Frequently Asked Questions

You need to registrar yourself through this link. After submitting the filled up form, you will be redirected to Information Literacy Registration Form which is mandatory for activating your membership. Here you need to upload your photo. Then you are required to present your tuition fees money receipt of current semester at Library Circulation Desk of EWU Library.

All of the subscribed e-resources of EWU Library are accessible from University premises without any username or password. Only HINARI, AGORA and OARE database require username and password to login in these databases. You are required to come in EWU Library and contact Library personnel to get access to these three databases. Most of the subscribed databases are also accessible from outside the EWU campus through MyAthens Service. To get this remote access service, you need to register yourself through MyAthens Registration link (Library membership required).

There is a notice board for outside the main entrance of EWU Library. You may post their message for a short time. You should not attempt to post messages anywhere else in the library. 

For a student, his/her membership is valid up to the last date of the concern semester 

No Library materials may renew on the same day of deposit but may be issue day after that after producing it personally to library circulation desk. EWU Library introduced self renewal service for borrowed books, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM etc. for those users who avail 7 days of borrowing facilities will be eligible to renew their borrowed library items for two days. 

If a student has any valid cause to delay for returning materials, he has to proof the evidence i.e. medical certificate for any serious illness etc. In that case a student has to apply to the Librarian.

Anybody can search EWU Library online catalogue through its user-friendly pull down option that is in EWU Library home page. These options are linked to its location. Just click any of the databases to search. Follow the DDC number from concerned item in search result and find out from the respective shelf number.

An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique identification number for a book.

An ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is a unique identification number for a periodical.

If a user lost a book he/she has to replace that item. If he/she failed to replace then he/she has to pay full replacement charge of the item. 

Any journal that is available over the Internet can be called an 'electronic journal' or 'e-journal'. Some e-journals are freely available; others have charging mechanisms of different types. Established publishers issue some; others are produced from an individual academic's office. For established journal titles, the numbers with electronic versions are growing rapidly. Most of the large journal publishers, particularly in the science and business area already produce electronic versions and there are now several thousand e-journal titles in existence. Some electronic journals can be accessed from some limited PC of EWU. Access may depend on the payment of an institutional subscription.

Back issues (2 months) of newspapers are preserved on Newspaper and Journal Section located at Block-B, Level-6 (opposite to EWU Library)

EWU Library introduced self renewal service for borrowed books, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM etc. The users who avail 7 days of borrowing facilities will be eligible to renew their borrowed library items for two days. Users are requested to follow the following steps to enjoy this service.

1. Login to your account through http://opac.ewubd.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl
2. Select your desired book for renew
3. Click on Renew button

The due date will be changed accordingly. It should be remembered that one book can be renewed only one time for two days.

Go to this link http://lib.ewubd.edu/e-journals You can find various databases based on different subjects. For instance; if you want to get article on global warming from Emerald database then you need to click on this link http://www.emeraldinsight.com/. After opening the main window of Emerald database, you can find searching option to get your required articles from various journal. If you want to know how to access Emerald database, click on this link https://www.google.com.bd/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0...

Google Scholar is useful academic database that is freely available.To obtain the most relevant papers, you need to think beyond typing key words to get results. Google Scholar has many features that you can use to increase the effectiveness of your search. To learn about these features, please click on this link https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

If library patrons are unable to get access to a certain full text article from subscribed E-resource databases then EWU library will assist them to get their desired articles. For more information click on this link http://lib.ewubd.edu/node/627

Mendeley  is a citation management tool. It is a desktop and web program produced by Elsevier. This tool assists you to collect and organize citations. You can easily insert these organized citations into your document as well as modify your references according to your desired citation styles. Patrons of EWU library can get the practical session of using this software. Please contact at Reference section to take your session.

You can find more details using this link https://www.mendeley.com/guides/videos

Two aspects may happen in this situation; if you don’t have enough references, readers may consider that you haven’t done enough research into existing literature and another one is if you have too many references, readers may think that you did not perform original research. Therefore, researchers should perform a complete literature review to find the most relevant articles related to their research and cite them as well.

Research4Life is the collective name for the five programmes – Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI– that provide developing countries with free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online. The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries by providing affordable access to scholarly, professional and research information.

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal (Wikipedia, 2018). Please click on this link to explore: https://osu.libguides.com/c.php?g=110226&p=714742

A “predatory journal” is a academic journal which has no peer review system and no editorial board as well as ask huge publication charges from researchers. The first whistle for predatory journals and publishers popularly known as Beall’s list. This was a blog titled ‘Scholarly Open Access’ maintained since 2012 by Jeffrey Beall who is an academic librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver.  In January 2017, this blog has been shut down and removed all its content from the platform. Currently, the list is available in web archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172306/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers). The criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers defined by him is available at https://beallslist.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/9/5/30958339/criteria-2015.pdf  But, the Beall’s list is continuing by an anonymous postdoctoral researcher. This list is available at https://beallslist.weebly.com and updated. There is another name ‘Stop Predatory Journals’ is available at https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers that is built and maintained by an independent group. One more list name Cabell's list (available at http://www.cabells.com) and the criteria considered for evaluating a suspected journal are available at http://www.cabells.com/blacklist-criteria

Yes, We have Subject Librarians for specific subject, they are capaple to answer research related questions as well. For details go to this link. 

Yes, We have Dspace Institutional Community which preseve the thesis collection of EWU Community. DSpace is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material. Repositories are important tools for preserving an organization's legacy; they facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication. You may click here for details. 

It sounds like you've found an article that is not included in our library's JSTOR subscription. To make sure that you can access the full text in JSTOR, launch your search from our library's website.

checking authority like turnitin? Is there any writing guidelines of a research?

In the simplest terms, plagiarism is copying the words or ideas of others without giving them credit (that is, presenting someone else's work as your own).   It is cheating, and it is theft.

The best way to avoid plagiarism is to be mindful about your sources during the research and writing process:

• Carefully keep track of your research before you write.  A research journal and citation management tool can be a big help.
   
• Make sure you paraphrase or quote your sources correctly as you write.
   
• Double-check that you've correctly cited all of your sources after you write.  (Use your style guide!)

• Use Plagiarism checker software to check whether it is okay or not.

An information broker or data broker collects information about individuals from public records and private sources including census and change of address records, motor vehicle and driving records, user-contributed material to social networking sites, media and court reports, voter registration lists, consumer purchase histories, most-wanted lists and terrorist watch lists, bank card transaction records, health care authorities, and Web browsing histories.

Peer-reviewed or scholarly articles are usually lengthy and written in scholarly language by scholars and researchers. These articles are often peer-reviewed, which means that the information in the article was checked for accuracy and importance by a team of experts in the field before publication.

Scholarly articles often report on research. Research articles can be identified by their standard format, containing sections titled Methods, Results, Conclusions, and Bibliography.

Be aware that scholarly journals sometimes contain non-scholarly content, such as book reviews or editorial opinions. While these articles can be useful they do not qualify as "scholarly" or "peer-reviewed".

Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative work, to reproduce the work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.

After selecting your desired book or journal count your pagers for photocopy. Pay for each page to the Assistant Register and Show the pay slip to the photocopy operator. He will do the rest.

MyAthens is a basic user portal that any user account can sign into to find a list of allocated resources, change their password (personal accounts only) and view information about their organization. There is also a facility on the help page to contact their administrator.

OPAC is a library acronym for "Online Public Access Catalog."  When library staff use the term, we mean the Libraries' Catalog.