ANNOUNCEMENTS

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updated:24 June 2008

Database Trials | New Online Databases
Some new arrivals in the library

All bound journals (A to Z) are now located in the lower basement of A Block. This includes A to J journals which were previously located
in the Periodicals Room

Newspaper and Magazine Reading Room

  Bilkent University Library is happy to announce the opening of its new Newspaper and Magazine Reading Room, located on the Second Floor of A-Block in Main Campus Library. Here, library users can consult daily newspapers and the latest issues of selected popular magazines. Some soft drinks are available and can be consumed in this new room.
The room is open between 9:00 – 17:00

ATTENTION ALL OUTSIDE USERS !

Bilkent University Library will now enable outside users to access the internet daily using your laptop computer in our wireless internet zones.

In order to take your DAILY VPN user id. and password please fill out
the relevant form at one of the following:

  • Circulation Desk
  • Art Room Desk
  • Music Room Desk
  • A-Building Ground Floor salon Information Desk
  • A-Building 1st Floor salon Information Desk


ONLY FOR ACADEMICS / Electronic Reserve

To make our reserve services more accessible, Bilkent students can reach electronic reserve materials every day, at all hours. Due to copyright restrictions for electronic versions, users must be able to access the Bilkent campus network. In accordance with Turkish law, there are different types of copyright practices. You will find detailed information on reserve request form. For filling out the form, please take into account the related section for the material you wish put on reserve  Materials already in electronic format can be forwarded to e-reserve@bilkent.edu.tr. In that case, the printed version of reserve request form should be signed and given to the Reserve Desk as soon as possible. The materials which require your approval to be added to the e-reserve collection, and are your intellectual property, will not be reachable to outside users, but only to legitimate users of the Bilkent campus network.


As of 18 October 2005 the entire Bilkent University community can renew materials borrowed from the library through the BLISS online program  (http://bliss.bilkent.edu.tr/searchtr.phtml) by clicking on Borrower Services and then choosing "Borrowed Items". If the material has already been renewed twice, or if another library user has reserved the material, however, online renewal will not be possible and the material should be returned to    the library.

Bilkent University Library announces new subscriptions to the following online databases and journal collections. All online databases can be viewed on the Online Databases page. Journals can be found in the Electronic Journals Database.

  TRIALS IN PROGRESS:

THE ROYAL SOCIETY: THE COMPLETE EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE COLLECTION:
On trial until 16 June 2008 
The Complete Excellence in Science Collection provides full-text access to 7 scholarly
journals published by The Royal Society (UK) in the fields of biology, physics, chemistry,
mathematics, engineering, life sciences, and the history and philosophy of science.





     


 Bilkent University Library announces new subscriptions to the following online databases  
 and journal collections. All online databases can be viewed on the Online Databases page.
 Journals can be found in the Electronic Journals Database.

NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

Nature Publishing Group
This database provides full-text access to scientific journals in chemistry, physics, molecular biology, genetics, and medicine.
   
  Laboratory Investigation 
 
Nature Biotechnology  
  N
ature Cell Biology 
  Nature Genetics     
  Nature Materials 
  Nature Medicine 
  Nature Neuroscience  
  Nature Photonics 
 
Nature Physics 
  Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Beck-Online Die Datenbank
Beck-Online Die Datenbank is a German-language, full-text database, providing access to German legal resources, statutes, cases, commentaries and journal articles.


Ergonomics Abstracts Online
 
Ergonomics Abstracts Onlineis a bibliographical database, containing abstracts of journal papers, books, reports and conference proceedings for the following fields: ergonomics, job design, occupational health, psychology, physiology, biomechanics, engineering, architecture and environment.

Project Muse
Project Muse provides full-text access to 389 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts and social sciences.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online is the electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which has been published since 1768. It covers more than 300,000 web-sites, 118,000 articles, 2000 video clips, sound files, animations, photographs, drawings, maps and flags. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus are also available through this database.

Periodicals Archive Online 
Periodicals Archive Online is a full-text database covering the arts, humanities and social sciences. It contains over 500 journals from 1770 until the 1995, and provides full-text access to over 12 million articles in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, theology, archaeology, fine arts, and psychology.

PsycINFO
PsycINFO is a bibliographical database produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), containing over 2 million references and abstracts of articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and reports in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to the present. PsycINFO is available through EBSCOhost.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), provides full-text access from 1894 to the present for 60 psychology journals, 49 published by the APA itself and 11 by allied organizations. Areas covered include general psychology, as well as applied, clinical and theoretical psychology. PsycARTICLES is available through EBSCOhost.

Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database (GMID),
GMID is a full-text database which provides economic news, marketing reports, statistics, company profiles and various other sources of information on countries, consumers and industrial companies. It is a basic resource for those interested in business, economics, marketing, customer behavior, statistics and tourism.

Elsevier E-Books 
Elsevier E-books purchase includes books published between 1995 and 2007 in the following subject fields: Chemical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Engineering, Material Science, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. In order to read the full-text of these e-books, please select “Browse by Subject” and then click on any book title that has an accompanying green icon.

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews Online is a comprehensive collection of critical review articles for the literature in various scholarly disciplines, and provides access to 33 journals in full-text for the biomedical, physical and social sciences.

Taylor and Francis Online Journals
Taylor and Francis Online Journals is the service from Taylor and Francis Publishing. It holds full-text articles of over 1,200 journals from 1997 to the present. The subjects covered range across health science, life and physical sciences, technology, medicine, to arts and humanities, social sciences, business, and education.

TURNITIN
Turnitin is a database renowned for its plagiarism detection service. Teachers may submit essays to the Turnitin website which will be compared to both current and archived pages on the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial electronic databases of journal articles, periodicals and e-books.

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