December 6, 2013
The behind-the-scenes upgrade of the Library Catalogue has been completed, and the Catalogue and associated web pages are now up and running as usual...Read more
December 2, 2013
The software that provides the Library Catalogue will now be updated on Thursday 5 December 2013. The following will be unavailable from 5:00 a.m. until 11 a.m. or until further notice:
Library Catalogue
Some Library forms (e.g. inter-library loan...Read more
December 2, 2013
2013 Census products and services will be released progressively over an 18-month period from 15 October 2013 to June 2015. Stats NZ will update the release schedule quarterly, with more detailed information provided closer to a product’s release...Read more
December 2, 2013
NZ Social Indicators Portal Launch
NZ Social Indicators is a new web-based tool launched on Nov 26th
The New Zealand social indicators give you useful social statistics from across New Zealand government in one place, so it’s easier to...Read more
November 28, 2013
Google Scholar has introduced a new feature, My library, which allows you to save items to return to later. It works much the same as the folders do when you sign in to Discover and many of our other databases. You can read more about it in the...Read more
November 25, 2013
Discover adds new providers each month, and the most recent one of note is HathiTrust. This is a major research collection which some academic staff and researchers may already be familiar with. It includes the digitized collections of more than 50...Read more
November 13, 2013
New Zealand Case Citator, one of the databases found on the LexisNexis platform and available through the Library, is to be discontinued early in 2014. From 1st February it will no longer be updated.
A new product will take its place –...Read more
November 7, 2013
The fourth of the four Knowledge Management in Research (KMIR) workshops for staff and postgraduate students focuses on ‘Knowledge Production: Monitoring Your Research Impact’.
Please note that early booking is essential for all KMIR...Read more
October 31, 2013
The second of the four Knowledge Management in Research (KMIR) workshops for staff and postgraduate students focuses on ‘Knowledge Discovery: You and Your Research Community’.
Purpose of this module:
To help participants recognise...Read more
October 29, 2013
This week Librarians Nicola McCarthy, Alison Wallbutton and Bruce White, from Turitea Library, recommend one of their favourite resources…
We recommend Scopus for staff and postgraduate students. We like it because of its very full citation...Read more