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University Library newsletter - information and new developments from your Library. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. October 2014 You can also view this newsletter online. In this issue Library survey - have your say! Russian DVDs - new acquisition! Talk by Calligrapher Donald Jackson Now we're open 0800 - 0200 every day OpenAccess@StAndrews A year of gift cataloguing Open access publishing for the humanities: a SPARC Europe UK road show New student guide Library survey - have your say!

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University Library newsletter - information and new developments from yourLibrary.

Is this email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser.

October 2014

You can also view this newsletter online.

In this issue

Library survey - have your say!Russian DVDs - new acquisition!Talk by Calligrapher Donald JacksonNow we're open 0800 - 0200 every dayOpenAccess@StAndrewsA year of gift cataloguingOpen access publishing for the humanities: a SPARC Europe UK road showNew student guide

Library survey - have your say!

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How do you feel about the Library and our services? Is the Library too small? Do youthink the Helpdesk staff are great? Is it too noisy?

We know that people feel strongly about talking on stairs, the improvements to Inter-Library Loan, the ability to request books through MoreBooks@st-andrews, and theLibrary being overcrowded, so now is your chance to tell us exactly what you think!

In return we promise to listen to what you say and think about how we can makeimprovements. We also promise – if you give us your details – to enter you into a prizedraw to win £250 of Amazon vouchers.

All staff and students are welcome to enter! Complete the online survey now! It should

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only take 5 minutes.

Russian DVDs - new acquisition!

We've had some interesting recent additions to our Library DVD collections!Around 30 Russian-language DVDs from 1930s musicals to 1990 TV series havearrived!

Here are some examples:

Dvd PN1997.M8D8 - My iz Kronshtadta (1936) (We are from Kronstadt)

Dvd PN1997.C54R5 - Chelovek niotkuda (1961) (The Man from Nowhere)

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Search SAULCAT for more.

- Acquisitions team

Talk by Master Calligrapher Donald JacksonThe next Friends of the Library lecture will be on Thursday, November 6 at 5.15pmin the Arts Lecture Theatre, and will be delivered by Master Calligrapher DonaldJackson, who will be talking about The Saint John's Bible: Handwriting aContemporary Illuminated Manuscript.

Made of vellum, and with 160 illuminations, the Saint John's Bible is the first completelyhandwritten and illuminated Bible to have been commissioned by a Benedictine Abbeysince the invention of the printing press. Worked on between 1998 and 2011 underDonald Jackson's artistic direction, it cost an estimated $8 million to produce. Thecompleted work is divided into seven volumes and is two feet tall by three feet widewhen open.

We are excited to have Donald Jackson here in St Andrews to tell us more about thisproject, and we hope as many people as possible will come along to hear him speak.

Tea and coffee will be served as usual after the talk, and all will be very welcome.

- Friends of the Library

Now we're open 0800 - 0200 every day

The Main Library has changed its opening hours during semester from 8am-2amMonday-Thursday, 8am-midnight Friday, 10am-midnight Saturday and 10am-2amSunday to: 8am-2am 7 days a week!

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Since early 2010, there’s been a gradual increase in the Main Library’s opening hours tomeet the growing demand of its users, recognising that different people work in theLibrary in different ways. We’ve also recognised that there’s less and less differencebetween weekdays and weekends in terms of footfall and in actual fact, Sundays arefrequently our busiest day of the week for visitors.

We are incredibly grateful to our own team of Attendants, colleagues in Estates for theirefforts to increase cleaning service provision and also to the Students’ Association andthe Students' Representative Council for the sterling work they’ve done over the last yearto keep the issue of opening hours at the forefront of our discussions with them.

More details are available on our Library blog.

OpenAccess@StAndrews

Do you know what these terms mean?

Green and GoldCC-BYaccepted manuscriptversion of record

Have you heard about RC-UK and Hefce Open Access policies? Are you familiarwith copyright? None the wiser? Please read on...

