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Got Citation?
(Almost) Everything you thought
you knew about basic library
services…
Tips and tricks for quickly getting
needed resources
Facilitated by MBLWHOI Librarians: Nancy Stafford and Matt Person
Thursday March 13th, 2014
12:15 pm, Grass Reading Room
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Visual
Representation
of the “subject
headings”
associated with
all the titles in
the MBLWHOI
Library
journals
collection
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• From the Annual Report,
Biological Bulletin, v.85 (1943):
• “The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution appropriated $800
to the (MBL) Library for 1942 and a balance of $154.65 remained
from the 1941 budget. In 1942 the Library received 637 current
publications (1 ,297 in 1941) : 227 in subscription to the Marine
Biological Laboratory, 18 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution; 209 exchanges, 192 with the Biological Bulletin and
17 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
publications; 178 gifts to the former and 5 to the latter.”
A cooperative library
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2013-14 numbers of journal titles • 842 paid for titles:
• (522 via Harrassowitz, 122 via Elsevier, 16 via
Nature, 179 via BioOne, 3 misc...)
About 200,000 print volumes in
the Lillie stacks…currently
undergoing an assessment
project to pare down our eclectic
collection.
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FREELY ACCESSIBLE TITLES(estimates)
• BioMed Central…336
• “free ejournals, like DOAJ”…3,499
• Hindawi…319
• JSTAGE…1,564
• JSTOR…276
• BHL MBL…210
• Biodiversity Heritage Library…73,000
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HOW DO YOU FIND ALL OF
THIS CONTENT THROUGH
MBLWHOILIBRARY.ORG ?
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There are different “access points”
to the collection
• Search the “find a journal A-Z list”
search engine
• Search the library catalog search (for
journals and monographs)
• Databases
• Google and other search engines
• Paper card catalog
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“A-Z list” search
engine
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Current access
Archival access
Archival access with
added functionality
Link to MBLWHOI library
catalog
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Biological
Bulletin
website
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JSTOR archive
website
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Biological
Bulletin in
Biodiversity
Heritage
Library
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Dave
Remsen
developed
uBio software
employed in
extracting
scientific
names from
text
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Button click
creates
bibliography
for organism
in BHL
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MBLWHOI Library
search for a journal title
in the library catalog
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Searching the library catalog
Search terms Select
search
parameteradvanced
search
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Advanced search
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DON’T BE TRICKED!
These results are
not the record for
the resource you are
looking for. It’s a
possible list of hits.
It is necessary to
click into an
individual record to
see all the
information and
links related to the
title.
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This is the catalog record for “Oceanus”
One e-access record
another e-access
record
record for the print version
located in Bay Reading Room,
below left beginning for WHOI
DLA shelving location
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• Looking for a book in the catalog
• TIP : Always drop the “the” or “a” article
from the start of the title
The Dingle Commercial Fishermanx
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Note location
Note call number
Volume should be on shelf
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Note
location;
Offsite
location
means item
must be
requested
through
“get this
item link”
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“offsite library service center” + “on shelf” = click “get this item”
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You can
also search
for articles
and books
through
databases-
But what if
you can’t
find what
you are
looking
for?
A-Z list of
databases
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