3 September 2010
Consulting hours Financial Databases on Mondays from 13:00 to 17:00
Are you a FEB student and do you use Datastream, SDC, WRDS, Compustat, AMADEUS or one of the other financial databases for your research? Having problems finding the right data which you are unable to retrieve by yourself?

Contact the Financial Data Support team. Mail to: lis-financialdatasupport@lists.uvt.nl to make an appointment during the consulting hours on Mondays between 13:00 and 17:00. Explain clearly which information you are trying to find and how you were trying to find this information. Normally you will receive a reply within five working days.

August

25 August 2010
SURFspot roadshow in library: high discounts on hardware and software
SURFspot.nl is the ICT web shop for Tilburg University students. Via SURFspot.nl you can purchase hardware and software with discounts up to 90%. SURFspot will be present in the library on Wednesday 1 September from 11:00 till 14:30 hrs.

24 August 2010
Study places level 1 library reserved
The study places with PC at level 1 of the library are reserved on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:00 - 17:00 because of introduction courses to first-year students.

You can just use the study places. However, you might be asked to find another study place if first-year students need it.

11 August 2009
MLC closed after 18:00 from 30 August, library opening hours extended
The Montesquieu Learning Centre is closed after 18:00 from Monday 30 August. From the 30th you can go to the library after 18:00. The library will then be open from 8:00 to 23:00 on working days (instead of 21:30 hrs). The library opening hours on holidays have been extended as well.

New opening hours library:

• Monday till Friday from 8:00 – 23:00
• Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 – 18:00
• Good Friday, Liberation Day, Ascension Day (and the Friday after), Easter Monday, Whit Sunday and Whit Monday and Boxing Day from 10:00 – 18:00.

6 August 2009
Maintenance student desktops 12 till 17 August
All student desktops will get a new Windows installation and applications. It concerns the computers in the internet cafés, GLC, MLC, the Library, practicum rooms building P and various lecture rooms.

The desktops remain available, however we may ask you to change seats.

The schedule is as follows:

• 12 August: Internet cafés C, D and P
• 13 August: GLC and MLC
• 16 August: Library (Note! The reservation system will be blocked and it is not possible to reserve a PC)
• 17 August: Praticum rooms building P

4 August 2010
Removal of revalue machine OV chip card
The revalue machine OV chip card has moved from the Food Plaza to level 1 of the library, next to the chip card revalue machine.

3 August 2010
Men at work
This week (9 until 13 August) there will be maintenance in the Library. There could be some nuisance. Drilling activities will occur as far as possible before 8:00 hrs. Apologize for the inconvenience.

July

26 July 2010
Wanted: photo models
LIS regularly is looking for models for promotion materials, such as pictures in brochures and on the website. For Friday 30 July we are looking for two models (preferably one girl and one boy) who want to model. The pictures will be taken between 13:00 and 15:00 hrs at the campus by our photographer Ben Bergmans. In return you’ll get your own portrait picture made by Ben. Would you like to be model for a day? Please contact the LIS communications department by e-mail lis-website@uvt.nl or call 013-466 2063 (Femke Wolfs, present on Monday, Wednesday and Friday).

20 July 2010
Blackboard 2 hours off-line

Blackboard is not available on 27 July from 21:00 - 23:00 due to maintenance. Apologize for the inconvenience.

19 July 2010
Men at work
From 19 up to and including 30 July there will be maintenance in the centres of the Library. The activities will be performed per centre in following order:

• 19 t/m 21 juli NE1 en NE2
• 21 t/m 23 juli NW1 en NW2
• 26 t/m 28 juli SW1 en SW2
• 28 t/ m 30 juli SE1 en SE2

12 July 2010
Some databases not accessible
A couple of databases will not be accessible on Saturday 17 July between 7:00 and 18:00 because of maintenance. It concerns the following databases:

• CEN (Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum)
• GLIN (Grijze Literatuur in Nederland)
• ISTC (Incunable Short Title Catalogue)
• Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV)
• LM-Collecties (collecties van het Letterkundig Museum)
• NCRD (Nederlands Centrum voor Rechtshistorische Documentatie en Rechtsiconografie)
• Netherlands Central Catalogue - NCC
• Netherlands Central Catalogue - NCC (Pica interface)
• Online Contents National
• Online Contents National(Pica interface)
• STCN (Short Title Catalogue Netherlands)
• SWL (social science literature) (till 2002)

9 July 2010
Important Dutch newspapers online
Thanks to a large project by the Royal Library (KB), more than a million pages are available for everyone at this moment. The Royal Library is digitizing a large part of all national, regional, local and colonial papers published between 1618 and 1995. The Royal Library now has the largest, freely accessible online newspaper database worldwide. The Royal Library aims to publish 10 percent of all Dutch books, papers and journals online in 4 years.

