Posts from — October 2010

Library Chat Comment

Just wanted to tell you guys that the “chat with a librarian” function on this website is AMAZING! i was really struggling to find a heap of articles I needed for an assignment, and a fellow student had told me about the live chat function…so I gave it a shot, spoke with the librarins who was just super dooper helpful, got me through the whole process of finding about five articles I had citations for on the lib website and completing a document delivery request. she was ridiculously helpful and hung around for about half an hour just chatting to me and making sure i had everything i needed. What a great service!!!! The only problem is I would NEVER have known about it if a colleague hadn’t mentioned it? I’m a fourth year physio student and I don’t spend a lot of time on campus anymore and knowing I can get help from someone who (unlike me) has a clue what they’re doing while I’m at home is invaluable. Let people know this optio n is there for them because it was AWESOME.

Library Reply

Thanks for your comments – glad you found the chat service so useful.

Google Scholar Comments

* For some reason Google Scholar has not got La Trobe listed anymore when I search for it…Help!

* Google scholar is not finding the Latrobe University Library. its quite difficult to connect the latrobe library with google scholar. please fix it ASAP.

Library Reply

Update: We apologise for the continued inconvenience, however we are still waiting for La Trobe to be updated and this may be another two weeks.

We are aware of this issue and apologise for the inconvenience. But unfortunately Google Scholar is not currently presenting La Trobe links and this situation will continue for approximately a week.

The Library is trialing EBSCO’s Communication & Mass Media Complete until 30 November.

This database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State), along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

Please add your comments about this trial via the online feedback form.

The Library has trial access to EBSCO’s EconLit with Full Text until 30 November.

EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, contains full text for more than 560 journals in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Please leave your comments regarding this trial via the feedback form.

Did you know the Library has a huge collection of novels, short stories, poetry and plays?  These are located in the Dewey range 800 – 899.  Here you will find fiction from Australia, Russia, New Zealand, Europe, the UK, North and South America, China, India and so much more!

Here are just a few of the great reads:

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai

Her fearful symmetry: a novel by Audrey Niffenegger

Truth by Peter Temple

Imperial bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Solar: a novel by Ian McEwan

The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

C by Tom McCarthy

If you’ve read any of these, leave a comment and let us know what you think!

All campus libraries will observe regular opening hours on Tuesday, 2 November.

We are currently experiencing a fault in Google Scholar, with our ‘Full text @ La Trobe‘ and ‘Find it @ La Trobe‘ links not appearing.

Unfortunately these links will continue to be unavailable for approximately one week.  We are working on correcting this issue as soon as possible and we apologise for the inconvenience.

OECD iLibrary, a new platform giving seamless and comprehensive access to statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available.

iLibrary replaces SourceOECD and hosts all content equally so users can find and cite tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998. This encompasses some 390 complete databases; 2,500 working papers; 5,500 books; 14,000 tables and graphs; and 21,000 chapters and articles.

OECD iLibrary has the following features:

• Intuitive navigation by country or theme –  users can search and click directly to tables, chapters or articles.
• Executive summaries available for key titles in up to 20 languages.
• A citation tool for all content, compatible with popular bibliographic management systems.
• Links to previous editions, with the option to download any full-text item such as tables or chapters from the table of contents.

Since mid 2010, and via a Universities Australia deal with Thomson, academics have had improved access to resources on the Web of Science platform.  Thomson Reuters has expanded coverage of  Science, Social Science, and Arts & Humanities by 15%, 42% and 41% respectively.

The new or expanded resources include-

• Web of Science – with conference proceedings

• Citation databases:
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) 1990-present
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)  1990-present

• Chemical databases:
  • Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED) 1985-present
  • (includes Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle structure data back to 1840)
  • Index Chemicus (IC) 1993-present

and

• Current Contents Connect (1998-present) :  complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals and books. This includes relevant, evaluated websites and documents.  Access pre-published electronic journal articles.

• MEDLINE (1950-present) : the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database.

The Utopia Art Exhibition, currently in the Melbourne Library foyer, is a collaboration between Desert Knowledge Australia and Mbantua Fine Art Gallery and Cultural Musueum.

Come in and have a look at these inspiring paintings. They are available for purchase, with 60% of sales going to the Alice Springs Desert Leadership Program and 40% to the Mbantua Foundation.