Category Archives: search

Simpler, smarter searching

5 March 2009 – 6:18 am

Have you had a bad experience in the past with using SuperSearch or the online library catalogue?
Responding to feedback collected last year from students and staff, our fabulous Library Systems team spent this summer making changes to SuperSearch and the online catalogue.
From the start of Semester One 2009, searching for a journal article or library [...]

By Margaret L Ruwoldt | Also posted in implementation 2009, technology | Comments (0)

Practise your search-fu with Library IT Tips

29 January 2009 – 11:10 am

Did you know that you can bookmark items in the Melbourne University Library’s online catalogue? Would you like to add a Library search to your web browser’s toolbar and get single-click access to PubMed and similar resources?
The Library Systems team can help you become a ‘power user’ of the University Library’s online catalogues and resources.
The [...]

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More than words

29 March 2008 – 6:10 am

When we talk about scholarly information, it’s easy to assume we mean words, lots of words, published in books and articles.
In fact, the Information Futures Commission is interested in much more than text-based materials.
For example, let’s consider the image as a piece of scholarly information. In this post, I will describe two types of ’scholarly [...]

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One million books digitised at UMichigan

14 February 2008 – 9:02 am

The University of Michigan is scanning its 7.5 million books and putting their contents online.
This month, they passed the million mark. The commemorative web page provides information about the digitisation project:

a PDF showing the steps involved in digitising a book
presentation slides explaining the size and shape of the digitisation project
photos of the library staff who [...]

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Melbourne 6th in Australia, 128th in world for web visibility

14 February 2008 – 6:29 am

The Webometrics.info project uses four metrics to calculate a ranking of the online research profile of the world’s universities:

Size: Number of pages recovered from four search engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
Visibility: Total number of unique inbound links external links, based on results from Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
Rich files: Number of PDF, [...]

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