The Bodleian Library Service: Resources for academic success
Louise Clarke, Head of Bodleian Social Sciences Libraries
The Bodleian Library Service offers:
• 28 libraries including
– Central Bodleian reading rooms, Social
Science, Anthropology, Law, Education,
Business, Philosophy & Theology, Latin
American Studies, Radcliffe Science, etc.
– http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries
• 50,000 e-journals
• 500,000 e-books
• 1,000 databases
• 11 million print volumes
• 1,000 items added daily to the collections
• 3,800 study spaces
• 600 computers and wireless network
Legal Deposit
College Libraries
Your username is the
7-digit number on your
University card
Use your
Library Password
to connect your
laptop to the
Bodleian Libraries
wifi or Ethernet, and
to login to library PCs
Your default password is
your date of birth in the
format 16OCT1988
You need to reset your
password @
https://register.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Use your Single Sign On
issued by IT Services to access
online resources off-campus
and to login to SOLO
(the library catalogue)
OR, for off-campus access, use
Remote Access Account for
VPN (register & install software
from IT Services website)
Library Wifi – 2 networks
1. Open web browser and log on
to Bodleian wireless with your
library username & password.
Access Library e-resources via IP
2. Log on to Eduroam wireless
with remote access username
& password
Access Library e-resources via
Single Sign On
The Bodleian Social Science Library
Opening hours
Term (Wks 0-9)
Mon – Fri
09:00 – 22:00
Saturday
10:00 - 18:00
Sunday
12:00 – 18:00
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ssl
SSL subject librarians
Jo Gardner
Bodleian Social Science Librarian
Manages SSL, taught-courses, research support to DPIR, OII & BSG
(2)78721
jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
John Southall
Social Sciences Data Librarian & Subject Consultant
Data enquiries, RDM, research support to ECO, SOC & SPI
(2)5936
START DATE 4th Nov
Sarah Rhodes
International Development, RSC, African Studies Subject Consultant
(2)85998
sarah.rhodes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Angelina Gibson
Russian and Eurasian Subject Consultant
(2)71937
angelina.gibson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SSL Services and Help
- Lending (up to 30 books, normal loans 1 wk, short loans 2 days,
up to 7 renewals, fines 20p or £1 a day ) - Self issue
- Bodleian stack requests - Enquiry services & friendly staff
- Graduate study rooms - Study carrels - Book discussion rooms
- Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning
- Borrow equipment - Buy stationery - Borrow Nooks
- Subject Consultant appointments - Training
Digital copies of print-only
book chapters and articles
cited on reading lists
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https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/socsci/ssl/
Login with your Single Sign On
Scans created under the terms of the CLA Licence
Searchable text-layers – not proof-read
Requests for scans of reading list extracts invited via
the site
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ssl
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Getting started guide
Electronic resources guides
Finding aids
New books lists
Services for readers with disabilities
Training courses
Contact information and options for feedback
Set up a PCAS
Account to print,
copy and scan in
the libraries
1. Set up a PCAS account @ https://bodleian.pcounterwebpay.com
2. Top up using your credit/debit card
3. In addition to copying, use the photocopiers to
- print from any laptop, USB, library PC or smartphone
- scan to email or USB
4. Copyright restrictions apply
5. On first use, link your University Card to your account
6. Prices – scanning 2p, b/w A4 single 6p and double 9p, colour
starts from 38p
Search for
Books and E-books
Journals and E-journals
Databases
Grey literature
Digital collections
Papers via the Journal
Articles tab (Primo Central)
http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Request
Place holds
Make stack requests
Manage your account
Renewals
Store or export references
Add tags
RSS feeds
Sign in to place requests
and check your account
Search tabs
Click to see
multiple
copies/versions
Refine your search
Ebook
Click “Find and Request” to see which libraries
hold print copies and their status
Check the status
Available = on the shelf and can be borrowed
(Type: Books = Normal loan, Short loan = 2 days)
Date (e.g. 11/10/13) = on loan until this date
Confined = Library reference use only
Closed stack = Hold request to reading room (reference use only)
Requesting holds:
Stack requests
and Reservations
Holds (stack requests).
Request via SOLO.
10 items at a time.
Read in the library.
Holds (reservations).
Request via SOLO.
Only when all copies of an item are on loan from a library.
Email notification.
Scan and Deliver
service.
1 chapter or 1 article.
£4.75.
Hold Request (remote store)
Location: Social Science Reading Room
10 items
Email notification
Library use only
7 days, Issue Desk
Renew via your SOLO account
Saturday morning deliveries trial
Mobile Oxford
Library Assistant
mobile app
bodleian.ox.ac.uk/assistant
‘Which libraries to use’
aimed at UGs
E-journals
• JSTOR
– Full-text of over 1000 journals
– Moving wall
• Wiley Blackwell, OUP, Taylor & Francis, SAGE,
Brill, etc…
• Nexis UK (for newspapers)
• Open Access
– ORA (Oxford Research Archive)
Google Scholar Preferences
E-books
• Ebrary Academic Complete
– collection of over 88,000 e-books from over 500 academic publishers.
Download books for 14 day loans (loan limit of 10).
• EBSCOhost E-book Collection
– over 2,000 purchased books as well as over 3000 free e-books. Access to
each e-book is usually limited to two simultaneous users.
• The E-Book Library (EBL)
– growing collection of e-books from major academic publishers. Also
provides 5 mins free browse to over 200,000 "non-owned" books in the
collection, with the option to send purchase requests to library staff.
• Oxford Scholarship Online
– contains scholarly books, published by Oxford University Press, in the
humanities and social sciences with full texts of over 1,000 key titles
Research tools
Cross - searching
• OxLIP+ Keyword searching of up to 5 Oxford databases
– Limited to certain databases
– Retrieval is unwieldy
• SOLO Journal Articles Search
– Rough and ready
– Produces poor results in many cases
– Could be used as a “mop-up” search
http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
RDM
• University Policy
on Research Data
and Records
applies to DPhils
• MANTRA
• DaMaRO
– DataBank, DataFinder,
DataStage, DataReporter
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/
Training – SSL Website
Training - WISER
Any questions?