I was asked last week to help a member of the Massey academic staff who had found that she appeared on the website of a journal that she had never heard of, listed as its Editor-in-Chief. Closer examination revealed that another Massey academic was...Read more
The Library’s Summer School opening hours begin this week, applying during Tuesday 12 November 2013 – Friday 21 February 2014. For full details of Summer hours at Albany, Turitea, and Wellington Libraries, including the Christmas/New...Read more
The usual Library hours will vary over October and November: Labour Day Monday 28 October: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Exam period extended hours Fridays 25 October, 1 & 8 November: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. Summer School hours Tuesday 12 November...Read more
This week Librarians Nicola Harris and Megan Ingle, from Turitea Library, recommend one of their favourite resources… We recommend Google Scholar for anyone – from undergraduate to postgraduate students, and staff. We like it because...Read more
Zombie bibliometrics There are three common misconceptions about journals and research evaluation that don’t seem to want to die, no matter how often angry mobs shoot at them with silver bullets or drive a stake through their hearts. Like many...Read more
We have two Social Work resources available on a trial basis at the moment. One from the U.S. and one from the U.K. How do you think they shape up? The Social Work Toolkit trial finishes soon – 3 October. Please send feedback to Social...Read more
We need your feedback about two resources we are currently offering on a trial basis. First up is Nursing Knowledge International – this is an ebook collection but we are particularly interested in how user-friendly you find the NKI platform...Read more
I’m a fan of Google Scholar, no doubt about it. From a practical point of view you can’t go past it as a tool for finding documents by subject and, much as I prize and value our databases, if you restrict your searching to the traditional...Read more
You can tell that an idea has become really well-known when senior management hears about it, and a few years ago I began receiving phone calls from heads of department along the lines of “I’m carrying out staff evaluations and suddenly people...Read more
The sad business of the American Academic and Scholarly Research Journal has come to a rather unexpected end. The journal is no more, having disappeared from the web along with its associated Research Center, and all record of it has disappeared...Read more
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