After a successful trial, today we’re announcing easier access to e-resources, with fewer logins required.
By following links from the Library web site, Summon, or the Catalogue:
1. On campus users (including student lab PCs) will not be asked to authenticate (with a few exceptions where required by licence);
2. Remote users with a VPN connection will not be asked to authenticate;
3. All other remote users will be asked to authenticate, just once per session.
Take 20 minutes out of your lunch break this week to drop in and see Ainsley for a small group/individual session to get some basic Library help:
This week between 1 and 2pm on level 3 of Hub Central (Lending Interview Room, next to Rm 354 opposite Level 3 Hub Central information desk).
UPDATE: we think we have this fixed now.
A mysteriously high server load was causing the problem.
Sorry – major systems problem with authentication to e-resources, MyLibrary and the document delivery request form.
We are experiencing delays in getting this fixed, so please try again later.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Tom Caunce
Thomas Caunce, PhD candidate in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide under the supervision of Professor Carol Johnson, is the successful applicant for the 2012 Bill Cowan Barr Smith Library Fellow award.
Thomas’s research is concerned with the Australian Labor Party’s social democratic ideology and its relation to Keynesian economics, which he describes as an ambivalent history of ideological empowerment but perceived obsolescence. As well as extensive use of the general collections of the Library the research will make intensive use of the Special Collections holdings of Commonwealth ALP government speeches and policy documents, which are not accessible in any other South Australian public collection.
Thomas’s research has gained notice in his field with presentations of refereed papers at the 2010 and 2011 Australian Political Studies Association Conferences. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including a short term Summer Research Scholarship at the Australian Prime Ministers’ Centre, Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 2011.
In response to the award Thomas said, “It is truly humbling to have received such a generous scholarship from a family trust which has sustained such a strong commitment to financially stressed tertiary students. The Bill Cowan Fellowship will provide me with the opportunity to concentrate on my thesis research in an uninterrupted manner using the Barr Smith Library’s collections. For this I am immensely grateful”.
We are pleased to announce that SciFinder now offers customers additional features that make their searches more convenient.
To learn more, visit What’s New in the Web Version of SciFinder. Besides providing additional information about the newest features, this page highlights the most significant enhancements from previous SciFinder updates.
Mergent Online is a database of corporate information covering over 55,000 US and foreign public companies and 20 million private companies. Information available for each public company includes the following:
Data output can be customized and exported as files readable by Excel and other software.
Advanced search capabilities include searching by executive’s name, auditor, country code, NAICS or SIC industry code, and selected financial characteristics and ratios.
Trial Date: 19th April – 30th May 2012
URL: http://www.MergentOnline.com
Remote Access: Yes
Please let us know what you think, in the comments below.
All libraries will be closed on Wednesday 25 April, ANZAC Day public holiday.
Vet Med Resource gives access to over 1 million CAB Abstracts records, integrated use of over 800 datasheets from the Animal Health and Production Compendium and extra value features such as prepared searches.
URL: www.cabi.org/vetmedresource
Remote Access: Yes
On trial from 16th April until 15th May, 2012
Please tell us what you think, in the comments here, or to your favourite Research Librarian.
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Book sale!
Annual Book Sale
9am – 5pm Wednesday June 6 and Thursday June 7
Ira Raymond Exhibition Room (level 3, Barr Smith South).
Lots of subjects covered and all items only $2 each.
No listings, just come along and see for yourselves.
For enquiries, please contact Margaret Hosking on 8313 3706.