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!