La Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (BnL) et Sogeti Luxembourg S.A. ont présenté la mise en ligne de l’App iPad “BnL elux” pour le site www.eluxemburgensia.lu à la presse, le lundi 3 octobre 2011. L’App “BnL elux” permet d’accéder gratuitement au contenu du portail www.eluxemburgensia.lu à l’aide de la tablette iPad.

eLuxemburgensia, mis en ligne en 2009, est le résultat du projet de numérisation des journaux luxembourgeois anciens par la BnL. Il permet d’accéder gratuitement, à distance, via l’internet au « full text » de ces journaux.

L’App “BnL elux” peut être téléchargée gratuitement dans l’App Store d’Apple. Elle est compatible avec les iPad 1 et 2. L’App a été conçue de façon à rendre l’accès mobile aussi simple et intuitif que possible tout en gardant les fonctionnalités du portail. Pour garantir cette facilité d’utilisation, il est important que l’écran des tablettes soit adapté à la visualisation d’une page entière de journal.

A l’occasion de la présentation de l’App iPad « BnL elux », deux nouveaux titres de journaux numérisés ont été ajoutés au portail www.eluxemburgensia.lu: « De Mitock » et « das Luxemburger Land in Wort und Bild ».
 

The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute.

AIP is pleased to make available free of charge a selection of research papers these Nobel Laureates have published in their journals, Conference Proceedings, and Physics Today magazine. To view any of these materials go to http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2011.html.

AIP will build on this material throughout the day to bring you a host of additional resources, including an overview of the work done by these three scientists, plus related links, photos and interviews.
 

A partir du 15 septembre 2011, les utilisateurs de la Bibliothèque nationale peuvent accéder gratuitement au réseau sans fil (Wi-Fi) à la salle de lecture Pétrusse, à la salle du prêt, à la salle des Arts ainsi qu’à la médiathèque de la BnL.

Ainsi, les chercheurs peuvent travailler parallèlement sur les ressources électroniques du portail bnu, abonnées par la BnL et le Consortium Luxembourg, consulter les documents sur support papier et faire des recherches en ligne sur leur ordinateur portable.

Ce nouveau service permet aux usagers de consulter plus aisément le catalogue en ligne bibnet.lu depuis leur table de travail et de commander les documents désirés via leur ordinateur portable ou leur smartphone. La commande des documents sera donc plus facile et plus rapide.

Contre présentation de sa carte de lecteur, l’usager reçoit un code qui lui permet d’accéder au réseau Wifi pendant une durée limitée.

La Bibliothèque nationale est la 3e administration étatique au Luxembourg à offrir un tel service à ses clients.
 

To make the user experience simpler and more efficient, the following enhancements have been added to the IBFD Tax Research Platform:

• All the tables in the Quick Reference Tables collection can now be exported to Microsoft Excel
• The “See Also” box, which displays the latest developments and related information for the document you are viewing, is now also available for the Key Features collection
• The collections National Legislation, EU Law en Treaties, now include a bi-lingual display which allows an easy and direct side-by-side comparison of two language versions (if available) of a law
• Export any selected text, document or entire chapter contained in the Country Analysis collection to Microsoft Word for simple and quick further processing. This feature is also available for the Country Surveys. Other collections will follow.

To access IBFD, from within the University of Luxembourg and the National Library of Luxembourg only, click here or go to the letter “I” under the “Find Database” tab.
 

The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy has recently had a significant update which includes 10 brand new articles and 7 revisions, including contributions from some of the most celebrated authors in the field.

Examples of new essays available to read now:

• Philosophy of Set Theory – Michael Potter
• Structuralism in the Philosophy of Mathematics – Stewart Shapiro
• Plural Logic – Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley
• Generics – Sarah-Jane Leslie
• Focus – Michael Glanzberg
• Experimental Philosophy – Ron Mallon and Shaun Nichols
• Sufficientarianism – Axel Gosseries

For a complete summary of the Logic, Language and Mathematics update, visit the What’s New page.
 

Afin d’améliorer votre expérience avec le portail, nous avons changé notre page de connexion. Vous y trouverez, dès maintenant, les dernières nouvelles de ce blog ainsi qu’une petite explication comment procéder face à un problème de connexion.

Finalement, comme toujours noté sur la page de connexion, n’oubliez pas que votre utilisation aux ressources électroniques est sujette à la législation luxembourgeoise sur les droits d’auteurs ainsi qu’au règlement interne de la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg.
 

