FAQs

31.What is the address of Qingdao Campus Library? What are the characteristics of its collections?

Qingdao Campus Library, covering a total area of 81,600 square meters, houses more than 200,000 collection books and over 629 types of periodicals and newspapers. Its abundant literatures involve various categories featuring law, biological science, environmental science, earth science,and aeronautics and astronautics. There are many functional rooms, like Drawing Room, Calligraphy Room, Photographic Room, Preview Room, 3D Theatre, Audio Reading Room, etc.. The library is also equipped with electronic pianos, Kuke digital phonographs and reading pavilions.

Address: No. 72 Binhai Road, Aoshanwei Town, Jimo District,Qingdao.   Postcode: 266237 

Office telephone number: 0532-58630115

32.How to find a book in stacks according to its call number?

Generally speaking, books are put in stacks in accordance with discipline classifications. Some stacks only contain certain types of books. In any case, only when readers know about book classification and the classification of the book they want, can they locate the book in stacks.

The taxonomy used in our library currently is Chinese Library Classification. Books are divided into 22 subclasses and every subclass is subdivided according to different classification criteria, so as to form a wide range of interconnected divisions of multi-levels and multi-hierarchies. In order to mark divisions conveniently, each of them is identified by a group of numbers.

The text description of divisions is called division name,and the number is called cutter number. Book classification is to give a book a proper number according to the nature of that book—that is, the cutter number, and then allocate it a distinction number belonging to the same type of books—the book number. Cutter number and book number constitute the call number of that book. Taking F270/*1344、I247.5/414.2-2、TN710/*086 for example, the part before “/” is cutter number and the part after “/” is book number. A call number is not only the basis of the shelving but also the basis for readers to locate the book they need in stacks.

33.How to login to Shandong University Mobile Library?

Address of mobile browser login: http://m.lib.sdu.edu.cn;

Your university ID card account and password are required when you login.

34.Can affiliates of the Shandong University have access to the electronic resources of the library when they are off campus?

Yes, affiliates of the university have access to the electronic resources of the library when they are off campus. Readers could click the option “Off-campus Access to Electronic Resources” on the homepage of the library to enter this system. Users can login to this system by using university ID card account and university ID card query password. Account registration is not needed.

In order to make the best use of the digital resources of the library and satisfy our readers’needs of accessing these resources without limitation of time and spaces, three access modes are available currently:

1. Off-campus Access System (provided by the library)

Through this system, affiliates of our university can have access to most of the digital resources officially subscribed by our library outside the campus network. But due to some restrictions, a few resources are not available in this way.

2. VPN (provided by Informatization Office)

This mode is only for users having salary number or student number of Shandong University.

3. CALIS-CARSI Shibboleth service (provided by CALIS Management Center)

Shibboleth is an open source project designed for Single Sign On(SSO). Shibboleth is mainly applied to the Web resource sharing on campus and user identity joint authentication for inter-campus application system. Foreign databases generally support real-name login authentication service based on Shibboleth, which allows university readers to directly login and access these databases with real names. In this way, it is not necessary for readers to use VPN or Proxy service offered by their universities. Most foreign institutions of higher learning have provided this service.

35.How to use the campus VPN system?

The VPN system shares the same username and password with other Internet access methods of our university to connect to the campus network, and it has the same authentication Internet system as the campus wired network, the student dormitory network and the wireless Wi-Fi (without extra charge).

The login address of the campus VPN system is: http://vpn.sdu.edu.cn.See details of the specific usage of the VPN system on “Notice for Use” – on homepage of the Informatization Office - http://www.nc.sdu.edu.cn/SSL_VPN/syxz.htm.

If you have any questions or problems in use, please contact the Network and Information Center of Shandong University. The telephone number of the center is 88364731.

36.What should I pay attention to when using the university ID card to get access to the electronic resources of the library?

(1) During the use of electronic resources, some readers may have behaviors of violating download rules, and are punished by the publishers. The publishers usually give penalties of stopping access to the certain IP segment or all the IP segments of the university, which will influence the normal use of other users and damage the reputation and image of Shandong University. In order to warn such readers and stop their behavior of violating download rules, so as to protect other readers in our university, this system will record and monitor the users’ behaviors, like the download flow, the access to the electronic resources and download behaviors. If readers have over-download behavior in a short period, the system will automatically freeze the using right of this account. The teachers and students in our university should attach great importance to and obey the relative stipulations of the intellectual property of the electronic resources, and should avoid downloading literature continuously, systematically, intensively and in batches (Generally, the database vendors regard it as an abuse if the users download literature over normal reading speed, and it is recognized that it takes several minutes to read a piece of literature).

