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 [...]
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 [...]
Google Scholar provides links to full text resources available through SuperSearch. These links appear as SourceIt @ Melbourne in the results screen and are displayed when searching Google Scholar on campus. When off campus you will need to set the preferences as follows to display these links.
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 [...]
Usability studies suggest that many library clients commence their information discovery in the library web catalogue.
However, the nature of web publishing and dissemination now means that many valuable sources of information are unrepresented in the catalogue, particularly not in the traditional form of metadata records describing only those items the Library has in its collections.
From [...]
LibX UniMelb is a browser extension that helps you research online quickly and efficiently. It highlights resources UniMelb library owns and autolinks via ISBNs, ISSNs, PubMed IDs and CrossRef DOIs directly from other web pages. Install the LibX UniMelb extension in your Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser and you can:
Use the toolbar to [...]
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