Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Full text version of one of our current subscriptions has just been released. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for 70 journals and nearly 50 books.
Susan Tegg

New Database: SAGE Premier

SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

Changes to the Library homepage

You will notice some changes to our homepage. Most obvious is our changing picture but you will see that we have improved navigation on our side menu too which makes it faster and and easier to find things. Tell us what you think either via the comment box on this blog or use our new 'Make a suggestion' form.
Susan Tegg, Deputy Library Manager

New: Chat Live with a Librarian

Need a question answered? Try using Chat Live.

No download or login required, just visit: http://www.unitec.ac.nz/library2/aboutlibrary/ask.htm
Help is just a click away.

Currently running from 8.30-4.30 Monday - Friday.

Science Direct ebooks

We have access to a trial of 500 electronic books from Science Direct.
The full-text of the books, covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, will be available from the Science Direct website . Just type in the name of the book in the Journal/book Title search box.

The list of titles in the trial is available here.
The trial runs from 10th May - 18th June.

New: Instant Message a Librarian

You can now IM a Librarian through AIM, MSN or Yahoo.

Just add the library to your contact list.

Our screen name:

AIM: uniteclibrary
MSN: uniteclibrary@hotmail.com
Yahoo: uniteclibrary

Currently available Monday-Friday 8.30-4.30.

For more details see our Chat Help page.

Due to security restrictions IM can not be done from the student PCs on campus.

Emerald Database Upgrade

The Emerald Database has been upgraded.

Emerald is a full text database covering management, library and information services, education, property, operations, production and economics, and engineering.

We now have to 150 fulltext journals, 200,000 reviews from the world's top 300 management journals and access to over 75,000 full text articles.