June

23 June 2010
Malfunction ILL
At this moment there is a temporary procedure for the request of books and articles via ILL.

22 June 2010
Lockers in the Library will be reset!
On 3 and 4 July all Library lockers will be reset. This means that all lockers will be opened and emptied. The lockers will be available again after the reset. The found objects can be obtained at the Security department (Vigilant building) as from Monday 5 July.

MIND!
Lockers should be left empty at the end of each day.

21 June 2010
Keep up-to-date of the ICT offers from SURFspot via Twitter
SURFspot.nl is the ICT web shop where students and staff members from universities can purchase official ICT products and software for low prices. Keep up-to-date of the latest offers via the SURFspot Twitter.

21 June 2010
Newsletters for students and staff including World Bank data for free and upgrade Blackboard
Free data from the World Bank, surfing the Net safely and what kind of support can the LIS Service Desk give you, that's what you can read about in the student version.

The edition for staff members consists info about e.g. the Blackboard upgrade, the Open Access proposition and free access to the World Bank.

15 June 2010
Electronic journals IEEE temporarily unavailable
The elecronic journals of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will be unavailable on Friday, June 18, from 03:00-05:00 hours and on Saturday June 19 (all day). During this time, the IEEE site is down for maintenance. Our collection contains approximately 40 IEEE journals.

14 June 2010
World Bank initiative offers free access to a world of data sources
The World Bank Group recently announced a new open data initiative. Via the new website http://data.worldbank.org/ it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers.

The World Development Indicators, the Bank's most popular statistical resource, consist of over 900 indicators for 200 countries alone, including many that go back to 1960. The Bank has also opened up access to the Global Development Finance, Africa Development Indicators, Global Economic Monitor, and indicators from the Doing Business Report.

The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank data sources. This listing will continue to be updated as additional data resources are added. These resources include databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each of thelistings includes a description of the data source and a direct link to that source. Where possible, the databases are linked directly to a selection screen to allow users to select the countries, indicators, and years they would like to search. Those search results can be exported in different formats. Users can also choose to download the entire database directly from the catalog.

Opening access to the Bank's data is good news for everyone who is interested in global health and development and wants to get a quick overview of the latest trends or access the data for policy-making, research, and advocacy purposes.Accessing high quality data will allow policy makers, researchers, and civil society organizations to track the impact of policies, develop new solutions, and measure the progress of development more accurately. The new initiative is truly Open Access because users are allowed to work with the data to create new applications.

For more information, please contact Rob Grim from LIS-Academic Services.

14 June 2010
Open Access survey: give your opinion
The SOAP Project, funded by the European Commission, would like to announce the release of an online survey to assess researchers' experiences with open access publishing. This survey aims to inform the most comprehensive analysis of attitudes to open access publishing to data and is seeking views form a wide a range of interested parties. It is primarily aimed at active researchers in public and private organizations, from all research fields in science and the humanities and focuses on publication of research articles in (open access) peer-reviewed journals.

If you would like to contribute to shaping the public discourse on open access, please visit http://surveymonkey.com/soap_survey_d>. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Please fill in the survey before 1 July 2010. We would appreciate if you would share this link with your colleagues and collaborators so that the views of your discipline are properly presented.

9 June 2010
Digital security #4: social media
Leaving to much information on social media can do damage to your (online) identity. Someone could use the information you publish to guess a password to one of your online accounts and thus steal your identity. Besides that, you could get turned down for a job interview based on your online identity.

Below you will find some tips for keeping your online identity safe:

• Hint 1: Be careful with what you say on social media. Some information could be later used against you.
• Hint 2: Use a strong password that is difficult to guess. This will prevent someone from hijacking your online identity.
• Hint 3: Even when you are not using social media, create a profile on the most popular ones. By doing this, you will prevent someone else from registering your name and thus forging your identity.

7 June 2010
Digitalsecurity #3: protect mobile devices
Laptops, PDAs, tablet PCs and mobile phones are widely used nowadays and contain lots of (sensitive) information. By using one of the mentioned devices you are in risk of loosing the device AND its data. Or perhaps worse, someone else could have access to your data!

Below you will find some tips for securing your mobile devices properly:

• Hint 1: Secure your smartphone with a password too.
• Hint 2: Encrypt the harddisk of your laptop. Software can be downloaded or bought for this purpose.
• Hint 3: Do not save important data on your smartphone, because most data on smartphones can not be securedproperly.
• Hint 4: Make sure you backup data on your devices regularly. Specially designed software is supplied with your phone to do this. For laptops you can backup your data to a DVD or external hard drive.

4 June 2010
EDC web pages have been updated
The web pages of the European Documentation Centre (EDC) have been updated. The general pagerefers to the material in paper. The other pages contain information and links of websites and databases with EU information, as well as links to and information about publications of EU organizations. You'll find the info at www.tilburguniversity.nl/lis/collections/europeanunion/.

