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Monthly Archives: November 2007
THES top university rankings
The Times Higher Education has released its World University Rankings, with RMIT (just) making it into the top 200. The SMH has an article on Australian universities and the rankings. The Library also has (password) access to Times Higher Education online. There … Continue reading
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UNSW on YouTube
The SMH reports that the University of New South Wales is publishing some of its lectures on YouTube in Lectures online for YouTube generation. According to the university’s own press release: UNSW on You Tube will be a channel for … Continue reading
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Q&A — Gloria Latham
I thought I’d break the flow of one-way information here by including a regular Q&A item from a School member about their teaching and research interests/habits. I hope this will be fairly relaxed with subjects themselves choosing from a standard … Continue reading
PapersInvited database on trial
The Library has a trial of another unusual type of resource: a multidisciplinary database of calls for papers for upcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. It comes via the CSA platform that many will be familiar with from … Continue reading
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Government publications
Libraries Australia have just announced a service called GovRAP, which is a free monthly listing of recently catalogued Australian government publications. The records are available in Dewey order so go to the 370s for education items. Each item also has … Continue reading
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Google Scholar and library resources
Many within the School will know about Google Scholar for accessing scholarly resources. What is sometimes not realised is that when you access items via Google Scholar you are often doing so via the Library’s paid subscriptions. The publishers and other … Continue reading
SAGE eReference database on trial
I’ve mentioned online reference items before, but we now have a trial of SAGE eReference. This comes as a package so you can not only browse particular reference works but you can also search for a topic across the different … Continue reading
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When Wikipedia is the assignment
There is an interesting article from a recent issue of Inside Higher Ed reporting on a paper at the Educause conference in the US. Martha Groom tells how she had her students submit their term paper to Wikipedia as an … Continue reading
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