Wiley downtime Monday 20 October

Due to site maintenance, Wiley will be unavailable for approximately one hour from 7:00pm on Monday 20th October 2008.

Emerald EarlyCite launched

Emerald is now providing access to their content before official publication.  Papers will be made available at least three months and, in some cases, as much as one year before they appear in the hard copy and final online journal issue.

EarlyCite articles are fully peer-reviewed and made available online before they undergo the full sub-editing and page-proofing stages. Once the final copy of the article is ready for publication, it replaces the EarlyCite version. Every EarlyCite paper is assigned to an issue, which enables correct referencing.

Currently, 55 journals are expected to publish articles from forthcoming issues through EarlyCite. The rest of the Emerald journal collection will be rolled out over the coming months.

New trial – ASME Digital Library

Trial available until 13th November 2008.

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that promotes the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences throughout the world.  This trial is providing access to the ASME Transaction journals and Applied Mechanics Reviews.

Go to: ASME Digital Library trial

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New trial – Environmental Impact

Trial available until 5th November 2008.

Environmental Impact represents a single, comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the effects of climate change on the biosphere. It also covers other aspects of man’s damage to the environment such as pollution, deforestation, desertification and habitat loss.

Go to: Environmental Impact trial

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New trial – China Yearbook & China Reference works

Trial available until 31st October 2008.

China Yearbook is the most comprehensive Yearbok database in China. It collects 1582 titles of world, national, and provincial-level yearbooks, industry yearbooks, subject yearbooks, school yearbooks, enterprise yearbooks and statistical yearbooks, totaling at 8,000 volumes by the end of 2007.  All artucles can be retreived by CAJ or PDF downloading, and the search on chart or image are supported.

China Reference works are the most fundamental and indispensable resources for knowledge service. China Reference Works Online (CRWO) collects more than 1,500 volumes, including dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, atlases, illustrated handbooks, chronicles. It does not need any additional Reader installing, and users can use this database by simply online browsing.

Go to: China Yearbook and Reference Works trial.

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New trial – Ebsco Research Starters

Trials available until 30th June 2009.

Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.

These articles are designed to be starting points for students, providing them with topic overviews, definitions of relevant terms and concepts, detailed bibliographies, and importantly, links to top articles from the relevant Ebsco database(s).

Go to: Research Starters in Business trial

Go to: Research Starters in Education trial

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Huxley Library closed weekend of 11-12 October

Due to an upgrade to the electrical system on the Eastern side of the campus, the Hunter Building including the Huxley Library will be closed all weekend.

It will close at 5:00pm Friday 10th October, and re-open at 8:00am Monday 13th October.

Library material should be returned to the Auchmuty Library or one of the other libraries which will be open as normal.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Holiday Monday (6th October 2008) hours

On the Labour Day Public holiday on Monday 6th October the Library and Information Common hours are as follows:

Auchmuty Library: 9:00am – 5:00pm
AIC: open 24 hours

Huxley Library: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Ourimbah Library: 10:00am – 3:00pm
OIC: open 24 hours

City Precinct Library: Closed
CHIC: open 24 hours