Archive for February 2008
Books and journals – introduction
Since quite a long time many libraries have had public open access catalogues (OPAC) which facilitates book searching considerably.
BTH subscribes to both print and electronic journals and they are registered mainly in two different ways.
We will take a closer look at some of the most important book and journal catalogues and give some valuable tips and tricks.
- The Blekinge Institute of Technology Library Catalogue is a local catalogue of printed books, journals and other media held at the two BTH libraries: Gräsvik in Karlskrona and Piren in Karlshamn.
- BTH’s ebooks can be found on the library web page or in Libris
- BTH’s print journals can be found in the library catalogue and ejournals are most easily found in Find e-journal or in Summon@BTH.
- Libris is a national union catalogue that contains information about material held by Swedish research and special libraries. Here you will find references for print books, e-books, journals, e-journals, articles, maps, sheet music and more.
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog – KVK is a meta catalogue which does simultaneous searches in a large number of European national library catalogues and some of the larger Internet bookstores. You can search for both books and journals and you can also find out where you can access them.
- The British Library catalogue contains records of one of the greatest collections in the world. A visit to their web site is recommended, it is in truth a gold mine, among other things you can browse the sketch book of Leonardo da Vinci online…
- World Cat is a network of library content and services. You can search the collections of libraries around the world.
Eva Norling
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