1. News from the CERN Library
Jens Vigen
ACCU, 7th March 2017

2. Presence at CERN not required even if some services are restricted to CERN IP numbers
Remote access via proxy
Quick and easy to configure on your computer
Transparent access to your favorite resources
See detailed instructions
The library services are with you all the time!
ACCU, 7th March 2017

3. Scientific Information Service
Our missions
Provide information resources in ALL fields of relevance to CERN
Ensure that scientific information produced at CERN is safeguarded and made publicly available
Make CERN publications as available as possible
Our audience
Particle physicists world wide
Computer scientists, engineers, technicians
Administrative staff
ACCU, 7th March 2017

4. What do we offer? Our collections: Our services: Books and eBooks
Out of 105K titles, 81K are available as eBooks
Various Digital Right Management (DRM) systems
Proceedings
Ongoing effort to digitize legacy collections
E-journals
By now we nearly “have them all”
Databases
Among others Web of Science
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary is on any CERN desktop
Standards
ISO, IEC, IEEE, AFNOR etc.
And more: theses, preprints, reports…
See Inspire and CDS
Our services:
Providing the literature you need, when you need it 

5. Looking for citation counts or a topic outside HEP?
Online databases
Inspire
Feel free to report errors/omissions
Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index)
INSPEC
Compendex
Ask librarians and challenge them!
Call or come to meet us ( )
ACCU, 7th March 2017

6. E-newspapers via pressreader.com
More “tricky” to read from outside,
still you can read news from home while being in Geneva

7. Success for open access books “Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks” as an example
1 book equivalent = the total number of downloads by number of chapters
The downloads for Hagedorn (2016), open access, correspond to 2400 book equivalents
If you think about publishing a monograph or edit an article collection, contact the
Scientific Information Service for advice (and possible financial support)

8. Publication policy CERN authors are expected to publish all their results Gold Open Access
Revised version of the current policy (2014) to be published shortly
Expands to also include instrumentation
Agreements for IEEE TNS, JINST and NIMA
Excludes explicitly proceedings
SCOAP3-preference for physics results
Other outlets considered case by case
Aims to reach 100%
ACCU, 7th March 2017

9. Interesting new option SciPost Physics
SciPost Physics publishes outstanding-quality research articles in the
domains of experimental, theoretical and computational physics

10. More than shelves and links
Looking for a physical book we don’t have?
Interlibrary loan
Free of charge
Quick and reliable (high success rate)
Available to assist your home library when needed
Looking for an article?
Interlibrary loan
Free PDF delivery
All charges carried by CERN
We do assist any CERN user; at CERN or not
ACCU, 7th March 2017

11. Building your own Library
Bookshop
1000 titles to chose from
Bookshop located in the Central Library ( )
Open 8.30 am to 7pm
Physics, engineering, computing, mathematics…
Payment by cash or CERN Budget code
Not available in the bookshop?
Any book needed for your work can be requested
In case of questions, contact
Journals subscription for your group?
Contact
ACCU, 7th March 2017

12. What can you do for us?
You can contribute your expertise/your documents
Suggest books or journals of interest to the community
Donate books you no longer need
Make your papers publicly available
Operational circular no 6: you should submit your documents to CERN Document Server
Ensure that PhD students submit their thesis
ACCU, 7th March 2017

13. Library and Bookshop staffed Monday to Friday 8h30-19h00
How to find us?
Library and Bookshop
Bldg
Phone 72444
Online presence:
Library open 24/24 & 365/365
Library and Bookshop staffed Monday to Friday 8h30-19h00
ACCU, 7th March 2017