mimas bibliographic services nov 09
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An introduction to using the Mimas services Archives Hub and Copac.TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to Mimas Bibliographic Services
Lisa JeskinsNovember 2009
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Today’s plan
10.00 Archives Hub + Hands On 10.50 Copac + Hands On 11.40 Zetoc + Hands On
12.30 Lunch 13.30 Web of Science + Hands On 16.00 Close
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The Archives Hub
Lisa JeskinsLibrary & Archival Services,
Promotions & Outreach Officer
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What are we going to cover?
• What are archives?
• What is the Archives Hub?
• Using the Archives Hub to find archives
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What are archives?
• Unique material
• Generated by an organisation, business or individual and preserved for long-term access
• An archive collection is identified as being created by a particular person, family, or organisation in the course of their activities
• Collections vary widely in size and content
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Types of repository
Repository Type of archive material
National record office government
Local record office geographical – local businesses, estates, people, places, genealogical, diocesan, parish, maps
Universities, colleges history of the institution, researchers and research, land and buildings, local businesses, specialist areas
Specialist record office music, architecture, film, etc.
Business archive relate to the business activities – also people, land, buildings
Charity archive relate to the charity – people, land, buildings
Museum relate to their collecting area, often varied
Library relate to their collecting area, often varied
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What is the Archives Hub?
• Online gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities, colleges and research institutes
• Descriptions of over 20,000 archive collections
• Descriptions from over 160 institutions
• Freely available
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What’s in the Hub?
Archival descriptions including …
– papers of universities, staff and students
– family and estate collections
– business archives
– trade union archives
– papers of prominent people
• John Ruskin, Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Barbara Cartland, Stanley Kubrick
Copyright © National Co-operative Archive. All enquiries about photographic collections and copyright to [email protected].
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Using the Archives Hub
• Search using keyword or phrase
• Advanced search option
• Links to help pages
• ‘About the Hub’ – FAQs – Collections of the Month
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Results Page
Results appear on left hand side of screen
Click on the Title to see the full record
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Advanced Search
Drop down menu, choose from:
Collection TitlePersonal NamePlace nameSubject etc.
Choose a repository to search a particular institution’s archives
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Browse Indexes
Browse indexes is a useful way of looking for related subjects
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Copac
Lisa JeskinsLibrary & Archival Services,
Promotions & Outreach Officer
copac.ac.uk
What are we going to cover?
• What is Copac?
• How to search Copac
• Enhanced features of Copac
copac.ac.uk
What is Copac?• A merged online catalogue
• Approx. 50 libraries– Research libraries– Specialist libraries
• Approx. 35 million records.
• Date from approx. 1100 A.D. to the present day
• Over 400 languages
• Resource discovery tool
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To login or not to login…
Search Copac as before
Login to Copac using your institutional login. You will automatically save your search history, create online bibliographies and see the latest journal table of contents information.
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Searching Copac?
• Quick search
– Author
philip kotler
– Title words
spanish architecture of the 16th century
– Keyword
visual arts
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Copac record featuresBook cover image
Google book search
Where is this book?
Delicious bookmark
Bibliographic details
Export to Ref. Management Software
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Main or Advanced Search
• More search options– ISBN, publisher, date, material
type
– Link searches
– Subject
English literature
– Material Type
Journal & other periodicals
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Arabic and Cyrillic
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If I choose to login…
• With my institutional login or created username & password I can…
– Save all of my searches– Save records that I can edit, tag, and annotate to create
online bibliographies– Search my local library catalogue*
*if my local library catalogue is registered with IESR and not an existing Copac library
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Login features (1)
Option to search Copac and your local library
My references
Searches saved automatically
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Login features (2)
Add tags
Add note
Edit
