Piping Up

Q. I am a student at the University of Mons (Belgium) and I am looking for the following article: Jack L. A. (2000). Psychopathy, risk / need factoring, and psychiatric symptoms in high-risk youth: Relationship between variables and Their link to Recidivism. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Please can you send me or help me.

A. you could use the Interlibrary Loan service of the University of Mons Library to obtain materials held in other university libraries.

Best regards,
Don Taylor
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Donald Taylor
Interim Head, Acquisitions and Serials
Ass’t Head Access Services and IR Coordinator
Simon Fraser University Library, Burnaby BC

I am trying to login to Refworks and get a page that says it is now a service of the Ontario Scholars Portal. However, when I click on the provided link http://refworks.scholarsportal.info.proxy.lib.sfu.ca, nothing happens.

A. Thanks for reporting this problem. There seems to be an issue with the vendor’s side. We have contacted Scholars’ Portal to let them know and hopefully the issue will be resolved soon.

Sincerely,
Yolanda
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Yolanda Koscielski, MLIS
Liaison Librarian for Criminology, Engineering, and Computing Science

Q. Is the request books from other library site down?

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/document-delivery/request-form

A. The Request Items from Other Libraries site is available. On rare occasions, due to network issues, the interlibrary loans online forms do not work, but all is working fine right now. Please don’t hesitate to contact Don Taylor (dstaylor@sfu.ca) if you have any questions about interlibrary loans at the SFU Library.

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Donald Taylor
Assistant Head, Access Services

Author: Claudia Neuhauser
Title: electronic version of Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 3rd edition
Where you saw this item mentioned: SFU Library in Reserves (Jan 2011)
Acquire for which library?: Bennett (Burnaby Mountain)
Your affiliation: SFU Undergraduate Student

A. Thank you for your suggestion of an online version of this title. Unfortunately I have not been able to locate a source for an electronic version. If you know of one, please send any information you have so that I can pursue this further.

Best regards,
Leslie
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Leslie Rimmer
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences

Q. When is the library going to create an iphone app for the library catalogue? The library catalogue is great and useful, but a little more use of social media (i.e. facebook and twitter) would be better. Thanks.

A. Hi, Thank you for your suggestions, and we’re so glad you’re happy with the catalogue!

Best regards,
Janis McKenzie
Head, Reference Division

I like the new Fast Search system – I’m finding all sorts of things that I wouldn’t have otherwise. It’s so much easier to find journal articles!

Q. Your link to psyccritiques does not work. When I click on the link that is supposed to take me to journal site, I get a page that says: Please access electronic resources via the SFU library’s web site.

A. Hello,

Thanks. Sandra Wong
Electronic Resources Librarian

Q: Please add a DOI field for the interlibrary loan request so that we don’t have to type in the author/title/journal etc.

A: Hi,
Thank you for your feedback concerning the Library’s Document Delivery Services webform, as your idea would certainly make life easier for some patrons. Unfortunately, the underlying software that communicates between the various interlibrary loan management systems as well as the protocols that do automatic document look-ups in the various library catalogues do not utilize DOIs. They depend on parsing the journal title and date information from the ILL web form, as the requesting of items from other libraries is an unmediated process in most cases. That is, no one from SFU handles the request – it is automatically routed to a holding library. Mediation only happens when the system cannot find a library that holds the item requested. Consequently, simply adding a doi field to the web form, and allowing patrons to utilize that and not enter in other citation data, would currently result in the request becoming a mediated request and thus delaying the filling of the request.

Best regards,
Don Taylor
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Donald Taylor
Assistant Head, Access Services

Q: Hello, I’m interested in accessing the SFU Library’s online journals (not just the limited access that Alumni have now) for personal use, as an Alumni. Is that possible? If so, is there a fee? Thank you!

A: The electronic resources listed at this URL are the only ones that are available to you as an alumni when you are off-campus:

Sandra Wong
Electronic Resources Librarian

Q: I would like to access online materials such as journals, periodicals, etc.
How can I set up access?

A: For the most part, online access to materials licensed by the SFU Library are restricted to current students, faculty and staff. If you are a student, faculty or staff member at SFU, use the links provided by the library under “Journals articles & databases” or “Electronic journals” at the following URL: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/

You will need to authenticate with your SFU computing ID and password.

If you are not affiliated with SFU, you may access some of the electronic resources as a guest when visiting one of our campus libraries:

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/faqs/i-dont-have-an-sfu-id-or-password-how-can-i-use-the-library-computers

Some of our electronic resources are available to SFU alumni. The following webpage lists what is available for alumni as well as some open access databases and journals which are freely available on the web or through your local public library in British Columbia.

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/my-library/services-for-you/alumni

Let me know if you need further clarification or have additional questions. Thanks.
Sandra Wong,
Electronic Resources Librarian.