Library News 2005
"Jaist Library News" is published on an irregular basis and provide you with information about Library services and materials.
| Dec 6 | Halt of NACSIS-ILL service |
| Oct 14 | Newspapers delivery service of holidays |
| Sep 12 | The inventory has been completed already. Thank you for your cooperation. |
| Sep 8 | "Scopus" Training Session (October 5) |
| Aug 22 | Restriction on the use of the materials in the library for inventory (August 29 - September 9) |
| Aug 22 | Confirm the library's books around you to prepare for the inventory. |
| Aug 22 | Today the damaged part of skylight glass is scheduled to be replaced. The library without the browsing corner will become off-limits during 9:00am - 1:00pm. Thank you for your cooperation. |
| Aug 18 | The replacement of skylight glass is postponed due to the bad weather until August 22(Mon). If it will be also bad weather next Monday, it will be postponed until October. |
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| Aug 12 | Binding Academic Journals has finished. Thank you for your cooperation. |
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| Aug 2 | "Scopus" is added to "Outside Database" |
| Jul 27 | "Google Scholar" is added to "Outside Database" |
| Jul 5 | 4 books of the requested materials in the last fiscal year were arrived. (Books' List) |
| Jun 21 | The Science Direct training session (August 1) |
| Jun 20 | Construction of Rare Books Room (June 23) |
| Jun 16 | The demonstration of "SciFinder Scholar" (July 6) |
| Jun 13 | *** New E-Journal Site *** Easy to search e-journals by title at E-Journal Portal Site. |
| Jun 8 | Binding Academic Journals (June 20 to August 12) |
| Jun 4 | JAIST Press Web Site Open |
| May 16 | New arrivals of the requested books |
| Apr 1 | Additional Library Services |
| Apr 1 | The new service of "GeNii" by National I.nstitute of Informatics (NII) |
| Feb 3 | We relocated the 'Yearbooks' from the open shelves next to the 'Textbooks and Reference Books designated on syllabus' to 'the compact shelves near the elevator' on the third floor. |
| Jan 24 | We stopped to purchase "Current Contents" on the CD-ROM in the AV media room at the end of Dec. 2004. So, you can use the existing CD-ROM "1993-2004" only. |
Halt of NACSIS-ILL service
According to the NII's announcement, NACSIS-ILL service will be halt for the period as follows. Therefore you can not order photocopying or book borrowing from other universities for this period. If you want to get some articles or books through ILL service by the end of this year, you are requested to order by 12:00 p.m., December 15.
| Usual service: | by December 27, 2005 (until 5:30 p.m.) |
| Halt of NACSIS-ILL service: | from December 28, 2005 to January 4, 2006 |
| Start of service: | from January 5, 2006 |
Newspapers Delivery Service of Holidays
Newspapers of holidays had been delivered to the browsing corner in the morning thanks to the volunteers by students. The volunteer work began from November last year by users' request, and most of the volunteers were dormitory students. (10 people from November, 2004 to March, 2005, and 6 people from April to October, 2005)
Unfortunately, we had only 1 candidate who applied to be a volunteer for the recruitment for this term (from October, 2005 to March, 2006), we decided to abandon the continuation of this way.If you want to read newspapers on holidays, we'd like you to bring them from the newspaper delivery rack to the designated box in the browsing corner from now on.
In addition, please see to the notice in the browsing corner for the place of the newspaper delivery rack and how to use the arrangement box for holidays.
"Scopus" Training Session
We will hold the training session for the Scopus (by Elsevier) as follows. Please come and join it.
If you want to join it, please inform us of your name and school by e-mail (mailto: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp) until September 21, 2005 (Wed).
To use "Scopus", please access "Outside Database" (JAIST library website). [About Scopus]
*Free Trial: Until December 31,2006
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| Date: | October 5, 2005 (Wed) |
| Time: | 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Computer room (Center for Knowledge Science 3F) |
| Contents: | Computer Operation & Demonstration |
| Language: | Japanese only |
| If you have any questions, please ask the library staff. (mailto: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp) |
Restriction on the use of the materials in the library for inventory
The inventory will be conducted according to the following schedule. During the inventory, we will place off-limits with ropes, and partially restrict library users' access to the shelves for a fixed time. If you want to use a material in the off-limits areas, please notify library staff.
And during the period of inventry, the books left on the desks or tables will be returned to the shelves for smooth operation.
Thank you for your cooperation.
| Period: | Weekdays of Aug. 29, 2005 (Mon) - Sep. 9, 2005 (Fri) <10 days> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hours: | 1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Range: | Separate areas with ropes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Confirm the library's books around you to prepare for the inventory.
The inventory will be conducted during the period of Aug. 29, 2005 to Sep. 9, 2005 and we want you to read through the following two items for the accurate inventory.
- Please check your list of the borrowing books by "User Inquiry".
If you have a book which does not appear in your list, please register or return it.
- When you find a library book in your laboratory, please return it to the library.
If you do not know it belongs to your laboratory or the library, please bring it to the library information desk.
If you have any questions, please ask the library staff. (mailto: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp, EXT: 1191)
Construction of Rare Books Room
The damaged part of skylight glass is scheduled to be replaced as follows. For safety, the library without the browsing corner will become off-limits during the following period. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for your cooperation.
