Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science and Technology

Another useful specialised encyclopedia from our electronic collection, the Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science and Technology presents the state of the art in all areas of polymer science, covering nanotechnology, new imaging and analytical techniques, new methods of controlled polymer architecture, biomimetics, and more. Following the Encyclopedia's launch in October 2001, content has been added regularly, and the database now comprises about 300 articles covering all aspects of the field of polymer science.

The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology is an invaluable resource for researchers in both library and professional settings, providing information about polymers, plastics, fibers, biomaterials, elastomers, and polymerization processes.

NEW NATURE JOURNALS FOR MASSEY LIBRARY!!!

Massey Library is delighted to announce that the following Nature journals have beed added to our holdings -

Nature immunology
Nature medicine
Nature neuroscience
Nature reviews. Genetics
Nature reviews. Immunology
Nature reviews. Microbiology
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology
Nature reviews. Neuroscience

FoodNETBase Trial Finishes Friday 2 December

Just a reminder that the trial of FoodNETBase, the collection of CRC Press electronic books on food science and technology, finishes this Friday. I have had some positive comments but more support would be very welcome - or if you don't think this is a good direction for us to be heading in then we need to hear that as well. Use FoodNETBase this week and comment to Bruce White by 9 December please.

For more detail see the earlier posting on FoodNETBase.

Extended coverage on Web of Science

The Library has recently purchased additional backfiles on the Web of Science database, providing access back to 1945. The updated coverage is:

• Science Citation Index Expanded 1945 - present
• Social Sciences citation Index 1956 - present

This has increased our coverage on the Science Citation Index by including the years 1945-1969.

Elsevier ScienceDirect Backfiles Now Available

The Library has recently purchased backfiles of Elsevier journals in the areas of Engineering and Technology and Environmental Sciences. Usually our electronic coverage of journals from the ScienceDirect collections dates from 1994 but these collections will extend that to Volume 1 Issue 1 for most titles. It will take some time for the library catalogue to reflect the new coverage but in the meantime the titles can be accessed through these links -

Engineering and Technology

Environmental Sciences

Please note that there are a small number titles on these lists to which extended coverage does not apply.

Seminar - Publishing for PBRF

Knowledge Management in Research 2 :Publishing for PBRF (Palmerston North only)
Date: Friday, 2 December 2005
Time: 08:45-12:00
Venue: Library Training Room

Modern research assessment exercises like PBRF emphasise the measurement of outputs, the most important of which are publications. An ability to interpret publication data and to make strategic decisions in the placement of published work is essential for the researcher seeking to enhance the reputation and standing of their work. Similarly it is important to be able to trace citations to published work, wherever these may appear.

This session aims to fulfil the following objectives: You will have:

• An understanding of the role of citation counts in research assessment and of their limitations;
• An understanding of the variations in bibliometric data between disciplines;
• An ability to make informed decisions on the choice of journals in which to publish;
• An enhanced ability to measure and interpret individual research outputs;
• Techniques to make individual research outputs more visible;
• An enhanced ability to track down citations of published work; and
• Opportunities for hands-on practice of techniques.

Issues that will be covered in this seminar are:

• the use of Web of Science and other sources to measure citation rankings of individual journals and within disciplines
• the use of Web of Science and other sources to measure citations of individual articles and books
• the use of "clustering techniques" in bibliographic databases to determine appropriate journals in which to publish specific research
• identifying key authors and their characteristics
• difficult cases and the limitations of the bibliometric approach
• the use of novel information sources like Google Scholar to locate citations
• the strategic use of keywords to attract readers to articles

Enrolments to: Sarah Cresswell

SciFinder Scholar 2006 is now available!

Users of SciFinder Scholar, the premier chemistry database, can now download the latest version of the software from the Library website using this link.

Read the instructions carefully. The software is available for both Mac and Windows. When you have completed installing the software you also need to download the password file (Site Preferences) from the same page and install it to the main Scifinder Scholar folder. New features of SciFinder Scholar 2006 are

·Structure Similarity Searching (SSM only)

·New structure and reaction query tools

·Query highlighting in reaction searching

·Easy access to additional reaction information

·Enhanced multi-step reaction display

·New quick look-up of research references

·Duplicate detection/removal

Please contact Electronic Services Librarian Tracey Randall if you need help.