1 juni 2010
VPN session time extended
The maximum VPN session time has been increased to 12 hours.

May

28 May 2010
It's prohibited to send SPAM. Breaking the rules will be punished.
Too often, students and staff members are bothered by mass mails (SPAM). To give you an idea: if every SPAM message would be a postcard, our university would stop 42 km of postcards per day! Via the Tilburg University website all e-mail addresses of students and staff are available. The e-mail addresses in the Tilburg University address book are intended to be used as service to search for individual addresses. Using them to send mass mailings on e.g. books for sale or room for rent, is prohibited. E-mails you send togroups via e.g. Blackboard are also marked as SPAM. If you violate the rules concerning UvT e-mail, Internet and telephone facilities, measures will be taken. Read more about SPAM on our website.

28 May 2010
Digital security #2: Protect your digital data
Everyone has digital confidential data. Whether you're handling your own login credentials, your pay slip or important company data, you will have to secure this data to keep it confidential. To help you secure yourconfidential data you can use the hints below:

• Hint 1: Log out or Lock your PC when you walk away from it.
• Hint 2: For securing small pieces of text, e.g. passwords, you can use an encrypted (password) database.
• Hint 3: Do not sent confidential data in clear text e-mail messages. You can either encrypt the e-mail message before sending it by using special software or, when sending a document as an attachment, you can first zip the document and password protect the zip file before sending.
• Hint 4: Encrypt the drive on which you are keeping the confidential data. For example, you could use an external hard disk or usb-drive for this purpose and encrypt it. By doing this, you can even store it at a safe place when you are away for a while (for example when you're on holiday).
• Hint 5: Makesure that you encrypt backups of your confidential data too!

21 May 2010
Digital security #1: prevent phishing
Phishing is a form of digital fraud in which someone maliciously pretends to represent a legitimate organization, such as your bank or theinstitution where you work or study, and asks for your log-in data or credit card information. Phishing mails can be sent to you by e-mail, or you can come across a phishing site yourself or be guided to one. Below you will find some tips for preventing you from falling victim to phishers:

• Hint 1: Never click on a link, type the URL yourself. This way you are almost certain you will not be redirected to a website other then you would expect.
• Hint 2: Does the URL look strange? Then don't click it. It could be a link to a phishing website.
• Hint 3: Websites and e-mails with many spelling and grammar errors are quite often created by phishers. Be aware of this.

19 May 2010
Update Library System (LBS)
The Library System will be updated on Friday 28 May.
Forusers this implies no availability of the Library Catalogue on Friday from 08:00 till 12:00. During this time it will not be possible to borrow or reserve books, nor can you make a depot request.

12 May 2010
Library closed on 23 and 24 May
The library is closed on 23 and 24 May, because of Whitsun.

3 May 2010
Opening hours Library on Ascension Day
The Library has weekend service on 13 and 14May from 10:00 - 17:00.

April

27 April 2010
Publications added on Staten-Generaal Digitaal
On www.statengeneraaldigitaal.nl the complete proceedings, parliamentary documents and appendixes to the proceedings of the Upper and Lower Chamber from the period 1900-1995 are available. Now the material as from the year 1879/1880 has been added. The older documents will be added in phases in the coming years. We'll keep you informed about this. The documents as from 1995 will only be available on Overheid.nl and Parlando.

Staten-Generaal Digitaal is available via Catalogues and information sources.

16 April 2010
Exam registration status also mentioned in My Week Schedule now
The registration status for an exam is now mentioned in "My Week Schedule" in the student portal. The registration status of an exam can be:

• Not Yet Registered (you did not register for the exam yet)
• Registered (you registered for the exam)
• Check Exam Notification (you can view and print your call for the exam)

15April 2010
Opening hours Library around the Queens' Birthday and Liberation Day
The library is closed on Friday 30 April, because of the Queens Birthday. The Library has weekend service on 5 May from 10:00 - 17:00 (Liberation Day).

14 April 2010
Kluwer Navigator replaces Plaza Kluwer
As from 19 April Plaza Kluwer disappears from the Dutch universities. Everyone has to use the successor, the Kluwer Navigator, already being offered at Tilburg University for quite some time. The Navigator contains more information than the Plaza and is also more up-to-date.
You find the Kluwer Navigator in the part 'All databases A-Z' on Catalogues and information sources.

06 April 2010
LIS Service Desk Library level 1 is moving
Between 26 and 29 April the LIS Service Desk will move from Library level 1 to the Library. During this period we will continue the service to the best of our abilities.

As from 29 April you can address all your IT, AV and Library questions to the LIS Service Desk in the Library on level 1.