The University Library has a long history of supporting Open Access, mandating depositof electronic theses since September 2006 and is a member of the British Library’s E-Theses Online Service (EThOS). A major funder, the Wellcome Trust, introduced itspolicy on article and conference proceedings in 2006. But the Open Access andresearch funding landscapes are changing rapidly with major funders coming on boardsuch as Research Councils UK in 2013. Hefce has now introduced an Open Accessrequirement for REF-admissible research publications, which is expected to be a gamechanger in the UK. Also, the Wellcome Trust recently extended its policy to monographsand books. So it’s important that research staff and students are aware of currentdevelopments for their academic careers and the dissemination and impact of theirresearch.

The OpenAccess@StAndrews blog is a rich source of current information featuring

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regular posts on many aspects of Open Access and related topics you might not haveconsidered. Recent posts covered a new Open Access book on French History andCulture, St Andrews academic engagement with Pure andResearch@StAndrews:FullText and a freely available report about Affordable Housing inSt Andrews. Open Access has many dimensions.

We encourage readers to leave comments on the blog to help us get as much feedbackas possible to understand researcher needs and support their journey to Open Access.Have a look at our recent International Open Access Week (20-26 October) posts.

Please contact us if you have any questions or feedback. Find essential information about Open Access and support for Open Access on theLibrary webpages.

- Open Access team

A year of gift cataloguing

Book from the Oresko Collection

Since September 2014 we have catalogued a total of 2783 gift items, all of whichare now available in SAULCAT and SEEKER. The material came from a range ofdonors, including:

428 items from Robert Oresko216 anonymous gifts14 books from Stirling University98 from the Ardekani collection90 volumes from the late Oliver Smith

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77 items from Celia Kerslake

These gifts cover a wide range of subjects including art history, poetry, coastal erosionand South-West European history. We, in the Cataloguing team, analyse the content ofeach item and include as many keywords and subject terms as possible to help you findthe books you need.

Although our cataloguers have excellent detective skills as well as expertise in German,Persian, French and Italian, the variety of foreign language material among gifts can bechallenging! For example, the donation from Stirling University was entirely in German,the Ardekani collection was in Persian while the Oresko collection contained French andItalian elements. The greatest linguistic challenges, however, were the Turkish-languageKerslake collection, two books in Hungarian in the Oresko collection and a book inLuxembourgish. If you have expertise in any languages and would be willing to help us,we would love to hear from you!

Have a look at our Oresko collection in SAULCAT.

- Cataloguing team

Open Access publishing for the humanities: aSPARC Europe UK road showThe Library, in association with SPARC Europe, is hosting a road show especiallyfor humanities researchers to learn more about Open Access publishing options.Come along to Lower College Hall on 26th November, 12-2pm. Lunch will be provided.

A number of Open Access publishers (Manchester University Press, KnowledgeUnlatched, Ubiquity Press, Open Book Publishers, Oapen, The Open Library ofHumanities, Open Humanities Press) will be exhibiting information about their publishingprogrammes in a ‘tradeshow’ area and this will include materials and samples ofpublications as well as short presentations about their activities. This is an opportunity tomeet these publishers, most of whom are themselves researchers who have establishedOpen Access presses, and to discuss the practicalities of publishing your work in bothOpen Access monographs and journals.

Speakers are:

Eelco Ferwerda of OAPEN and DOABDr Rupert Gatti, Open Book Publishers and University of CambridgeDr Guy Rowlands of the University of St. Andrews

For more information, please email: [email protected]

- Open Access team

New students guideAre you a new student at St Andrews? Maybe you didn’t make it to one of the Librarytours during orientation week, or maybe you did but want to know more? In order to help

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you, and anyone who needs to find out more about the Library we’ve created our NewStudents Guide.

A screenshot of our guide

Whether you need to find out where the Library is, or want to know more about whereyou’ll find the resources for your subject, the guide has the answers to your questions.You’ll find floor plans for the Main Library, videos on how to use our self-service borrowand return services, how to search SAULCAT – the Library catalogue, and much, muchmore.

The New Students Guide is a great place to start, and if you can’t find the answer youneed, use the “Contact us” tab to see all the options for asking your own questions.

- Academic Liaison team

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Questions: Please email [email protected]: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/Address: University of St Andrews Library, North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9TR, ScotlandTel: +44 (0)1334 462283Images: University of St Andrews, Cataloguing team, and Kim Bennett.The University of St Andrews is not responsible for the content of external websites accessed via links inthis e-newsletter.