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 most people are already quite familiar with Google, so the academic version – Google Scholar – is very easy to use. It works like Google, but looks for scholarly material rather than websites. Our top tip for Google Scholar is to get to it through the Library website, as it will then link to journal articles we subscribe to, rather than asking you to pay for articles. You can find Google Scholar in various places on the Library website, including the Article Databases page. Another...Read more
If you use OR searching in Discover (or other EBSCOhost databases) to look for alternative terms, there are a couple of things you should know… The OR should always be in capital letters, or your search results will be skewed. For example...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: awhi (are-fee) or support/help I am going to awhi my sister by going to watch her netball game this weekend...Read more
Some databases have been affected by the US Government shut-down. The ones we have noticed are ERIC and PubMed, but there may be others. If you encounter this in a database, there should be a message explaining the extent to which it is affected...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
eTV will be offline and unavailable to all users from Sunday 6 October through to Tuesday 8 October. If you require a particular video for use on those days please download it in advance. We apologise for any inconvenience. ...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: Rārangi (raah-rung-ee) or queue I didn’t have to wait long in the rārangi to buy my concert tickets...Read more
This year marks Albany Campus Library’s 12th annual Kakano Rua Seminar… We hope to see you there 🙂...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
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: ngaruiti (ngah-roo-ee-tee) or microwave Can you please put my plate in the ngaruiti for two minutes?...Read more
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