Chat Live is back

The Chat Live service has resumed after the summer break. You can contact the Library via AIM, MSN and Yahoo instant messaging between 8.30 and 4.30, Monday to Friday.

The Library's username is uniteclibrary on AIM and Yahoo, and uniteclibrary@hotmail.com on MSN.

For more information go to the Chat Help page.

If you're not a subscriber to any instant-messaging service you can still contact the Library via the Chat Live programme embedded in the Ask a Librarian page.

Laws of New Zealand

The Library has subscribed to the electronic version of the legal encyclopedia Laws of New Zealand.

This resource has approximately 150 subject titles (eg animals, environment, family protection, recreation and entertainment) with each title covering all aspects of the NZ law relating to the subject area, including a table of statutes and cases.

Laws of New Zealand is available as part of the Library's Lexis-Nexis subscription. It can be found on the A-Z databases list and on the Law subject page.

The Library's subscription to the print version of Laws of New Zealand has been discontinued.

EndNote XI now available

The latest edition of the citation management software EndNote is now available to be borrowed from the library. EndNote is only available on CD-ROM. It cannot be downloaded. To obtain an EndNote CD simply go to the Issues desk at any branch of the Library. At present only Windows CDs are available.

The main difference from earlier editions is the ability to create groups of references on a similar subject. Existing EndNote libraries can easily be transferred from EndNote X to EndNote XI.

New database: JSTOR Arts and Science Collection III

We now have access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences III collection.

This provides an almost complete backrun, with fulltext, of 150 titles in architecture, the arts and humanities (see title list).
Due to licensing agreements with publishers however, issues are usually "embargoed" or not available for 2-5 years after publication (also called a moving wall).

To access the database go to our Databases A-Z page or click on the following link

JSTOR

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