Book now for the Research Skills Toolkits in week 8 (repeated 0th week Hilary). These are free hands-on workshops for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources. Topics covered in this 2 hour session include:

•  Reference management software
• Literature searching and advanced search techniques
• Keeping up to date with emerging research
• Managing your thesis with Word
• Analysing data with Excel pivot tables
• Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn
• Free software for image manipulation
• Measuring research impact
• Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops which are run jointly by IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 8 of Michaelmas and week 1 of Hilary Term as follows:

• Research Skills Toolkit for Social Sciences (Tues 2 Dec 14.00-16.00 and repeated Thurs 4 Dec 14.00-16.00, Fri 5 Dec 10.00-12.00, Tues 20 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for Humanities subjects (Wed 3 Dec 10.00-12.00 and repeated Mon 19 Jan 14.00-16.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for History, Archaeology and Classics (Wednesday 21 Jan 14.00-16.00)  – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for English (Thursday 22 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A year and a half into the new era of Electronic Legal Deposit, and the introduction of Electronic Legal Deposit (eLD) is beginning to be seen on Bodleian Libraries’ shelves – but only among the journals. At the time of writing this post, there are no e-books accessible via eLD for history or politics, or indeed any other subject.

The impact among the journals here at the VHL is the result of some publishers, including Cambridge University Press and Wiley, being early adopters of electronic deposit for their journal titles. The consequence is that issues of their journals are now no longer arriving as physical (ie printed) items from the Copyright Agency to then be housed at the VHL. Their contents have become available to read online via Bodleian library computers. However, just as readers have always had to come to the Bodleian to read issues of journals deposited in print form, so they will still need to come to a Bodleian Reading Room and be logged into a Bodleian computer to read issues deposited via eLD; these restrictions are stipulated in the regulations.

Given the restrictions imposed on the use of eLD content, we will be maintaining our existing online journal subscriptions, and readers are encouraged to access these journals via the subscription database option. Subscription e-journals have much better functionality and are also accessible off-campus to University members with their single sign-on.

So far, our journals are relatively unaffected, particularly as we subscribe to so many American titles. However, the following six journals have now transferred to e-deposit and will only be available electronically from now on:

• American Politics Research
• Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
• Comparative American Studies
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Studies in American Political Development

We have online subscriptions to all but one of these titles (Comparative American Studies). Where a subscription version exists, you are strongly advised to use it in preference to the eLD version! To identify the subscription version as opposed to the electronic legal deposit, look for the [electronic resource] record without the flag ***This copy is available via Bodleian Libraries reading room PCs only***

Three further journal titles have also begun to be deposited electronically, but for these the print will also continue under separate arrangements:

• Diplomatic History
• Journal of American Studies
•  Publius

Where journals have ceased to be deposited in print, we are putting signs on the current journals display and on the shelves to alert readers that they are now available online only.

Get automatic alerts for new issues

If you wish to be alerted when a new issue is published, electronic journal subscriptions usually allow users to also set up content alerts, ie you will receive an email each time a new issue has been published. There are also services such as ZETOC and JournalTOCs which will allow you to do this for multiple journals at once. There is a Bodleian iSkills course each term on Getting Information to Come to You, and the handouts with further guidance are available on the iSkills LibGuide.

More support

If you would like more information on how to find eLD material, the Bodleian’s SOLO Libguide includes an eLD page with detailed guidance.Should you encounter any problems when in a library, please do ask a member of staff for help – we are learning this new system too!

More about electronic Legal Deposit

If you are interested knowing more about electronic Legal Deposit in general, there is more detailed information on the central Bodleian website.

Our trial access to the digital archives of The Nation, National Review and The New Republic will end on 24th November – you have 10 days left to make use of them!

• The Nation is the oldest continually published weekly magazine in the United States, beginning publication in 1865, and describes itself as “the flagship of the left”.
• National Review was founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley, Jr. and is a hugely important source for any study of American conservatism over the past sixty years.
• The New Republic, founded in 1914, is widely considered important in changing the character of liberalism in the direction of governmental interventionism, both foreign and domestic.

The VHL has extensive holdings in print of all three magazines, although we have significant gaps in our run of National Review.

