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Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities – have your say!

In 1978, Cabell Publishing, Inc. was founded to help professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals. This information includes addresses, phones, e-mails and web sites for our listed journals making Cabell’s Directories an easy point of … Continue reading

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Summer Reading Club 2011 – ideas, activities and reading lists for teachers.

Run by ALIA, the Summer Reading Club program encourages literacy in more than 41,000 children Australian wide.  Summer Reading programs are traditionally run in public libraries during the summer school holiday period.  They encourage young people of all ages in … Continue reading

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Education Support at Bundoora Library

Hello, my name is Louise Micallef and I work in Information Services assisting June Frost with supporting students and staff in the School of Education.  I am based at the Bundoora Library and am available on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays between 8.30 … Continue reading

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Internet skills for uni @ RMIT University: searching versus surfing

Improve your Internet searching skills! Learn how to search the Internet more efficiently and how to find reliable web resources for university assignments using Advanced Google and Google Scholar. Classes are conducted in Weeks 2 & 3 of Semester two. … Continue reading

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Free February Access to Visual Arts via Art Access

Taylor & Francis are providing free access to their Visual Arts collection via Art Access until February 28th. Users can explore 19 visual arts journals. Subjects covered include art history, photography, art therapy and visual culture. Three of the journals … Continue reading

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Latest issue of Library News now available

The latest issue of Library news is now available and reports on new resources that have com eonline over the summer break. These include the major citation database Scopus, new newspaper resources via ProQuest, further acqisition of backfiles for Taylor … Continue reading

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