Small change to access Advanced search in Google Scholar

The Advanced search screen for Google Scholar is now available in the simple search box dropdown menu rather than as a separate visible link.

So click on the down arrow.

 

Google are advertising their changes as their ‘new modern look’

One stop alerting through TOCs

JournalTOC’s

JournalTOCs is for anyone who’s looking for the latest papers published in the scholarly literature in a single interface. The website claims to be the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains article metadata of TOCs for over 18,609 journals directly collected from over 1056 publishers, including some of the bigger names. Its international in focus and it is also free to browse. Check out the website here.

Literature reviews

For undergraduate students developing a literature review, the Academy Library’s Subject guides are a good starting point for identifying the databases and other online resources including reference sources that are available in your broad subject area.

SEIT Librarian in the School to help PGRs!

Hi, my name is Cathy Burton. I am the SEIT Outreach Librarian. I will be in residence every Thursday 12.00-13.00 in the School.  I will be in B15 R120. To date  PGR students have heard all about finding eJournals and making life easier with Endnote. If you are a PGR and want to get an advantage with research techniques then come along! This week I will spend the first ten minutes running through Endnote and then answer questions from the floor. For further topics you would like me to talk about please send an email to liaison@adfa.edu.au

Blasts from the past!

Historical newspaper collections

The Academy Library has access to a number of interesting newspaper collections and archives.

• For digitised historical Australian newspapers (1803-1954) check out Trove.
• For coverage of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Gale NewsVault has access to 3 of The Times publications one of which goes back as far as 1785.  As well there is: The Illustrated London News (1842-2003), The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003).
• The Chronicling America resource covers numerous news presses across all states of America from 1836-1922; in addition there is The Chicago Tribune (1849-1987), The Washington Post (1877-1994), and The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993). 
• Covering other regions we have The Times of India (1838-2001), reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1941-1996) resource and Pravda (1912-2009).

All can be found through the UNSW Electronic Resources Portal