Library Announcements

NEW TRIAL ACCESS DATABASES

AMBOSS is a digital resource with several components, most prominently an interactive library of 20,000+ medical topics and an interlinked Question Bank with over 6,000 clinical case-based questions. Click to access the database which is open until November 26, 2023.

 

Akademisyen Online database is an e-book platform with the number of books more than 2,500 and more than 27,000 book chapters in all academic science fields, especially health sciences and medicine. Click to access the database which is open for access until November 30, 2023. 

 

PressReader daily newspaper/magazine database, which is a source where you can reach over 7,300 daily newspapers and magazines (including Turkish newspapers and magazines) from 120 countries in 60 languages. Click to access the database which is open for access until November 30, 2023. 

 

Military Big Data is a military science database, that has four different modules which are weapon/system, map information system, war analysis, and defense trade. Click to access the database which is open until December 1, 2023.

 

Academindex is an international index that scans qualified scientific journals published in different countries in the fields of science, health and social sciences and it is an up-to-date database that can search for topics, keywords, authors, citations and bibliographies in about 8 thousand journals and more than 7 million articles. Click to access the database which is open for access until December 15, 2023.

 

Legal Online Library provides printed law books (575+) and all issues of law journals in 14 different titles (840+) with copyrights belonging to Legal Publishing can be accessed online in digital versions that look exactly the same as printed ones. Click to access the database which is open until December 16, 2023.

 

Legalbank provides case law (3.000.000+) (Supreme Court, Council of State, BAM, BIM, etc.) legislation (47.000+) (Law, Decree law, CBK, Regulation, Communique, etc.) academic and practical articles (42.000+), theses (12.900 + ) petitions and documents (3.000+) justifications (400+). Click to access the database which is open until December 16, 2023.

 

LEGALING Legal Terms Database is Turkey's first fully comprehensive legal terms database in English-Turkish, and Turkish-English, setting out with the ideal of providing service "for professionals, by professionals". Click to access the database which is open until February 15, 2024. 

 

Fairchild Books Interior Design Library which contains textbooks on interior architecture has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023. Click to access.

It is also possible to do interactive studies with the Bloomsbury Architecture Library database which contains text and visual resources related to architecture. This database has been opened for trial access for our university until December 5, 2023.
Click to access for Bloomsbury Architecture Library: Core Collection. 
Click to access for Bloomsbury Architecture Library: the Architecture Design & Practice Online collection.

Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts database is designed to support and inspire visual arts education. This database has been opened for trial access for our university until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.
 

Bloomsbury "The Film and Media Collection" database includes feature films, experimental films, documentaries and interviews with film directors (Jane Campion, Milos Forman, Nicolas Roeg, Len Lye, Joseph Losey, Robert Altman, Lindsay Anderson, Agnes Varda, Alfred Hitchcock, the Maysles Brothers) and documentaries about sound, light, edits for television. This database has been opened for trial access for our university until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.
 

Bloomsbury Design Library offers content related to design and handicrafts seen all over the world from the year 1500 BC to the present day. This database has been opened for trial access for our university until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.

Screen Studies offers a wide range of content, including books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, British Film Institute, Focal Press and Auteur (LUP). It is an important resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning in the fields of film history, theory and practice. This database has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.

Music and Sound provides access to exclusive reference content, state-of-the-art academic information and various learning resources in various subjects in music and sound studies. This database has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.
 

Bloomsbury Popular Music presents scientific scope of modern popular music around the world from the middle of the 20th century to the present. It is a resource for students and academics in disciplines such as music, ethnomusicology, performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology. This database has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.
 

The Music Collection includes filmed performances and documentaries featuring famous figures from Arvo Pärt, Pierre Boulez, Stephen Sondheim to many more in various genres, from jazz to classical. This database has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023
Click to access.

Animation Practice Collection covers pre-production, production and post-production techniques from sketching, storyboarding and directing a story to character design, hardware and lighting.
It offers the breadth and depth that students should have in animation and related courses.
It offers a wide range of materials for study and research on its own. This database has been opened for trial access for our University until December 5, 2023.
Click to access.
 

Applied Gaming includes 109 technical books from CRC Press and Focal Press, selected to help students provide the knowledge they need for success in various Game Design courses. It covers topics such as audio programming, game physics, game architecture, game user research, interactive storytelling, shadows, character animation, and level design.
The database provides a wide range of materials for study and research in game, game design, animation, interactive media, computer science and related fields. This database has been opened for trial access for our university until December 5, 2023.

Click to access.

HukukTürk database with its content consisting of the Decisions of the Court of Cassation and the Laws of the Republic of Turkey compiled since 1990 has been opened for trial access for our university until December 31, 2023. Click to access.

