Baltic Meeting of Librarians
in Tallinn, May 26-27, 2010
”E-resources and e-services in
practice”
Gunnar Lager
glager@kth.se
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Welcome to KTH
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Excellence in Education, Research and Entrepreneurship
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FIELDS OF ACTIVITY 2009
Total 3 195 MSEK
Commissioned
research
3.2 %
Undergraduat
e education
35.4 %
Research and
postgraduate
studies 60.5%
Commissioned
education
0.9 %
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Research 2008
NUMBERS OF PROFESSORS
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259 professors
5 part-time consulting professors
202 associate professors
INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED MATERIALS
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1,800 conference contributions (papers, etc.)
THE FIVE PLATFORMS
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Medical Technology and Health
Material Science and Engineering
Information and Communication Technology
Energy
Transport Research
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EDUCATION
Architecture and 15 engineering programmes
Double degree programmes in engineering and teaching
9 B.Sc. engineering courses
53 master programmes
12,230 full year equivalents students of which 29 percent
are women
10,055 full year equivalents performances
1,507 active doctoral students of which 28 percent are
women
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DEGREES
987 Masters of Architecture and Masters of Science in
Engineering of which 30 percent to women
292 Bachelors of Science in Engineering of which 25
percent to women
619 Master of Science of which 28 percent to women
109 Licentiate degrees of which 30 percent to women
235 PhDs of which 29 percent to women
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KTH Schools
School of Architecture and the Built Environment
School of Biotechnology
School of Computer Science and Communication
School of Electrical Engineering
School of Industrial Engineering and Management
School of Information and Communication Technology
School of Chemical Science and Engineering
School of Engineering Sciences
School of Technology and Health
School of Scientific Information and Learning
School of KTH Business Liaison
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Royal Institute of Technology Library, KTHB
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E-journals & e-books,
bibliogr-, ref- and other databases
www.lib.kth.se
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Year
Bibliograph
searches
E-journals
downl
E-books
access
2007
610 000
630 000
50 000
2008
530 000
720 000
120 000
2009
500 000
770 000
440 000
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Institutional archives/repositories
& Open Access
• DiVA
Dissertations, examin. projects and
research reports
• Retrospective backloading project
• Open Access
• SSN Research applications
• KTH Research Projects database
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Portals & metasearch engines,
other search and administration tools
• Federated searching – SAMSÖK
• Integrated searching –
Next Generation Metalib
Data well
Google & Google Scholar
• Mobile libraries
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Web-based information literacy
courses
• Introduction to searching databases
”Information Retrieval, when, where and
how?”
• Students courses
• Postgraduates courses
• Course platform BILDA
• ICT and Social medias
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Example of a 3-credit course for chemists
o General and specific bibliographical information retrieval
in Chemical Abstracts using SciFinder
o Reaxys and SciFinder for searching factual data
o Searching for chemical names and molecular formulas
o Structural and reaction searching in Registry using Reaxys
and SciFinder
o Retrospective and current awareness searching
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The research library, 1610 to 2010
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
KTH Biblioteket
National Library Finland
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