You can now choose a pre-defined set of databases when you start SuperSearch from the library home page. The librarians have defined a number of database “QuickSearch” sets for broad subject areas to give you more specific search results. Choose your best subject match from the drop down list in front of the SuperSearch box [...]
Do you use the inbuilt search box in the top right of your browser toolbar? If so, you can now add a UniMelb Library Catalogue Keyword search to your list of browser search engines in Firefox 2 or higher and Internet Explorer 7 or higher.
Firefox users:
1. Visit the library home page;
2. Click on the arrow [...]
After our maintenance of SuperSearch this morning you should notice an additional icon in your search results which indicates an article is peer reviewed. This icon will appear instead of the normal full text icon for any articles the publisher is advertising as peer reviewed.
Now that Firefox 3.5 has been officially released we have updated the LibX UniMelb toolbar so it will be compatible. You can download the new version of LibX UniMelb even if you haven’t upgraded to Firefox 3.5 yet.
Papers from mekentosj.com is a personal library application for the mac, iPhone and iPod touch which helps you search, retrieve, archive and manage scientific papers from sources such as Scopus, PubMed, IEEE and Web of Science. Although the University of Melbourne does not sell or support Papers we can give you a few setup tips [...]
Some of our full text access has been affected by problems with the crossref.org server recently. The crossref service allows publishers to use DOI linking from one article directly to another. Unfortunately the crossref server which supports this service has been very slow to respond lately, resulting in network timeouts or very lengthy delays when linking [...]
Some staff and students received a strange overdue email on Friday/Saturday last week, for fines or overdue items accrued in 2008.
Please note that this is neither an email from a hacker, nor is it a valid statement of overdues/fines.
Last week the Library implemented changes to the Library Catalogue to allow renewals of overdue material, but [...]
From this Easter break (April 9th 2009), the University Library is trialling a new self service option for library patrons. You can now extend the due date(renew) of your overdue library books, as long as :
• the item is a 28-day or 90-day loan.
• the item is less than 7 days overdue.
• you [...]
Our tests were very successful so we began loading ejournal and database records into the catalogue last week. We now have over 8,400 ejournal titles added from thirteen database sources and expect to add more than 50,000 ejournal titles from over 300 sources by the time this project enters its maintenance phase in July 2009.
When [...]
Yesterday we released an update to the LibX UniMelb toolbar to deal with a couple of issues. The main fix was a change to our Proxy server address, as the library now has a new server. We also were forced to remove the Author and Article searches from e-Journals in SuperSearch as they were not [...]
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