New Books List Direct to You!

Every week the Library New Titles web page lists the most recent books added to our collections. This has proved to be popular for those wishing to browse the latest acquisitions but the list of new science titles is generally pretty extensive and not terribly convenient - especially as you have to remember to visit it regularly.

Using RSS Feed technology we are now able to stream subject specific lists of new books to anyone with feed reader software or a web-based reader. This greatly simplifies the task of checking on new books - in fact the lists come to you! The following lists have been created

Agriculture and Horticulture

Computer and Information Science

Earth Sciences

Life Sciences

Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

Technology

Veterinary Science

The Veterinary Science list is a subset of the Agriculture and Horticulture list so it will be unnecessary to subscribe to both.

Click on the links above to subscribe. You will need either to download RSS feed reader software or to register with a web-based service like Google Reader or Bloglines. Users of FireFox can subscribe to feeds using Live Bookmarks while Internet Explorer 7 has RSS feed capability built in.

Library Catalogue - Your Reading History Option

A new feature in the Library Catalogue enables you to keep a record of items that you have borrowed, if you choose to do so.

From the Library Catalogue Home Page click on Log In and enter your details (ID number and PIN). Click on the My Reading History button at the right of the screen and then click on Opt In to enable the Catalogue to record details of items that you have borrowed.

Once Reading History has been set up, every item that you subsequently borrow will display on your record. You can choose to delete items from your record (all or one-by-one) if you no longer wish to retain a record of them.

With Reading History turned on, you can choose to exclude items you have already borrowed when searching the Catalogue.

If you wish to opt out of Reading History, simply click on the button when logged in to your Patron Record and select Opt Out. Note that all data will be lost so that if you opt in again at a later date the Reading History will start from then and won’t include earlier items.

If you need help with using the catalogue, or have further questions or comments, please contact us.

IEEE New Technology Connections

This looks like a good one! From their publicity -

For each featured technology, you will find a general description, upcoming conferences, news articles, technical papers, related standards, professional organizations, and academic programs ... all in one place. Depending on your goal and interests, you can further explore these new connections for more depth.

We have kept the content level broad enough to be useful to a wide audience of professionals, academicians, students, technical press, and the general public eager to keep watch on the newest happenings in an easy-to-understand way. Technologies currently featured in the portal include DRM, RFID, remote sensing, wind power, and WiFi, with more to be added.

Connect to IEEE New Technologies Connections Portal

Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance - Free Trial

Covering a huge range of topics from "Abdominal RMA" to "Zinc Fingers" the newly published electronic version of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance provides comprehensive coverage of both the theoretical and applied aspects of its subject. Its breadth and accessible approach will make it of use to researchers and students across many scientific disciplines while the quality of its authors allows it to claim authoritative standing. Of particular interest is the addition of historical and biographical material.

This resource is on trial until 7 June and ongoing subscription to it is by no means guaranteed. Your comments on its usefulness and value will be particularly helpful.

A full list of Wiley reference sources held by Massey Library can be seen here.

Scirus: the science search engine

http://www.scirus.com/

The world's largest freely available science search engine, Scirus ideally complements Google Scholar by covering fulltext from publishers not available via Google. Scirus searches a wide range of scholarly and web resources, and includes recognized sources such as: Elsevier's ScienceDirect, PubMed, LexisNexis, ArXiv, BioMed Central, plus many more. It offers the ability to: mark, sort and export results; direct links to fulltext; 'similar results' function; and more.

For improved off-campus access to fulltext, make sure to use the Scirus links on our Article Database pages.

For further information, see:
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/