1. The University Library in times of corona
The public areas of our library have been closed since Monday, March 16th 2020. There is no way to check out any items from our physical collection. Inter library loans, too, have been shut down. Please watch this space for all current information from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. On our own website we will keep you posted about library operations. For you, our patrons, this is as much of an unfamiliar situation as it is for us, the library staff. We're glad, especially now, to have made the effort in past years to expand our selection of online information resources. There is, for one, the area of electronic periodicals. The library can make more than 57,000 e-journals available at this time. See here for an information summary. We supplement this portfolio by providing access to roughly 90,000 e-books. We likewise hold additional information on this subject on our web sites. Moreover, we have a selection of 242 databases in total available, about which you will find more information in our database information system DBIS.
We would like to offer information about some aspects of these online services in this and the following issues of our newsletter. Even with the doors closed, we aim to be there for you.
2. Shibboleth and the VPN Client – Ways to access licensed online publications from outside the university network
Many of the online services licensed by the University Library can be accessed and used from outside the university network using the authentication service Shibboleth. Generally each service's start page will provide a way to log in via Shibboleth. You will have to select our institution in a pulldown menu, listed either under »B – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar« or under »W – Weimar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar«. To authenticate yourself, you will need to enter the same login ID and password you use to log in to university services (not your library account!). Sometimes you may need to reload the document to be provided with a full text download option.
To access the university's internal web pages or online resources unable to be accessed via Shibboleth, you will need a VPN client. You can find the setup files and instructions for Mac and Windows on the SCC's pages (Service Center for Computer Systems and Communication). Please note that if your desired connection fails, you may need to set your group in the login window from »tunnel Uni Weimar« to »tunnel all«.
3. »Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten@Bauhaus« - an online self study course on moodle
This online course – available in German language – will lead you through the world of scientific working methods and help you to successfully master each phase of your scientific process step by step. You can work through each chapter – such as conception and organization of your scientific paper, citing sources, writing or presenting your work – in order or jump right to your current main focus if you're already in the middle of writing your paper. You will also find methods and advice specific to your field to help you successfully work through the course and write your paper.
If you're currently looking for advice on preparing and doing scientific research or on reference management, please take note of the information found here, which is regularly part of the University Library's scientific research training courses.
The course is directed at all students at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Please register with your faculty's access key.
Any questions about scientific research or reference management may be directed at our subject librarians by e-mail.
To anyone looking for literature on writing scientific papers we recommend the following e-books, which can be accessed via Shibboleth or VPN:
Writing scientific English : a workbook / Timothy Skern
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten : ... leicht verständlich! / Rödiger Voss
You can find many further e-books on scientific methods in our collection. Please feel free to search in Bibsearch, our discovery system.
4.»The Chicago Manual of Style Online« - Test access
From March 2020 to May 2020 the University Library is in a position to offer test access to the database »The Chicago Manual of Style Online« from all across campus. Using a VPN client you may also access the database from outside the university network.
The standard reference for citation and scientific writing and publishing was first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1906. The online edition allows you to access the 16th and 17th editions of the print copies.
Online tutorials are available to help you use the database:
What’s new in the 17th edition, and how to get around in CMOS Online.
Three ways to find exactly what you’re looking for in The Chicago Manual of Style Online.
Please make use of this offer and let us know your impressions. We're looking forward to your feedback.
5. From Adaptation to ZOOM: full texts from film studies
On March 14th, the library's last regular opening day, there was a noticable increase in books on film studies being checked out. We're taking this opportunity to point out the Ebsco database on film studies »Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text«. The database lists more than 160 journals published from 1914 onwards, focusing on film and television theory and practice, as well as abstracts and reviews of 560 publications. Services range from Adaptation to ZOOM. E-books about renowned directors like Mike Leigh or Pedro Almodovar are available, as is literature on Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine. A special highlight are over 37,000 images takes from the MPTV Images Archive.
The database can be accessed via Shibboleth and was co-financed by the Bauhaus-Universität's Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM). Supplementing the licensed collections, more items of interest are available on relevant free platform such as the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
6. »RÖMPP Online« – now available via Shibboleth
University members can now access the database »RÖMPP Online« with a new interface from off campus via Shibboleth. »RÖMPP Online« is the most extensive and renowned German language encyclopedia on chemistry and adjacent subjects.
Please consult our database directory DBIS for further information and direct access.
7. Publishers open their repositories during the corona crisis
A repost by ZBW Mediatalk on Facebook providing information about currently free publisher portfolios: It's difficult at the moment to keep track of the growing amount of information. Bryant University in Rhode Island maintains a list of publishers that are opening their repositories during the corona crisis on Google Docs.
8. »Langenscheidt Online-Wörterbuch« – expanded service
The spectrum of Langenscheidt online dictionaries made available by the University Library has been greatly expanded. Even though the collection cannot be accessed via Shibboleth, we'd like to advise you that you may search various single and dual language specific or general dictionaries from within the university network or using a VPN client. The database directory DBIS will lead you to the collection.
9. Open Access book »Postwachstumsstadt«
The Bauhaus-Universität's Open Access publication fund has funded the open access monograph »Postwachstumsstadt. Konturen einer solidarischen Stadtpolitik«, edited by Anton Brokow-Loga and Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt, Professur Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung. The cost for Open Access publication of the book, published by oekom verlag, were covered by the State of Thuringia's Open Access funding programme. The publication is freely accessible in OPUS Weimar under a CC-BY-NC license.
The book collects conceptional and pragmatic aspects from different areas of urban politics, showing and connecting new pathways. Essays discuss crises in urban growth, transformative planning and conflicts surrounding shaping power. Last but not least, the issue of the role of urban utopias is raised once more, in order to spark an overdue debate on how to realize necessary urban turnarounds through local socio-ecological reorientation.
The Bauhaus-Universität's Open Access publication fund enables the funding of open access monographs since 2019. Please follow this link for conditions and application information.
In OPUS Weimar you'll be able to find a list of open access publications funded at the Bauhaus-Universität since 2017.
10. Call for participation: »FAIRest Dataset« Award
The Thuringian Research Data Management Competence Network is calling for researchers to compete for the »FAIRest Dataset« Award. Researchers at Thuringian universities will have the chance to submit published datasets until the end of April 2020. Up to 2,000 € will be awarded to the dataset that implements the FAIR principles best. The winners will be announced at the opening event of the Thüringer FDM-Tage 2020, which will take place on June 29th 2020 under the motto »Research Data Management: More than just a FAIRytale!«. Further information and the terms of participation can be found here.
Stefanie Röhl
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