Période d’essai: ToutApprendre.com

Posted on 12/10/201212/10/2012 by jschulze

Dans le cadre d’un accès d’essai ayant cours les deux prochains mois, vous pourrez consulter ToutApprendre.com, un site de formation en ligne.

Vous y trouverez plusieurs centaines de cours en ligne dans le domaine des langues, de la bureautique, de la gestion et de tous les thèmes indiqués ci dessus.

Vous souhaitez apprendre l’anglais, apprendre l’italien, apprendre l’espagnol ou encore apprendre le chinois, découvrez notre collection de cours de langues Assimil-OnLine qui vous permettra de parler une nouvelle langue en moins de 6 mois.

Vous préférez maîtriser le bilan et le compte de résultat, ou encore devenir un pro de l’analyse financière, découvrez nos différents modules de formation sur ces thèmes.

Apprendre à maîtriser votre ordinateur et Internet ? Pas de problèmes avec nos cours de bureautique (plus de 100). Devenez rapidement un expert de Windows, d’Excel, de Word ou encore de PowerPoint.

Des cours en ligne sont désormais disponibles via findit.lu.

Vous pouvez y accéder soit en cliquant sur “ToutApprendre.com” ici ou dans la liste de bases de données sous la lettre “T”.

ORBilu: Be seen. Be read. Be cited.

Posted on 05/10/2012 by jschulze

Starting in 2013, University of Luxembourg’s new publications server will be the place to go to deposit all of your scientific publications.

ORBi ^lu , the University of Luxembourg’s new publications server will contain everything from peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, your contributions to collective works, to oral presentations given at scientific conferences, and more. It will replace the current publications server.

What’s in it for me? Visibility, accessibility and impact.

Visibility: by entering the details of your publications, and thanks to indexing by Internet search engines, your research will be visible to other scholars in your field. Wouldn’t it be great to go to Google Scholar, Scirus, or ScientificCommons and find references to your work?
Accessibility: by including the full-text of your publication, your work isn’t locked away behind a pay wall. Anyone, anywhere can read it.
Impact: if your work is being read, then it is more likely to be cited. Isn’t the main problem with impact the fact that your article or book chapter can’t be found or accessed?

Why are we introducing ORBi ^lu ? In a word, to promote our research. ORBi ^lu is designed to make our research visible to the outside world. Through indexing by Internet search engines, research done at University of Luxembourg will be easier to find for other scholars outside of Luxembourg.

To see ORBi ^lu in action in advance, take a look at ORBi at the University of Liège (ULg). Developed by ULg, it has been in use there since November 2008 and its success is unprecedented. June 2012 saw users download over 61 000 documents. But don’t just take our word for it. See what ULg’s researchers are saying in this short video .

To learn more, check out orbilu.uni.lu , the future site of ORBi ^lu , or contact us on orbilu@uni.lu .

Trial: vLex Global – multilingual legal information

Posted on 28/09/2012 by jschulze

Communicating every day in several languages is one of the things which makes Luxembourg so special. That’s why we are happy to announce the trial period of vLex Global, a multilingual database for legal information.

vLex.com is the global provider of legal information, offering access to up-to-date content from 140 countries, available in 13 languages.

Language barriers are broken. No matter what language you speak, options are given to change to your specified language. This multilingual interface allows you to easily search through legal information from other countries which you may not understand.

Learn how to perform searches at vLex or to use the advanced translation tool with their User Guides and Video Tutorials:

http://help.vlex.com/entries/290439-quick-guides

Improve your research with the following tools of vLex:

http://help.vlex.com/entries/185463-user-tools

vLex Global is available on trial until 21st October 2012 via findit.lu under the letter “V” on the “Find Database” tab.

Trial: Ebsco SocINDEX™ with Full Text

Posted on 25/09/201221/09/2012 by jschulze

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the trial period of Ebsco’s SocINDEX™ with Full Text.

SocINDEX™ with Full Text is one of the world’s most important sociology research databases. Its extensive scope and content provide you with extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.

The database contains all of the following and much more:

Over 2,100,000 records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers
Full text for more than 820 of the most sought after SocINDEX titles, dating back to 1908
Full text for 14,636+ conference papers
More than 25,000 author profiles with biographical data and bibliographic information

Find the whole coverage list here: http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/sih-coverage.htm

Ebsco’s SocINDEX™ with Full Text is available on trial until mid of October 2012 via findit.lu under the letter “S” on the “Find Database” tab.

Période d’essai: JurisIndex

Posted on 21/09/201221/09/2012 by jschulze

Dans le cadre d’un accès d’essai ayant cours la semaine prochaine, vous pourrez consulter la Revue des sommaires juridique JurisINDEX.

Cette revue des sommaires de la presse juridique utilisée par les professionnels du doit luxembourgeois reprend les tables des matières des périodiques suivants:

Annale du droit luxembougeois
Assurance et responsabilité
Bulletin d’information sur la jurisprudence:
Conférence du jeune barreau de Luxembourg
Bulletin de la Conférence Saint-Yves
Bulletin des droits de l’homme
Bulletin du Cercle François Laurent
Bulletin luxembourgeois des questions sociales
Code fiscal luxembourgeois:
études fiscales
Codex
Droit & patrimoine
Guide des comptes annuels pour le Luxembourg
Journal des tribunaux
Pasicrisie luxembourgeoise
Revue générale des assurances et des responsabilités
Revue pratique des sociétés.