BioOne journal collection now available

Back in August we promised that the BioOne collection would be available from the beginning of 2006, but the vendors have made it available ahead of time. It now consists of 77 titles which can be accessed through a journal search on the Library catalogue. You can also search the whole collection.

Click below for catalogue links to individual titles -

Ambio

American biology teacher

American fern journal

American midland naturalist

American museum novitates

American zoologist

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Applied vegetation science

Arabidopsis book

Arctic, Antarctic, and alpine research

Auk

Avian diseases

Biology of reproduction

Bios

BioScience

Biotropica

Botanical review

Brittonia

Bryologist

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Castanea

Cell stress & chaperones

Coleopterists bulletin

Comparative parasitology

Condor

Copeia

Economic botany

Environmental entomology

Evolution

Florida entomologist

Herpetologica

Herpetological monographs

In Vitro cellular and developmental biology - Animal

In Vitro cellular and developmental biology - Plant

Integrative and comparative biology

Journal of arachnology

Journal of avian medicine and surgery

Journal of coastal conservation

Journal of coastal research

Journal of crustacean biology

Journal of economic entomology

Journal of eukaryotic microbiology

Journal of field ornithology

Journal of herpetology

Journal of insect science

Journal of mammalogy

Journal of medical entomology

Journal of orthoptera research

Journal of paleontology

Journal of parasitology

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Journal of the New York Entomological Society

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Journal of vegetation science

Journal of vertebrate paleontology

Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine

Mammalian species

Micropalaeontology

Mountain research and development

Northeastern naturalist

Northwestern naturalist

Palaios

Paleobiology

Palynology

Photochemistry and photobiology

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Radiation research

Society of Wetland Scientists bulletin

Southeastern naturalist

Southwestern naturalist

Systematic botany

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science

Ursus

Waterbirds

Weed science

Weed technology

Wetlands

Wilson bulletin

New - Encyclopedia of Information Systems

You now have access to the "Encyclopedia of Information Systems" online, via the Massey University Library.

This reference work is available electronically to all Massey University staff and students, and is a comprehensive work containing lengthy articles from experts in each field. Each entry includes a full bibliography.

The Encyclopedia is divided into 10 main subject categories:

• Applications
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data communications, the Internet and Electronic Commerce
• Database design and utilization
• Hardware and software
• Management support systems
• Office automation and End User Computing
• Social, legal, organizational and international issues
• Systems analysis and design
• Theories, methodologies and foundations

You can search the Encyclopedia, or you can browse by Title, Subject or Author.

Either access it via the Library Catalogue, or through the Computer Science and Information Systems subject guide

Although intended for information systems specialists the Encyclopedia is a useful reference source for anyone wanting background on an IT topic. Individual sections can also be linked to from WebCT.

Trial of FOODnetBASE Electronic Library

The Library is currently trialling FOODnetBASE, a collection of electronic books and reference sources of food science, food technology and nutrition information. FoodNetBase covers a wide range of food industry topics from safety, regulations, and quality assurance to packaging, biotechnology and product development and includes publications from CRC Press, Marcel Dekker and Woodhead. Many of the titles are already held in the Massey Library in print and they tend to be regularly borrowed, so FOODnetBASE offers the promise of bringing some really useful books to the desktop. There are currently over 140 titles offered and they seem to be adding more quite regularly.

Access FOODnetBASE

The search box is in the top left hand corner. You need to use a Boolean "AND" if you are searching on more than one term - e.g. campylobacter AND gastroenteritis. Two or more words entered as a string without an intervening AND are searched for as a phrase - e.g. "hazard identification". Navigation to your search results is reasonably intuitive and the individual chapters load as PDF files which can be saved. Please get in touch with me if you are struggling with any of its features.

This trial is due to end on 2 December. We are really interested in your comments on both the content and usability of this product and on its suitability for research and use by students. In particular let us know whether access to the information in this form would be an acceptable substitute to the printed books. Please email your thoughts to Bruce White.