As already announced in our Newsletter 11/2003, the number of possible reservations per copy will be reduced from two to one from 1 December 2003 due to the changeover to a new lending system on 1 March 2004. Once the new lending system is up and running, the number of reservations per copy will be increased again. We ask for your understanding for this measure.

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The conventional forms of publishing scientific documents have been expanded by the possibilities of the Internet for some years now. Commercial publishers now offer academic journals and books not only in printed but also in digital form.

Due to exorbitant price increases for scientific journals in the STM field, libraries are increasingly less able to purchase or licence these products - regardless of whether they are published conventionally or electronically. This is one of the reasons why "alternative forms" of publishing are being developed, the aim of which is to ensure that the results produced by the scientific community can also be made available to it. The Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia strongly supports these alternative forms of publication. Through the "Digital Peer Publishing NRW" call for proposals it has initiated, it aims to provide financial support to scientists and libraries interested in trialling these alternative forms of publication. In particular, the projects should address the challenge of quality assurance and apply peer review procedures, which have proven their worth in the publication of scientific information, to freely available e-journals.

Researchers at Paderborn University who are interested in actively participating in such a project are asked to express their interest to the management of Paderborn University Library. The University Library would be happy to act as a project partner.

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From Monday, 11 August 2003, you must expect considerable disruption in the entrance area of the University Library and in the Art Sciences Library due to construction work (renewal of a fire protection wall). The renovation work is expected to last until the beginning of October. We ask for your understanding.

At LEGIOS you will find high-quality specialised information for the legal and business consulting professions - especially for lawyers, auditors, tax consultants and patent attorneys. LEGIOS combines a large number of specialised sources from more than 50 selected legal databases and around 200 business databases to offer a range of decision and law collections, commentaries, specialist journals, legally relevant business information and daily news as well as current background reports. Paderborn University Library offers trial access until the beginning of October 2003.

Paderborn University Library has now licensed access to a selection of 82 English-language computer science books in full text. Safari Tech Books Online was founded with the aim of making the best IT books available online and co-operates with publishers such as Adobe Press, Addison Wesley Professional, Alpha Books, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, New Riders, O'Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que and Sam's Publishing. The departments covered are Applied Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Certification, Databases, Desktop Applications, Desktop Publishing, E-Commerce, Enterprise Computing, Graphics, Hardware, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet/Online, IT Management, Markup Languages, Multimedia, Networking Operating Systems, Programming and Software Engineering. All titles can be searched for specific keywords with a single search request!

We expressly refer to the terms of use of the database provider. In particular, the use of "web spiders" and similar software for the purpose of automatic downloading from databases is prohibited.

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Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003
The 'Ultimate Reference Suite' edition includes the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica Library' (based on the 15th edition of the print version), the 'Britannica Student Library' and the 'Britannica Elementary Library'. The 'Britannica' contains around 91,000 articles, 21,000 photos, illustrations and maps, over 200 videos and pieces of music as well as around 555,000 entries from the 'Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus'.

Until the end of June 2003, it was possible to test online access to 30 medical journals from the British Medical Journal Publishing Group. These included titles of particular relevance to sports medicine. With the exception of Evidence-Based Nursing, Online Learning and Paediatric Asthma Virtual Journal, all journals could be tested.

From mid-March 2003, Paderborn University will have online access to 114 journals from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This selection of titles is contained in the so-called 'IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP)'. The corresponding printed editions were cancelled at the end of 2002. The Institute is the world's largest and most important scientific society in the field of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. IEEE publishes numerous monographs, over 100 journals and more than 300 conference proceedings each year. In addition to the current volumes of the titles, we have access to the contents from 1998 onwards. A list of available titles can be found in the Electronic Journals Library.

The Web of Science consists of the databases Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. The databases analyse around 8,500 of the most important international specialist journals in almost all scientific fields and, in particular, enable a search for citations, which allows the most frequently cited specialist articles to be ranked. The Web of Science is therefore one of the most important bibliographic reference databases worldwide.

The library has licensed several backfiles for the Paderborn campus, so that you can now search the following reporting periods.

• SCI : 1945 - today
• SSCI: 1956 - today
• AHCI: 1975 - today

You will also find a user manual here.

Until 3 March 2003, Paderborn University Library is offering test access to the ProQuest Computing database, which indexes 278 scientific and specialist journals on computer science from 1986 to the present day. Of these, 229 journals are available in full text. ProQuest Computing also contains economics journals that deal specifically with this industry. The database is updated daily.

As of 24 February 2003, Paderborn University Library offers test access to more than 1,100 of the most important English-language computer science books in full text. Safari Tech Books Online was founded with the aim of making the best IT books available online and co-operates with publishers such as Adobe Press, Addison Wesley Professional, Alpha Books, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, New Riders, O'Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que and Sam's Publishing. The departments covered are Applied Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Certification, Databases, Desktop Applications, Desktop Publishing, E- Commerce, Enterprise Computing, Graphics, Hardware, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet/Online, IT Management, Markup Languages, Multimedia, Networking Operating Systems, Programming and Software Engineering. All titles can be searched for specific keywords with a single search request!
We expressly refer to the terms of use of the database provider. In particular, the use of "web spiders" and similar software for the purpose of automatic downloading from databases is prohibited.

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The AStA is currently replacing the photocopiers and printers with new devices. The print function on the PCs in the library is not available until further notice. Please use the export options by e-mail and disc.