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| *If it will be also bad weather next Monday, it will be postponed until October. |
The Science Direct training session
We will hold the training session for the e-journal, Science Direct (by Elsevier) as follows. Please come and join it. If you want to join it, please inform us of your name, school and course by e-mail (mailto: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp ) until Thu. July 14, 2005.
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| Time: | 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Computer room (Center for Knowledge Science 3F) |
| Contents: | Computer Operation & Demonstration |
| Language: | Japanese only |
| Application form for the Science Direct training session Name： School： Cource： Year： |
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| * | If you have some themes or key words of interest to you, please write down them on this form. The trainer will demonstrate the Science Direct with them in the training session. |
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Construction of Rare Books Room
Construction to stick the film for ultraviolet rays protection to the glass side of the rare books exhibition cases, etc. in the library is to be carried out as follows.
We apologize you are not allowed to get inside the Rare Books Room all day. We are sorry for the inconvenience.Thank you for your cooperation.
| Location: | 1st floor (hall) | / around Rare Books Exhibition Cases |
| 2nd floor | / Rare Books Room | |
| Date: | June 23, 2005 | |
| Time: | 9:00 a.m.- 17:00 p.m. | |
The demonstration of "SciFinder Scholar"
| We will hold the demonstration of
"SciFinder Scholar" as follows.
Please come and join it. If you want to join it, please inform us of your name, school, course, and year by e-mail (mailto: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp ) until Wednesday June 29, 2005. |
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| Date: | Wednesday July 6, 2005 |
| Time: | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Lecture Hall (KS 2F) |
| Language: | Japanese only |
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| [Application form for the demonstration of "SciFinder Scholar"] | ||||||||
| Ｉ want to join the demonstration of "SciFinder Scholar". | ||||||||
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| * | To whom already have used this database: | ||
| If you gave any questions how to use etc., please fill out the question form below and send it by June 29. The questions gathered are passed to the lecturer beforehand, and are scheduled to be replied on the day or later. | |||
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Binding Academic Journals (June 20 to August 12)
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We are planning to bind academic journals published in 2003 and before as following schedule.
Therefore for some period you can not browse or borrow those journals. |
| NOTE: |
| Binding Materials: those published in 2003 and combined one published in 2002 and 2003. |
| Duration: 9:00A.M., June 20 to August 12 |
| The binding of all materials is scheduled to be completed around We'll relocate them in the stacks in order soon after the registration has been completed. |
| If you have any questions please contact us. (E-mail: toshokan@jaist.ac.jp; EXT: 1191) |
New arrivals of the requested books
We shelved the books (148 books) of the requested materials in the last fiscal year. Please feel free to read them.
The books shelved this time were purchased according to the survey of request for materials
(January 18 to 31, 2005). The books were purchased within budget this time, so we apologize some books
could not be purchased.
Some foreign books postponed the purchase for budget reasons are to be purchased
at the earliest convenience.
Moreover, requested journals will be examined in this fiscal year.
To see a purchased book list, click the following URL.
[Notice]
Materials with no concrete titles or outside the scope of ourcollection policy are not
included in purchase.
*Survey of request for materials(January 18 to 31, 2005)
In the results of "JAIST Library Services Questionnaire"(December 2 to 15, 2004), a lot of users answered
the library collection is notenough, and the students are not satisfied. So we conducted a survey to know
the title of books and journals which users want the library to purchase.
Additional Library Services
We start the following new services on the library's website on April 1, 2005.
And then "User Loan Status Inquiry" changes into "User Inquiry"
NOTE
| 1. | Reservation of the library materials The online reservation is available from "OPAC" on the library's website. Please refer to the following URL for details; URL:https://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/english/internal/howtouse/guide.html#6 |
| 2. | User Inquiry You can check your status of borrowing and reservation throughout "OPAC" or "User Inquiry" on the library's website. Please refer to the following URL for details; URL:https://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/english/onlineservice/userinq/userinq-e.index.html |
The new service of "GeNii" by National I.nstitute of Informatics (NII)
From April 1, the new service of "GeNii", starts to be provided for faculty members and students in JAIST.
"GeNii" is Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information and integrate the "CiNii", display of citation information from retrieved academic papers and
link to the full-text, including "Japanese Periodicals Index（NDLJPI）".
NOTE
1. "GeNii" includes the following services.
| * | CiNii (Citation Information by NII) : Displaying the relation of citations (article cited by or citing the article) Navigating to the full-text and including the information provided by "NACSIS-IR" and "NACSIS-ELS" |
| * | Webcat Plus (NII Book Information Navigator): The associative search function facilitates searching for publications related to a particular subject. Both the latest publications added every week and old publications issued more than 100 years ago can be searched. Information on the contents of publications issued since 1986, as well as university libraries holding publications, can be viewed. |
| For more information of "GeNii", please refer to the following URL:http://ge.nii.ac.jp/outline-e.html |
2. How to use the "CiNii"
JAIST contracts with the "CiNii", you can use it free of charge by using on-campus personal computer.Please access from "Outside Database" on the top page of the library's website.
However the individual user registration is required to use the following services of "CiNii".
*Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index (by Thomson Scientific)
*Some full text services