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 are telling me about their h-index. What on earth is an h-index?” I don’t recall exactly what I replied, but it probably wasn’t with the formal definition of the h-index which comes from a 2006 paper by Jorge Hirsch, An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output, which is that “a scientist has index h if h of his or her Np papers have at least h citations each and the other (Np – h) papers have ≤h citations each.” The wikipedia entry puts it rather more...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
The Māori Land Court Minute Books at the Albany Campus Library have been re-shelved to the front of the Ngā Kupu Ora collection on Level 3. If you have any questions about the Minute Books or would like to learn more about them contact our...Read more
Are you an academic or student in the areas of nursing or social work? Three database trials are now up and running that may be of interest to you. Please note the trial finishing dates. We’d love to hear your feedback using the links...Read more
There is a small construction zone on Level 2 of Turitea Library during August-October, near the Information Desk. The offices are being re-configured to accommodate our new Information & Research Services team. We apologise for any...Read more
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