Category: News

Open access – a Cambridge webinar and news from Wiley

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The Read & Publish agreements signed earlier this year already allowed several Graduate Institute researchers to publish articles in Open Access, and it is working smoothly so far. A new agreement with Wiley was signed last week to add many more titles to the list. If you are planning on publishing in a Cambridge University Press journal, you might also be interested in attending their upcoming webinar.

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A reading list on black feminism

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As part of a series of events on decolonising the curriculum, the Gender Centre partnered with the Black Conversations student initiative to host Heidi Safia Mirza’s talk on Decolonizing Pedagogies: “Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy“.

Further to her inspiring talk, Heidi Safia Mirza started a reading list on black feminism in which you will find links and call numbers to access the resources in our collections.

People willing to watch the recording of Heidi Safia Mirza’s talk can contact the Gender Centre: gender@graduateinstitute.ch

Illustration (cropped): CC BY-SA 2.0 Black Lives Matter Berlin Demonstration, 24.06.2017, Montecruz Foto

Library trainings and workshops: choose your menu!

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Check out our new guide for an overview of all the trainings, workshops and presentations the Library has to offer. Choose your menu depending on your profile and appetite!

  • For starters, we suggest introductions to better know the Library, its services and collections.
  • Continue with more substantial trainings to learn about Zotero – a bibliographic reference manager –, research data management, and open access.
  • For dessert, toppings are very short presentations on a specific subject such as Unpaywall or Creative Commons licenses.

Check out the calendar and register now!

We can also offer personalised support – make an appointment with a librarian through the “Tête-à-tête” form.

Enjoy your meal!

Our menu: https://libguides.graduateinstitute.ch/library_trainings

Illustration: Menu, by stokpic (Pixabay license)

swisscovery goes live!

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Thank you for bearing with us while we were migrating to our new catalogue to the Swiss Library Service Plateform (SLSP). All services should now be active again, including loans, orders, etc. Some disruptions and delays are still to be expected, while we get used to the new system.

Please take some time to discover swisscovery IHEID, our new research interface. If you have not done so yet, please register your account for the new catalogue by following the instructions posted previously.

So, what next? In the near future, we will share some information on how to use this new catalogue with maximum efficiency. In January, you should also notice an important expansion of our digital resources through agreements with major e-journal publishers. We hope you like the changes, and wish you the best for the last weeks of a difficult year.

Loan service closing on December 2nd

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On December 7 2020, the Institute’s Library will join the new network of the Swiss scientific and academic libraries, the Swiss Library Service Plateform (SLSP), along with more than 470 other libraries. From this date on, our print collections and electronic resources to which we subscribe will only be accessible through the search engine of this new platform: swisscovery.

As we speak, 30 million bibliographic references are migrating to the new platform. This transition phase has already resulted in a limitation of some services as we prepare for the phasing out of the current RERO catalogue.

For the final stage of the transition, the loan service will be closed from December 2nd (6pm) until the morning of December 7. You will no longer be able to borrow documents or renew them. The RERO Explore catalogue will remain available during that time.

We would also like to remind you that you can pre-register your account for the new catalogue by following the instructions posted previously.

The Library is aware of the impact these limitations may have on your academic activities during this transition period and apologises for the inconvenience these may cause.

Illustration: SLSP, based on PXFuel royalty-free stock photo