Les titres sont désormais disponibles via findit.lu.

Vous pouvez y accéder soit en cliquant sur “JurisEDIT” ici ou dans la liste de bases de données sous la lettre “J”.

Update of Web of Knowledge federated search / search alerts

Posted on 12/09/2012 by jschulze

There was a recent update on searching within Web of Knowledge via findit.lu. Existing search alerts including the database “Web of Knowledge” have to be updated.

Before explaining how to update we will give you a small theoretical instruction:

Web of Knowledge in general is the name of the comprehensive research platform.
It consists of several databases containing different kind of information. Via findit.lu you have access to the three citation databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) as well as to the two conference proceedings citation indexes (Conference Proceedings Citation Index Science and Social Sciences & Humanities).
Details can be found here: http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOK/h_database.html

If you searched Web of Knowledge using findit’s search engine in the past, you always searched through all databases Web of Knowledge consists of at once.

Thomson Reuter’s technical update doesn’t provide a search of Web of Knowledge on the whole via findit.lu anymore.

There are two ways to deal with this update:

Choose one of the mentioned citation or conference proceedings databases to perform a search. Disadvantage: You are only searching one of the databases at once.
For advanced users who still want to search all databases with one search request we suggest to create a Quick Set with all sub-databases and / or use the MetaSearch.

Within the Web of Knowledge interface you can still perform a search above all databases at once.

You will find the “new” sub-databases by searching for “web of knowledge” in the “Find Database”-menu.

Users holding search alerts which are searching Web of Knowledge are requested to delete the existing search alert and to add one or several new search alerts using the different sub-databases.

This is how to approach:

Connect to findit.lu and choose My Space < History by clicking the x – sign next to the search alert which includes Web of Knowledge. Your old alert is now deleted.

Perform a new search by searching for the new sub-databases and click the magnifying glass icon next to one of the desired databases. Once you have a list of results from your search, you can create your new search alert.

Need help, creating a search alert? – See our How-to Series, Episode 9.

If you want to search more than one of the mentioned databases, please create a QuickSet (How-to Series, Episode 7) and use MetaSearch to create your search alert.

Need any further assistance? Contact us at help@findit.lu.

De Gruyter databases not available

Posted on 05/09/2012 by jschulze

Due to the switch to their new web presence de Gruyter databases are not available at the moment. We have contacted de Gruyter and will blog as soon as the issue is resolved.

Following databases are affected:

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon und Datenbank
Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Festschriften (IJBF)
Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Kongressberichte (IJBK)
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen (IBR)
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Maintenance Elsevier, Saturday 25th August

Posted on 23/08/201222/08/2012 by jschulze

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect and Scopus are expected to be offline for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release. The databases will be offline from Saturday, 13:30, until Sunday morning.

Following improvements will be available after the update:

ScienceDirect: Efficient and effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for e.g. RSS feeds, image search, and many other features and functionality
Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Update: How to log in at Editions Législatives

Posted on 22/08/201222/08/2012 by jschulze

When accessing “Code permanent environnement et nuisances” or “Code permanent social” of Editions Législatives you have to create a personal account.

Let’s have a quick look how to proceed:

After choosing one of the mentioned databases on findit.lu either by searching for it or by using the A-Z List, you will be redirected to the main page of Editions Législatives (http://www.editions-legislatives.fr.proxy.bnl.lu/).

Click on “M’identifier” in the right corner.

If you enter the system for the first time, you have to create a personal account. This account contains of a user name which you can choose on your own. A password is not necessary. For the registration you also have to indicate your name and e-mail address.

It is however important to remember your username, otherwise, you will not be able to access saved jobs.

Why create an account?
Creating a user name is required to access your digital documents.
It allows you to create your workspace and thereby regain your preferences, files, notes, personal research in your documentation, and set your newsletter.

After clicking “Valider” you are logged into the system and gain access to all of the content.

If you already have created a user name you will only have to enter it when accessing Editions Législatives.

Ovid releases OvidOpenAcess

Posted on 21/08/201221/08/2012 by jschulze

Ovid has just announced the launch of OvidOpenAcess with immediate and unrestricted access to thousands of full-text resources from peer-reviewed and scholarly international journals.

OvidOpenAcess includes:

A growing list of over 70,000 journal articles and abstracts from more than 200-peer reviewed and highly cited clinical and research journals published by Medknow Publications, one of the world’s largest Open Access publishers and affiliated with more than 160 professional medical societies and associations
Bibliographic citations of articles published in more than 1,000 unembargoed journals accessible through PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), a critical digital source of biomedical literature—much of it hard-to-find archival material—from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
A wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines, including nursing, general medicine, pharmacology, and alternative medicine, as well as evidence-based medicine and research

Finding the OpenAcess-content is quite easy: Within a single search you will find freely available content displayed in a separate search results set.

By clicking “View All Open Access Results” the full result list is displayed. Additionally, you can save and export your OvidOpenAccess search results into a project or folder in My Projects.

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