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 your altmetrics button could look more like this What this means is that a company known as Altmetric (www.altmetric.com) has produced what are known as article level metrics for the work and assigned it with a weighted score, based on the number of times it has been mentioned in Tweets, on Facebook, Reddit and Google+, in blogs and in the media, and the number of times it has been saved or bookmarked in services like Mendeley and CiteULike, although not within ResearchGate which seems to be...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
Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: Kōanga (core-ung-ah) or Spring Lambing season signals Kōanga is just around the corner ...Read more
On Monday morning, 26 August, Massey staff will be running an SPCA Cupcake Day stall in the Turitea Library foyer. Our thanks to all the keen bakers who are contributing, and to all of you who turn up to buy the goodies. Read the Manawatu Standard...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: maikuku (my-koo-koo) or fingernail “off to the salon today, its about time I got my maikuku done” ...Read more
We’re currently looking at our How to Find pages. If you do use them please let us know how it goes, any time from now till Labour Weekend. Thanks for your help. ...Read more
The first part of this posting originally appeared on Library Out Loud on Tuesday 13 August. The posting was substantially updated this morning but was then taken off the site – fortunately we are now able to reinstate it. Some minor changes...Read more
17/08/13: Wellington Library has been cleared as safe after the earthquake, and is back to the usual opening hours. 16/08/13: Wellington Library has closed from Friday afternoon, 16 August, due to the campus being evacuated as a safety precaution...Read more
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