1. Your Library Service: Resources for Academic Success c Jo Gardner, Bodleian Social Science Librarian
Introduce self, welcome to Oxford/back to Oxford
Main presentation themes:
1) All library services in Oxford
2) Usernames and passwords you need
3) Social Science Library
4) Using the library catalogue and finding what you need, other useful website.
5) Guides and workshops for further information

2. Bodleian Libraries: 29 libraries including
The Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera, Social Science Library, Law Library, Education Library, Philosophy & Theology Faculties Library, Radcliffe Science Library and more…
Over 80,000 ejournals, 850,000 ebooks
More than 12 million print volumes
1,000 items added daily to the collections
3,800 study spaces
600 PCs and 3 wireless networks
Libraries in the Bodleian Libraries group include the famous  Bodleian Library plus 28 other libraries across Oxford including major faculty, department and institute libraries.
Every second someone accesses our electronic collections. Every 14 seconds someone visits one of our libraries. Every 21 seconds someone borrows one of our books.

3. Legal Deposit College Libraries LEGAL DEPOSIT:
Bodleian has been a library of Legal Deposit for 400 years
One of the 6 Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK
Legal Deposit has existed in English law since 1662, and it ensures that the nation’s published output is collected systematically and made available.
Means that all UK publishers are legally required to deposit all of their publications in these libraries.
Legal Deposit items (books and journals) CANNOT BE BORROWED, but they are available or can be ordered to most of the Bodleian Libraries including the Social Science Library
Since 2013 we have been receiving electronic items such as ejournals via Legal Deposit - only available on Bodleian Libraries PCs.
COLLEGE LIBRARIES:
Each of the Oxford Colleges has its own library – generally for the use of College members only
ONE EXCEPTION = Nuffield College Library, which is open to all graduates at the University.

4. Connecting to Library services
Single Sign On
Bodleian-Libraries

5. Single Sign On Issued to you by University IT Services
For logging onto SOLO (library catalogue)
For accessing online resources off-campus
SSO – issued to you by the University IT Services.
You use it for lots of things, including logging into your University , accessing library e-resources when you’re outside the University network and to log into SOLO.
SOLO – library catalogue, easy to find.
Remote Access Account – register for this on the IT Services website, and install software on your device. This means that the device thinks it is on the University network.
Now to passwords. You will all have now received your single sign on which is the username and password used for . This is always in the format abcd You will need this to login to SOLO, MyAccount to access eresources off site.

6. Bodleian-Libraries Your username is the
7-digit number on your University Card.
Your default password is your DOB (e.g. 01JAN1990).
For: Bodleian Libraries PCs
Bodleian-Libraries wifi PCAS [Print, Copy and Scan]
Bodleian Password – to log onto all library PCS and to connect to Bodleian-Libraries WIFI, also to log into all library PCs
USERNAME = 7-digit number on your University Card
PASSWORD = date of birth in format
STRONGLY advised to reset password – go to
WIFI – you can use Eduroam wifi in libraries. However if you are using Eduroam you will need to log into Library e-resources with your Single Sign On.

7. Print, Copy and Scan
Top up with your credit or debit card at
In addition to copying, you can: - print from your device or library PC - scan to or USB drive
Copyright restrictions apply
Prices – scanning 2p, A4 single 6p and A4 double 9p, colour starts from 38p
You will need to set up a new account and add credit using your payment card (or add cash, if you prefer, at the library issue desk).
Once you have set up your account you can link it to your University Card by swiping it on a PCAS machine – after that you can simply swipe your card at the machines.
Copyright restrictions: one chapter from a book, one article from a journal issue, 5% of the whole work.

8. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Search for Books and E-books
Journals and E-journals
Grey literature
Digital collections
Request
SSL books out on loan
Books in “Closed Stack”
Manage your account
Renewals
View fines Save and export references
SOLO:
Best starting point for searching for everything in the Oxford libraries – Bodleian Libraries and college libraries, print and online -Google “SOLO Oxford” first, save time later on
Log in here (with your SSO) to request books and journals
Log in here to manage your account (e.g. see how many books you have, and renew).
SOLO LIVE HELP: If you have any problems searching or questions there is a live chat box on the front Instant response, staffed 9-5 Mon-Fri.

