Semester 1 & 2 opening hours begin on Saturday 23 February at Turitea and Wellington Libraries, and on Monday 25 February at Albany Library. View the Library’s full opening hours...Read more
Do you know how to search for two related keywords at the same time?… Just use OR between the keywords, and make sure it’s in capitals. So for example you could look for: teenagers OR adolescents OR youth This works in Discover, the...Read more
Update 15/02/13: This issue has now been fixed. Please place your BONUS+ requests as usual. 14/02/13: BONUS+ is currently displaying this message when trying to request books: “The site’s security certificate has expired!” We recommend...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: Waiata Aroha (Why-utter ah-raw-ha) or Song of love “Do you have a favourite waiata aroha for St Valentine’s Day?”...Read more
My last posting on the appearance of a highly questionable journal in the Scopus database has raised a few eyebrows and has also given rise to the question of whether I may have singled out Scopus, and its parent company Elsevier, unfairly. To...Read more
Update 07/02/13: Google Scholar is now displaying MasseyLink correctly, and connecting to our subscribed material as it should. A few points to note: the MasseyLink button may be hidden under ‘more’ in each result if you are on campus...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: Ataahua (Are-tar-who-ah) or Beautiful New Zealand is Ataahua!...Read more
Summer School exams are coming up, and we can help you out by staying open longer, and providing previous exam papers… Extended hours: All Massey Libraries will be open on Sunday 10 February. View all opening hours. Exam papers are available...Read more
Brookers NZ Legal Databases will cease to exist as a platform from February 7th. It will be replaced by Westlaw NZ. Westlaw NZ can be accessed from the Library Homepage, Article Databases, W, Westlaw NZ, go to this resource. To assist users, the...Read more
After my recent posting on Open Access journals I had a closer look at Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory publishers and in particular at the list of suspect journal titles. I had become aware some time ago that at least one very...Read more
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