LIS Service Desk
Library - Level 1
Phone: 013 4663111
e-mail: lis-servicedesk@uvt.nl
www.tilburguniversity.nl/lis

March

24 March 2010
Opening hours Easter
The Library has weekend service on 2 and 3 April from 10:00 -17:00 (Good Friday and Easter Saturday). The Library is closed on Easter Sunday and Monday (4 and 5 April).
The GLC and the MLC are closed (the same days that the university is closed). Check the Opening hours for a complete overview.

24 March 2010

Maintenance BSCW on Tuesday 6 April
On Tuesday 6 April between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. technical maintenance is being carried out on BSCW. Therefore the system will be unavailable for a few minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience.

24 March 2010

Maintenance Blackboard on Thursday 1 April
On Thursday 1 April technical maintenance is being carried out on Blackboard. Therefore the system will not be available between 17:00 and 18:00 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

8 March 2010
Renewed pages 'Citing sources'
The web pages on citing sources have been renewed. They describe the basicrulein science. Attention is alsopaid to plagiarism, citing and paraphrasing. A special page deals with citation styles, used at Tilburg University.
You find information on www.tilburguniversity.nl/lis/instruction/citingsources.

February

24 February 2010
Clean-up operation student accounts

On Saturday 13 March 2010 there will be a clean-up operation of all student accounts. From all students who are no longer registered as a student of Tilburg University the accounts will be removed. From that day on it's no longer possible to use the network facilities of the university. Mailboxes and homedirectories (M-drive) and all stored data will be removed fromthestudent servers permanently. Till 14 March 2010 students have the possibility to secure their data.

19 February 2010
The Economist full text available
The Economist is full text available in ABI/Inform Global, option Publications. Keep updated of new issues by creating a RSS feed or Set up an Alert.

17 February 2010
No borrowing, reserving and extending books and journals

It is not possible to borrow, reserve or extend books and journals between 8:00 and 10:30 on 18 February. The catalogues (including depot requests and borrower info) are not available between 8:00 and 10:30.

12 februari 2010
Scriptorium open during Carnival
TheScriptorium's writing tutors and information specialists will be available on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 February (Carnival), but there will be no walk-in office hours for FGW/FKT students (Monday from 2-3 p.m.).

11 Februari 2010
Worldwide launch Economists Online

The database Economists Online is presented during the international conference Subject Repositories: European collaboration in the international context . This conference has taken place on 28 and 29 January 2010 in the British Library Conference Centre in London. Tilburg University is in charge of the repository project.

Economists Online offers:

• Direct access to the life's work of over 600 leading top economists.
• Access to recent research results in field of economics of 22 prominent universities from 12 different countries.
• Access to the entire contents of the RePEc archive.
• A central multilingual search service with links to theaUGUSTfull text of research publications and primary data output.
• Free access to scholarly/scientific articles, books, conference papers and data sets.

3 February 2010
Maintenance BSCW on Wednesday 10 February
On Wednesday February 10th between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. technical maintenance is being carried out on BSCW. Therefore the system will be unavailable for a few minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience.

2 February 2010
Software update UvT network
A software update of (the switches of) the UvT network will be executed in the night of Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 February between 05:30 and 06:00. Therefore some devices will not have connection to the network. This may have consequences for the IP telephones. For the majority of telephones goes that they automatically log in with the proper telephone number. However, it may be that some devices remain in the login prompt. Should this bethe case,theuser will have to log in with his/her telephone number.

January

19 January 2010
Publications added on Staten-Generaal Digitaal
On www.statengeneraaldigitaal.nl the complete proceedings, parliamentary documents and appendixes to the proceedings of the Upper and Lower Chamber from the period 1917-1995 are available. Now the material as from the year 1900/1901 has been added. The older documents will be added in phases in the coming years. We'll keep you informed about this. The documents as from 1995 will only be available on Overheid.nl and Parlando.

Staten-GeneraalDigitaal is available via Catalogues and information sources.

13 January 2010
USB keyboards at all student desktops
You want to store files? Use the USB keyboard. Fromnow on you find a PC with keyboard to plug a USB stick in at all student desktops. Practical when you for instance work in one of the Internet cafes!

13 January 2010
Catologue temporarily not available
On Sunday 17 January the Library system will be updated. The Catalogue of the Library is not available then from 08:00 to 16:00. Borrowing books is not possible.
We apologize for theinconvenience.

11 January 2010
New: Cotan-testdatabase
The COTAN-testdatabase contains descriptions and quality assessments of psychodiagnostic instruments by the Committee on Test Affairs Netherlands (COTAN) of the Dutch Professional Association of Psychologists (NIP). In Dutch only.

4 January 2010
Extra workshops Excel and Word 2007
Because of the great deal of interest in the Word and Excel 2007 workshops, additional sessions have been planned on 14, 19 and 28 January in computer room DZ 12. You can register via the online reservation form.

4 January 2010
Best Wishes
Library and IT Services wishes you an inspiring, informative, innovative and interactive 2010!