9. SOLO for print and online resources
To see which libraries have copies of the printed book, click on Find and Request.
SOLO FRONT PAGE:
1) Search box – type keywords in. If searching for a journal article, type name of journal in (not journal article title)
2) Refine your search using various options – before by using drop-down menu, after by using “Refine your results” 3) Results – sorted by relevance. Top book title has 2 versions (e.g. print and online, different editions) – click on “View all” to see all versions.
3) For e-resources you’ll see [electronic resource] – click on View Online to access it
4) For print items you’ll see Find & Request

10. “Open Shelf” print resources
SOLO: Find and request page
You can see which Oxford Libraries have that item, and whether it’s available.
EXAMPLE – a book that’s held in SSL – 2 copies, one is available and should be on the shelf, one is on loan to someone else (date).
OTHER STATUSES:
- Confined
- Closed Stack – not immediately available, needs to be ordered, usually Legal Deposit
SO, how do you request an item from the ‘Closed Stack’?
Check the “Type”
Library Use Only
Short Loan
Normal Loan

11. “Closed Stack” print resources
CLOSED STACK BOOKS
Hold –
have it delivered to one of 20 different reading rooms, including SSL
2 deliveries to SSL per day
You will receive an when it’s ready to collect – come to issue desk
Many ‘Closed Stack’ books are Legal Deposit, and therefore not loanable.
Scan & Deliver –
Can request one chapter of a book OR one journal article
Each request will cost £4.75, pay online
The material will be scanned and a link will be sent to your address – usually within 24 hours.
Request Options
Hold = order to one of the Bodleian Libraries
Scan & Deliver = request a scan of one chapter or journal article

12. OxLIP+ (link from SOLO)
OxLIP+ Platform for databases of bibliographic records (for in-depth literature searching) – a link from SOLO front page
You can check which databases are most appropriate for your subject, by clicking on the CATEGORY tab
Search by TITLE (if you know the name of the database you need)
Browse by CATEGORY to search by type of resource (e.g. NEWSPAPERS, OFFICIAL PAPERS) or by subject area (e.g. POLITICS)

14. Bodleian Social Science Library (SSL)
Opening hours in
Term (Weeks 0-9)
Mon – Fri 09:00 – 22:00
Saturday 10: :00
Sunday 11:00 – 19:00
SSL – your main library service on the ground floor, supports all departments and centres located in the Manor Road Building
You are ALREADY REGISTERED to use the library – just swipe your University Card to access
More than 200,000 books all together, plus journals, Discussion and Working Papers, pamphlets, statistics.
OPENING HOURS- long, 7 days a week
No food and drink in the library, bottled water is allowed.
2 Graduate Study Rooms at the back of the library – quieter environment than the main library areas, register for access at the Library Desk.

15. SSL Services and Help SSL Services
- Lending (up to 30 books, normal loans 7 days, short loans 2 days, up to 7 renewals, fines 20p or £1 a day ) - Self-Issue machines - Bodleian stack requests Enquiry services & friendly staff - Graduate study rooms - Study carrels - Book discussion rooms - Computers and wireless - Printing, copying & scanning - Borrow equipment (Nooks, laptop locks, ethernet cables etc.) - Buy stationery Free spiral binding - Subject Consultant appointments - Training courses
SSL Services
- Lending and enquiry services - stack requests
- Study carrels - Discussion rooms study spaces
- PCs and wifi - Printing, copying & scanning
- Subject Consultants
- Efficient and friendly staff
The SSL is the busiest lending library in Oxford.
As graduates you can borrow up to 30 books with standard loans being 1 week and short loans two days. You can renew up to seven times unless another reader has requested your books.
Some books are confined to the library for reference use only. These have yellow stickers on the spine.
Subject Consultants – make appointment for 1-to-1 advice.

16. SSL House Rules

17.
Getting started guide and list of FAQs under How do I…? Links to Facebook and twitter accounts, and SSL Blog News is posted via RSS feeds. Links to feedback including recommendations form for new books, papers and online resources.

18. Subject Consultants
Jo Gardner Bodleian Social Science Librarian Manages SSL, Politics and International Relations, Criminology
(2)78721
John Southall
Bodleian Data Librarian & Subject Consultant for Economics, Research Support, Data enquiries, RDM.
(2)85936
Sarah Rhodes
International Development, Refugee Studies, African Studies.
(2)85998
Angelina Gibson Russian and Eastern European Studies (2)71937

19. iSkills workshops for postgraduates and researchers
Reference management (Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero & Mendeley)
Keeping up to date
Measuring research impact
Copyright and intellectual property
Open access publishing
Managing research data

20. Doctoral Training Centre

21. Any questions? jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk