Gold for Gold Open Access Publishing

Originally posted on the Chemistry Library blog



The Royal Society of Chemistry has provided 18 vouchers for 2014 which cover the Article Processing Charge (APC) for the Gold route to open access. These vouchers can be used for RSC papers accepted for publication in 2014, and are valid until the end of 2014.

Vouchers will be allocated by the Chemistry Librarian on a first-come-first-served basis, subject to confirmation by the applicant that no other funding is available, e.g. from the University’s Open Access fund (authors should check before applying for a voucher at https://www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk/) or another source.

There is a procedure that authors should follow to request and obtain the vouchers, which is outlined on the Chemistry Library’s website here: http://www-library.ch.cam.ac.uk/open_access/gold_for_gold.html.

Papers made open access through the Gold for Gold scheme will be listed on the Chemistry Library website and publicised on the Chemistry Library blog.

New Services

With the first day of Easter term today we thought we'd flag up some new services for getting material not available in the library.

For books and journal articles not available in Cambridge you can now do an Inter-Library Loan request: 

Current charges for the service are as follows:-

University Members (including students, staff, resident and non-resident MA's/BA's
Photocopies within 2-5 days *	£3.00
Loans within 2-5 days *	£3.00
Secure Electronic Delivery within 2-5 days *	£3.00
Loan renewals	£3.00

Urgent Action Service
Photocopies received via post within 24 hours *	£9.00
Loans received via post within 24 hours *	£9.00
Secure Electronic Delivery within 24 hours *	£9.00
Photocopies received via fax within 2 hours *	£12.00
* SERVICE TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE AND ARE BASED ON THE REQUESTED ITEM BEING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY DOCUMENT SUPPLY CENTRE

All loans requested will have to be picked up and returned to the Central Science Library NOT the Department Library. If you wish to make a request, you must come in person to the library to fill in the form. Payment is made at the point of submitting a request and it must be in CASH only. Receipts are available. The charges for the normal service are a flat rate regardless of whether the request is for a photocopied article, the loan of an item or an SED (Secure Electronic Delivery).

Inter-site Document Delivery Service

We now offer a document delivery service between the Betty and Gordon Moore Library  and the Department Library for the Materials Science Journal stock now held at the Moore. Paper copies of journal articles held in the Moore’s Materials Science journal collection will be delivered to the department within a target of 48 hours (during the normal business week). Faxing, emailing or posting documents to third party addresses will not be a delivery option at this time. No more than two articles may be requested by each reader on any given day.

The fees for this service are:

70p for an article of up to 10 pages in length

£1.50 for an article over 10 pages in length

 

Please come in and ask the Librarian about either of these two services.

The Library has a New Home

Welcome back to the blog!

The reason for the silence has not been due to lack of news, but due to lack of time. Last July the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy started its move to its new home in West Cambridge, and the library was one of the last to move in September. What with all the planning and setting up and some change of staff, the blog got a little forgotten about.

But the library is here, somewhat smaller than before, but with the important books covering the department's teaching and research; a computer for searching and writing; space for working and revising; and a librarian who is happy to help out with searching, referencing and navigating your way around all the resources that the University and department pay for.

We will be closed for Easter (along with the rest of the department) Friday 18th April till Monday 21st April inclusive and the library will be unstaffed on Tuesday's as usual. But, we will be back on Wednesday 23rd for the start of the Easter term.

Electronic Legal Deposit

Legal deposit legislation now extends to electronic media. Further details can be found at:

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/legaldeposit/

These helpful pages include FAQs for users.

How do I know what material is available via legal deposit? 

Search the LibrarySearch catalogue as normal. The following statement denotes that the item is available via electronic legal deposit: "conditions of use: Available on designated PCs in University Library and Affiliated Libraries only".

The closest dedicated machine to the Materials Science Library, can be found in the reading room at the Central Science Library.

The Central Science Library (CSL) is conveniently located in the Arts School Building, accessible from the New Museums Site and Bene't Street.

Please ask if you require further information.

Central Science Library re-launches 'Scan and deliver'

If you might need to access journal articles or book chapters that are not available electronically and a hard copy is held at the Central Science Library, please read on.

Notices about the 'Scan and deliver' service are displayed in the Library and on the library notice board by the Tea Room. 

Full details of the service, including charges, methods of payment, and online order form are available at:

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/CSL/serv.html#scanning

For all those interested in Open Access ...

Have a look at this excellent blog post on the Open Access update session at this year's Libraries@Cambridge conference:

http://libatcam.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/parallel-session-1b-open-access-at.html

This session was thoroughly informative about open access at Cambridge and provides excellent background information. Thanks to the conference organisers, the speakers and the live blogger who have all helped to disseminate this important information.

New look for University Library catalogues page

The LibrarySearch+ (pilot service) now has a more prominent link on the catalogue pages of the University Library website:

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/

Catalogue links are still available via the Materials Science Departmental Library website, under quick links 'LibrarySearch and Newton catalogues':

http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/library/index.php


If you would like any help with searching the LibrarySearch or Newton catalogues, please contact the librarian at: library@msm.cam.ac.uk