The University of South Australia subscribes to JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collections I-IV. You have online access to more than 500 journal titles across a wide range of subjects. In spatial terms, this is the equivalent of 1221 linear meters of journals on shelves!
If you haven’t looked at JSTOR lately, it’s worth another visit. JSTOR recently launched a new platform to improve its look and feel, and to make navigation easier. JSTOR now includes a Basic Search box on the home page. You can limit your search by discipline, recall recent searches, search within a result set, and save or export citations. The Results page also displays two additional tabs with any relevant images from JSTOR and from ARTstor.
JSTOR now has a Facebook presence, with its own page (opens in new window) for Facebook users to get up-to-date information and tips, view training videos, and comment on the resources. Anyone who adds the Facebook Search Application (opens in new window) to a personal profile can search JSTOR without leaving the Facebook site.
Access JSTOR to take a fresh look today.
Nicola Giles from RefWorks will be offering hands-on training for new and experienced users in September.
What is RefWorks?
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from electronic databases and catalogues. You can then use these references to create in-text citations and format bibliographies in your word processing program.
Training will cover RefWorks Fundamentals and some advanced features:
| City West | Friday 19 September | 10.00am - 12.00 noon | Library Training Room CS4-13 |
| City East | Friday 19 September | 2.00 - 4.00pm | Library Training Room |
Please register via the links - Staff and Students
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arrow@unisa will be unavailable Friday 19 September from 4pm for approx. 2 hours due to maintenance.
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If not, take a look at the Database Trials page. It links to free trials of new electronic resources across all subject areas. At the moment we are testing resources for marketing, bioscience, international security, pharmacology and applied health, as well as e-books in the humanities.
The trials change frequently, so it’s worthwhile to bookmark the page and check it often.
If you would like to recommend a new database or electronic resource to try, please contact your Academic Library Services team or fill out a Request for subscription form.
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The library has a new subscription to Jane’s Defence Weekly.
The publication features articles on geopolitical threats, new weapons technology and military activity across the world.
Regular features include:
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Taylor & Francis Publishing has recently changed the policy towards archival access to their online journals. Their preferred platform Informaworld now has access only from 1997 onwards.
Many of our catalogue records still reflect earlier, more liberal archival access policies. These records are being corrected.
However, many Taylor & Francis titles also have pre-1997 full text available through other databases such as Ebsco, which often goes back to 1993 or 1994. Please check the date ranges in catalogue records for the Taylor & Francis journals, to see if you can get the full-text you need through another database.
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The current RSC eBook collection includes 750 titles covering all areas of chemical sciences from core chemistry, food science, nanoscience and biosciences.
All levels are catered for from high level monographs to undergraduate text books. The collection contains RSC book publications dating back almost 40 years and is fully searchable by keyword, author, ISBN or title. Continually updated and expanded throughout the year the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to our full catalogue of books.
The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs.
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The Library has added three more online titles from the Nature Publishing Group to its collections:
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics is cross-disciplinary biomedical journal devoted to publishing the most exciting advances in pharmacology and therapeutics, as they pertain to advances in translational and clinical medicine.
Nature Medicine is a biomedical research journal devoted to publishing the latest and most exciting advances in biomedical research for scientists and physicians, with an emphasis on clarity of presentation. Articles cover fields such as cancer biology, cardiovascular research, gene therapy, immunology, vaccine development, and neuroscience, aiming to keep Ph.D. and M.D. readers informed of a wide range of biomedical research findings.
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery integrates academia and industry, providing broad, expert coverage of the drug discovery and development arena - from disease mechanisms, novel therapeutic approaches and chemistry to clinical trials and regulatory affairs.
Access the journals from the Library catalogue or via the Electronic Journals A-Z List
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Science Online is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the publisher of highly-regarded research journal Science.
During the trial, UniSA has active online access to:
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Need to know how to do legal research? Then the LRW is for you.
It is an online, self paced tutorial that introduces you to the research process, highlighting key online sources to use when searching for legislation, case law, journal articles and books. The workshop can be entered at any point and is complemented by short videos which outline how to search each resource.
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Created in the 1970s, a set of well-loved sculptures by renowned Australian artist John Dowie now take pride of place in the new library extension at Mawson Lakes.
‘The Art of Learning’ sculptures were commissioned to complement the original building at what was then the Levels campus of UniSA’s antecedent institution, the South Australian Institute of Technology. The 2.7 metre cast aluminium alloy mullions depict the art of learning from the rock age aboriginal, through the hieroglyph and ideogram, to the alphabet.
