FAQ (Frequently asked questions)1. What are the working hours at the Library? 2. How can I enter the Library outside the working hours? 3. How do I contact the Librarians? 4. How can I be on the Library mailing list? 5. How can I retrieve a document? 6. How can I make copies at the Library? 8. How can I get a document that is not at the Library? 9. How can I go and make copies in other Libraries from Grenoble? 10. How can I know if a journal is at the Library and where it is at the Library? 11. Where are the journals' room and the rooms 105 and 107? 12. How can I obtain an article, which is in the basement? 13. What are the resources at the Library? 18. How do I make a suggestion (for a book purchase) for the Library? 19. How can I order a book for my service? 20. How can I access Web of Science? 22. How can I make searches and alerts in the main electronic journals? 1. What are the working hours at the Library? The Library is opened between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m.
2. How can I enter the Library outside the working hours? Please use your badge to get into the Library outside working hours.
3. How do I contact the Librarians?
4. How can I be on the Library mailing list? Please send a mail to the Library to ask for it.
5. How can I retrieve a document? If it is a book, or an ILL or ESRF publication or thesis: Please consult the Library catalogue or the card index (author and subject) at the Library. If the book is not at the Library, please fill in the online form. If it is a PhD thesis from another institute: Please ask to the librarians. If it is an article: Please consult the databases.
6. How can I make copies at the Library? There are two copy machines at the library, which can be used without code.
No, you can only make copies of the articles you are interested in.
8. How can I get a document that is not at the Library? Please fill in the form to order an article or to get a book on loan.
9. How can I go and make copies in other Libraries from Grenoble? Please ask the Librarians for a copy card for these Libraries.
10. How can I know if a journal is at the Library and its place at the Library? Please consult the journals' catalogue and their location online. A paper version is also at the Library.
11. Where are the journals' room and the rooms 105 and 107? Rooms 105 and 107 are in the corridor.
12. How can I obtain an article, which is in the basement? Please ask the Librarians for it.
13. What are the resources at the Library? To know the resources at the Library, please consult the following pages: - Library catalogues: For the books and the ILL and the ESRF publications - New Library acquisitions: The links are on each month Library acquisitions - Journals: online journals and list of periodicals, which are at the Library Yes, you can ask the Librarians to be the next person to borrow a book.
Please consult the Library catalogue. You can find there an online help for the search.
- You can borrow books only if you are from the ILL, the ESRF or the EMBL. - For the first time, please fill in the registration form. You can also find a paper version of this form at the reception. - then fill in the loan card (inside the book) with your name and the date of borrowing. Some books, with red labels, are not for loan and have no card inside. - Let form and/or loan card at the reception.
Please put them on the trolley near the reception, or in the mail box at the entrance of the Library (outside the Library, on the reception side).
18. How do I make a suggestion (for a book purchase) for the Library? Please fill in the electronic form for a book purchase.
19. How can I order a book for my service? Please fill in the "Document request form". After having filled in this form, please make it signed by the head of your service (and by Eva Fahje if you are an ESRF staff from the Experiment Division). Send the form to the Library. The book will be directly sent to you.
20. How can I access Web of Science? Please click on "Web of Science" from the Home page of the Library. You can consult the guide to know how to use Web of Science.
Please click on "INSPEC" from the Home page of the Library.
22. How can I make searches and alerts in the main electronic journals? There are online guides to know: - How to use Science Direct and to make searches and alerts |
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