Disruptions to Wiley Interscience Monday 22nd September

The Wiley Interscience database will be unavailable Monday 22nd September at 4pm for approximately 1 hour.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

News update - Australian Government publications now available in Library Catalogue

The Library now provides access to all Australian Government publications available online. These publications include reports from national, state and territory departments that have been published over the previous two years.

To view lists of these titles, go to the GovRAP site and select the HTML option.

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.

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?

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.

This room (ND7/203) is the Library staff meeting room and is located on the upper level of the rear section of the St Teresa's Library.

The room is booked by Library staff and IT Services for staff meetings but is otherwise available to be booked at the Library desk for two hour slots Monday to Friday from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. This section of the Library is closed from 5.00 pm weekdays and on the weekends.

This room is in the silent study of the Library so users are asked to be quiet. It also contains a professional library for the Library staff and we would ask that you don't use these materials. You are welcome to use the whyteboard and the power box in the floor.

You can make a booking via email if that is more convenient.