Category Archives: Resources

Easier access to e-Resources

By Steve | Published: May 9, 2012
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 [...]
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Problems with login to Library services UPDATE

By Ellen Randva | Published: May 7, 2012
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.
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Enhancements to SciFinder

By Steve | Published: April 27, 2012
We are pleased to announce that SciFinder now offers customers additional features that make their searches more convenient. You can now search substances by individual experimental or predicted property, targeting results more efficiently by locating compounds with specific property characteristics. Now you can search the more than 3.6 billion experimental and predicted properties in SciFinder to [...]
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Trial: Mergent Online for corporate information

By Steve | Published: April 23, 2012
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: A complete corporate history including acquisitions and changes in ownership structure Lists of subsidiaries, property holdings, and key personnel Up to 25 years of annual and quarterly financial data, [...]
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Trial: Vet Med Resource

By Steve | Published: April 19, 2012
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 [...]
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AFR and BRW return to the Factiva database

By Ellen Randva | Published: March 20, 2012
The Australian Financial Review (AFR), the national financial daily newspaper, has returned to the Factiva database as a licensed, full-text title. The archive for the AFR, along with six other key titles, is as follows: The Australian Financial Review From September 1987 BRW (formerly Business Review Weekly) From January 1989 Financial Review Asset From June 2001 Financial Review CFO From June 2001 Financial Review [...]
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eBooks @ Adelaide: new titles for January

By Steve | Published: February 3, 2012
New releases for the month of January, now available at eBooks @ Adelaide: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/20120131.html
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Trial: State Papers Online Part IV

By Steve | Published: January 30, 2012
State Papers Online Part IV The fourth and final Part of Archive, State Papers Online: 1509 – 1714 is now available on a trial basis.  The Library has already acquired Parts I to III.  Part IV completes the digitisation of the State Papers and consists mostly of British foreign papers relating to France, Scotland and Ireland [...]
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Trial: Anthropology Online

By Steve | Published: January 30, 2012
Anthropology Online Anthropology Online has launched with 140 sources spanning 41,509 pages bringing together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. The database will contain more than 100,000 pages of material for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, [...]
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Trial: Foundations and Trends® journals

By Steve | Published: January 30, 2012
Foundations and Trends® journals Each Foundations and Trends® journal covers a major branch of a scientific discipline and offers current, state-of-the-art review articles by opinion/research leaders in their field.  Each article is intended to put primary research into context, improving researchers’ and students’ understanding of the original literature. As a result, and guided by the links to [...]
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