Access is available via OxLIP+ until 24th November 2014. Please send comments and feedback to jane.rawson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on e-books and e-book readers during week 6.  Please find more details of these classes and the week 8 Skills Toolkit below:

iSkills: E-books (Friday 21 November 9.15-10.30) – The Bodleian Libraries has over 624,000 e-books, with titles in all subject areas, but do you feel confident in finding and using them?    Come along to this workshop to find out how to find and make the most of e-books including searching, downloading, using your own device (or not)  and making annotations.  Please book your place online.

iSkills: E-book Readers (Friday 21 November 10.45-12.15)  – Are you considering using an e-reader? This workshops looks at the different devices available for reading e-books including Kindle, Nook and the use of iPad and Android tablets and Smartphone as e-readers. We will cover the pros and cons of each device and give you the opportunity to handle the hardware and try it out.  Please book your place online.

Research Skills Toolkits – IT and Information Skills and services for your research (week 8) – A free hands-on workshop for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources.   Topics covered in this 2 hour session include:

•  Reference management software
• Literature searching and advanced search techniques
• Keeping up to date with emerging research
• Managing your thesis with Word
• Analysing data with Excel pivot tables
• Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn
• Free software for image manipulation
• Measuring research impact
• Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops which are run jointly by IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 8 of Michaelmas and week 1 of Hilary Term as follows:

• Research Skills Toolkit for Social Sciences (Tues 2 Dec 14.00-16.00 and repeated Thurs 4 Dec 14.00-16.00, Fri 5 Dec 10.00-12.00, Tues 20 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for Humanities subjects (Wed 3 Dec 10.00-12.00 and repeated Mon 19 Jan 14.00-16.00) – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for History, Archaeology and Classics (Wednesday 21 Jan 14.00-16.00)  – Book a place
• Research Skills Toolkit for English (Thursday 22 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place

What’s coming up in the iSkills programme – Later this term we have a workshop on Mendeley. To see what’s coming up see the iSkills timetable

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A selection of books received in the library during October may now be seen on our website and LibraryThing page.

The Bodleian Libraries will be running workshops on finding and using digital images and RefWorks in weeks 4 and 6. In addition, please find below advance notice of this term’s Research Skills Toolkits.

Digital images: ARTstor, Bridgeman Education, VADS and Archivision for teaching and learning (Thurs 6 Nov 14.00-16.00) (wk 4) – The course examines three major digital image collections subscribed to by the Bodleian Libraries – ARTstor, Bridgeman Education, Archivision (new and on trial) – and a fourth resource, free for educational use, VADS. All of these are geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science and medicine, and social sciences. The workshops will cover finding, viewing, presenting and managing images.
Presenters:  Clare Hills-Nova and Vicky Brown
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book online

RefWorks for Humanities (Fri 14 Nov 9.15 – 12.15) (wk 5) – RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your citations/references, insert them into your work as footnotes or intext citations, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles.  This introduction is open to all, but the section on importing references will focus on Humanities examples.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers,  academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Bethan Jenkins, Nora Khayi and Angela Carritt
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book online

Research Skills Toolkits – IT and Information Skills and services for your research (week 8) – A free hands-on workshop for research students introducing key tools, techniques and resources.   Topics covered in this 2 hour session include:

•    Reference management software
•    Literature searching and advanced search techniques
•    Keeping up to date with emerging research
•    Managing your thesis with Word
•    Analysing data with Excel pivot tables
•    Podcasting with Audacity and Weblearn
•    Free software for image manipulation
•    Measuring research impact
•    Your thesis, copyright and submitting to ORA

During the sessions you will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further training.

These workshops which are run jointly by IT Services and the Bodleian Libraries are open to graduate researchers and take place in week 8 of Michaelmas and week 1 of Hilary Term as follows:

Research Skills Toolkit for Social Sciences (Tues 2 Dec 14.00-16.00 and repeated Thurs 4 Dec 14.00-16.00, Fri 5 Dec 10.00-12.00, Tues 20 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place

Research Skills Toolkit for Humanities subjects (Wed 3 Dec 10.00-12.00 and repeated Mon 19 Jan 14.00-16.00) – Book a place

Research Skills Toolkit for History, Archaeology and Classics (Wednesday 21 Jan 14.00-16.00)  – Book a place

Research Skills Toolkit for English (Thursday 22 Jan 10.00-12.00) – Book a place

What’s coming up in the iSkills programme – Later this term we have workshops on E-books and E-book readers and Mendeley. To see what’s coming up see the iSkills timetable

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk