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Faculty Research
Support
Introduction | Access
to Electronic Resources | Updating Services
| Online Searching | Remote Requests
| Other Libraries | Reciprocal
Faculty Borrowing Program | Rush Ordering and
Cataloging | Research Space
Introduction
The Boston College Libraries are committed to supporting faculty
research. An extension of the librarian / subject specialist model
are benefits offered through the many services available to help
faculty optimize their use of the Libraries' collections and resources.
Many of these are available electronically, so that faculty may
take advantage of them from their offices, laboratories, or from
home. Personal consultations and support are available, too, either
in the Libraries, via telephone, or through the subject specialists'
participation in academic department meetings or other opportunities
in the school or department they support. Examples of some of these
services include:
Access
to Electronic Resources
The Boston College Libraries make available more than 150
online databases and several hundred electronic journals. These
databases are available in the various B.C. Libraries, with a majority
of them also available via the Libraries' Web site. New resources
are continually being made available for use and in some cases,
as part of a limited trial. Faculty are urged to contact a library
subject
specialist for the most recent information. Also, the Online
Databases page on the B.C.
Libraries web site provides an up-to-date listing of electronic
resources available.
Updating
Services
Some databases can be configured so that faculty can receive
new citations for a subject search they have stored in the system.
For example, Boston College faculty may, without charge, sign up
to receive two services through UnCover
Reveal. The first allows researchers to receive, via e-mail,
the table of contents from selected journal titles; the limit per
person is 50 journal titles. The second allows the researcher to
formulate and store up to 25 search statements which are used by
UnCover's alerting service; all the citations which match the stored
search terms will be sent to the researcher via e-mail on a weekly
basis.
The
Libraries also subscribe to Current
Contents, a current awareness database that provides information
in the fields of science, social science, technology, and arts and
humanities. Updated weekly in seven editions, it displays the tables
of contents from nearly 8,000 scholarly journals and provides complete
bibliographic data for journal articles, reviews, editorials, corrections,
and conference proceedings.
Online
Searching
Not all databases that might be useful to faculty are available
via the Libraries' Web site. Subject specialists are available to
recommend and search other databases that will be useful in their
research.
Remote
Requests
Faculty can ask a reference question, renew a book, check
to see what they have checked out, and submit lists of items to
place on reserve. Faculty can submit these requests through the
Libraries' Web site or directly from the University's Agora service
forms. The following can be accessed via the Library Service Forms link
on the Libraries' home page:
Interlibrary
Loan Forms for journal articles or books,
Rush
and Recall Request form to request rush cataloging of a newly
received item, or to recall a book that is charged out to another
user,
Request Data from ICPSR,
Locate and Photocopy Request,
Storage
and Law Library Request form for retrieving books from storage
or the Law Library, and
Renew
Charged Books Request form for renewing books that have been charged
out.
Other
Libraries
The Boston Library Consortium Gateway provides access
to the individual online catalogs of all the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) members (Boston
Public Library, Boston University, Brandeis, Brown University, Marine
Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT,
Northeastern, State Library of Massachusetts, Tufts, UMass/Amherst,
UMass/Boston, UMass/Dartmouth, UMass/Lowell, UMass/Worcester, Wellesley
College, and Boston College). Faculty are pointed to this Gateway,
as an easy and effective way to determine if an area institution
holds an item not available within the Boston College Libraries.
Services are in place to expedite delivery of materials requested
by faculty or, they can visit any BLC library to review and borrow
materials they need.
Reciprocal
Faculty Borrowing Program
This
is a program of the Research Libraries Advisory Committee to OCLC
that allows faculty members of participating institutions borrowing
privileges and on-site access to the collections of a large number
of North American research libraries. Boston College is a participating
institution and B.C.'s faculty are eligible for a Reciprocal Faculty
Borrowing Program card.
Rush
Ordering and Cataloging
Services are in place and request forms available for faculty to
expedite the ordering or cataloging of materials. Requests may be
submitted on-line, and notification can be made directly to the
faculty requestor or monitored via the online catalog.
Research
Space
Temporary use of space for faculty research is available on the
5th level of O'Neill Library and can be arranged at the Circulation
Desk. The room is equipped with two microcomputers, a Macintosh
and an IBM. Storage and file cabinet space is also available. Arrangements
for long-term research space by faculty on sabbatical leave can
be made through the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences.
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