Massey Digital Commons now accepting articles!

Making your research visible on the web is a great way of stimulating interest in your work and ensuring that your articles will be read and cited. Massey's Digital Commons has been open for theses since August and is now accepting articles as well. Articles should be submitted as either Microsoft Word files or as PDFs, but first you need to ensure that you publisher allows "self archiving" of this sort. Check here for Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. You can also check for a specific journal.

To submit your articles and papers first create an account which will give you a personal user page. (Email the Library for instructions on how to do this). The advantage of this is that once your articles have been uploaded to them you will have a single URL - i.e. a web address - that will give access to all of them. Here is an example - http://digitalcommons.massey.ac.nz/craig_prichard/

This URL can be placed on web pages and even incorporated into you email signature. You will also have an address for each individual piece of work - e.g. http://digitalcommons.massey.ac.nz/dissertations/adt-NZPU20060607-154500/

Once in the Digital Commons your work will be available to colleagues in institutions that do not subscribe to the journal it was published in - and to the world at large!

New Zealand Fisheries Management Research Database

Jointly created by Auckland University Library and the Ministry of Fisheries the New Zealand Fisheries Management Research Database contains "primarily New Zealand material covering social, economic, environmental, recreational and customary rights information." Biological and scientific data are not included. Sources include "a range of different formats such as websites, books, reports, working papers, theses, newspaper and journal articles." Massey researchers wishing to obtain material listed in the database should do so through Massey University Library.

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Library recall notices by email

Library recall notices will be sent by email starting 24 October 2006.

Staff – we use your Massey email address so please let us know if there are any problems, and check your email regularly.

Students – keep your email address up to date through MyMassey. Go to ‘Set Email Forward’ to check or change your email address. Or phone 0800 MASSEY or email contact@massey.ac.nz.

If you do not have an email address recall letters will be sent to you by post.

Great Chemistry - Royal Society of Chemistry journals in 2007

Good news for chemists. At a time which sees the Library cancelling journals because of rising costs it has proved possible to improve our online holdings of RSC journals at no extra cost by adjusting the package we purchase through the Council of Australian University Libraries cosnsortium. The new titles we will receive from the beginning of 2007 will be -

Annual reports on the progress of chemistry. Sections B and C (We already have A!)
CrystEngComm (Yes, that is its title!)
Methods in Organic Synthesis
Molecular Biosystems
Lab on a Chip
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics


There is a downside - the cancellation of The Analyst and Analytical Abstracts.