Most of the 72 sculptures were installed in 1972 around the outside of the building. Thirteen remaining sculptures were installed within the foyer and vestibule of the building extensions in 2005 at the official opening attended by John Dowie.
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Monday 17th March, 2008
Magill
Building B, Lecture Room B1-55, 10.30 – 12 noon
City West
Sir Hans Heysen Building, Lecture Room HH4-08, 2.00 – 3.30pm
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references when writing documents and automatically format the document and the bibliography.
The Library has organised Nicola Giles from RefWorks to come to the University to provide training on the use of RefWorks Bibliographic Management software, for all members of the University Community. Please feel welcome to attend either of the sessions on Monday the 17th March at Magill and City West in the Lecture theatres indicated above.
The training will cover:
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From 26 November through to the end of January the Library is reorganising its collections at City West to accommodate more resources and study space.
During this time access to the different levels of the Library will be restricted.
Any questions regarding the location of resources should be directed to the Service Desk.
A number of laptop (notebook) computers are available at each metropolitan campus Library for loan to students. Laptops must be collected from the Service Desk. Guidelines apply. They are all configured for use with the UniSA Wireless Network. If you are suspended from borrowing, laptops will not be able to be issued to you.
More information about laptop loans
Looking for recent news from countries around the world?
If so, check out the Library’s new News Resources page where you will find RSS feeds and links to popular papers from many countries.
You can also suggest additions if a newspaper you would like to see is not listed on the page. Simply send an email including a link to the newspaper’s website to Lby-Web@unisa.edu.au.
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Simply the Best 2: reflections of women through records is the conference to attend if you would like to discover more about the issues related to women’s collections in libraries, archives, museums and galleries then the 4th National Conference of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library. The conference will be held at UniSA, City West campus on October 10-12.
If artefacts are more your thing then The Acquisition of Cultural Artefacts Symposium on October 10 will answer all your questions of where they come from and what libraries, archives and museums do with these objects. See http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/bhpml/conferences/Symp07.asp for registration details
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The BHPML is a research collection containing unique and valuable material, archive records and items pertaining to the Hawke era. It is available to users as a resource for political and social research and for reference and information purposes.
From September 2007 the BHPML in the new Hawke Building, H5.05, will open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10.00am – 4.00pm. At all other times access and use of the research and archival facilities is by appointment with the Librarian or by research application.
Study Room H5.07 is bookable via the library’s online room / laptop bookings page for students and staff on the two days the BHPML is open. All bookings have a two hour time limit.
For more information about the BHPML go to http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/library/default.asp or contact the Librarian, Jenni Jeremy on 83020318 or jenni.jeremy@unisa.edu.au
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As a law student at the University of South Australia you will be able to enjoy all the advantages of Australia's newest law library, including 24 hour access to online legal materials and training resources.
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University of South Australia staff and students are encouraged to suggest books, journals and other resources to be purchased for the Library collection using the online Book Purchase Request Form.
All recommendations must comply with the Librarys policy on purchasing resources to support teaching, learning and research
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Informaworld have advised that a period of scheduled maintenance is planned for the platform on Tuesday 26th June from 10.00am - 12.00am (midday) EST (00.00 to 02.00 BST).
This may cause intermittent downtime on Informaworld and will also impact on your ability to access content via SwetsWise Online Content
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NPG will be upgrading key components of the nature.com infrastructure over the next few weeks.
- At midnight (EST) on Saturday, June 23rd we expect 15-30 minutes downtime on nature.com and its associated service sites.
- At midnight (EST) on Saturday, July 7th we will be installing two new file servers and switching to a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Both nature.com and its associated service sites will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes.
This important work will improve access times and site stability.
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Have you wondered who to contact when you don’t know where to start your search, forgotten how to place a hold, renew an item or having trouble locating the fulltext article? Whether you are living in the Arctic Circle, studying externally or sitting in a study room, you can stop panicking. You have options!
Ask a Librarian is a service offered to all UniSA students and staff. You can email us at any time or chat live with a Reference Librarian from 2.00-5.00pm Monday to Friday. All questions are welcome!
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Two short videos are now available to help commencing students navigate the Library website. The videos provide an overview of the Library website, resources and services. Select the video which is relevant to you
These videos and other online training resources are available from the Library’s Online training page
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Are you a looking for casual part-time work?
Are you looking for a job to fit in around your Uni schedule?
The Library has some casual shelving positions to assist in keeping the collections in order. If you are interested, please complete the application for casual employment as a shelver (PDF 93kb, opens in new window) and hand in to any campus Service Desk
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