Library Information Sessions: March through May

The library staff will be presenting the following talks/demonstrations in the coming weeks.

As there is only room for up to 8 persons for each session bookings are essential and places are allotted on first-come-first-serve basis.

Contact the library to book a place
Please indicate in the body of the message which session you wish to attend.

All sessions will take place in the Group Meeting Room, Level 14, 160 Ann Street and will be held from 10:30 to 11:30 am.

Friday 20th March : Introducing RefWorks

This is a brief demonstration of the bibliographic management tool, RefWorks which is available to all staff.

This can be used to keep track of all the material you have researched, to sort the information in topic areas, and to produce bibliographies for articles and papers

Friday 3rd April : Introducing Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. It is updated daily.

It covers over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, 1200 open-access journals, conference proceedings, trade publication and book series.

The session will highlight the features available, demonstrate how to set up a personal profile and export references into your RefWorks folders.

Friday April 17th : Introducing SuperSearch

Supersearch is a Federated search engine. This tool permits a simultaneous search of the library catalogue and the library databases using a single search query.

The session will demonstrate the various features of this search engine, the basics of searching and retrieving material and exporting records into Refworks.

Friday May 1st : Google Tips and Tricks

This session has proved popular in the past.

It outlines various methods of ensuring quality results from searches on Google, looks at the various features of Google including enabling users to export references directly into Refworks

Friday May 15th : Looking at Environment Complete

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. and contains more than 1,957,000 records.

It also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.

This session will outline the features available to searchers, show how to set up a personal profile, and how to export references from the database into Refworks.

Friday May 29th : Managing your Favourite Websites

This session highlights the tool Delicious, which facilitates keeping track of all those websites you use in your regular tasks.

Delicious provides a means to store and arrange all the sites so that they can be accessed from any terminal at any time.

The session outlines the steps in setting up an account and how to make maximum usage of all the features available.