It has just come to our attention that Scopus and Science Direct do not support Firefox 5.  If you are accessing Scopus and/or Science Direct, please use either Firefox 2, 3 or 4 or Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.

Users at other institutions have also reported problems accessing the full text PDF files on Science Direct. If you do experience this problem, instead of directly opening the PDF file, you may find it necessary to right-click on the link and choose “Save As”.

If you find you have problems, don’t hesitate to contact us via e-mail on consortium [at] bnl [dot] etat [dot] lu.
 

The OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 – some 390 complete databases, 2 500 working papers, 5 500 books, 14 000 tables and graphs, 21 000 chapters and articles.

Themes include:

• Economics – Over 13 000 published items including OECD Economic Outlook and OECD Economic Surveys;
• Education –  Over 4 000 published items including PISA and OECD Education Statistics;
• Development – Over 4 500 published items including Development Aid at a Glance and the International Development Statistics database;
• Governance – Over 2 000 published items including the OECD e-Government Studies.

Features include:

• Intuitive navigation by theme or country;
• Search and click directly to tables, chapters or articles;
• Content in context – related content is one click away;
• Links to previous editions, with the opti on to download any full-text item such as tables or chapters from the table of contents;
• Executive summaries available for key titles in up to 20 languages;
• Bilingual (English & French) user interface.

Access to the OECD iLibrary is offered free of charge to all National Library card holders and is available under the letter “O” in the Databases tab of the Portal bnu or by clicking here.

Getting started guides are available in English, German, Russian and Polish directly from OECD by clicking here.

INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA (ICOLC)

ICOLC Response to the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) Statement

Issued June 22, 2011

A recent statement by the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) advocates a set of new guidelines for document delivery.   http://www.stm-assoc.org/industry-news/stm-statement-on-document-delivery/ While intellectual property laws vary from country to country, STM’s approach would radically alter well-established library practices that advance knowledge, support scholarship, and are compliant with current copyright laws.  The STM recommendations are in conflict with widely held principles that provide a copyright exception for interlibrary loan (ILL) activities. The regime anticipated by the STM statement would place unfair restrictions on researchers’ access to information. In particular, ICOLC contends that:

1. interlibrary loan, under existing principles and laws, is consistent with the three-step test of Berne;
2. cross-border deliveries are adequately and appropriately governed by current copyright law;.
3. digital document delivery directly to an end-user is best coordinated through the end-user’s library or community of learners;
4. libraries are able to deliver on-site articles to library walk-up patrons in any format, including both digital and print;
5. current copyright law appropriately places the burden on the library user to affirm that the documents they receive are for private, non-commercial use.

The ICOLC strongly supports IFLA’s Draft Library Treaty, Article 7, which states “It shall be permissible for a library or archive to supply a copy of any work. . . lawfully acquired or accessed by the library or archive, to another library or archive for subsequent supply to any of its users, by any means . . . provided that such use is compatible with fair practice as determined in national law.” http://www.ifla.org/files/clm/publications/tlib.pdf See also ARL’s statement clarifying legal protections afforded to libraries for national and international ILL use http://publications.arl.org/rli275/18, related documents http://publications.arl.org/rli275/4 and http://publications.arl.org/rli275 .

For further information please contact:

Helmut Hartmann, Director Central Office, Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich Die Österreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service GmbH), helmut.hartmann@obvsg.at +43 1 4035 158-56

Ann Okerson, Director, NERL Consortium, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, Ann.Okerson@yale.edu +1 203-432-1764

Mei-yuh Shih, CONCERT Project Manager, CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan, CONCER, mei@stpi.narl.org.tw +886-2-2737-7648

Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director, New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO), tracy.thompson@nellco.org +1 518-694-3026

Syun Tutiya, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, Japan tutiya@niad.ac.jp +81 42-307-1803

About the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has been in existence since 1996.  The Coalition is an international, informal group currently comprising approximately 200 library consortia in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa.  The member consortia serve all types and sizes of libraries.  ICOLC facilitates discussion among consortia on issues of common interest, and conducts one meeting per year in North America and one meeting per year in Europe.  The organization is dedicated to keeping its members informed about electronic information resources, pricing practices of electronic publishers and vendors, and other issues of importance to consortium directors and governing boards.  The Coalition also meets with the information provider community to discuss product offerings and issues of mutual concern.

More information about ICOLC can be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia or contact Tom Sanville, Director, Library Services, LYRASIS, Suite 200, 1438 West Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA, Phone: 404-892-0943 ext. 4873; tom.sanville@lyrasis.org