Early English Books Online

Usually the Library boasts of the up-to-dateness of its electronic resources that allow you to see scientific articles months or even years before they appear in print.  So what are we doing telling you about  a resource like Early English Books Online that contains nothing published after 1700? Surely that's the province of the humanities!

Maybe so, but EEBO contains the original editions of some of the most important scientific works ever published  - Newton's Principia Mathematica, Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist and William Gilbert's De Magnete.  Any scientist will appreciate the importance of being able to examine the original data in any research and this represents a huge resource that would have been quite impossible to assemble before the internet era.  Those with an interest in the heritage of their discipline will find a great deal here to interest them.

Services for extramural students

Borrowing books from other NZ University Libraries

Massey University Library is a member of the ULANZ reciprocal borrowing agreement among 7 of the 8 New Zealand Universities. This gives registered Massey University Library borrowers (i.e. staff and students) the right to enrol for limited borrowing privileges at those university libraries.

The other universities offering this service are AUT (Auckland), Waikato (Hamilton), Victoria (Wellington), Lincoln (Christchurch), Canterbury (Christchurch) and Otago (Dunedin). This may well be a service that is useful for extramural students living in these regions, so please publicise it to them.

Full details are available on the Library web site under the heading Borrowing Information - ULANZ Reciprocal Borrowing Scheme.


Study Guides – Information on Library Services

Each year the Library provides information on the services and resources available for extramural students. This study guide insert (available from the Library web site) should be downloaded annually and added to extramural study guides so that students get correct and current information.

If you wish to include Library information more specifically targeted at students enrolled in your course, please contact College Liaison Services staff.

E-Journals, Safari, Firefox, Databases and Google Scholar

We have discovered that there are difficulties in downloading PDFs from the major electronic journals using the Safari browser which runs on Apple Mac. If you use Safari and want to access e-journal content try using Mozilla Firefox instead - it can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/. You should then prefer it for any internet activity that is likely to lead you to PDFs, not only formal databases but search engines such as Google Scholar.

Incidentally, most of the content you are able to access via Google Scholar comes from the Library's electronic collections. If you are using it off-campus always remember to go to it through our list of databases - that way you get to sign in and take advantage of all your Massey entitlements to journal content.

Don't hesitate to get in touch whenever you have difficulties getting hold of journal articles - most problems are easily fixed!

Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (ESQ&R)

The Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability offers extensive coverage of this field important to engineers, technologists, statisticians, quality managers, and related professions. Includes case studies as well as the usual range of articles in around 400 entries covering academic, business and governmental aspects. The ESQ&R complements and extends coverage of quality and reliability statistics in the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.

The ESQ&R can be searched via its homepage, Table of Contents , or Topics pages.

Other major references sources are listed on our Reference Resources pages.

Also . . . . . . check out our other encyclopedias from Elsevier and Wiley.

New: Journals Page on Library Website

The Library has replaced the E-Journals page on its web site with a set of new journal pages giving more comprehensive information about journals, in both print and electronic formats.

Included is information on publishing in journals, journal citations and rankings, and the process for obtaining new journal subscriptions.
Access to e-journal packages is still made available via the new pages, but if you had bookmarked the e-journals page you will need to change the link. We apologise for any inconvenience.

If you are looking for a specific journal title – use the Journal search on the Library catalogue (ie: click on the Journals tab from the Catalogue home page).