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 commercially-produced high-quality sources you run the risk of missing out on a substantial proportion of the relevant material that is out there. I think most librarians get this and if we are not including it as part of our toolkit and recommending it to students and researchers then we are simply losing credibility because sooner or later they are going to hear about it anyway. That’s probably a battle that was fought and won years ago, but it is still worth revisiting because an understanding...Read more
Massey Library is a public space, and you do need to keep that in mind when it comes to security. Students have recently had several items such as laptops, tablets and phones stolen when they have briefly popped out, been sleeping, or for some other...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: Pātai (paah-tie) or ask / question The answer to your pātai is ‘Yes!’...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
There will be a film crew at Wellington Library on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th September, 2.00-3.30 pm each day. They will be using the area under the arched window in the north-east corner of the Library, so we ask that this space be cleared before...Read more
Do you want to know more about EndNote, the referencing software? Whether you’re thinking of buying EndNote, already have it but want to make better use of it, or just want to know what it’s all about, then sign up for our free online...Read more
Massey University Archives have recently added another collection to the Archives Spotlight page. The latest edition focusses on Massey’s student newspaper, Chaff, from 1939 to 1946. These have been digitised and can be viewed online. For any...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
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: Pāpura (Pah-poo-rah) or Purple “they say blue and red make pāpura” ...Read more
Users of Symplectic will probably have noticed a little Altmetrics button next to the count of their citations. It will probably look a bit like this – If you’re lucky and your work has created some Internet and social media activity then...Read more
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