Wednesday, September 03, 2008

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!

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