Opening hours during Christmas and January 2012

The library will be closed from Monday, December 26 until Sunday, January 1.

We are back open from Monday, January 2 until February 1, with normal opening hours from 9 am until 9 pm (including Fridays). After the exam period (3 Feb) the library will close on Fridays at 6pm.

We wish you all the joys of the season and all the best for 2012 !

Closing days in November

Please note that the Biomedical Library will close several days in November:

• Tuesday, November 1 (All Saints’ Day)
• Wednesday, November 2 (All Souls Day)
• Friday, November 11 (Armistice)

We have normal opening hours for all other days.

Refurbishment of the Library

If you visited the library lately you will have noticed some changes. The growing number of students visiting the library and new forms of education made it necessary to reorganize our spaces in a more efficient way. We removed an important amount of the print collections (both books and journals) to the archives and created more working and study areas for students.

• All journal volumes have been removed to our archives (there are only 2 stacks left with the print version of the current year). Every researcher or staff member with authorization for document delivery can still order articles through our document delivery form.  Students and visitors can order the articles at the information desk or via our website.
• The different library zones have a more pronounced character:
• a zone with approx. 40 PCs for individual work (or small groups),
• a zone for collaborative work (17 PCs)
• a lively entrance zone / lounge (8 express PCs, copy en print corner, new chairs and seats).
• a study room, with a collection of (reference) books and theses. This is the only quiet zone.
• The library also lost some space in favor of a new corridor (to be constructed) to the building O&N4; this is already the pathway to visit the IT department of the Group Biomedical Sciences.
• There was also a modest refurbishment: we have some new colorful walls, new trendy furniture for the lounge zone, and new comfortable chairs for PC work.
• In August some quotes will decorate some of our walls

This transformation is a first step for what has to become a new Learning and Information Centre. In about three years there will be a new building constructed for both Alma restaurant & Learning Centre. We will keep you informed about this project in the near future.

If you are interested you can have a look at some pictures of the recent changes on our Flickr account.

New impact factors 2010

This week Thomson Reuters published the new impact factors (edition 2010) in the database Journal Citation Reports (JCR) , part of the Web of Knowledge. Today about 8005 titles are tracked in the Science edition (1998: 5467). The oncologic journal CA : A cancer journal for clinicians still has the highest impact factor with an amazing 94.262. Furthermore you will find the traditional titles like the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Science, the Lancet en Cell appearing in the top 20 of all categories.

Alternative websites with bibliometric data are SCImago Journal & Country Rank and Eigenfactor.org.

Opening hours in Summer 2011

The library will have other opening hours in Summer, starting from July 1 until September 23.  Doors are open on every working day from 9 am until 6 pm. The library will be closed on:

• Monday11 July (Day of the Flemish Community)
• Friday 21 July (Belgian National holiday)
• Monday 15 August (Assumption of Mary)
• Monday 5 September (Leuven Fair)

Closing days in June 2011

The Library wil be closed on the following days:

Thursday, June 2 (Ascension)
Friday, June 3
Monday, June 13 (Whit Monday)

‘Lost and Found’ at Gasthuisberg

From Tuesday 17 May until Friday 20 May the library – who is the keeper of all found objects in the buildings of Onderwijs & Navorsing 1 and 2 (and surroundings) – will show all objects on tables near the information desk. If you have lost something in the past 12 months just come and take a look at our collection of scarfs, gloves, umbrellas, cases, notebook adapters, juwels, keys, cellphones etc…

Till the end of June rightful owners may claim a lost object (after May 20 these objects will be stored again in the cabinet just outside the library). In july all objects will leave the library (objects of value will be brought to the police of Leuven).

Catalogue unavailable on 10 April

LIBIS announces planned maintenance works on Sunday April 10th, due to which the library catalogue will be unavailable throughout the day.

Opening hours Easter Holidays

The library has different opening hours during the Easter holidays (Monday 11 April until Friday 22 April). We are open on working days from 9.00 am until 6.00 pm (no evening services). The library will be closed on Easter Monday, 25 April.

Happy Easter!

Springer e-books trial (until December 2011)

The K.ULeuven has trial access to the e-books collection of Springer (books published between 2005-2011) until the end of December 2011. An important part of the collection (> 17,000 books)  is relevant for biomedical and life sciences.

These e-books can be consulted on the publisher’s website, SpringerLink (the books with a green icon). Full text-links are already available in the  LibriLinks menus. The books will also be retrievable in the  library calatogue and LIMO in the near future.