25.11.2002: With the SPORTDiscus database, the Sport Information Resource Centre evaluates over 2,100 mainly English-language journals from the fields of sports medicine, biomechanics, sports psychology, training, fitness etc., among others. Test access is available until mid-January 2003 via the database provider EBSCO for the Paderborn campus. Simply select SPORTDiscus at the bottom of the database list and click on the Continue button.

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The database analyses academic and practice-related journals (of which approx. 1,250 titles are peer-reviewed) from the departments of management, finance, accounting, foreign business, economics, etc. The full text of around 2,800 journals is currently available. Around 2,800 journals are currently available in full text, but the database contains bibliographic information and abstracts for articles from over 3,300 journals. Business Source Premier also offers company information on around 5,000 of the world's largest companies and contains numerous 'Country Economic Reports'.

Numerous visitors came to find out about the library's range of information and also tried their luck at the library quiz. A total of 2,918 books and 163 magazines were sold at the bazaar, meaning that more than 2,300 euros will now flow back into the library's acquisition budget.

New database and internet offers from the library, information on current training dates and introductory courses... if you would like to be informed regularly and automatically by e-mail about the latest news from the University Library, we recommend our newsletter, which you can easily subscribe to using the WWW form.

The sports science literature collection has been moved to level 3 for space reasons.

Is the University Library a closed book? - To make it a little easier for you to find your way around, we are now offering a virtual tour of the library.

06.09.2002: The widespread use of notebooks to access the service infrastructure has created a need for counselling and training for students who are less familiar with computers and the Internet. This need is to be met by a student-organised notebook café which, in addition to providing Internet access (limited for emergencies) and advice in problematic cases, also develops recommendations for the procurement of hardware and software as well as Internet access options. Closely related to the Notebook Café is the Technology Competence Centre, which is, of course, aimed specifically at women. The Notebook Café - and with it the Technology Competence Centre - is located in the entrance area of the University Library (former group and lecture room). (see also press release from 06.09.2002)

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A decree issued by the Ministry of Schools, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on 25 July 2002 (AZ: 514 - 5.02.10.12) reorganises the interlibrary loan procedure and the reimbursement of expenses. For a transitional period, online interlibrary loans for media subject to return and the JASON interlibrary loan order form for media not subject to return will still be processed with transaction numbers worth 0.25 EURO ("blue TANs"). These transaction numbers are expected to become invalid on 1 January 2003 and cannot be exchanged. From 1 January 2003, the fee for each online interlibrary loan and JASON order is expected to be EUR 1.50. Conventional loan slips will also cost EUR 1.50. Borrowing slips purchased before the effective date will then become invalid. You can find more information on the new interlibrary loan system here.

The proportion of analysed journal articles from the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) and Periodical Content Index (PCI) has been significantly expanded within the JADE article database. The JADE database now contains over 25 million journal articles that can be ordered via the JASON document delivery system. For licensing reasons, the IBZ and PCI databases can only be used on the Paderborn campus within the JADE database.

New service: In the Digital Full Texts menu under Newspapers and Magazines you will find a selection of local, national and international daily and weekly newspapers as well as national and international magazines. By clicking on a title, you can find out at a nutshell whether we have the paper edition, whether the title is available online via the Internet, or whether we have older volumes on CD-ROM or microfilm.

This year's library book bazaar will take place on 13 June.

03.06.2002: The Digital Library of German Classics is available for a free trial period of two months. Campus users have access to 55 digitised volumes of the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, which include the works of the following authors: Achim von Arnim, Bettine von Arnim, Georg Büchner, Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gottfried Keller, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottfried Seume, Theodor Storm, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the Brothers Grimm.

03.06.2002: For economists: The Business Source Elite database contains full-text documents from around 1060 journals as well as company information from Dun & Bradstreet for around 3 million companies. You have test access on campus until the end of July 2002.

The redesigned homepage presents our services in a more modern design. Do you like the result? You can put your suggestions, praise and criticism in our mailbox.

In cooperation with the AStA and OCE, it is now possible to send research results and full texts from the PC workstations in the library to a copier and print them out there. Here you can find everything you need to know about printing and exporting at the University Library.

Since 1 May 2002, Paderborn University Library has also been open on Saturdays until 18:00.

08.04.2002: New service: Online interlibrary loan for books. In addition to our JASON ordering system for journal articles, you can now also order books from other libraries online.