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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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Other Library Services

Bibapp

Citation Management

Course Reserves

Data Management

Institutional Repository Services

Publishing Assistance

Remote Access

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