(2) You are not allowed to give your account and password to non-affiliates, or you shall take responsibility for all the consequences caused. To avoid several people using the same account to login, this system allows users to login to their account on only one computer in the same time period. If you disclose your own account, you may not normally login to the system.

37.If it is shown that “You have exceeded the concurrent connection limit.” when I login to the off-campus system, what should I do?
  • There are clear stipulations dealing with violation of off-campus access on the library homepage: you are not allowed to give your account and password to non- affiliates , or you shall take responsibility for all the consequences caused. To avoid several people using the same account to login, this system allows users to login to their account on only one computer in the same time period. If you disclose your own account, you may not normally login to the system. If your account is stolen, you can go to the university ID card Recharging Center to reset the query password of your card.
  • If you do not give your account to others or your account is not stolen, but you can’t login to your system, it is because that you do not click “Exit” on the top right-hand corner. In this case, the system will get back to normal automatically after a period.
38.Can I get the academic achievements and citation retrieval certificate in the library? Which department should I go to?

The Information Consultation Service Department of Shandong University Library can provide academic achievements and citation retrieval certificates to the affiliates and non-affiliates of the university.

The affiliates and non-affiliates of Shandong University can go to the Information Consultation Service Department on Central campus, Qianfoshan Campus and Baotuquan Campus to handle relative procedures.

Contact information and working time:

Working time: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m.--12:00 a.m. 14:00--17:00(Except statutory holidays, and summer and winter holidays).

Information Consultation Service Department – Central Campus Library (No.27 of Shanda South Road, Jinan): Telephone Number: 0531-88364905

Information Consultation Service Department – Baotuquan Campus Library(No.44 of Wenhua West Road, Jinan): Contact Number: 0531-88382384

Information Consultation Service Department – Qianfoshan Campus Library(No.73 of Jingshi Road, Jinan): Telephone Number: 0531-88395673

Tips: In order to make it easier for the readers to request, and accurately and promptly get the retrieval certificates, the readers can login to the Literature Search and Sci-tech Novelty Search Management System of Shandong University to make online request, and fill in the request information honestly and completely according to instructions.

Request website address: http://58.194.172.95/user

Notice: we have provided mailing service for readers from other cities, so you can choose this service on the request website.

39.Does the library provide the duplicate checking service?

At present, the library does not provide the duplicate checking service of dissertations.

40.Does the library provide the novelty search service?

Yes, the library is authorized by the Ministry of Education as one of the first group of comprehensive “Sci-tech Novelty Search Working Stations of the Ministry of Education”, so it can provide novelty search reports for all readers.
See details of the novelty search procedures on the “Sci-tech Novelty Search” column on the homepage of the library, which has specific and clear information about the novelty search request procedures, downloading of the novelty search request sheets, the charge standard for all kinds of readers, the contact information, and so on.
The e-mail address of the novelty search request: sduchaxin@sdu.edu.cn
Time: Monday to Friday (Except the summer and winter holidays).
Morning: 8:00 - 11:30
Afternoon: 13:30 - 17:00(October to April). 14:00 - 17:30(May to September)
The contact information of the novelty search station of Shandong University:
Address: Room 502, Information Research Center of Shandong University Library, No.27 of Shanda South Road, Jinan.
Telephone Number: 0531-88366469
 E-mail: sduchaxin@sdu.edu.cn
Person to contact: Yuhua Xia
The contact information of the novelty search station of Baotuquan Campus Library(Medicine):
Address: Room 310, Baotuquan Campus Library, No.44 of Wenhua West Road, Jinan.
Telephone Number: 0531-88382384
 E-mail: sduchaxin@sdu.edu.cn
Person to contact: Yimei Zhao
Contact information of the the novelty search station of the Qianfoshan Campus (Engineering):
Address: Room 109, Qianfoshan Campus Library, No.73 of Jingshi Road, Jinan.
Telephone Number: 0531-88395673
E-mail: sduchaxin@sdu.edu.cn
Person to contact: Jianchun Ma