The Library is proud to announce their contribution to support a new business model for Open Access publishing of scholarly books in the Humanities and Social Sciences area. Typically, this subject area lags behind others in the Open access arena, and books are more difficult to make open access due to their lengthy production. The market for scholarly books has also been in crisis, due to reduced library budgets and increasing costs of journal subscriptions. Previously book publishers could usually guarantee a return on publication costs as multiple libraries would purchase copies for their collections. Knowledge Unlatched is attempting to rectify these problems, by implementing a new business model whereby libraries from around the...Read more
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: ipurangi (ee-pooh-rung-ee) or Internet The computers in the library have ipurangi access so you can surf the web...Read more
Distance Library Service staff have won the ‘Sustained Excellence in a Service Area’ award at Massey’s recent Defining Excellence Awards ceremony. The Distance Library Service Team at Manawatū campus Sustained Excellence...Read more
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: rou pūmahara (row poo-mar-har-ah) or USB Stick Lost your rou pūmahara? Ask at the Library help desk, it could be in the lost and...Read more
Update 17/03/14: Scopus now appears to be displaying normally in IE 11. If you have switched to IE 11’s compatibility view you may need to disable that view and clear your cache. Scopus is not always displaying correctly in Internet Explorer 11...Read more
Internet Explorer versions 7 and lower are not displaying the Discover and Catalogue search boxes on the Library home page. This does not affect versions 8 and later, or other browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. To check if this issue affects...Read more
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: tohutaka (tore-hoo-tah-kah) or recipe Did you know the Library has tohutaka cards to help you learn to cook in te reo Māori?...Read more
We’re re-thinking our Library website home page and we’d like to hear what you think about it – what works; what doesn’t work; and what we could improve. Please take 5 minutes to tell us what you think at Library Home Page...Read more
Bookfacing? Take a look and vote for your favourite entries on Massey Library Facebook! ...Read more
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: pae-mahi (pie-mar-hee) or Work Tray Can you pass me the document in the top of that pae-mahi please? ...Read more
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