Beck Online is a multilingual legal database containing premium content of journals, forms, etc. It has been opened to trial access for our university until November 30, 2023. Click to access.

DataTürkiye, which functionally brings together the economic, social, sectoral and regional data produced by many public institutions and private organizations in Turkey, has been opened for trial access for our university between 6 November and 6 December 2023, with the new data added to the platform. Click to access. 

Annals of Internal Medicine is an academic medical journal published by the American College of Physicians (ACP). It is one of the most widely cited and influential specialty medical journals in the world. Annals publishes content relevant to the field of internal medicine and related sub-specialties. It has been opened for trial access for our university until February 16, 2024. Click for access.

WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Within the scope of the EKUAL project carried out by TÜBITAK ULAKBİM, in which our university is located, a "Read and Publish" agreement was made with the Wiley database. Our university researchers will be able to benefit from the agreement in line with the following issues:

  • In WILEY's Web of Science (WOS), Q1 and Q2 Groups in Wiley Hybrid and Wiley Gold Journals (except Hindawi); "Research Article", "Review Article", "Data Article" and "Rapid Publication" type publications will be within the scope of open access (OA) support.
  • It will be possible to publish "Open Access" publications within the above scope, submitted and accepted by the researchers of our university to the Wiley journals listed below, without paying the Article Processing Fee (APC) upon the request of the author.
  • Regarding the publications to be supported by OA; It is sufficient for the publications in hybrid journals to be accepted on or after January 1, 2023, and for gold open access journals, they should be submitted and accepted on or after January 1, 2023.
  • It is sufficient that one of the authors of the above-mentioned journal group and type of publication is an employee of an EKUAL Member institution and the name of the member institution is mentioned under the name of the publication, in case of having the right to publish an open access (OA) article in the quota.
  • In case our university researchers want to have their articles published as OA, it is important for the OA approval processes to record their institutional e-mails in the application forms while applying for articles to Wiley.
  • Within the scope of the agreement between TÜBİTAK-ULAKBİM and Wiley, there is an “annual OA article publishing quota”. Looking at the data of the last five years, it is predicted that the quotas of OA articles within the scope of the agreement will cover more than half of the TR-addressed Wiley publications. In the event that the quota for publishing an annual OA article is over, the author of the relevant publication has to pay the APC fee himself if he/she wants to have his/her article published as an OA. According to the terms of the agreement, an “OA article quota allocation” will not be made for institutions.

Click for the list of journals, where you can publish free open access.

 

You are invited to the webinar prepared only for researchers and authors, where you will be informed about the scope of the "Read&Publish" agreement between TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM and Wiley.

Content: 

  • The outline of the Read&Publish agreement between TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM and Wiley, how it works,
  • What steps did the author take to submit his article to hybrid and Golden Open Access journals and have it approved,
  • Information about Open Access, its useful aspects,
  • Upcoming training program for authors and researchers,
  • Helpful resources.

NOTE: All webinars will be in Turkish and will be held by Duygu Paçalı (dpacali@wiley.com) from Wiley Publishing.

The following shared sessions will be organized in order for the members of our university to make the most of the Tübitak Ulakbim/Wiley agreement and to feel safe at every stage of their publishing journey. These sessions will include a variety of topics that will help users at every stage of the publishing process, from choosing the right journal to open-access publishing. The sessions will be in Turkish. Participants must register for these workshops. This will allow participants to access the recording of the session 24 hours after the workshop and download a certificate of participation.
 

If you would like to benefit from a video of Prof. Deniz Yükseker Tekin, the editor of the New Perspectives on Turkey journal, which is one of the high impact factor journals of the Cambridge University Press in the field of social sciences, which includes important information in relation to the publication policy and academic publishing of the Cambridge University Press, you can watch the video via the link below.

A Deep Look into the Journal Publication Process: An Interview with New Perspectives on Turkey Editor, Prof. Deniz Yükseker Tekin click to watch the video.

  • 0:00 - Introduction
  • 0:14 - New Perspectives on Turkey publication scope and content
  • 0:40 - Responsibility of the Journal editor
  • 4:09 - Fields of study of the Journal authors
  • 5:38 - Characteristics of a qualified article
  • 8:31 - A comparison between the number of publications within social sciences and other fields
  • 12:29 - Advice for researchers who wish to do an international publication in Social Sciences
  • 15:22 - The SSCI acceptance process and effective factors
  • 17:57 - Reasons for the rejection of articles
  • 19:29 - Open Access publishing
  • 23:17 - Primary research methods
  • 25:12 - Planning for the future
  • 28:25 - Advice to academics at the beginning of their journey