The Wiley Interscience database will be unavailable Monday 22nd September at 4pm for approximately 1 hour.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Library Loans - Pre-Overdue Notifications
As of Thursday 27th August the Library will be able to send email pre-overdue notifications for all library loans.
These email notices will be sent to your University email account and will be sent three days before your loans are due to be returned. The email will list the items borrowed and the date they are due.
It is worth noting that the issue or non-issue of a pre-overdue notice doesn’t remove the obligation on you to honour the borrowing contract you have entered into with the Library. You should use this prompt to ensure that the materials are returned by the due date or to request a renewal of the loan. Renewals are only possible where the item is not yet overdue and cannot be obtained on short term loans (reserve, 3-day and 7-day loans).
You can request a renewal of the loan(s) in a number of ways:
- By accessing the my account function in the Library Portal
- By contacting the library you borrowed the materials from
- By attending one of the libraries with your Staff Card
There is additional information about borrowing on the Library web pages and in the Library FAQs service .
Labels: Overdue, Reciprocal Borrowing
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Australian Newspapers Online
On 25 July 2008 the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service which makes available out-of-copyright digitised Australian newspapers. This online service enables the full-text searching of newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s. The first Australian newspaper, the Sydney Gazette published in Sydney in 1803, is included in the service.
The Australian Newspapers Beta service already contains over 90,000 newspaper pages from 1803 onwards, with more pages being added daily.
Labels: Online Newspapers
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
CINAHL Full Text
In response to requests from Library customers, the user licence for the popular CINAHL Health Sciences database has been increased from four concurrent users to an unlimited user licence. This removes the problem of being turned away when the database is being used by four other students at the time you need to do your research.
Please let the librarian in the library you use know if you are encountering ‘turn aways’ from any of the other databases or online resources. This is something we can seek to resolve with the vendor if it is a barrier to your research.
Labels: CINAHL
Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge University Journals
We are pleased to be able to offer you access to an additional 220 academic journals from the Cambridge University Press. The titles are all available in full text and without restrictions or embargoes. Coverage varies according to when the journal began to be digitised but some go back to the 1980s. We are currently importing records into the Library Portal for each of these titles and these records will provide full details of the coverage available.
Subject areas covered include:
* Biology
* Biomedical Sciences
* Cultural Studies
* Ecology and Conservation
* Economics
* History
* History and Philosophy of Science
* Law
* Literary Studies
* Medical Policy
* Medicine
* Molecular Biology
* Music and Drama
* Philosophy
* Plant Science
* Politics and International Relations
* Psychology and Psychiatry
* Religious Studies
* Social Studies
You can search at the journal level or search the collection in its entirety or by specific subject collections. You can also link into articles within the collection from other databases using the link resolver (see next article).
You can save favourite searches and run these regularly and you can also use RSS feeds to receive free email alerts to keep up-to-date with the latest research published in journals of interest.
Please contact your liaison librarian if you need assistance in using the collections and titles available to us.
You can see a list of the titles we subscribe to here.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Answers to your questions
The Library FAQs service is proving to be increasingly popular.
There are now 100 articles in the knowledge base and to date we have had approximately 8000 views. The most popular article is 'What is an Electronic Journal or E-Journal' .
We have noticed a number of students searching for topics that appear to be related to a research topic. The FAQ service doesn't cater for research questions. Such searches are better suited to an academic database. You can find assistance about how to use the databases in the FAQ service or by contacting the relevant librarian.
We welcome feedback about this service and suggestions about how to improve it.
Labels: FAQs
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
News update - Australian Government publications now available in Library Catalogue
Labels: ABS, Australian Government publications, GovRAP
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Library Portal Unavailable all day 14.7.08
The Library Portal will be unavailable for the whole day on Monday 14th July 2008 while the application that provides this service is being updated.
This updated Portal should be more stable than the existing version, which has suffered from unexpected disruptions in service this semester.
As a consequence of the updating of the Portal application the searching interface you use will change slightly. The search features you are used to will remain in place but distinguishing between the collections on the different campuses will become more straightforward.
We will also use this opportunity to improve the way in which information about the Library’s e-resources is presented to you. Some of this work will be done when the service is brought back on line. In that initial phase (likely to last a couple of hours) elements of the Library Portal may be re-positioned and modified. I will notify you once this work is complete and the Portal appearance is stable and the service is ready to use.
There will be further service enhancements as a result of the upgrade and I will send out some information about these once we are certain of the details.
We apologise for the disruption to service and for any instability in the service during first semester.
Please send me any comments or questions about this. Staff at any of the six libraries will be able to help you with questions about using the new version of the Portal.
Labels: HIP, library portal
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
EBSCOhost - new features
You can now store and share folders in the Ebscohost databases with other users. To find out more, click on the links below:
What are shared folders?
How do I share a folder?
How do I accept a shared folder?
Friday, April 11, 2008
Extra Group Study Room in the St Teresa's Library
In response the demand for the existing two group study rooms in the St Teresa's Library we have made another room available for booking.
Labels: st teresa's, study rooms
