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Library IntroductionArts, Culture and Media

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University of Groningen Library

University Library

Library Zernike

› Library of Behavioural and Social Sciences› Law Library› Central Medical Library

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Library resources

Collection•3.200.000 books •425.000 ebooks•5000 print journal subcriptions•30.000 online journals•audiovisual materials

Tools to find publications•catalogs, bibliographies and other databases

Workstations•Regular workstations•Workstations with computer•Wireless network

Finding books

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Library website

SmartCat

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Borrowing books

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Electronic databases: bibliographies

Bibliographies:

› References to scientific publications› Discipline specific› Enriched with subject terms and abstracts to

allow for refined searching› Links to full text (if available). Other possible

features: saving searches, results, export to refworks etc.

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Bibliographies: demo

› http://myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/studenten/bibliotheek/

Libguides

› http://libguides.rug.nl

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Newspaper articles: LexisNexis Academic

› full text newspaper archive

› Dutch and international newspapers

› Plain text, no illustrations

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RefWorks

• Manage references exported from databases • Cite references in word documents• Create bibliographies

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Summary› Tools to search for publications

- SmartCat: books, articles in online journals- bibliographies: subject search for publications

› LexisNexis Newsportal for newspaper articles

› Libguide: overview of the most relevant resources for each subject

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Questions?

j.h.van.der.zee@rug.nl