Like it or not, the h-index and citation counting season is upon us again. Recently I had an interesting case brought to my attention of a Massey researcher in the social sciences who had a pretty reasonable h-index in Scopus and a much better one in Google Scholar. At one point it would have been easy to dismiss this as the result of sloppiness on the part of Google Scholar but in recent years this seems to have largely been fixed, so differences in coverage would seem to be the answer. To test this I took a look at one article that reported 21 citations in Scopus and 56 in Google Scholar. This is what I found Citations found by Scopus but not by Google Scholar – 1 Citations found by both Scopus and Google Scholar – 20 Citations in...Read more
EndNote is now available to all staff and students for free! EndNote X7, the latest version of this software for storing and managing references, is now available at Massey. It offers full synchronisation to online EndNote, allowing automatic...Read more
The word this week is: Moana (More-ah-nah) or Sea. It’s fun to build sandcastles by the moana. Kupu o te wiki brought to you by the Library’s Māori staff...Read more
The ‘Profiling Your Research’ workshop is for academic staff completing the Institutional Review of Research. It will cover the major tools available for gathering evidence about your published works, to support your evidence...Read more
Craig Cherrie, Creative Arts & Industries Librarian at the Wellington Campus, reflects on the changes to the Wellington Campus Library: Half-a-semester on from the occupation of the full space of the ‘new’ Wellington Library, its timely...Read more
Some people off-campus are continually getting a Captcha when trying to get to Google Scholar through the Library website. We are working on a solution, but in the meantime here are a couple of work arounds. If using Chrome, try Firefox...Read more
The word this week is: Manu (Ma-noo) or Bird. The Moa was a native manu of New Zealand. Kupu o te wiki brought to you by the Library’s Māori staff...Read more
Manawatū Library’s ANZAC display is up, including a wall of handmade poppies (knitted, crocheted, paper, silk, coke cans and more) and a garden of harakeke poppies outside. ...Read more
Library hours over ANZAC weekend are: Saturday 25 April: 1pm – 8pm Sunday 26 – Monday 27 April: 10am – 8pm For full hours please see Library Opening Hours...Read more
Microsoft Office classes will be running at Albany Library (starting this week) and Manawatū Library (starting in May). Albany will cover Word, PowerPoint and Excel, while Manawatu will offer Word. Bookings are essential. For details and...Read more
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