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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 archive@co-op.ac.uk.

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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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Any questions?

Helpdesk email: archiveshub@mimas.ac.uk

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Copac

Lisa JeskinsLibrary & Archival Services,

Promotions & Outreach Officer

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What are we going to cover?

• What is Copac?

• How to search Copac

• Enhanced features of Copac

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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

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Any questions?

Helpdesk email: copac@mimas.ac.uk