods and writinmg
with Citavi
Newsletter Bibaktuell
• New eBooks from …
https://lists.tu-
• Why does Google Scholar sometimes ask
harburg.de/sympa/
for your login or for your credit card?
info/bibaktuell
• Looking for data on chemicals: Chemspider
• Privacy in the digital world
Once or twice a month an
• 1.000 publications in TUBdok!
email! Also with an
• Wikipedia – 10 years
English part!
• Alternatives to Google …

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Or relax in the TUHH library!

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For more information
Please look at
www.tub.tu-harburg.de

Contact:
Thomas Hapke

Phone +49 40 42878 3365
Mail: hapke@tuhh.de
http://www.tuhh.de/b/hapke/

Informing – Points to survive
at http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/en/subject-
Graphics: D. Bieler
information/informing-points-to-survive/

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