Serials Review 2008

At the Library's recent Serials Review meeting two new journal packages were approved and will be available from 2009 onwards

• Taylor and Francis package, providing online access to 1000+ titles across all disciplines but especially stong in the areas of social sciences and humanities.


• Berg package, providing access to 16 journals in the areas of culture, art, fashion and design.

The following titles were also approved for purchase, and will be available from 2009 onwards (via the Library catalogue).


Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise

Development

Jazz Improv (additional print subscription - Auckland)

Photography and Culture*

International Journal of Comic Art

Serif: The Magazine of Type and Typography

Art World

Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments

Information, Communication and Society

Our Japan

Noise Control Engineering


* Will be included as part of the Berg package of 16 art, culture, fashion and design journals.


Further information about obtaining journal subscriptions is on the Library web site's Journals page. Please feel free to contact your local liaison librarian to discuss journals and other resources.

Services for Extramural Students


Borrowing books from other NZ University Libraries



Massey University Library is a member of the ULANZ reciprocal borrowing agreement among 7 of the 8 New Zealand Universities. This gives registered Massey University Library borrowers (i.e. staff and students) the right to enrol for limited borrowing privileges at those university libraries.



The other universities offering this service are AUT (Auckland), Waikato (Hamilton), Victoria (Wellington), Lincoln (Christchurch), Canterbury (Christchurch) and Otago (Dunedin). This may well be a service that is useful for extramural students living in these regions, so please publicise it to them.



Full details are available on the Library web site under the heading Borrowing Information - ULANZ Reciprocal Borrowing Scheme

Library Classes for Semester 2, 2008

Hello there Teaching Staff!

Well another semester is almost upon us and here in the library we're gearing up for another round of information literacy classes for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

If you would like a library class for any paper that you teach, please contact us at humsslib@massey.ac.nz

We'd love to hear from you!

All the best for a great Semester Two,

Amanda Curnow

Database Trial - Scopus

The Library is currently trialling Elsevier's Scopus database (through until the end of June 2008). Scopus is a multidiscplinary database - with greater breadth than Web of Science (about 4000 more titles) and with some of the equivalent citation searching features. Its coverage of "regional" journals is also broader than Web of Science currently provides. Universities and research institutions in the United Kingdom are using Scopus as a way of tracking citations, and several of the New Zealand university libraries also subscribe.We would welcome your feedback on Scopus - both for citation tracking and topic searching.The Library is not planning to subscribe to Scopus instead of Web of Science, rather it be would be complementary to our current database holdings (should funding permit).Access the Scopus trial via the Library web site's "What's on Trial" page. Feedback can be submitted via the Trials page, or by emailing your comments to libcol@massey.ac.nz.

Masseylink- have your say

Back in February we told you about MasseyLink, the little icon that appears next to records on your database searches - by clicking on it you will often achieve a much more direct link to the article than by searching the library catalogue and even if you don't MasseyLink will automatically open the catalogue for you with details for the appropriate journal.Our staff have been monitoring and fixing problems as they occur and so far progress has been pretty smooth. At the library we generally hear from you only when things don't work as they should, which is as it should be, but this time we would really like to hear from you if you have found MasseyLink useful or if you have suggestions of how it could be improved. If you have used MasseyLink please take a moment to email us with your reaction and ideas.